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, ...