I have experienced these self service cash registers. My son scans the bar codes for me. Because not only do you have to scan the bar codes, you have to scan them rather quickly. Or the register will remind you the item is not scanned and advise what to do should you be finished with the shopping. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Russell To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:10 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: shopping of the future In my local Tesco, we do have self service tills, but we also still have tills with real people at the checkout. I have never used the self service tills, but they do talk to you and instruct you what to do next. I imagine you have to scan the bar codes, so that might be rather difficult. From what I have heard, the instructions do seem very clear. David From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson Sent: 04 May 2011 14:38 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: shopping of the future Hazel, We have had similar facilities in ASDA for some time and I have used this method to pay for items up to about 15 a number of times with a sighted person. They always appear to have someone working in that area to help those who can't work out what they're doing, but I can't see them ever completely doing away with tills. -- Carol P ---- Original Message ---- From: Hazel & Kim Darvell To: access u k Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:20 PM Subject: [access-uk] shopping of the future > Hi all > We all do our shopping either on line or in store, and > many do both, but I have heard a lot of talk about these > self service tills in supermarkets. > I haven't come across them yet and dread the day we do, > there are already these tills soley used in shops in > larger towns. > Our local Morrisons are about to install them . > One would expect that under the D D A there will have to > be a so called human to help us poor mortals through the > drudge of shopping because I cannot quite see them > putting a talking scanner just for us though this should > be fairly easy . > Hope this is a issue we can talk about on this list as > this is certainly a access issue . > Hazel