A self-checkout is the machine you scan and pay at yourself. Use the self-checkout.
It moved the work from the shop to the customer, which is what saves the money. A self-checkout needs a member of staff for about one transaction in four anyway.
1nounself-checkoutThe machine you scan and pay at yourself.
“The self-checkout accused him of theft over a bag of apples.”
self-checkout is a machine.
Self plus checkout; the machines reached British supermarkets in the early 2000s.
Middle English
self
English
self
English, today
self-checkout
From self- + checkout. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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