self-checkout

See also: self-check out

English

Alternative forms

• self-scan checkout, self-scanning checkout, self checkout

Etymology

From self- +‎ checkout.

Noun

self-checkout (countable and uncountable, plural self-checkouts)

1. (retail, countable) A self-scan checkout.
2. (retail, uncountable) The use of self-scan checkouts.

   one of the first stores to introduce self-checkout

   • 2019 December 26, Liz Alderman, “Self-Checkout in France Sets Off Battle Over a Day of Rest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     While self-checkout machines are often used alongside cashiers, labor unions say that tilting toward fully cashierless operations threatens the French way of life by encouraging American-style consumerism and automation, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

Translations

a location in shops where customers can scan and pay for their purchases themselves

• Dutch: zelfscankassa (nl), zelfscan (nl)
• Finnish: itsepalvelukassa (fi)
• German: Selbstbedienungskasse (de) f
• Hungarian: önkiszolgáló pénztár/​pénztárgép/​kassza
• Macedonian: самонаплата f (samonaplata)
• Maori: paeutu kirihoko
• Spanish: autopago

the use of self-scan checkouts

• Hungarian: önkiszolgáló fizetés
• Macedonian: самонаплата f (samonaplata)
• Spanish: autopago