IBM has unveiled the Self-Checkout System 6, allowing retailers to deploy modular scanning, payment and bagging units in any size retail environment. Retailers can also accommodate shoppers using handheld devices such as a mobile phone or personal shopper device.

“Our customers are looking for a pleasant and convenient checkout experience, and many look toward our self-checkout lanes to find that,” says Russ Ross, senior vice president and chief information officer at Giant Eagle. "We continually evaluate opportunities to improve the shopping experience for our customers, and look forward to piloting System 6. We rely on proven retail technology providers like IBM to continually innovate and deliver products like System 6 that are capable of helping differentiate us in the supermarket space."

IBM says that the design offers retailers the shortest scan to bag distance of any existing self-checkout solution, which helps make the checkout experience not only faster but easier for the shopper as well. The scan-to-bag distance has been reduced by as much as 36 per cent compared to other offerings.

"I am convinced that in today's market, modular self checkout solutions have become the new black. Tough economic times make it even more imperative that we deploy reliable, sustainable front-end technology that is flexible, and capable of providing the greatest possible return on investment,” comments Heinz Hermann Cassens, CIO at Metro real in Germany. "IBM has taken great pains to design new self checkout systems with the customer in mind, enabling us to start slow and grow fast - from cashless to cash, and to any other future option, at our pace, without having to rip out our entire initial investment."

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