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binners - Member
I just go shoplifting.Its miles easier nowadays
You're not wrong.
It's a real 'problem' though - has anyone else noticed that Tesco and Sainsburys don't actually employ till staff at their little shops now? Not in Cardiff they don't anyway - sometimes it's a single staff member for the whole shop, running around like mad, and if/when someone goes to the non-self-scan they have to come running to charge them.
It's a bit sad these days, when I was a teenager supermarkers were full of secondary school kids in the evenings and weekends earning money for Hooch and 20.20 now it's proper grownups paying the mortgage and looking a bit worn out. Efficiency, it's a bit shit.
I don't have any of these problems in Aldi.
Weirdly for years in Tescos I seem to get large quantities of re-scans. Maybe once every three times, always no problems. Then one day I had a major brain-fade day and forgot to scan 4 items out of 9. The woman didn't even mention it to me, just scanned the whole shop in manually. (Actually, I think she might have said "you forgot this one" under her breath but I didn't catch it.)
The next time I went in I wasn't re-scanned. Since then I don't recall being checked at all, perhaps once.
Could their algorythm be clever enough to think that after getting it massively wrong I'd be extra careful? (Which I am.)
Muppetwrangler is actually the official job title of the person who has to manage that queue.
Just caught up... marvellous 😆
they're totally oblivious to me shoving 9 or 10 huge steaks down the front of my tracky bottoms
I'd always assumed you were hiding a massive bratwurst in there TBH 😉
The person that rescans your shop doesn't know if you missed anything. It is just like scanning through any basket of shopping for them.
Waitrose is slightly different because you can't get a scanner without swiping a loyalty card, which makes it easier for the evil overlord inconvenience computer to then ruin your future shopping trips.
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I was upset in waitrose a while ago. I was waiting for the missus in the cafe and a chavtastic blonde turned up with her mum. Dont you know this is Waitrose? We are terribly middleclass in here i know how to spell quinoa and everything. I thought about telling her the location of the nearest Tescos. Suprised the staff didnt ask her to leave, shocking. Turns out it was some girl who won big brother a while back.
Dont you kbow this is Waitrose? Wr are terribly middleclass in here i know how to spel quinoa and everything. I thought about telling her the location of the nearest Tescos.
Put down the free coffee, hand in your loyalty card, and make your way to the nearest exit please sir. Iceland have been warned to expect you.
We are terribly middleclass in here i know how to spell
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The person that rescans your shop doesn't know if you missed anything. It is just like scanning through any basket of shopping for them.Waitrose is slightly different because you can't get a scanner without swiping a loyalty card, which makes it easier for the evil overlord inconvenience computer to then ruin your future shopping trips.
Oh dear, two points, both wrong.
They do, they have to tell you what you missed 'just so you know', but they never make a fuss about it.
Also, you need to swipe a Clubcard to access a scanner - it's like one of these reaction testing machines, you scan your CC and it waits a random amount of time, then one of a few dozen scanners light up, its a test of motor skills and reactions, well, it is when I play anyway.
What a precious, self important, pompous rant!
I'm saving this phrase to my autofill list.
it's like one of these reaction testing machines, you scan your CC and it waits a random amount of time, then one of a few dozen scanners light up, its a test of motor skills and reactions, well, it is when I play anyway.
It's one shot Whack-A-Mole
It's one shot Whack-A-Mole
Another one who doesn't deserve to shop in Waitrose.
You spell it guacamole.
"Aside from the obvious technology costs, having customers do some work themselves can mean less overhead costs for companies.
For example, the cost of checking in a passenger at the airport is about $3 with a staffed desk, according to a report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation entitled Embracing the Self-Service Economy.
But when customers use electronic terminals? That cost drops to 14 cents."
If companies are going to make this sort of saving by using shadow labour, reducing their costs (and tax,) then when their new tech goes wrong I think its reasonable to say to CS "sorry mate" here is a voucher for 6 cans of Elvis Juice. Share the love a bit. No?
martinhutch - Member
It's one shot Whack-A-Mole
Another one who doesn't deserve to shop in Waitrose.
You spell it guacamole.
Ha ha
We've been using QuickCheck for years, and we've only ever been subject to "The Search" once. They couldn't have been more helpful and solicitous - they opened a checkout just for us, ran it though and packed it back up for us. But then we are very middle class.
I'll concede on the second, I had no idea Tescos had hand held scanners.Oh dear, two points, both wrong
If companies are going to make this sort of saving by using shadow labour, reducing their costs (and tax,) then when their new tech goes wrong I think its reasonable to say to CS "sorry mate" here is a voucher for 6 cans of Elvis Juice. Share the love a bit. No?
Joking aside I read another story to show that 'shrinkage' has become so bad with self-scanning and self-service that the big shops might chance their stance on them.
Firstly to try to prosecute people who they can prove purposely misuse them, aka the 'Onion Scam' (ill thought out that one) or by removing them altogether in some locations.
