Maniacs at the reduced bit in supermarkets!

esuhl

DCFC79 wrote: »

Dont know why but peple go into a different mode and go all protective over whoopsies.

They do what?! I've never seen anyone do that in a supermarket! I thought only animals marked their [STRIKE]intended purchases[/STRIKE] territory that way...

elfen

I only really like the Tesco near me, as the reductions lady is very polite and lets you know when the further reductions are being done. And when it's the Free From (only I eat that) I get about a tenner's worth of stuff for a quid!

eminemfan001

As a Tesco employee i have noticed that people get a little crazy when reduced stuff is on offer but we had to call the police one night when i woman was caught stealing the 10p tickets off the bread and putting them on what ever stock she wanted!

She even had the cheek to put a 10p sticker on a fresh whole chicken. As if the checkout staff wouldnt notice it scanned as bread lol.

I work on the fish/meat counters and we just reduce stuff when we are ready to close down or you end up with the same people everyday hovering around staring at you

LisaB85

I would have pointed out the CCTV and told him I would be having him arrested for sexual assault then watch him squirm.

[Deleted User]

I only do waitrose internet shopping these days or maybe once in a while at sainsburys, so have no experience of whoopsies. I did used to go to tescos and 7 years ago bought liquid ariel, when it was being introduced at about 1/3 price. I went back time after time every day, always leaving a couple for someone else. I accumulated so many that I still have two left, now that was a real moneysaving bargain (and they never did clog up my arteries)

soothyerboots

eminemfan001 wrote: »

As a Tesco employee i have noticed that people get a little crazy when reduced stuff is on offer but we had to call the police one night when i woman was caught stealing the 10p tickets off the bread and putting them on what ever stock she wanted!

She even had the cheek to put a 10p sticker on a fresh whole chicken. As if the checkout staff wouldnt notice it scanned as bread lol.

I work on the fish/meat counters and we just reduce stuff when we are ready to close down or you end up with the same people everyday hovering around staring at you

Unbelievable cheek!

arcon5

eminemfan001 wrote: »

As a Tesco employee i have noticed that people get a little crazy when reduced stuff is on offer but we had to call the police one night when i woman was caught stealing the 10p tickets off the bread and putting them on what ever stock she wanted!

She even had the cheek to put a 10p sticker on a fresh whole chicken. As if the checkout staff wouldnt notice it scanned as bread lol.

I work on the fish/meat counters and we just reduce stuff when we are ready to close down or you end up with the same people everyday hovering around staring at you

I was just thinking maybe she should have used theself-service checkouts, then realised when you bag the goods it will estimate the weight and call over a member of staff when it saw the discrepency.

Some people have half braincells.


As a side note... I bought some loose mushrooms yesterday from Asda, accidently pressed onion but quickly asked the member of staff to help rectify the mistake -- thats my good deed of the year
(I wonder how sensitive the scales are though & whether they would have noticed -- i'm thinking they probably would have)

Azari

arcon5 wrote: »

As a side note... I bought some loose mushrooms yesterday from Asda, accidently pressed onion but quickly asked the member of staff to help rectify the mistake -- thats my good deed of the year
(I wonder how sensitive the scales are though & whether they would have noticed -- i'm thinking they probably would have)

How would they know?

They would simply think that you had xxx grams of onions.

In the bread/chicken example they may well have known the difference so a thief would have to pick something with a very similar weight.

Two things I wonder about, though:

1) Do the checkout staff really have time to notice what is rung up? I would have thought they would be too busy looking for the next item and working out how to orient it for the barcode scanner - isn't that why the checkouts beep?

2) Do the self service tills call a member of staff anyway when reduced items are scanned? They seem to complain at the drop of a hat.

arcon5

Azari wrote: »

How would they know?

They would simply think that you had xxx grams of onions.

In the bread/chicken example they may well have known the difference so a thief would have to pick something with a very similar weight.

Two things I wonder about, though:

1) Do the checkout staff really have time to notice what is rung up? I would have thought they would be too busy looking for the next item and working out how to orient it for the barcode scanner - isn't that why the checkouts beep?

2) Do the self service tills call a member of staff anyway when reduced items are scanned? They seem to complain at the drop of a hat.

ye, actually thinking about it, the mushroom/onion example would have been fine and saved 30p . Although wouldn't have been worth the risk of getting caught.

1)
i'm not necessarily sure they would tbh. Especially if you go up and fill the conveyor belt they'd just scan everything and slid it to you. I rarely see them looking at the actually till itself, they are usually looking for the barcode on the next item.
Although this is just my observation.

2)
they don't call staff over when an item is reduced. But if you scan a bread barcode at 10p, the system would expect the item you put in the weighed bagging area to be a certain weight -- so when you put a checken down weight 3 or 4 times the weight it would detect that.
When you scan something and don't put it in the bag straight away (maybe your opening a new bag or something), they are usually quite quick to beep and won't let you scan the next item because it knows by the fact the weight hasn't changed that an item hasn't been put in the bagging area.

OneYorkshireLass

arcon5 wrote: »

If she wasn't rude or ignorant about it then nothing wrong with that:)

She was blocking everyone with her trolley and her elbows ... but that's normal. We didn't expect her to take the whole tray.