U-Scan
Express
Pretty soon we may be training
customers, as well as merchants, to use POS equipment. Why? Because
now customers can choose between using traditional check out lanes or
checking themselves out with U-Scan Express.
U-Scan Express is an automated
self-service checkout system available only in North America. The
system allows shoppers to scan, bag, and pay for their purchases with
cash, debit cards, or credit cards, in most cases with no need for
help from store personnel. Touch screens and voice instructions guide
shoppers through the entire checkout process.
U-Scan Express is the product
of U.S.-based PSC Inc., and Montreal-based optimal Robotics
Corporation. PSC manufactures bar code reading equipment and handles
the manufacturing and worldwide sales, marketing, installation, and
support of the self-checkout system. Optimal Robotics, which
developed the system, provides the software technology and customizes
the software to meet each customer's individual needs.
According to Stuart M. Itkin,
VP of Wordwide Marketing at PCS, ". . . at most locations, U-Scan
Express is preferred by the majority of the store's express lane
customers. . . . It's the same type of convenience they've come to
expect with automated banking machines and pay-at-the-pump gas
stations."
U-Scan is currently in use in
seven retailers in North America. For more information on U-Scan
Express call PCS at (716)265-1600.
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