Touch screen technology providing a range of information including nutrition advice and recipes has been installed in the Swords shop. Customers will also be able to keep up with the news, weather, and get updates on their TV soaps via i-Channel plasma screen technology at the checkouts. The new Superquinn Swords will have two types of self scan technology. Shop and Go is designed for customers who are in a hurry and doing a small shop. Having selected their goods those customers go to a designated area, scan their purchases using a hand held electronic self-scanner, get a coded ticket and pack their bags.
Customers then go to a checkout where they pay for their groceries and receive an itemised bill.
Super quinn is the first supermarket in Europe to install Shop and Go technology. Superscan , introduced to Ireland by Superquinn in 1996, is used by customers for the weekly, bigger shopping trip. Shoppers scan items as they shop using a handheld electronic scanner. The scanner reads the bar code on each item, records the price and provides a running total. Customers pay at the checkout and the items are packed but do not have to be scanned again, thus speeding up the shopping process considerably.