Because the bagging area is like 9 feet away at the end of the conveyor.
They’re basically reversed from what the cashiers use where you load your items onto the conveyor to be scanned. On these, the scanning platform is a little, tiny table on one end where you scan your items and then you put it on the conveyor that takes it to the bagging area.
When the belt gets a little less than half full, the machine makes you go bag some stuff.
All the while, my groceries are melting lol.
Edit: Like this
The other style where you can bag as you go (pictured below) also make you wait 2-3 seconds, but if you’re scanning a lot of little items (seasoning packets, yeast, those little water flavor enhancer things, etc), they don’t trigger the scale and you have to wait for it to realize you’re not stealing or something. Either way, they’re not suitable to scan a whole cart of groceries. Like, if you fill up the carousel and try to set some bags down until you can put them in your cart, it’ll call for backup and you have to wait for the single cashier that’s attending to 12-15 of these abominations to come and verify you’re not trying to steal.
The one I know from here in Germany looks the same, but instead of the conveyor, it’s the same arm as the one you put your groceries on, before scanning.
So you don’t have to move at all, just move your groceries from the left to the right.
God damn that conveyor thing is a stupid idea. The ones in my local have a small bagging platform or a large platform depending on how much you’ve got to deal with. Or you can use the handheld scanner or phone app while you walk around the store and just pay at the end without the faff.
Because the bagging area is like 9 feet away at the end of the conveyor.
They’re basically reversed from what the cashiers use where you load your items onto the conveyor to be scanned. On these, the scanning platform is a little, tiny table on one end where you scan your items and then you put it on the conveyor that takes it to the bagging area.
When the belt gets a little less than half full, the machine makes you go bag some stuff.
All the while, my groceries are melting lol.
Edit: Like this
The other style where you can bag as you go (pictured below) also make you wait 2-3 seconds, but if you’re scanning a lot of little items (seasoning packets, yeast, those little water flavor enhancer things, etc), they don’t trigger the scale and you have to wait for it to realize you’re not stealing or something. Either way, they’re not suitable to scan a whole cart of groceries. Like, if you fill up the carousel and try to set some bags down until you can put them in your cart, it’ll call for backup and you have to wait for the single cashier that’s attending to 12-15 of these abominations to come and verify you’re not trying to steal.
The one I know from here in Germany looks the same, but instead of the conveyor, it’s the same arm as the one you put your groceries on, before scanning.
So you don’t have to move at all, just move your groceries from the left to the right.
Edit - like this:
The one in your pic must be a struggle
It absolutely is. Almost like it was designed to be as frustrating as possible for some kind of social experiment.
God damn that conveyor thing is a stupid idea. The ones in my local have a small bagging platform or a large platform depending on how much you’ve got to deal with. Or you can use the handheld scanner or phone app while you walk around the store and just pay at the end without the faff.