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News, time for click. This week unexpected item in the bagging area. Giving vr a good kicking. And, going up . Err, sideways. This month marks the 25th Anniversary of the Self Checkout. The first one was installed in new york on 5 august, 1992, in price chopper. So what does its inventor, doctor howard schneider, remember of it all . I hadnt gone shopping much, so i went to the supermarket near my house with a stopwatch. And i started looking at people checking out, and my stopwatch went click, click it was a mechanical one. And, you know, isaid wow, what a great environment. This is so messy. Good luck with any machine doing it, and i said, this would be a great, Great Problem to solve. And then i started building a machine in my garage. I actually spent every cent i had on parts, and i got the first machines built. See, i love self service checkouts, but then im a control freak. But i do believe they save you time. Until they go wrong, at which point they become a right pain in the b

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