I don't recall seeing them at the Damonte Ranch one but may have missed them. tried using one last weekend scanned item and it went to some sort of busy/gray screen then I noticed they had plastic "Lane Closed" signs on top of every unit and the clerk said they had been down all day trying to get updates. They seem to be out of order quite a bit. They have a few on both ends of the store. The store I've seen the small NCRs at is South Carson City. You must be referencing the Damonte Ranch store (#3277) with the small registers.those are a bit interesting. These seem like a good potential model for small grocery stores with limited space. There is no "counter" space for items, just the plastic bag rack to put items after you scan them. Beyond that there is just a screen and printer. The scanner is a small 3x5 glass piece right under the screen and then under that is one plastic bag rack. They do not accept any weighable produce or cash. Wal Mart has some very interesting NCR Self Checkouts in one store here. I had noticed recently Target seemed to ditch the NCR Self Checkout Software for its own software and it is much more responsive than it used to be. ![]() I sort of understand at places like Wal Mart who run IBM systems on NCR self checkouts that it will be. Their old software is particularly poor at Raleys where machines are often broken, slow, and just flat out work poorly what is most odd about that is Raleys uses NCR POS systems so you'd think the NCR POS Systems would interface well with the NCR Self Checkout. The latest software they have installed (currently at Save Mart and Wal Mart) is lousy, slow, often non-responsive. In general the NCR self checkout equipment is pretty awful. The NCR bill accepting units are awful and jam up all the time. That is how they make their money.Īlso another flaw is the credit card reader pen that breaks easily and requires an in person repair job charge. It is a scam by these types of companies. I believe that NCR purposely makes their equipment break down easily so that they can charge for NCR technicians to make expensive in person repair jobs. NCR self checkout machine bill acceptors are notorious for breaking down and not working, so Target created their own self checkout machines for some stores. ![]() And from an operational standpoint it's probably much easier to manage a single till drawer than to load/unload coin and bill acceptors on several different stations.Īlpha8472 wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2019, 2:46 pmĪre these the self checkout machines that Target made themselves? Those are not the NCR ones with the automated money accepting slots. if you can pay by feeding only one or two bills into the machine it's probably faster, but anything beyond that can probably be handled by a cashier more quickly. I don't know what other stores' cashier podiums look like, but I believe the Kroger ones have standard cash drawers so if you're paying in cash you could presumably pay the attendant rather than feeding the money into the machine.Īs for efficiency, I'm almost inclined to think Target's approach isn't so bad. I assume this is done mostly because it reduces the amount of maintenance and money handling required. One other thing I've observed is that a number of the Walmart stores here will designate some of their self checkouts as card only, removing the option to pay with cash entirely at those stations. On one hand it's good to have the option to use cash for a small purchase, but I'm guessing the vast majority of customers are using cards anyway (although that could change in an area with an older demographic.) Basically, the equipment is similar to what you would find in a vending machine. Most self checkouts I've seen have a bill acceptor and coin slots to handle cash, with mechanisms to dispense change.
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