Assembly for checking and registering purchases in a self-service sales point

Claim 1

Assembly for checking and registering purchases made by a consumer in a self-service sales point, of the type comprising a station for unloading said purchases, a work station provided with means for registering and accounting said purchases adapted to be occupied by one person, the work station is mounted to rotate about a vertical axis, with a view to rotating the operational face either upstream or downstream, allowing said work station to be used equally well either by a customer in position facing upstream or by a staff operator in position facing downstream, said work station comprises a seat for the operator mounted to slide between an active position for use by an operator and a retracted position for use by the customer, a loading station, wherein said respective unloading and loading station being placed substantially opposite each other an on either side of said work station, the loading station comprising a location adapted to receive a trolley, said person facing the registering and accounting means having at his/her right or left the unloading station and at his/her left or right, respectively, the trolley, said three stations being substantially of general direction parallel to the general direction of advance and displacement of the consumer, and said person, at his/her work sation, being liable to face said direction, wherein a principal deck comprises a part whose surface corresponds substantially to a container.