Checkouts

It doesn’t matter where you are in Australia: the “use your own bag” option on Woolworths’ self-service checkouts is a bug-ridden disaster area. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People push in when you're waiting in line at the checkouts, which is quite frankly unacceptable - especially when it's 60-year-old women doing the pushing. ❋ Alistair Myles (2006)

We have been given nineteen rooms to clean, most of them "checkouts," as opposed to "stay-offers," and requiring the whole enchilada of bed stripping, vacuuming, and bathroom scrubbing. ❋ Ehrenreich, Barbara (2001)

Then, just when I thought I was safe, done scuttling through thousands and thousands of square feet of merchandise, even beyond the checkouts ... there lay the Swedish Market and Bistro. ❋ Sarah Lenz (2009)

Sainsbury is cutting costs in procurement and saving staff costs in-store with more self-scan checkouts. ❋ Hester Plumridge (2011)

• Libraries saw a 200 percent increase in e-book checkouts. ❋ Patricia Benesh (2011)

More than one million new users signed on to access free e-books at 'Virtual Branch' websites, resulting in a 200 percent increase in e-book checkouts. ❋ Patricia Benesh (2011)

Richardson, who is in his first season in the PDC, enjoyed two 145 checkouts on his way to a victory that sets up a clash with Kim Huybrechts of Belgium in the last 32. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The set is brilliant: the checkouts look just right, and the aisles are well laid out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Australian Retailers Association said compliance costs would increase as store fittings are altered and the laws could spark "retail rage" at checkouts as increased transaction times anger consumers. ❋ Enda Curran (2011)

If you dig into Google's numbers, which unfortunately isn't easy, I think you'd see that Google, based on click rates and successful checkouts, collects ad revenue of about half of gross margin from plasma TV or mortgage loans or insurance sales. ❋ Andy Kessler (2011)

I'm not sure that publishers * should* open up the library licensing for multiple checkouts, though -- unless they were to charge similarly to the way that publishers charge libraries for subscriptions to periodicals, depending on patronage size. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

Each day, the library's website averages 2,000 e-book checkouts and signs up about 200 new users. ❋ Jeremy Olshan (2011)

At issue are law enforcement powers to set roving wiretaps to monitor multiple communication devices and to ask a special federal court for access to "any tangible thing"– from business records to library checkouts – that could be relevant to a terrorist threat. ❋ AP (2011)

HarperCollins Publishers Inc., a unit of News Corp., recently changed its terms for library sales, limiting each title to only 26 checkouts. ❋ Stu Woo (2011)

It's all about "riding" with your "boo" (getting in the car to go to Sainsbury's), "all up in the store" (stopping off in Superdrug) and "grinding up on him" (but wait 'til you're past the checkouts, Bey). ❋ Unknown (2011)

My bet now is that they account for 20% - 40% of customer checkouts over the long term. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The AquaBrowser implementation will include faceted navigation, word cloud discovery, relevancy ranking, an integrated Authority File, real-time availability information for items, and integration with the ILS for patron services such as placing holds, making requests, viewing checkouts, and renewing items. ❋ Unknown (2009)