Scanner cash register
Scanner cash registers are cash registers which, in addition to manual input via the keyboard, also have a barcode reader with which the European Article Number (EAN) or Universal Product Code (UPC) codes on the articles can be read when they are swiped over them.
functionality
When reading the article number from the bar code (will bar code ) read and to the behind-connected POS system transmitted consisting of a database Price indicates goods, VAT rate, etc., registered and imprints on the Rechnungsbon.
While in most cases only the article number is printed as a barcode, in special cases plain text data, such as price information in the press area or weight information in the fresh produce area, is also displayed as a barcode.
Omnidirectional laser scanners are used to read a barcode in all directions . These have several lines that are inclined towards each other by a mirror wheel inside the scanner. This allows the scan signal from at least one line to be evaluated. The product that is to be scanned only needs to be placed with the code in the direction of the scanner, but the direction of the code itself is irrelevant.
In the case of cash registers at which larger objects that cannot be lifted onto the cash desk are to be read, for example in hardware stores , hand scanners can be used in addition or only .
However, developments point in the direction of an RFID chip, where much more information can be stored in the chip and the barcode label is being replaced.
history
After an agreement was reached in the USA in 1973 on the " Universal Product Code " (UPC) designed by George J. Laurer for IBM, some scanner cash register prototypes started working in 1974. In 1976 the first electronic scanner cash register came in a Wagner's supermarket in Bend (US - State of Oregon) in continuous operation.
In Germany, the first scanner cash register was put into operation in 1977 in a consumer market in Augsburg owned by the retail company “Carl Doderer KG” (acquired by the Schwarz Group in 1987 ). In 1982 there were over Germany 66 scanner markets, in 1985 there were 719. Previously, each article is hand had individually excellent and the price to be typed into the till.
From 1977 a uniform barcode was introduced in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany and in eleven other European countries. The first of these barcodes in Germany was printed on July 1, 1977 by the Wichartz spice mixing company from Wuppertal on their products. By 1979, 15,000 products worldwide were EAN-coded, compared to only nine scanner tills in use. In the eighties the scanner and barcode technology finally gained acceptance. The leading retail company Aldi switched to scanner tills relatively late: Aldi Süd introduced scanner tills in 2000, Aldi Nord in 2003. The reason for this was that typing was faster than scanning with the first generation devices without an omnidirectional laser.
In 1993 , Billa introduced scanner registers across Austria .
The electronic product code (EPC) is traded as the successor to the barcode and no longer has to be scanned manually.
evaluation
In the case of supermarket branches, the data collected can be evaluated internally online or sent to market research companies ( data mining ).
Large branches, in particular, like to expand their office equipment with digital cash register systems, as this gives them a good connection to existing merchandise management systems. POS systems are used in virtually every large market or retail outlet these days. They fulfill the same purpose as automatic copier systems or mail processing, everything goes hand in hand without media discontinuity. In the evening, the collected data is transmitted to the wholesaler in press shops, which triggers a reorder of the items sold. This is called VMP dispatch (daily market observation at the point of sale). In the case of press articles, the price is stored in the EAN code and can be easily used by modern scanner checkout systems for this specialist area, so that you can always scan your articles, whether they are in the database or not.
See also
Web links
- Konrad Lischka: These 13 digits organize the world . 30 years of barcode. Spiegel Online July 4, 2007, accessed October 19, 2009.
swell
- ↑ Johannes Gernert: “Kampfzone Kassel”, daily newspaper , October 24, 2009, page 16
- ↑ a b Konrad Lischka: 30 years of barcode: These 13 digits arrange the world in: Der Spiegel from July 4th 2007
- ↑ Case studies from Austrian marketing practice. 4 (2006), Volume 4 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 8, 2013
