Innovations in EFTPOS

The regular way of paying by EFTPOS at the supermarket:

1. Wait for cashier to scan all your goods
2. Swipe your card
3. Cashier asks if you want cash (answer is always no)
4. Cashier asks "is that on savings?" (I don't know why they ask this in Melbourne, I'm completely capable of pushing the button to choose my account)
5. Type in PIN
6. Wait for transaction to process
   
7. Done

Saw this at the Safeway off Chapel Street the other day:

1. While cashier is scanning your goods, swipe your card on the machine
2. Pick either "full amount" or "full amount with cash out"
3. Pick account
4. Wait for cashier to finish scanning goods
5. Amount then pops up on EFTPOS machine
6. Type in your PIN
7. Done

EFTPOS has always been the slower paying option and ideas to speed it up have always been technology related.

It's good to see a solution which involves just a bit of process tweaking, which works just as well as getting faster hardware.