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In Belgium we have some sort of identical self-service.
Only you scan and you are bagging your groceries while you are shopping.
When entering the shop you choose if you're going for self-service or not.
If not --> regular shopping spree
If self service: you take a hand-held wireless scanner out of a rack and with you while you are strolling around the shop. Every item that you want to buy, has to be scanned first, before being put in your (reusable) shopping bag.
So all the work is done while shopping.
If you have everything you need, you place the scanner back in the rack, and a bill comes out of a printer. You take the bill to a special checkout where you pay (to a cashier).
A very fast way to shop...
A computer randomly picks customers out to check if they have scanned honest.
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Amerika by Franz Kafka
“As Karl Rossman, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.”
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