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Old 12-23-2009, 02:24 PM   #106
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
So what you're saying is that the average untrained user is FASTER than a trained cashier? For one or two bar-coded items, maybe, but if you tracked the average number of items going through each kind of till over a significant time period, there is simply no way self-serve is going to be faster.
You're assuming that there's as many people in the self checkout lines as there are in regular lines, but that's rarely if ever true. You're also assuming that you're shopping somewhere that the cashiers are "trained," which is often questionable.
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