• Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Can you elaborate? This was before my time, so I’m curious what that early experience was like.

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        The big improvement has been image recognition on produce. It used to be you needed to either know the produce code, or navigate a terrible menu system. Nowadays, you can just put stuff on the scale, hit the camera icon, and have it show you a few possibilities, which is almost always correct.

        There was also a long period where the anti theft system would trigger if you breath on the bagging area, and require a staff member to unlock it. They seem to have toned that down a lot. Even when it triggers, it just nags you without locking anything.

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          I put something on the scale, hit search, type the first 3 letters of the item, select the relevant item, select whether it is in any additional container (like the produce bags), and it’s done. Takes me 3 seconds to do.

          I’ll have to look to see if my grocery store has image recognition. I have not noticed that feature, but I’d be interested in trying it.