It says it takes 1.5 hours to assemble but it would be a lot longer if I could actually assemble the whole thing. Product itself seems good but I overtightened the screws on 2 pieces and they split. They're just thin mdf and split easily. There's no phone number to call so I emailed them for replacement pieces and they promptly replied that they'd send me the tracking number once it shipped. Now it's been over 2 weeks since Christmas and it's still sitting here unassembled and they haven't responded and won't respond to my recent follow up email. I think I'm going to have to return it or live with the split pieces although one is right on the countertop part. During assembly I noticed that not all the holes line up but with a little muscle my husband got it to work.

The trick with the scanner part is there has to be plenty of light in the room or directly above. So that when you swipe across it with your hand or an object, the shadow makes it "beep" or scan. So I believe all those saying scanner stopped working, may not know it is light sensitive. Hope this helps someone! Our kids love it so far. But gave only 4 stars because conveyor belt does not work properly.

Finally got the time to put this together after Christmas and good thing I read reviews on testing the scanner and register before we put it together. Neither of them worked even with trying our own batteries. What a pain is to have to go and return this now. Very disappointing

Bought this as a Christmas present for my 4 yo little girl. Although it took about 3 hours to put together, it seems very sturdy and she absolutely loves it. She played with it allllll Christmas Day! Only gripes so far are the scanner that only works in bright light and the choices on food groups, labels and groceries. It centered around baked goods, sugar and junk which we do not allow in our house and I do not view as items that should be consumed. For this reason, I had to make almost all new labels for meat cheese veggies etc and found new play food at various other stores, saving and taping up real boxes, cans etc from actual groceries. A little annoying, but worked great especially since what was provided looked super fake and were things like “sugar”, “pasta”, “candy”, “baking”, etc.

Bought this for my son for a Christmas gift. It’s all he wanted. Took us 4.5 hours to build between 2 people. In less than a week scanner wouldn’t scan and register no longer turns on. Changed batteries and emailed the manufacturer. Received a response stating they’re were reviewing our request for a new scanner and never heard from them again.

Scanner broke the day we gave it to our son.

very cute playcenter but what a pain to assemble!!!

The scanner and register stopped working after two days

This makes a great play center for toddlers to learn about real life scenarios.

My grandchildren love it!