"Unexplained item in bagging area"

[chrisjw]

F**k right off out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............

How the supermarkets have the front to call the self service tills "Express" is totally beyond me.... This stooooopid automated voice message came up 5 times while I was trying to scan my stuff & 5 times, I had to go in search of the elusive woman, who, everytime she rectified the matter, somehow disappeared into thin air.........10 minutes to shop & 25 minutes to scan the stooooooopid stuff..........online shopping for me in future.........totally stressed out..............on the upside, I must have managed to pick "no oldies & leg bashers" day................

"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

[charliehorse]

I just refuse to use the self service tills, even if they are all empty and all the real checkouts have queue's and iv'e only got a pint of milk and a loaf.
Why would I want to scan my own stuff when thats what the check out operators are employed for.

Unless they want to start paying me a wage to scan my own shopping.

The more people that use the self scan, the less check out operators will be deemed necessary and they end up with no job.

[clairea]

they will still need them to stack shelves in the middle of the day and pack the aisles full of stupid trolleys that no one in a buggy or wheelchair can get around easily and they don't care or they put those wet floor stands right in the middle of the aisle makes me so when they do that and leave them there and b****r off and go do something else instead, like have a tea break.
but yep those express checkouts are not all that express always something going wrong, and no one to be found to correct it, There should be someone watching at all times but it's never the case. Don't use coupons in the either you'll be there all day likewise with a video or booze,

[chrisjw]

Aug 6, 2014 11:01:31 GMT charliehorse said:

I just refuse to use the self service tills, even if they are all empty and all the real checkouts have queue's and iv'e only got a pint of milk and a loaf.
Why would I want to scan my own stuff when thats what the check out operators are employed for.

Unless they want to start paying me a wage to scan my own shopping.

The more people that use the self scan, the less check out operators will be deemed necessary and they end up with no job.

Good point.........I never thought of it like that............

In that case, in future I shall abandon the "Non-Express self service" tills & waste a further half a day behind the oldie who decides not to get her purse out until every last bit of shopping has been firmly ensconced in her shopping bag on wheels, only to then discover that said purse is buried underneath all the shopping she's just painstakingly put away............& then round proceedings off, by insisting she has the odd "39p" here somewhere & hold the queue up for a further 10 minutes while she has a good rummage about for it...............




"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

[OneDay]

Another of life's so-called advances that just isn't.
One of my daughters is employed by Asda. She is a self-scan assistant - in other words paid a wage to stand by the self-scanners and help out when they don't work properly. This is a full time occupation

[OneDay]

Aug 6, 2014 10:43:04 GMT chrisjw said:

F**k right off out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............

How the supermarkets have the front to call the self service tills "Express" is totally beyond me.... This stooooopid automated voice message came up 5 times while I was trying to scan my stuff & 5 times, I had to go in search of the elusive woman, who, everytime she rectified the matter, somehow disappeared into thin air.........10 minutes to shop & 25 minutes to scan the stooooooopid stuff..........online shopping for me in future.........totally stressed out..............on the upside, I must have managed to pick "no oldies & leg bashers" day................

"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

I've told you before Chris - scanning a chocolate bar and then popping a bottle of scotch in the carrier bag is a no-no

[ringading]

And it will only get worse, and it is total crap. When I go out for a meal I don't have to cook it. Nor when I need a pint of milk do I have to milk the cow.

[prr]

I'm glad that I'm not the only person to talk to and swear at inanimate self service checkouts.

[chrisjw]

Aug 6, 2014 11:48:45 GMT prr said:

I'm glad that I'm not the only person to talk to and swear at inanimate self service checkouts.

On the contrary............I spend half my life shouting & swearing at inanimate objects.......most of which possess 2 arms & 2 legs.............I class it as an enjoyable way to pass away the hours...........






"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

[prr]

chrisjw today is market day in Newton Abbot and I swear that there is a bus that delivers every strange person, leg bangers and people who insist on walking 3 abreast at 1/2 an mph onthe pavement who live within a 20 mile radius.

[chrisjw]

Aug 6, 2014 12:17:32 GMT prr said:

chrisjw today is market day in Newton Abbot and I swear that there is a bus that delivers every strange person, leg bangers and people who insist on walking 3 abreast at 1/2 an mph onthe pavement who live within a 20 mile radius.

You must have my local supermarkets quota there today............maybe they're on a day trip............any chance of letting the bus's tyres down prr ?........................




"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

[prr]

Oh and I forgot the people who stop abruptly right in front ofyou for no reason whatsoever and then look at you with hostillity because youve nearly snapped your knee caps trying not to bump into them!

[prr]

chrisjw not a bloody chance you are welcome to have them back

[djs]

Self service checkouts are there "because the customers like them".

The same customers that then steal stuff to the tune of £1.6 BILLION a year.

They should stop this way of checking out immediately and therefore stop passing on the cost to the 99% that do not abuse this.

It's not faster to check out this way if a supermarket has express tills for a basket only.

[amygx]

I used the self serve checkout last week, when I had finished scanning and paying for my items I started to pack them and found someone had left a Snickers Duo by the plastic bags..I took it obviously, was a nice snack when I got home

I prefer the self serve because they don't argue much when you use coupons, unlike till operators who often refuse to accept them!.