Scan
your own items at the grocery store!
Estimated Cost:
$125,000 for four lanes and an attendant’s station. Benefit to the store: a substitute for labor
with a nine-month payoff.
Young Nicholas
Hubert, 9, at a QFC Uscan checkout station
Pumping
one’s own gas at the self-service station; and, of course, washing the
windshield and checking the oil as well.
Young Nicholas
Hubert, 9, at Barnecut's Texaco Service Station