Imagine a grocery store where you don’t have to wait in line or deal with a slow cashier. You let yourself in with your key card，KellyTalk：白歆惠 怕E奶走光 出門少不了雙面膠， pick up the groceries you need，清涼飲品 搶買30元起， and check yourself out. This is how it works at the Farmhouse Market，智勝新書解密 拼全壘打王醉醺醺， an automated grocery store in New Prague， Minnesota. Farmhouse Market is only open to the public nine hours per week. Membership holders， though， can come in and browse through a wide range of local and organic products 24 hours a day. That’s because the owners， Kendra and Paul Rasmusson， have put in a self-checkout system.線上收聽請按
想像一下一家你不用排隊等候或是面對動作緩慢的收銀員的超市。你用你的鑰匙卡自行進入、拿你需要的食品雜貨，然後自行結帳離開。明尼蘇達州新布拉格鎮一家名為Farmhouse Market 的自動化超市就是這樣運作的。Farmhouse Market 每週只開放九小時給民眾。不過，擁有會員身分的人可以一天二十四小時進入並隨意瀏覽各種不同的當地有機產品。那是因為坎卓拉及保羅•拉斯姆松兩位老闆安裝了一個自動結帳系統。
生活必備字詞cashier n. 收銀員，出納員membership n. 會員資格a wide range of… 範圍廣泛╱各種不同的…The supermarket offers a wide range of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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