Meijer expands self-checkout kiosks
October 4, 2007
TalkingRetail.com: Meijer, the privately-owned Midwestern US supermarket chain, has taken self-checkout technology to a new level with the installation of self-checkout lanes for larger food shops. Meijer's new units are installed in the middle of the store's regular checkout lanes. Under the system, scanned items travel down a moving belt to the end of the checkout lane where customers can then bag them after payment has been made. Among the country's other leading grocery chains, Wal-Mart and Kmart have installed self-checkouts but Target, the market's second largest chain, is not using the technology.