General Chat

Do you use the self service aisle?

I've tried it a few times, and have always had a problem with one thing or another not scanning. A staff member has to help to fix the machine, or enter a code. How do they know someone isn't cheating.... paying for cheaper fruit/veg and having something more expensive in the bag?

I like the human contact of a checkout operator (in a small town we know most of the staff).

Our local supermarket started out with eight self-serve checkouts, I noticed yesterday they are putting more in! Which means they will probably need less staff :-(

I regularly use the 'self service' aisle.
Fortunately they know me, so when the need to prove I'm over 18 arises, they're ready.

Was taken aback just before Christmas, though, when, with a couple of bottles of wine needing verifying, the girl comes across and says:
'You may as well get another 4. There's a discount on 6, and you get that many in a week anyway' :-D

FOILED!!!!!!!

:-D :-D :-D




oh, what it is to be known in the local stores





or coffee shop :-D

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They know what we buy. The local supermarket is part of a "loyalty" program, which we joined many years ago. I save up the points & get "dollar points" to spend. They send regular emails, letting us know when double/triple points are going on, and what's on special. Recently these emails have change a bit....... the last two have listed "specials"... and they are all items we regularly buy!

Big Brother Supermarkets?

I get the same!!




but it's when the girls in the coffee shop start making your medium soy latte before you've even opened the door that makes me think "too predictable" ..................................


:-D :-D :-D

....... and a biscotti? :-D

Our local club knows us........ should we be worried?

We often get to the bar to find our beer waiting for us! A schooner of Gold for DH and a midi of VB for me :-D

It's nice..... but a bit of a worry :-D

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Can't be doing with self service checkouts. I do a big shop once a week and although there only two of us I seem to have trolley full every time .

Can't see where to cut down either unless it's buying less wine ! Lol that's not an option though as we do like a glass or two

Buy 4 plus every week depending on the offers ,not more than 6 tho I hasten to add

Check-out operatives regularly thank me for waiting.

Well, I would wait my turn, wouldn't I, especially with that hefty chap standing by the doorway keeping an eye on the comings & goings.

Unexpected item in bagging area!
It's MY shopping bag that you asked tme to place there

Or

Please place item in bag! Please place item in bag!
I can't help it if a pack of chewing gum doesn't weigh enough to register

in super markets,
do you HAVE to use a trolley, or basket?

its sort of taken for granted that you do.....

but I've never seen a notice that you MUST

:-0

If I go into a shop to spend my hard earned cash, I want a flesh and blood human being to take it with a smile on their face. I don't want to be served by a machine.

Using these self service tills is like being on a production line. I'm not the product though. I'm the customer. If you want my money, you've got to earn it. :-P

never use them - if we all use them then there will be no jobs for check-out assistants meaning more unemployment

Anyone on here use bank ATM's? Or, who has cashed a cheque recently?

What about when a new checkout opens?
Those who race from the back of the next queue to get there first?

Last week, I did something naughty

I was waiting in a queue when the next checkout was opened.
I made sure that I pushed my trolley in front of an older lady who came rushing out of nowhere to get in first.

Once I was in place with her behind me, I called to the man who had been in front of me and insisted that as he had been waiting longer, HE should go first.

The woman nearly burst a blood vessel!

I think there's a difference between getting you're money and spending it ;-)

Oh Dermot!
Talking about ATMs...
Due to investments that matured about 10 years too early, we had a rather large sum sitting in our current acct
It forms part of our retirement fund, and must be re invested until OH retires.
A meeting with the financial advisor was in place

Last weekend, I bought a few things at the shops, but was horrified because my debit card declined!
I had enough cash to pay for my purchases then went outside to the ATM.
Same thing.... my card declined.
On the panic drive home, I tried another ATM. from a different bank.. declined.

I was in blind panic when I got home and told OH.
He went white!
Daughter then pipes up...

Mum, you daft bat!
Did you sign that new bank card? The one that came in the post about 2 months ago?
Err, No?
The money was safe,....... my card expired on the last day of Dec 2014

If you are going to a cashier in the supermarket, please treat her as a human being!

I witnessed apalling rudeness at the Christmas period to the poor ladies on the till. It is a supermarket, you should expect to queue. Dont take your frustrations out on the cashier.

If they were not sitting there, you would not get your shopping out of the door!

In our local corner shop, the queue is as serene as a Vicar’s sitting-room.

Dermot - I have never been in a Vicar's sitting-room!!!!!