Numpties at checkouts

marliepanda

Zedicus wrote: »

Intriguing. I've seen self service in quite a few supermarkets over the years and have never seen any with conveyor belts. Most have a packing area too small for anyone to cause annoyance by stacking scanned items unpacked.

Can I ask which supermarket this is, and where?

Not the original poster but Asda in south bank Middlesbrough has two or three of these as well as manned and normal self service tills

System

Zedicus wrote: »

Intriguing. I've seen self service in quite a few supermarkets over the years and have never seen any with conveyor belts. Most have a packing area too small for anyone to cause annoyance by stacking scanned items unpacked.

Can I ask which supermarket this is, and where?

They have 6 of these self scans with conveyor belts in the Asda near me. There are 10 basket ones but there is a sign saying no trolleys allowed at the entrance to them.

I use a trolley as I end up buying heavy stuff and go through the trolley self scans. About an hour ago, I used one and the woman who queued behind me never bothered to empty her trolley.

The bagging area can hold 6 bags for life shopping on there.

The Sainsburys up the road have rotated the self scans by 90 degrees, removed 5-6 manned tills to increase the number of product lines and there is no room for a trolley.As I was buying 4 bottles of Pepsi Max Cherry (lush) I needed a trolley as the bottles weigh about 8.5kg.

Cycrow

Tescos sometimes have the self scans with a belt. A large superstore near where i used to live had them. Althou my local store has changed their self scans to the even small ones, where the packing area is just a small shelf above the basket

ThumbRemote

Another reason for placing items on the self-scan scales then packing at the end is the unreliability of the scales.

If you lift something slightly to move it within a bag, then add your newly-scanned item, the weighing mechanism has a good chance of complaining that the weight is wrong. They can even do so if you just rearrange items without adding anything new.

esuhl

geerex wrote: »

Its really not difficult. Its simple arithmetic.

Okay, then. Time yourself. Prove how easy it is to tot up this small amount of shopping to the nearest penny.

£1.89
£2.25
£0.40 X 4 @ "buy 4 for the price of 3"
£5.65
£0.37 X 7
0.327 kg @ £5.72/kg
0.213 kg @ £0.89/kg
0.156 kg @ £3.33/kg
£2.39
£4.00 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £7"
£0.25
£0.57
£0.79 X 3
£1.19
£3.29 X 2
£1.59
£3.29 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £5"
£2.61
£0.49
£1.09
£1.00
£2.99 X 4
Plus a pack of cigarettes, where you can't see the price in advance.

esuhl

usefulmale wrote: »

Prats like you probably find that you are short of a few items when you get home. Whilst you are selfishly holding everyone up at the checkout while you are browsing, I have taken a few random items of yours from the conveyor belt and put them in my trolly. When you have finally gone, I give your items to the checkout person and say I no longer need them.

No you don't. You just don't know how to express your annoyance on a forum.

PasturesNew

esuhl wrote: »

Okay, then. Time yourself. Prove how easy it is to tot up this small amount of shopping to the nearest penny.

£1.89
£2.25
£0.40 X 4 @ "buy 4 for the price of 3"
£5.65
£0.37 X 7
0.327 kg @ £5.72/kg
0.213 kg @ £0.89/kg
0.156 kg @ £3.33/kg
£2.39
£4.00 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £7"
£0.25
£0.57
£0.79 X 3
£1.19
£3.29 X 2
£1.59
£3.29 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £5"
£2.61
£0.49
£1.09
£1.00
£2.99 X 4
Plus a pack of cigarettes, where you can't see the price in advance.

You don't have to be spot on every time... that wasn't really what was meant. You scan down and add/round it up and down as you go through.... coming out to within £1 of the right answer. Then you toss another £1 in your back pocket "for luck".

bairn7

esuhl wrote: »

Ha ha! You lot would hate me, then! What drives me crazy is the way that supermarkets don't just sell stuff at a fixed price... They give you armfuls of vouchers. I pull out wads of them at the checkouts and have to check each one to see if it's still valid and if I've bought the relevant products.

Quite often, if I have, say a £5 off £50 voucher, I'll pick up what I want, but at the checkout, if I have spent around £40, I make everyone wait while I go back and get a few extra items so I can get the savings.

It's probably annoying to have to wait for me, but then, it's very annoying to have handfuls of vouchers and be forced to go back round the shop a second time, just so I can jump through the stupid hoops and use the vouchers.

The shops could put an end to it all by scrapping vouchers and pricing goods fairly. But until then, you're all going to have to wait for me at the tills. Oh well.

I'm sorry, but if you were ahead of me and you did that, you'd get back to the checkout queue to find all of your shopping back in a trolley at the back of the queue. Wouldn't put up with such ignorance and selfishness at all.

vrbarreto

molerat wrote: »

That is what Tesco scan-as-you-shop was invented for. See the prices, see the offers, know how much the bill is as you go, club card already linked, packed into the correct bags and little chance of being held up in a queue - I would hate doing a full shop at a normal checkout now.

I too love this technology.. I always stick 2 IKEA bags in the bottom and fill them up as I shop... Means I only every have 2 bags (which are sometimes heavy) to lug into and out of the car.

Izadora

esuhl wrote: »

Okay, then. Time yourself. Prove how easy it is to tot up this small amount of shopping to the nearest penny..

It's a shame that there's no way to prove it but it actually took me longer to add it all up on a calculator than it did to scan through and come up with a rough figure that was within 25p of the actual total...

p.s. when I smoked I could tell you to the penny what my brand cost in the 3 supermarkets I used most regularly.