text:  From what I can make out from a lot of research, the Asia-Pacific region now seems to be the growth part of the world for these automated checkouts. Is that right? Yes, what we're seeing is very, very similar. Being less accepted, we're seeing much greater urbanization in the South Asiatic markets. Many supermarket businesses, such as ours, two main players in Australia, Woolworths and Coles, are making smaller formats.