Slightly off topic but, I remember going shopping as a kid with my mum, the women on the tills seemed to know all the prices off by heart and entered every price manually. I suppose after a while you would remember the prices but even so, respect. Can you imagine your first day on the tills, long queue of people, trolleys full of shopping and your supposed to know all the prices, talk about pressure. Just read this and when I said "trolleys full of shopping" I didn`t mean it literally. Might just be a northern thing but trolleys is slang for underwear.
Yeah, round my way if your trolleys were full of shopping the store detective would be inviting you back inside the store to pay for your goods you haven't paid for
I remember going shopping as a kid with my mum, the nice man on the butter counter cut the butter from a large block, weighed it and wrapped it in grease proof paper. The sugar was scooped into a paper bag from a big lined sack then weighed and the milk was delivered to our door by the milkman, changed days, no supermarkets back then!!!
For bigger shoppings you should be able to scan your shoppings as you put them in the trolley, then at the checkout it weighs the whole trolley and downloads the info and cost from the trolley. Other than that I'm v happy with self serve, it used to annoy me that you had to put your card in then press a button to say you had put your card in. Most places seem to have sorted that out now so when you put a card in the machine senses it. Oh, and a big mute button, I don't like it when they talk to you.
And.... I would like it if tesco's self serve would scan my clubcard from my iPhone like the staffed tills can
Blufoot There is a mute button Though I don't work at Tesco We have the latest version where I am and when you are in the scan and bag page to your left at the bottom should be three bars you can mute it there though be warned if you don't hear a beep and you mistakenly put an item down you will get a constant wait for assistant As for trolleys I have a number who do there weekly shopping through them and they are mostly men would you believe! It means they can organise their shop and take their time with no moaning from other customers Men seem to have more patience with them than women and they are happier than women to have it explained to them
Demonstrating mans superiority in all respects... Meanwhile, in the papers today: One third of shoppers admit stealing using self-service tills One third of shoppers admit stealing using self-service tills - Telegraph
Yes I read that personally that's down to the attendant. You can't and I have tried put through onions as oranges or the cheapest apples as it calls unknown item. They get away with it because the attendant doesn't check. And men arent superior Jerry they are just open to new gadgets and don't mind being told what to do The most resistance I get is women They keep telling me they know what they are doing and get cross when I have to keep sorting them out and won't use them again
I must admit in Tesco their pictures of different types of bread, baguettes and buns are very much identical so I always select the best deal Also for some time I could not find ring doughnut so I used bagel. You know round with a hole, close enough.
Had a full blown Basil Faulty episode with one of the blighters in B&Q once..........:smile: ALL good now if i stick to my medication!
Cant be bothered to use them, more hassle and less personable than the till with a real smiley person at. B&Q is the worst...........no bags supplied at all........items that wont fit on the scale............ etc. Delhaize in Belgium great, scan the bottle out of a multipack of beer and its buy one get three free!
Here's a good one asked a guy if he would to use self scan he replied Yes but I want discount if I have to serve myself I replied Discount!! That's why you have a choice so best stay where you are no discount here (big smile) Then watched while he had to wait for customer 3 in front wait for a forgotten item Ha ha he looked everywhere bar me
Why not just set them so you can't buy booze? they're for convenience, after all, and waiting cos some eejit is trying to scan a bottle of British fortified wine is a bind. BTW the staff at one of my local Tesco's have been told they have to get a certain number of people using them, but the punters hate them, so what they do is when they do their own shopping when the store is quiet, they run each item through as an individual sale to get the averages up...
Lol that is mad Yes there are targets in self scan that's why we encourage people to try them. I sometimes do it for them it doesn't take long and helps the figures ;-) Listen you all must come to mine by the time I finished with you you will be pros To blow my own trumpet I have the highest people through on our figures :-DD
Ducbird you must be buying plenty of little things and scanning them one by one in your free time then You just need to get back on the bike!!!
Oh bugger you sussed me out I'm working on the bike bit. Should have these shoulders finally sorted in June I may have a tear in the rota cuff of my fractured shoulder Will get that operated on build up my strength to man handle a monster
