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Tesco,
voted Britain’s Favourite Supermarket for the second year running in
an independent poll of 10,000 consumers, is to double installations of
JetSort® 1000 coin sorters in its stores in coming months.
Supplied by UK cash handling equipment market leaders Cummins-Allison,
the JetSort has been used by Tesco in conjunction with its self service
checkouts since their inception three years ago and now the number of
outlets with the self service option is set to double over the next
year. Shoppers
scan and pay for their purchases at the self service checkouts, an
innovation seen as helpful for both the supermarket and the customer. As
well as debit and credit cards the checkouts also take cash, generating
large quantities of mixed coins for daily processing. This is not the
case with conventional checkouts; hence the JetSort machines to sort and
count the coins, making significant time savings for the cash office
team. The counters are also linked to the store’s computer so data can
be directly transferred to the Tesco cash management system, saving
additional time and avoiding any human error. Designed
for ease of use, the JetSort 1000 is a compact tabletop coin sorter with
large control keys and an easy to read LCD display. It will sort as many
as eight different coins at speeds of up to 2,200 coins per minute with
an accuracy of 99.995%. Sorted coins can be bagged or boxed in amounts
adjustable by denomination, coin packaging is also allowed for. “The
JetSort machines are extremely reliable,” says Lisa Watkins, Tesco
Better Service Choice Project Manager. “They require minimal
maintenance and Cummins’ knowledge of our business needs is so
extensive that any rare problem can usually be solved with a phone call,
I am unaware of any concerns that have not been simple and quick to
rectify. We looked at three or four other suppliers initially but none
had the functionality of the JetSort.”
Tesco, voted Britain’s Favourite Supermarket for the
second year running in an independent poll of 10,000 consumers, is to
double installations of JetSort® 1000 coin sorters in its stores in
coming months. The JetSort has been used by Tesco in conjunction with
its self service checkouts since their inception three years ago; the
number of outlets with the self service option is set to double over the
next year. Lisa
concludes, “Our self service checkouts take vast amounts of coin each
week, before their introduction we didn’t need coin handling machines
but now it’s paramount to have them simply because of the time and
effort they save.”
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