Scanning my ass for kicks at a self-service cash register

Wow, them Dutch are whacky! I was driving around aimlessly (again) tonight, when I stumbled across a fuckin´ awesome piece of innovation: In a supermarket in Delft I witnessed my first self-service cash-register.
"Self-service what-what?" the inquiring mind might ask. It is a cash register without a living cashier. Instead of having a cashier ring up your stuff you just get to do it yourself!
This is how it works: You take each product you bought from your shopping cart, hold it against one of those laser-scanner-thingies (works best if you point the barcode at the scanner ;-), have it scanned, and then place the scanned item onto a conveyor belt leading past a gate. Once you´re finished scanning your whole shopping cart you either pay with your bank card or print out the bill and pay a central cashier. You walk through the gate (without any stolen goods in your pockets of course) and pick up the shit you paid for from the conveyour belt. Done!
I only bought three items because I was broke, but I can tell you: Scanning stuff is fun. I almost went back to get a bottle of anything just so I can scan it! The cool thing is: There never be half of the register lanes closed because they don´t have enough cashiers. It´s brilliant. I love it. Hoorray for new technology.

Cheers

Scan-boy