Convenience stores are typically characterized by a single station checkout with a relatively small number of items in each transaction. Customers do not normally use shopping carts, instead hand carry and place their items on the counter at the POS terminal. Here it important for a scanner to minimize the counter space it occupies. An on-counter presentation scanner will meet the transaction demands of most convenience stores. Datalogic had a multiple options for convenience checkout that include fixed presentation scanners to versatile handheld scanners with a presentation operating mode.