"Self-Service" Checkout machines in Tesco

WhiteHorse

I've never had a good experience with any of these machines, anywhere. They always go wrong.

valos_mummy

I don't mind them, never had any major probs apart from unexpected bag! Although the first time that I took my mom to use them she got a bit flappy when she thought they hadn't given her note in her change and was just about to accost some assistant when I pointed out the little tray in front of her! :rotfl: They do keep making that beep noise now that will only stop if you remove the note.

The only thing I don't like about them is in you're using it and there's a queue behind you. Because the person at the front of that queue is usually pretty much up your ar*e glaring at your shopping basket until you finish. :mad:

Morgan_Ree

I don't mind these checkouts

What i do mind are the muppets that insist on taking a trolley full of shopping through them just because they enjoy scanning their own items
It's that checkout beep, It's like crack to them

:mad::mad::mad:

grrrrrrrrrrrrr out comes the shoppers rage

DCFC79

They are ok but they do get annoying when the dalek like voice screams at you saying "unexpected item in the bagging area" or have you scanned your nectar/clubcard, the ones in morrisons are the only ones ive seen that will ask you if you are using your own bags. Ive seen a guy go quite mental at a self service aas it was constantly telling him unexpected item in bagging and when he came to pay he was trying to pay by cash(cards only till with a sign displaying it) and it was returning his coins and he wasnt too happy,

brokeinyorkshire

Those machines are the devils creation!!

I hate them with a vengeance!!!! :eek:

MoneySavingUser

so does anyone have a solution to "unexpected item in the bagging area" or do we just have to put up with this farce?

vyle

MoneySavingUser wrote: »

so does anyone have a solution to "unexpected item in the bagging area" or do we just have to put up with this farce?

I only ever had the bagging problem with the checkouts with conveyor belts. This is because the belt weighs itself to work out what's on it and thus coming off and going into the bagging area.

I made the mistake of scanning an item without putting it on the conveyor first, so it obviously said, "hold on, there's 2kg stuff on the belt, and was 1 in the bagging area. Now there's 2 on the belt and 1.5kg in the bagging. I wasn't expecting that :S"

As for the non-belted ones, AFAIK you just have to press the "Yes, I'm bagging this" or "no i'm not" buttons to chill that mofo out.

chocsessential

woohoo_postingid wrote: »

I never have a problem with them but I don't use them on principle. If they offered me a discount (after all, they are saving money on staff) then I would use them more regularly.

I have a feeling that one day all supermarkets will be self service, and we'll just be watched over by security guards while we scan all the shopping ourselves.

vikingaero

MoneySavingUser wrote: »

so does anyone have a solution to "unexpected item in the bagging area" or do we just have to put up with this farce?

Fill in the survey at:

http://www.tescocomments.com/

If enough people complain about the halfwit system, created by programmers paid with crack cocaine, then maybe they'll change it.

Storck

Does anyone read the comments left at tescocomments because I am not sure.

As for the self service checkouts a lot of people use them on a regular basis so some people must like them.