Marks & Spencer will trial a new self-service checkout till over the next few months in three stores.
The tills called SCOT (self checkout till) will allow customers to self-scan and bag their purchases and then pay with cash, debit or credit card and get cash back.
The adjacent bagging area weighs the groceries and alerts staff to inconsistencies between what is scanned and what is placed in the bag. An attendant will be on hand at a central desk for each pod of four tills to help with queries and take payment.
Barry Stevenson, M&S's UK retail director, said current till options would be retained and staff freed up from the new checkouts would be deployed elsewhere in the store.
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The tills called SCOT (self checkout till) will allow customers to self-scan and bag their purchases and then pay with cash, debit or credit card and get cash back.
The adjacent bagging area weighs the groceries and alerts staff to inconsistencies between what is scanned and what is placed in the bag. An attendant will be on hand at a central desk for each pod of four tills to help with queries and take payment.
Barry Stevenson, M&S's UK retail director, said current till options would be retained and staff freed up from the new checkouts would be deployed elsewhere in the store.
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