Saturday, May 10, 2025

Updated: Checking in on the Key Food checkout situation

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

As noted this past week, Key Food at Avenue A and Fourth Street retired a row of its self-checkout terminals.

In its place: a good old-fashioned staffed register, which will make four for the grocery. 

The move is part of a broader effort by store management to ease congestion and improve the checkout experience. The new models — arranged in a single pass-through lane — aim to speed up transactions and tighten security, potentially reducing the familiar bagging-area standoffs that not even a surprise Mike + the Mechanics track can fix.

Store manager Richie added that the full point-of-sale overhaul should be completed by the end of May.
And the new human-operated register will be up and running "soon."
One question remains: will the CAKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS signage return to the relocated cake station, now with random puddings and parfaits?

Richie wasn't sure. I made a case for its reinstatement. 

Updated 5/11 

The new checkout is now in service...
at

4 comments:

  1. MarjorieMay 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM

    The cheese is now all over the store. I count four different locations for cheese. LET THE CHEESE ALL HANG OUT TOGETHER, KEY FOOD!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. WildflowerMay 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM

      I like being surprised by more cheese around every corner.

      Delete
  2. EvHoMay 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM

    So cheesy

    ReplyDelete
  3. MachomagamanMay 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

    It’s true the cheese is everywhere.

    ReplyDelete

Your remarks and lively debates are welcome, whether supportive or critical of the views herein. Your articulate, well-informed remarks that are relevant to an article are welcome.

However, commentary that is intended to "flame" or attack, that contains violence, racist comments and potential libel will not be published. Facts are helpful.

If you'd like to make personal attacks and libelous claims against people and businesses, then you may do so on your own social media accounts. Also, comments predicting when a new business will close ("I give it six weeks") will not be approved.