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In North Italy almost all groceries stores offer
Self checkout: where you do your groceries and at the end you scan the item one by one
Advanced self checkout (you are registered to the store): you get a PDA and you scan and bag all the groceries while you roam the store. Then you scan a qr, you get the total, pay and go. No Id checks for alcol or anything (sometimes you get a random partial re-reading where you get an sales person coming and scanning 3 items at random from your bag to check if you scanned them, or a total re-read)
Normal slow cashier point
Advanced self checkout is something I would never give back. Even if I buy a lot of things, the quick payment process is so quick that nothing compares.
I can enter and leave a store in under 10 minutes buying a lot of stuff (note that I go there walking multiple time per week)
We have that system in Sweden as well. In my experience if you add up the total time lost fiddling with the scanner while browsing the store it's usually much more than the time you save during checkout.
Honestly it scans, beep, next
It has a screen and you can click a product to remove it (you need to rescan it)
Other than a time where I could not rescan a product to delete it, it always worked
Also an important note: you can actual see your total on the PDA, and you can manually check prices one by one
You don't have idea how many times they put a price and then you scan it and it's different
(Once I brought home 4x 200g hamburgers for 4 cent )
Advanced checkout sounds awesome.