The combination of a shopping cart and a checkout location. The shopping cart has a wheeled frame defining: a) a primary article storage receptacle; and b) a lower storage shelf. The checkout location has: a) an aisle through which the shopping cart can be directed and with laterally spaced sides; b) a processing assembly at one side of the aisle; c) a station at which a person can be situated to operate the processing assembly; and d) a mirror on the other side of the aisle situated so that a person situated at the station can observe a reflection of articles placed on the storage shelf. The mirror has a reflective surface configured and located to reflect an image of the shopping cart only below the top of the shopping cart from a vantage point of a person situated at the station.

A method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty can comprise: determining one or more than one segment of image data of the transport container using depth information assigned to the image data; assigning the image data to one from a plurality of classes, of which a first class represents the transport container being empty, and a second class represents the transport container being non-empty, wherein the one or more than one segment is not taken into account in the assigning; outputting a signal which represents the filtered image data being assigned to the second class.