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> In Switzerland, a store can trust customers to scan everything they place in their carts.

You flatter us, but I'm not convinced the Swiss are particularly honest. And I'm not convinced that anything the US register does is particularly helpful to catch cheating.

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I can take you to stores where the self-checkout is as good or better in the US as you describe. How many different corporate entities and how many different communities did you visit in the US?

I am by no means trying to claim to have a comprehensive perspective on the stores on both countries, but the two machines I describe were both located in middle class grocery stores (Migros and Safeway, respectively) located in prosperous areas of the respective countries.

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