Let's not beat about the bush: self service checkouts

[LlcoolJ]

Are you sure?
In my experience, once the assistant has verified you are old enough for your first alcoholic item, all the following alcoholic items are accepted without the need for further assistant athorisation.

This. Some used to require authorisation for every item but now they all seem to work properly. I should know with the amount of BOOZE I buy.

 

[VAL1850]

Good for getting rid of all your coppers and loose change - not much else

 

[maltaseagull]

My relationship with the Asda self service tills in Woking was going swimmingly until the charging for bags started. Now you have to ask the woman that looks after the tills for the bags and how many you need, if she's about or not helping 6 people before you. Seriously annoying during work lunch hour. We are going through a rough patch now.

I think you may be missing the point of charging for bags?

RECYCLE?

 

[Brighton TID]

Fairly sure that when these machine first came out there was a limit on their use of 10 items or less. This led to all kinds of pointless anger when the ignorant old lady pitched up with a months worth of shopping and started scanning. Humans are funny.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I won't use self service checkouts on principle. The staff being ordered to oversee them are supermarket equivalent of turkeys voting for Xmas. not that they have any say in the matter, sadly. IMHO self service checkouts should be boycotted mercilessly in favour of employing more checkout staff, a.k.a members of the local community.

 

[Brighton TID]

I won't use self service checkouts on principle. The staff being ordered to oversee them are supermarket equivalent of turkeys voting for Xmas. not that they have any say in the matter, sadly. IMHO self service checkouts should be boycotted mercilessly in favour of employing more checkout staff, a.k.a members of the local community.

By that reckoning, do you use cashpoints?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

By that reckoning, do you use cashpoints?

You are Mike Ashley and I claim my free prize. I'll have that adidas top thirty foot in the air so nobody can rob it cheers

 

[Brighton TID]

You are Mike Ashley and I claim my free prize. I'll have that adidas top thirty foot in the air so nobody can rob it cheers

scuppered

 

[looney]

It would be nice if the machines said thank you from time to time. Why are they so stroppy?

First of all I thought maybe a Jonny Cab like in the Film Total Recall.

But then I thought a HAL1000 from the film 2001AD Space Odyssey. As you put the items through you are on a scale which weighs you and take your BMI, then the red light can say in the HAL voice ,"I am sorry Fatty but I am unable to let you buy these donuts, you have had far to many already,may I suggest you return them and go to aisle 3 and buy a lettuce?".

 

[Bombadier Botty]

It's all very well complaining as a customer (I always favour self-service tills), but put yourself in the shoes of the poor employees who have to stand there listening to that for hours on end: 'Remove item...' etc. on top of which they've got stressed and moaning customers pulling them this way and that to the extent that their heads must be spinning. Next time you get peed off in self-service think about the person at the other end and it'll all seem quite trivial in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Morrisons one is the best - the electronic woman "Please take your items" seems to get more angry and stressed every time the recording repeats if you don't pack up your stuff quickly enough. #Christmas Spirit

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I won't use self service checkouts on principle. The staff being ordered to oversee them are supermarket equivalent of turkeys voting for Xmas. not that they have any say in the matter, sadly. IMHO self service checkouts should be boycotted mercilessly in favour of employing more checkout staff, a.k.a members of the local community.

But you'll pay for the pleasure.

The supermarkets are trying to minimise their overheads. Re-think your comment with the supermarket view in mind "How much money can I take on the till [maximise income] using as few staff as possible [minimise costs] without adversely impacting customer services. With self-serve check outs, one assistant can oversee circa 10 tills - that's called efficiency. This then enables the supermarket to sell their produce at cheaper prices giving them competitive advantage.

Yes, it puts checkout staff out of work, but only in the name of cost cutting efficiency and the impact on your wallet.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

But you'll pay for the pleasure.

The supermarkets are trying to minimise their overheads. Re-think your comment with the supermarket view in mind "How much money can I take on the till [maximise income] using as few staff as possible [minimise costs] without adversely impacting customer services. With self-serve check outs, one assistant can oversee circa 10 tills - that's called efficiency. This then enables the supermarket to sell their produce at cheaper prices giving them competitive advantage.

Yes, it puts checkout staff out of work, but only in the name of cost cutting efficiency and the impact on your wallet.

Every single company is trying to maximise profit while minimising staff. At some point you have to say 'enough already' and do your own small part to f*ck up their business plan in support of locally-based employment of, y'know, people who live and would love to work in their local community. Like your college-aged son or daughter for just one example. There are many other examples.

 

[looney]

I won't use self service checkouts on principle. The staff being ordered to oversee them are supermarket equivalent of turkeys voting for Xmas. not that they have any say in the matter, sadly. IMHO self service checkouts should be boycotted mercilessly in favour of employing more checkout staff, a.k.a members of the local community.

The irony of you posting a luddite comment by using the internet, newish technology, possibly from a mobile phone onto new tech social media escapes you.. You are like Ernest without the caps lock.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The irony of you posting a luddite comment by using the internet, newish technology, possibly from a mobile phone onto new tech social media escapes you.. You are like Ernest without the caps lock.

Hardly my fault you prefer not to speak to humans apart from on here

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I think you may be missing the point of charging for bags?

RECYCLE?

Not at all, I agree with paying, considering the harm they do, re-read my post, it's the waiting to get the bloody things!

 

[looney]

Morrisons one is the best - the electronic woman "Please take your items" seems to get more angry and stressed every time the recording repeats if you don't pack up your stuff quickly enough. #Christmas Spirit

Maybe Basil Fawlty would be better? Or Herr Flick of the Gestapo?

 

[looney]

Hardly my fault you prefer not to speak to humans apart from on here

I'm not blaming you for my Misanthropic tendencies, just pointing out your hypocrisy..I would be careful, one of those auto-tills you snub could be a DECEPTICON and chase you out the store and rip you limb from limb.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

B&Q on lewes road is a nightmare, I hate the machines in there they are fecking useless.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Every single company is trying to maximise profit while minimising staff. At some point you have to say 'enough already' and do your own small part to f*ck up their business plan in support of locally-based employment of, y'know, people who live and would love to work in their local community. Like your college-aged son or daughter for just one example. There are many other examples.

To take your admirable standpoint forward [encourage low paid local workers] I trust you employ a cleaner and a gardener at home? [other examples of DIY money saving activities also available]
Or, perhaps, more likely, you do it yourself to save money?

If the latter, your comment is hypocritical by not wanting to do DIY supermarket checkout but happy to do DIY cleaning and gardening ....
If the former, I take my hat off to you for supporting employment in the community from your own pocket ....

Oh, by the way, both my kids are gainfully employed but not as checkout assistants, cleaners or gardeners.