Pretty much the title. Like, get those handheld scanners and attach them to the carts. I scan items as I put them in, roll up to a “register” where the cart is weighed and verified by a cashier. I just hand over the cash then leave. Or even better, install load sensors in the cart.

Usually I like to pack my groceries into my boxes as I get them into the cart. Keeps things orderly and neat and I also don’t buy more than I can carry home. But this means I have to unpack them to place on the belt then pack them all over again after paying. It would be kinda nice to just pay by the cart load.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sam’s Club, owned by Walmart, does this basically.

    You scan items with your phone, check out, then walk under this arch camera things to leave, I haven’t been stopped to be manually checked in ages.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      1·
      1 day ago

      Sams club attracts different customers from WalMart and so they don’t have the same crime concerns.

      • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        Walmart spent millions on rfid trying to do this. Howevera cart full of razor blades would always not read something so they gave up.

        My point was Walmart, Sam’s parent company, spent millions and carried it out in their other store. I don’t know if it’s rfid, but I’m sure their research in it overlapped with the way they implemented it in Sam’s.