Break in style at Lidl in Germany - new possibilities at the cash register
Created: 04/16/2022, 13:08
By: Yasina Hipp
The new cash registers at Lidl could look similar to this self-service checkout at Edeka.
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Scan the goods yourself, pay and leave the supermarket.
Self-check-out tills are soon to become standard at food discounter Lidl.
Neckarsulm - Hard-working shoppers are probably already familiar with the cash registers for self-payment from the Swedish furniture store chain Ikea.
The Hornbach hardware store chain and Edeka supermarkets already offer such a system.
Self-check-outs are already common in many places abroad - the food discounter Lidl is now probably jumping on the bandwagon.
As the online magazine
The Retail Optimiser
reports, the new cash registers will soon be used in some branches.
Lidl: This is how the self-check-out tills work
Anyone who has not yet come into contact with the self-service checkouts need not worry too much.
The process is quite simple.
The customer places their full shopping basket on a shelf to the left of the checkout terminal.
Then one product after the other is scanned or, if necessary, weighed in the case of fruit and vegetables.
The scanned groceries are placed on another storage area on the other side of the terminal.
Once all the products have moved from one side to the other, you can pay as normal with a card or, at Lidl, apparently also in cash.
The checkweigher checks whether the weight at the beginning of the scanning process is the same as it is afterwards, i.e. whether all products have been recorded.
In order to be able to leave the store, the purchase receipt has to be scanned at a barrier - then the automatic checkout process is completed.
However, this principle does not make sense with shopping trolleys that are full to the brim.
In the Lidl branches, the offer is more likely to be aimed at customers who do smaller purchases.
Lidl: Conventional cash registers will remain
This may also eliminate the concern of some Lidl customers that there could only be self-service checkouts in the future.
According to the report, the new cash registers are only intended to supplement the old ones with a treadmill.
In British and Swiss Lidl branches, the self-check-out tills are already in operation, they say, staff can be saved there, especially at off-peak times.
