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Kmart Installs New Speedy Cash Registers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2001
By Jeff Bennett, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 16--Don't open up that tabloid just yet, Kmart shoppers.
The Troy-based retailer is installing new cash registers that promise to cut a customer's check-out time by about 20 percent.
The company announced Thursday that IBM will replace all registers in the 2,100 Kmart stores with a faster, more powerful model. The deal is worth about $200 million.
The machines -- coupled with their faster printers, hand-held bar code scanners and improved in-counter scanners installed by Kmart last year -- are expected to cut the wait, said Mary Lorencz, Kmart's spokeswoman.
In the future, cashiers also will be able to tell customers when an out-of-stock item will...
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