Self-service Check-out Kiosk Better Solve Supermarket Labor Shortage

Impacted by pandemic, people need to follow self-isolation and stay at home policy, which heavily limit their go out and easily cause labor shortage in necessary public places. However, people were accustomed to purchase basic daily commodity at supermarket which is facing labor shortage now.

How to solve supermarket labor shortage and guarantee both workers and shoppers security under such strictly period? Walmart planned to recruit 150,000 temporary workers in response to shopper panic shopping. Further, it adjusted its open time and set up senior hour to reduce human contact and make more vulnerable shoppers enjoy less-congested shopping time.

Actually, the continuous developing technology generously provides another method to reduce manpower, namely, the self-service check-out kiosk, which can reduce human contact and infection risk, and enhance checkout efficiency without manual handling at huge people flow places like supermarket, shopping malls and so on.

And high-quality self-service check-out kiosk will care more on shopper operation fluency and sanitation under pandemic. For example, Telpo self-service check-out kiosk, which adopts simple interface design and HD touch screen, facilitating shopper easily operate and check-out based on page content and effectively solve labor shortage. Importantly, it supports contactless payment methods like face payment, QR code payment to avoid potential cash virus spread, and even can customize hand sanitizer to clean shopper hand after touching screen.    

As a high-tech company, Telpo excellent R&D team developed a temperature checking+ hand sanitizer kiosk to double guarantee worker and shopper health and security before entering the supermarket. With automatic and touch-free temperature checking and hand disinfection, each fever person will be easily detected with voice broadcast and alarm, better protect inside workers and shoppers health and security.