lists@notatla.org.uk
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:55:28 +0000
Assuming someone ahead of you has bought chicken during the shift of the current cashier that might not be the only reason to use self-checkout.
Food standards officials discovered that 40 per cent of packets of chicken in a range of supermarkets, convenience stores and butchers were covered with bacteria on the outside.
Of 20 packets of chicken studied, eight had food poisoning bacteria on their wrapping ...
Shoppers are now being warned to wash their hands after handling chicken cartons to combat the risk of catching the campylobacter ...
http://www.microbeworld.org/component/jlibrary/?view=article&id=5827
flataua@acm.org
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:55:42 -0500
No doubt this has little to do with computers. This might actually be
another reason to use a human staffed checkout lane. I have seen cashiers
in the store I most often buy groceries from clean the conveyor belt with
(what I assume is) some anti-bacterial spray. I don't recall seeing that in
self-checkout lane. Of course, bacteria from chicken are of little concern
at the home improvement stores.