TOKYO -- Japanese retail group Aeon will introduce self-checkout registers that can read the prices of items to its 1,000 supermarkets, the latest effort to cope with a severe lack of manpower.
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Japan's Aeon to increase self-checkouts to ease labor shortage
Smartphone app intended to cut waiting times and costs at 1,000 supermarkets
Aeon will introduce self-checkout registers that can read the prices of items using customer's smartphones at its 1,000 supermarkets. (Photo by Tokuyuki Matsubuchi)
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