Toasty
Distinguished Member
Have you considered only going shopping when you're sober?
heavens no, its the only way I can face supermarket shopping
Have you considered only going shopping when you're sober?
I refuse to use them as I believe it is an extremely dangerous path to go down. By buying offthe net I feel guilty enough without putting poor sods out of a job on tills as well.
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I think it would have more to do with people being scared of new stuff, I asked my mum she said that she thinks she would create a bigger queue and slow everybody else down as she struggled to use the thing.i'd imagine a number of people dont use them because they are lazy....
after all, why should you have to scan the item as well as put it in the basket in the first place!!!!
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Drives me round the bend, how stupid some people are! Moreso when the damn machine tells and shows you exactly what to do! These machines would be excellent for thinning out the human race.
You mean like "Please place the item on the belt" with helpful video accompaniment showing those of us who have lost our hand/eye co-ordination just exactly what we should do? Fine when it works, of course, although I suspect many people have shared my experience of repeatedly trying to "Place the item on the belt" to no avail. It usually goes along the lines of:
Scan the item.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Place the item on the belt.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Lift item and replace.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Lift and replace the item with slightly more vigour.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Lift and bang the item soundly onto the belt.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Lift the item and jump onto the belt holding the item.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Avoid the disbelieving stares of customers and staff, hop lightly off the belt, and proceed to bang the item repeatedly on the belt.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Nod sagely to the OAP behind you in the queue.
Attempt to cancel the item, rescan, and place item on the belt.
"Please place the item on the belt"
Spot that you have another identical "item" in your basket. Place it on the belt.
"Unauthorised item on the belt. Please rescan the item and place it on the belt"
Fall to your knees sobbing gently, while the OAP attracts the attention of a member of staff, who, with a couple of button presses, scans the "item" and successfully "Places it on the belt"
Stumble towards the door, but not quickly enough to avoid your Nemesis saying "Thank you for shopping at Tescos" in what, to your now deranged imagination, seems like a very smug tone.
HI,
I love the Self-Service tills, at my local Tesco, but I have one major gripe:
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Drives me round the bend, how stupid some people are! Moreso when the damn machine tells and shows you exactly what to do! These machines would be excellent for thinning out the human race.
Pooch
HI,
I love the Self-Service tills, at my local Tesco, but I have one major gripe:
Why do so many morons keep using these tills, to put-through a whoel shopping torlley full of junk through, that includes 6 tins of tuna, 29 tins of cat food, a year's worth of booze, fourteen packets of bog roll, and knows what other stuff too? Plus, for every single item, they seem to be unable to find the fecking bar-code?!
Drives me round the bend, how stupid some people are! Moreso when the damn machine tells and shows you exactly what to do! These machines would be excellent for thinning out the human race.
Pooch
You mean like "Please place the item on the belt" with helpful video accompaniment showing those of us who have lost our hand/eye co-ordination just exactly what we should do? Fine when it works, of course, although I suspect many people have shared my experience of repeatedly trying to "Place the item on the belt" to no avail. It usually goes along the lines of:
Scan the item.
"Please place the item on the belt"
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funny you mention the belt, we were giving it a try last week, put one bowl on it.... shoots down. missus goes to put the second bowl down...... run to the other end to move the bowl out of the way before the enevitable smash that was to ensue!
i wonder how many things get broken on them things?
i tell you one thing, if something were to get broken or the bag one doesnt accept my goods with relative ease id just leave everything there and walk out.
sorry tescos/asda but im a man, when i shop its in and out, no time for foreplay
You won't be so happy when the checkout starts charging you for the clothes you're wearing!The jobs are going to go soon enough tho'. New scientist reported some months ago that RFID chips are now cheap enough to mass produce and the Super(??)Markets are looking at the idea of EVERY item having its own unique identifier chip. So you will be able to load your trolley and just wheel it through the check-out, which will remotely read every chip instantly and bill you in milli-seconds. Goodbye checkout girls and boys,
Well, goodbye low-tech shoplifting anyway. RFID tag emulator, anyone? Then of course will come the inevitable RFID malware and viruses, designed to attack the reader software...(goodbye shoplifting too).
1) Most of them cannot handle reduced items
2) Multibuys generally cause it to explode
3) As Vinvader points out, the machines seem to be autistic and get upset if the item is not bagged in exactly the right way.
4) Putting notes in them is next to impossible
5) At least three of the checkout girls in Tesco and several of the ones in Sainsburys are lovely and I wouldn't want them out of a job now would I ?
You won't be so happy when the checkout starts charging you for the clothes you're wearing!
Well, goodbye low-tech shoplifting anyway. RFID tag emulator, anyone? Then of course will come the inevitable RFID malware and viruses, designed to attack the reader software...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about it. I think it's another step towards the total dehumanisation of the way we live, eventually ending up with no social interaction at all with other people if you don't try and after that who knows what. Shopping is bad enough as it is, but to make it even less 'human'...
Safeways used to give you a scanner that you used to scan the goods as you went round the store and then you'd either bag the goods at the end or put them in plastic boxes as you went that you brought and kept to reuse. Every so often you would be selected to go through a normal checkout to make sure that you weren't scamming the system. Seemed much faster than the current self service tills.
I'd still rather order my shopping over the Internet, Ocado are just about perfect and its rare that I get a single substitution or anything with a short expiry date on it.
How about telling him it's not your job?I did not know Sainsburys had any of these selfscan checkouts, we have none, and our manager wants everyone checkout trained, something which I don't want to do, so somehow I got to find an excuse to get out of it.