Comment Comment by jsprogrammer Dummy?You can't enter your card until about 10 seconds have passed after all your items have been scanned, or it blows up.You must leave your card in for ~20sec, or it blows up, while the machine does seemingly nothing.The quickest you can complete a transaction is ~30+ seconds; after all the items have been scanned.Compare this to ~5 seconds with the swipe method.Now, take 25 seconds / registers * people. That is the lower bound on how much additional time we must wait in line because of these BS machines.Trader Joe's is now a wasteland of wasted time standing in line. parent jsprogrammer 11 years ago
You can't enter your card until about 10 seconds have passed after all your items have been scanned, or it blows up.
You must leave your card in for ~20sec, or it blows up, while the machine does seemingly nothing.
The quickest you can complete a transaction is ~30+ seconds; after all the items have been scanned.
Compare this to ~5 seconds with the swipe method.
Now, take 25 seconds / registers * people. That is the lower bound on how much additional time we must wait in line because of these BS machines.
Trader Joe's is now a wasteland of wasted time standing in line.