Today being black Friday and all the hubbub that goes with it my mind turns to the only year I ever tried to participate in the retail madness. We went to a store at like 7:30 (which was late, I know) shopped for a bit and then realized the people we kept bumping into way in the back of the store were in line to check out way at the front of the store. I've been thinking about that and wondering if there were a better way to process people out of the store. They have self checkouts at a lot of higher end grocery stores and hardware stores but I have yet to see one at a department store. You could also use your smart phone to check out.
Imagine you're standing in a ridiculously long line and you look up and see a poster in the store that says, "Download our app and check out right now." You download their app (basically a bar code scanner) and it scans the stuff you have and then sends the info to a special check out line for app users only. Then you would set your stuff down on a scale. The scale would read if you had too many items or what not and you could have one cashier patrol multiple machines to help people through quicker. Because is it really a deal if you have to stand in line for four hours to get it?
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