HOW GROCERS ARE MANAGING
IN THE AGE OF
Social Distancing

Amid the current health crisis many retailers are feeling the increased pressure to keep their doors open, shelves stocked, and shoppers/employees safe.

SITUATION

Food supply and grocery chain stores are defined as an essential business with their products and services experiencing high demand.

To reduce the exchange of personal items such as loyalty cards, digital coupons, smartphones, and ID cards, many food retailers are accelerating their evaluation and deployment of dedicated secondary scanning devices.

With a dedicated secondary scanning solution, the shopper can simply hold out their personal item, and the cashier can use the barcode scanner to read the presented information, without touching the personal item. This allows the shopper and cashier to minimize contact. Without a secondary scanner, the cashier would be forced to take the loyalty card or personal item and either hand-key or conduct an additional scan into the system. A secondary scanner can be used to read barcodes on loyalty cards/phone, digital coupons, ID cards for age restricted items, and bottom of the basket items.

SOLUTION

Honeywell’s Xenon Extreme Performance (XP) 1952g general-purpose wireless scanners offers superior scanning performance at a distance, even on damaged and poor-quality barcodes. This prevents the need for cashiers to touch and hand key in the barcode number.

The Xenon XP scanner family is available in a corded version (1950g), a wireless version (1952g) and a battery wireless version (1952g-bf). There is also a healthcare version with disinfectant-ready plastics, which are built to withstand the effects of harsh cleaning agents and help minimize the spread of infectious disease.