People (self service)

rustyboy21

happens in the sainsbury by me too. The queues end up bigger at the self service than at the tills at times.

It is usually the old dears ( bless em) who try to at least have a go at them, but give up after 2 scans, or the cordrouy trouser brigade, who have come in to do there weekly shop of booze, but have to have the staff member standing with them, to take the security caps off each bottle ! Last week, said cord brigade, ended up shouting at the poor girl, demanding that she put every thing through as they didnt have time !, his transaction was cancelled and he was told to queue up on the assisted tills. The air was blue, security escorted him off the premises.

Wonderful to see him getting his come uppance!:rotfl:

The local tesco has barriers up so only baskets can get through. Think that is a good idea.

paddedjohn

hippyadam wrote: »

Remote activation isn't needed, as soon as item 16 hits the machine zap. Next customer.

Granted we'd be stepping over unconscious muppets every time (some people never learn) but it would liven up the experience...

WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO STEP OVER THEM IF A TRAP DOOR WAS FITTED ASWELL, THROUGH THE FLOOR, ONTO A CONVEYER AND DUMPED OUTSIDE BY THE BINS, SORTED:j:j:j

Vaila

great thread

Morglin

I had to laugh on Sunday when I went with my daughter to a local ASDA in Kent - this shop is in an area where there are quite a few gypsy sites/sink estates, the place was packed inside and the car park was like Battersea Dog's home with dubious looking canines all trying to kill each other lol.:eek:

There were huge queues at all the self service tills, but the manned tills were very quiet.

While I was sitting waiting for my daughter, behind the tills, I was sort of watching people, just to save getting bored, and these people were only scanning aprox 50% of their items. Obviously, they scanned the security tagged items, but not much else.

The staff standing about were obviously quite intimidated by it all and were not saying a word- trolley loads were passing through with 'unpaid for goods' in them.

Places like this must be losing a fortune.:eek::eek:

Lin

marmitepotato

hippyadam wrote: »

I'm with you, these people are a menace!

We should be allowed cattle prods in these instances...

Yup!! I agree, if not a cattle prod then at least a patent Acme Boot or Boxing Glove that could come out of the till when required!!!

GotToChange

paddedjohn wrote: »

WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO STEP OVER THEM IF A TRAP DOOR WAS FITTED ASWELL, THROUGH THE FLOOR, ONTO A CONVEYER AND DUMPED OUTSIDE BY THE BINS, SORTED:j:j:j

.......and then scooped up and taken in a mystery truck to an unknown location (with Charlton Heston hanging onto the back) -
a la "Soylent Green".

:eek:

Mark_Hewitt

My local Sainsbury's has self - service tills with plenty of space on the weigh scale thing (about a trolleys length), so I regularly go through with a lot of stuff, granted not a weeks worth of shopping, but a 'shallow' trolleys worth of stuff. And I've gotten quite good at the checkout thing, I can usually scan through my big load of stuff in the same time the person next to me takes to figure out how to scan their single loaf of bread!

katerinasol

rustyboy21 wrote: »

happens in the sainsbury by me too. The queues end up bigger at the self service than at the tills at times.

It is usually the old dears ( bless em) who try to at least have a go at them, but give up after 2 scans, or the cordrouy trouser brigade, who have come in to do there weekly shop of booze, but have to have the staff member standing with them, to take the security caps off each bottle ! Last week, said cord brigade, ended up shouting at the poor girl, demanding that she put every thing through as they didnt have time !, his transaction was cancelled and he was told to queue up on the assisted tills. The air was blue, security escorted him off the premises.

Wonderful to see him getting his come uppance!:rotfl:

The local tesco has barriers up so only baskets can get through. Think that is a good idea.

God how rude! Glad he got what he deserved!

hippyadam

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

My local Sainsbury's has self - service tills with plenty of space on the weigh scale thing (about a trolleys length), so I regularly go through with a lot of stuff, granted not a weeks worth of shopping, but a 'shallow' trolleys worth of stuff. And I've gotten quite good at the checkout thing, I can usually scan through my big load of stuff in the same time the person next to me takes to figure out how to scan their single loaf of bread!

That's fine by me TBH, its the people with hundreds of reduced items or booze or anything that needs staff interaction with the machine that gets me...

Alas when the revolution comes you'll have to abide by the 15 items or less rule or this guy will be gunning for you....

Morty_007

rustyboy21 wrote: »

The local tesco has barriers up so only baskets can get through. Think that is a good idea.

It's a brilliant idea until the likes of me comes by who actually can't carry a basket even with a few things in it so I have to use a shallow trolley EVERY time I go in. If there were barriers preventing me from using the SS till even though I only had a few things, that wouldn't be very fair now would it?