Self Service, Order & Checkout in Japan.
This is something that is mostly enabled by the culture of the Japanese of fast and saving time and the success of technology.
In most Ramen shops, restaurants, convenience stores, gaming centers, and stores you will most likely have to find a service counter or a machine to take your order.
This is not the robot like a few restaurants but a simple machine that will handle scanning bar codes, receive cash/card issue receipts, and give an ありがとお message.
So in this follow-up post, about the awesome things am experiencing in Japan, I’ll talk about the self-checkout counters.
So why do I find this so cool for me? if you’re reading this and wondering why I’m finding this gadget so fascinating; first of all nothing like this in my country, secondly you can drop all your items or the entire bag into that space and it will do the math.
Forget having to scan a barcode for each item, this unit scans your piles of clothes and then displays your bill on the attached screen, remember the many different payment options from the earlier post, they are all accepted on top of cash and coins.
There is a business idea in here for an African startup, one interface to accept multiple payments.
There is a strong culture of independence and the need to save time and be efficient, technologies like these make all this possible, allowing faster checkouts and efficiency in the business.
What do you think? Is your country ready for a device like this?
See you in the next post.
