# Checkout divider

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{{Short description|Sign for separating different customer's items}}
{{Multiple issues|{{notability|date=February 2022}}
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thumb|right|200px|Checkout divider decorated with advertising
A '''checkout divider''' or '''spratchet'''{{Disputed inline|date=December 2025}} is a small sign or bar meant for placement between items on a [conveyor belt](/source/conveyor_belt) at a [checkout](/source/Point_of_sale) in a [supermarket](/source/supermarket) or other [retail store](/source/retail_store). Its purpose is to separate one customer’s items from another’s.<ref>[http://www.motiondisplay.com/news/motion-display-launches-a-one-of-a-kind-checkout-divider.html Motion Display launches a one-of-a-kind checkout divider] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021639/http://www.motiondisplay.com/news/motion-display-launches-a-one-of-a-kind-checkout-divider.html |date=2014-11-29 }}, August 29, 2014</ref>

Checkout dividers are usually next to the conveyor belt on the side where the [cashier](/source/cashier) is sitting or standing. Most checkout dividers display the store's name or some [advertising](/source/advertising).

Checkout dividers have been the subject of numerous internet debates, mainly regarding who is responsible for placing the checkout dividers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/supermarket-checkout-divider-debate|title=The Supermarket Checkout Divider Is Actually Super-Divisive|date=2019-05-08|website=MEL Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-08}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[Bagger](/source/Bagger)

==References==
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Category:Retail store elements
Category:Etiquette by situation

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