Sainsburys staff given targets to promote scab tills
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FridgeMagnet
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If something goes wrong with the till I just pick everything up and move to another till. If there isn't another free till and there's nobody about and it doesn't look like there will be anybody about to fix it either, I just leave the stuff there and go.
Life's too short to be waiting on technical support in a frickin supermarket.
Life's too short to be waiting on technical support in a frickin supermarket.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
Put expensive weighables through as carrots and bananas. It works.
Potatoes. They are heavier and cheaper per pound so you get the goodz even cheaper init
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I was getting a hook from B&Q at about 7pm one evening and they shut down the self-service tills so several customers had to file through a traditional till. I asked the manager why he had done this, and he replied, "Nobody likes those tills!"
And there are a lot of people who do struggle with them.
Also there's the issue of buying alcohol. I've had an alert go off at Tesco because I was buying chocolates that had alcohol in them. Maybe not enough to fill a thimble in the whole box, but I had to be age checked by a real person.
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This is worth a read
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aders-vent-frustration-store-bosses-note.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aders-vent-frustration-store-bosses-note.html
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
I've done this before and a Tesco supervisor came over to tell me off! I just shrugged and carried on walking
bi0boy
Power User
M&S are worst, they don't even have an assigned person to watch the tills when it's quiet, so if you bring your own bag for example, you have to wait for a member of staff on a normal till to see your flashing light and ring their bell to summon a shelf stacker to come over and verify that your bag is a bag and not a pile of 20 sirloin steaks.
bi0boy
Power User
I really don't think Mail readers are worth listening to, especially when it comes to anything involving modern life.
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But I do like the story where the woman got so angry that she decided to abandon her shopping, but didn't want to leave the £1 coin in the trolley, so she asked for a refund for her £1 so she could leave the shop and her shopping, but the staff member refused.
So she tipped her trolley over, all over the floor, so that she could leave!
So she tipped her trolley over, all over the floor, so that she could leave!
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The bottom line... the real reason these tills exist is because of accountants. They want to cut costs and if that's at the expense of market share, then so be it.
Fucking corporate morons.
Outside of price, people shop at shops that are nice and easy to shop at. Customer service has been nose-diving in Britain for several years now.
There is an unspoken feeling of abandonment with automated tills. The customer is more likely to be narked by them... whereas a real till operator will get more respect. Machines piss people off... it's a fact of life.
Fucking corporate morons.
Outside of price, people shop at shops that are nice and easy to shop at. Customer service has been nose-diving in Britain for several years now.
There is an unspoken feeling of abandonment with automated tills. The customer is more likely to be narked by them... whereas a real till operator will get more respect. Machines piss people off... it's a fact of life.
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Put expensive weighables through as carrots and bananas. It works.
A lot of the little stores (and some of the big ones) charge 18-20p per single fucking banana.
This drives me fucking crazy, you can buy 10 of em for a quid in most places! Profiteering CUNTS.
maomao
普費斯
The minisupermarket/off license next to my old workplace used to charge 50p for single pieces of fruit!
I have a colleague where I work now who manages to thieve serious amounts of stuff from our local Asda by going through the tills, scanning one thing and then just walking off with the rest. Normally one of us gives him a quid so that he can scan and pay for something and he comes back with food for everyone. He claims to do his weekly shop the same way.
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A system that assists theft, annoys customers and requires constant tech support. Well done, the supermarkets of Britain!! 
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
There is also the issue of trying to use them when you have drank some alcohol
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I don't drink and have a phobia of people, and yet I struggle to keep calm when using a machine. But that might be because I feel that I am being watched more closely on the auto-tills for security reasons. I also fear it all going wrong or losing a fiver in the machine and having a condescending person talk to me like I am some kind of technophobe incapable of pressing buttons.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Hmm.. I always take the receipt in case I am asked to prove I paid for the goods on the way out.
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The receipt is good... but I hate being scrutinised and from the moment I enter a store, I feel like wearing a t-shirt that says, "I DON'T STEAL SHIT". Stop watching me!
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I don't really worry about people watching me, too busy trying to get the goods through the scanner.The receipt is good... but I hate being scrutinised and from the moment I enter a store, I feel like wearing a t-shirt that says, "I DON'T STEAL SHIT". Stop watching me!
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I am black. It pains me to say this, but some people have a problem with the way I look. But I don't drink, drug or steal.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Have you ever actually had someone stop you on the auto tills in the supermarket?
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I get hovered over, but never stopped.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I can imagine what you must feel if you think people are watching you in particular, I wouldn't like it at all.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Yeah and drugs too, like needing to be authorised to buy a pack of soluble aspirins FFS
The other thing that hacks me off about using the machines is that you often get loads of 5p pieces in your change - Sainsburys are the worst for this IME
Idaho
blah blah blah
Don't know if anyone has said this. Waitrose self scan is occasionally reviewed and rescanned by staff. As soon as they start the rescan it wipes the original scan. So they can't tell if you erred unless the person bothers to recall what total you got... Which they rarely do.
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
Any chance of self service tills making their way into the likes of Fortnum and Masons or Harrods
ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
Put expensive weighables through as carrots and bananas. It works.
i put all fruit and veg through as whatever the cheapest seasonal fruit or veg is at the time & i also pretend to scan through a lot of stuff without it actually going beep. I am a bad person.
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
Corporations rip customers/suppliers/farmers and the environment of dont feel bad about it feel good that you are merely returning the favor
bi0boy
Power User
Was going to use a scab till to buy my lunch today but decided to go for a basket till as there was no queue. I had to put up with a tirade of conversation, featuring bad jokes such as when using the chip and PIN reader "press the button, which Jeremy Corbyn said he will never do". 
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