Tesco's '10 items or less queue'

ryandj

sophie131 wrote: »

So just want to let them know! quote]

I trust you have actually let them know, and complained to CS?

HC_2

IvanOpinion wrote: »

Wait until you get married .. I spend days trying to figure out how I can blame my latest disaster on DW

Ivan

You're not the only one.

My OH once knocked a pot plant off a coffee table in the sitting room.

Despite my being upstairs at the time, it was my fault because I'd put it 'too close to the edge'. :rolleyes:

Reggie_Rebel

HC wrote: »

No, it's definitely always men! They fart around, patting their pockets, trying to find their wallets.

Now, we women have our purses, our credit cards and our loyalty cards ready and waiting while the shopper in front is still packing.

Yep, your purses with 258 compartments.
Your credit card that has expired.
Your loyalty card for the wrong store.

There should be seperate times for men to do the shopping, which we do far better and quicker, and seperate times for women to do the shopping, half of which they spend picking things up, examining them scientifically and then putting them down again, all the while with a trolley blocking the aisles

HC_2

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

Yep, your purses with 258 compartments.
Your credit card that has expired.
Your loyalty card for the wrong store.

There should be seperate times for men to do the shopping, which we do far better and quicker, and seperate times for women to do the shopping, half of which they spend picking things up, examining them scientifically and then putting them down again, all the while with a trolley blocking the aisles

I think you're talking about my OH in your post above. I had no idea you knew him.

IvanOpinion

HC wrote: »

You're not the only one.

My OH once knocked a pot plant off a coffee table in the sitting room.

Despite my being upstairs at the time, it was my fault because I'd put it 'too close to the edge'. :rolleyes:

Hold on just writing this one down for future use

ivan

balmk

I absolutely love (not) using the self-scan checkouts at ASDA - large signes that state "Baskets Only" are in clear view, and yet people STILL pu trolley-loads of stuff through them! Ant the self-scan supervisor just stands there looking vacant.

I know that it is fun to scan your own shopping, but the self-scan checkouts are designed for use by customers who have a few items in order to speed up the passage through the store. If you really enjoy scanning shopping so much, go and get a job on the checkouts.

Gah!

*sorry, rant over*

Viper_7

Quite often find people using the 10 items or less queue also pay by cash, which slows things down as they count out their pennies..and hunt around for that 13P to 'help' the cashier with regards to change, and then "oh sorry" I don't have it"

Tigsteroonie

I used to love the Safeway "self scan" system. You got a hand-held scanner, and scanned the goods as you went round the shop, packing them into reusable green boxes in the trolley. At the end, you re-docked the scanner and got issued a till spit, which you then took to an assistant to simply pay the money. They did random checks to make sure you didn't scam the system, I think we got checked about 1 in 10 times.

I much preferred this as it meant I only packed the shopping once (off the shelf, scan, and into a box). I get so annoyed that I have to load everything into a trolley, then out again for myself or a cashier to scan, and then pack it a second time.

uktim29

Viper_7 wrote: »

and hunt around for that 13P to 'help' the cashier with regards to change, and then "oh sorry" I don't have it"

That use to annoy me. You'd have a safe with thoudsands of pounds of change in, why would you want to wait for two minutes for someone to find 57p!

Bennifred

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I used to love the Safeway "self scan" system. You got a hand-held scanner, and scanned the goods as you went round the shop, packing them into reusable green boxes in the trolley. At the end, you re-docked the scanner and got issued a till spit, which you then took to an assistant to simply pay the money. They did random checks to make sure you didn't scam the system, I think we got checked about 1 in 10 times.

I much preferred this as it meant I only packed the shopping once (off the shelf, scan, and into a box). I get so annoyed that I have to load everything into a trolley, then out again for myself or a cashier to scan, and then pack it a second time.

Waitrose has the same "self-scan" system - you don't have to pay an assistant, though, you can pay straight at an ATM-type machine. It's especially good at Easter and Christmas, not having to join those queues snaking around the store:D (I'm not organised enough to shop on-line at those times - the delivery slots go so early!)