I think a lot of people have worked out, that a) supermarkets won't dare make a fuss if you're 'caught' see above - (I believe also that if set of the security beepers on the way out of a Waitrose they'll give you a bottle of wine providing you've not nicked something of course). b) it's, at the moment a completely unenforceable crime unless you're daft (see Onion Scam).
I personally like using them, I'm not sociable by nature and they're quick, or at least they are now my local shops have reintroduced the express tills for people who don't like tech - but as someone said, they cost jobs which isn't great.
torsoinalake - Member
Oh dear, two points, both wrong
I'll concede on the second, I had no idea Tescos had hand held scanners.
No worries, they're fairly new in most stores, it's a whole different hustle than the self-service tills.
Only ever been checked once in Waitrose. Even that was very 'Waitrose' as they only wanted to check a sample and let me pick the items to check while apologising it ever happened in the first place.
^You should have created a scene and demanded a bottle of wine.
The staff are all so preoccupied with the middle classes sneaking some organic quinoa into their trolley without scanning it, that they're totally oblivious to me shoving 9 or 10 huge steaks down the front of my tracky bottoms
Aye, right...
I don't have any of these problems in Aldi.
Probably because you're too busy looking for stuff they don't stock to notice.
The few times I've been to Waitrose I have seen plenty of people I imagine were capable of similar feelings to CS, the poor loves.
Seen those scanning things in our Tesco but never felt the need to see how they work.
P-Jay - Member
(I believe also that if set of the security beepers on the way out of a Waitrose they'll give you a bottle of wine providing you've not nicked something of course).
Sadly, not in my experience - or rather, that of my wife, who went through a period of setting off every set of security alarms in the world for a couple of months.
Small universe syndrome at it's worst. People can't work out that the accusation of theft is at a population level rather than individually!
Apparently a lot of people are so annoyed at the extra time, that they leave a weeks shopping behind! 😯
Presumably when they've calmed down they go back and repeat the task and refill an entire trolley! Twonks!
If you really want to get on the naughty list at Tesco abandon your self scan when the queue for to checkout is 10 strong and go through a regular till.
CS from Eastbourne has obviously never shopped in Costco.
Martin and cfh lol!
Iceland. Shudder
Thought this was going to be about asking the spotty teenager in the Pharmacy where the Anusol is, only for them to bellow that pile cream is on the aisle.
FWIW I always go to a checkout. I'd much rather deal with a person rather than a machine.
If you want to get selected for a random checkout at Tesco, do your shop then return for one extra item. The rescan's pretty quick though 🙂
If you really want to get on the naughty list at Tesco abandon your self scan when the queue for to checkout is 10 strong and go through a regular till.
Top top: Hand them the scanner, they can process it on regular checkouts too.
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I've only heard Waitrose shoppers use this expression.
If you're that bothered about getting through the checkouts and out of the shop quickly - go to Aldi. Fastest checkouts in the world.
Might have been back in the day when they didn't use barcodes and the staff just picked a number, these days it always seems to be massively busy with not enough checkouts.If you're that bothered about getting through the checkouts and out of the shop quickly - go to Aldi. Fastest checkouts in the world.
I blame all the middle class people who go there for quinoa and kale rather than a slightly dry stollen, that icing covered and crack sprinkled gingerbread that comes in packs of 100 and an electric chainsaw.
Probably because you're too busy looking for stuff they don't stock to notice.
As I don't require organic quinoa, it's not been a problem.
"If you're that bothered about getting through the checkouts and out of the shop quickly - [s]go to Aldi. Fastest checkouts in the world[/s].
Shop online and get it delivered
Shop online and get it delivered
This. Bypassed the scanner things and went straight to online and delivery option. There was a lovely class of milf in the local supermarket- kind of miss that element. But not the screaming kids and the OAPs dawdling around their only trip out of the house for the week.
What's the best thing about Sainsbury's?
Keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose.
I'd have waitied for them to scan the lot, pack it into bags. Then decided I didn't want it and left. unexpected item in the depacking-it-yourself isle.
What's the best thing about[s] Sainsbury's[/s] Waitrose?Keeps the riff raff out of [s]Waitrose.[/s] Booths
FTFY
My latest Waitrose humiliation was in the Uttoxeter branch where they have a sloping travellator from the car park to the shop.
I strode sharply onto it, just ahead of a couple of Waitrose standard issue yummy mummies and I ground to a halt on the slope - couldn't go any further.
Having just stopped off from a double session at Derby Velodrome my legs were like jelly, but I couldn't think of a way of communicating it to those overtaking me without making myself look more of a sad old fat man than I had already acheived. 😳
Keeps the riff raff out of [s]Waitrose[/s]. Booths
And the North keeps them out of civilisation.
😉
You mean Basingstoke flashy?
Humiliated in Waitrose....
Sounds like it could be an elaborate BDSM role play scenario.