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Automatic Check-Out

Automatic Check-Out. Beverly DeVane February 5, 2007 CTCT 2200 Mr. Scott Blair . Definition of Terms Historical Overview Advantages and Disadvantages Special Considerations/Trends Summary. What is automatic checkout?.

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Automatic Check-Out

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  1. Automatic Check-Out Beverly DeVane February 5, 2007 CTCT 2200 Mr. Scott Blair

  2. Definition of Terms • Historical Overview • Advantages and Disadvantages • Special Considerations/Trends • Summary

  3. What is automatic checkout? • Automatic checkout is the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) on merchandise.

  4. What is radio frequency identification (RFID)? • Radio frequency identification is a tiny computer chip that is mounted on a tag attached to a product or sewn into an article of clothing.

  5. Historical Overview • Dates back to 1939 • Smaller, cheaper and more sophisticated • Replacement of bar codes

  6. Cash Drawer Cash Registers Cigar Box

  7. Self Checkout at the Grocery Store

  8. Self Checkout at the Grocery Store

  9. Self Check-out at the Library

  10. Banking ATM Machine

  11. Advantages • Items will no longer be checked at store entrance • Shoppers will have unlimited access to expensive merchandise • Items won’t be missed • Improve checkout speed

  12. Disadvantages • Reduce the number of employees needed for checkout and check-in • Access to credit card • Everyone does not have a credit card • Customers will continue to bag their own merchandise • Education

  13. Special Considerations/Trends • Only 20% of customers currently use self checkout • 80% of customers do not use self checkout

  14. Georgia 400 • In-vehicle toll-tag technology • 35% of 120,000 vehicles per day use this method • Automatic renewal

  15. Georgia 400

  16. Summary

  17. Questions

  18. Trivia

  19. What is the first piece of merchandise ever scanned with a bar code? • You can buy it for a quarter. • Everyone in this room has purchased it at least once. • I have one on me right now and so do some of you.

  20. Chewing Gum

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