1.   He could make people laugh by imitating the checkout scanner at a grocery store, driving clerks nuts in the process.

2.   Retailers, using the marketing data produced by checkout scanners, quickly determine which products will live and which will die.

3.   Sales figures from supermarket checkout scanners are fed daily to manufacturers, allowing factories to fine-tune their output to match demand.

4.   The company specializes in tracking the buying habits of consumers by compiling purchase data through supermarket and drugstore checkout scanners.

5.   To combat the notion he lacked the common touch, he shopped at a Wal-Mart, only to betray astonishment at the invention of the checkout scanner.

6.   Gore countered that the situation is akin to a supermarket checkout scanner failing to read a product bar code.

7.   Gore countered that the situation is akin to a supermarket checkout scanner failing to read a product barcode.

8.   NCR provides computer services and manufactures ATMs and electronic checkout scanners for retailers.