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NSW: Self-serve checkouts no great theft or job risk: Woolworths
AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2008
NSW: Self-serve checkouts no great theft or job risk: Woolworths
By Andrew Drummond
SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - The roll-out of self-serve checkouts in Woolworths supermarkets
around Australia is not the beginning of the end for checkout operators, the company says.
At the system's official launch in Sydney today, Woolworths spokesman Marty Hamnett
said safeguards against shoplifting were built into the system, which was being implemented
after consultation with unions.
"This is not the death knell of manned checkouts ... and any change in staffing will
be absorbed throughout other parts of the store," he said.
"Unions have been consulted throughout (the system's) development."
So far, there are 16 self-serve checkouts operating around Australia, with plans for
more than 70 to be operational by the end of June, Mr Hamnett said.
Thieves would be prevented from bagging items without scanning them through technology
that tallied the weight of products.
If the bag weight does not match weight calculations based on product barcodes, staff
are alerted.
"Every single item on sale in the store has a weight and (the system) knows the weight
and matches it with the barcode," Mr Hamnett told AAP.
"The stores that have self-serve checkouts ... have unknown theft levels no greater
than other stores."
Users can still pay by cash, credit or EFTPOS and the system also offers mobile phone
top-ups and issues a receipt complete with fuel-discount voucher.
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