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Automatic access controls were established last week at 130 Swiss Migros branches in the cantons of Basel, Lucerne, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Freiburg. This was announced by Richnerstutz AG at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, which offers the Migros CountMe machines.
Lidl has also equipped all its 142 branches with the automatic counter. The system automatically counts customers entering and leaving a branch. A kind of traffic light tells new customers when they arrive that they should wait when the maximum number of customers has already been reached. As soon as other customers leave the store, the traffic light turns green accordingly.
Relieve employees.
The system has the great advantage that employees are relieved to be able to fully concentrate on branch work, Lidl said on request.
Aldi introduced an automatic counting system in early April. Since last week, the so-called crowd monitor has been installed in 110 of the approximately 210 branches. This week, the electronic counting system will also be installed at other branches in Ticino, as a spokesperson said on demand. Aldi is supplied with the systems by the ASE company in Zurich.
Electronic counting with a mobile phone application.
Since early April, Coop has been electronically counting on a cell phone app instead of a card counting system. However, there is still an employee at the entrance who manually counts people. The change was made at the request of customers, a Coop spokeswoman said. This week, Coop is evaluating an automatic counting system and is also reviewing an introduction, the spokeswoman said.
