BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
You need snipers. Maybe not in the kids section but in the main body of the library.
The end of scab tills
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
how am I quoted within a quote here...most odd.
but yes I clean for work because that way you get left alone to get on with it and are nearly invisible. No general public, no talkers except the briefest chat
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Books, not bombs
I have paid at a pump just once in France many years ago. It was late at night and the car was running on fumes leaving me little choice.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Nope, they're all paid the same
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Where i work there are no checkout staff "freed up to do other things"...there are literally no spare staff on servicesyou'd have thought one of the checkout staff 'freed up to do other things' could do it
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes. for the avoidance of confusion, i was not being entirely serious. my previous comment on the concept -
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
The new game here is that the little plastic bags for holding fruit and veg to weigh them and put the sticker on used to be free. Now they're 0.05€ so when you go to the self checkout and scan the sticker it says DANGER WILL ROBINSON because you didn't scan the little bag first. You have to scan the bag's barcode, then press BACK, then scan the sticker with the weight information. God help you if you put the sticker over the bag barcode!
What if you just have one banana and put the weight sticker directly on it with no bag? I haven't tried that yet. Maybe a fun project for tomorrow.
What if you just have one banana and put the weight sticker directly on it with no bag? I haven't tried that yet. Maybe a fun project for tomorrow.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
my local supermarket doesn't provide free bags, but the ones they sell are re-useable, so taking your own bag is not unknown. you don't need to faff about with stickers, you put stuff on the scale at the checkout, tell it what sort of fruit / veg is and it works the price out for you. (or at a staffed till, the checkout operator has to work out what sort of fruit / veg it is and deal with it.)
this is an opportunity for dishonesty at the automated tills - think they sell more 'potatoes' and 'carrots' than they ever have in stock...
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
We have the carrier bags at 20 cents, and the little weigh bags at 5. Most supermarkets get you to weigh your own stuff with scales next to the fruit and beg aisles, but some don't. I'm sure some people do tell the scales fibs about what they're weighing so they get the cheap prices. But woe betide the shopper who gets spotted! There's usually someone monitoring the self checkout tills so they could see it come up as cucumber when you've obviously not got cucumber in the bag. I presume most get away with it, though.
I re-use carrier bags but I make sure they're well crinkled so it's obviously an old one. Anyway, the bags they have are so thin a lot of them split as soon as they see the top seam of a packet of crisps. Can't even use them as bin bags in that case.
I re-use carrier bags but I make sure they're well crinkled so it's obviously an old one. Anyway, the bags they have are so thin a lot of them split as soon as they see the top seam of a packet of crisps. Can't even use them as bin bags in that case.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Carrier bags stopped being free in england a few years ago (earlier in wales, and possibly also in scotland) so many people do take their own - or pay for something that's a bit more robust than a carrier bag.
what's bloody annoying is that many automatic tills object if you use your own bags, despite (in theory) having a 'put your own bag/s in the bagging area then press here to continue' function.
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
The weird convention here is that nobody puts anything in any bags until after they've paid. It kind of works because that's what everyone does, but the concept of hurriedly stacking items in the bags as they're scanned and pass down the conveyor belt is alien in this country. (The poor dears have obviously never watched The Generation Game) You stand and wait. Then pay. Then stand at the end packing while the next person's stuff sails down the other side of the divider.
So the bring your own bag thing at self checkout is a similar deal. No way to allow for pre-loading the tray. You let it all sit there loose, pay, and only then put it in whatever bag you like. I caused trouble when I started scanning the plastic bag first so I could put all items straight in it. The woman couldn't understand why I wanted to do that. She kept saying, NO NO you scan the items then add on a bag. I said, in poor Estonian, no I want to do it this way. I think she thought I was just some crazy foreigner
Anyway I finally found a way to do it without alerting the police.
So the bring your own bag thing at self checkout is a similar deal. No way to allow for pre-loading the tray. You let it all sit there loose, pay, and only then put it in whatever bag you like. I caused trouble when I started scanning the plastic bag first so I could put all items straight in it. The woman couldn't understand why I wanted to do that. She kept saying, NO NO you scan the items then add on a bag. I said, in poor Estonian, no I want to do it this way. I think she thought I was just some crazy foreigner
Anyway I finally found a way to do it without alerting the police.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I think i've mentioned this before but the Sainsburys near me has a camera on their scales that automatically recognises the fruit/veg rather than asking you.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
How is this an issue, unless your bag is too big to fit on the scale?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
it shouldn't be, but what frequently happens is it says 'unexpected item in bagging area' or similar and then won't do anything until the over-worked staff member comes and tells it to stop being silly
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
The unexpected item in the bagging area is a bag!
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
The unexpected item in the bagging area is a bag!
indeed.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Have they made shopping better by unloadeding the labour to the consumer?
It’s like at macdonalds kfc etc, you type it all in the big screen and then wait an age often for the order. Cant remember it being worse than when you queued, the person turned round and made it then gave it to you.
Consumer and worker rolled into one. Bit like Facebook etc
I mean it’s not a huge amount of graft I suppose but I don’t think it makes anything quicker etc for the consumer? The affect on local jobs is another concern entirely of course
It’s like at macdonalds kfc etc, you type it all in the big screen and then wait an age often for the order. Cant remember it being worse than when you queued, the person turned round and made it then gave it to you.
Consumer and worker rolled into one. Bit like Facebook etc
I mean it’s not a huge amount of graft I suppose but I don’t think it makes anything quicker etc for the consumer? The affect on local jobs is another concern entirely of course
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
A handy tip: when shopping at human tills in Estonia just reply "ei ole" (Ay oleugh) to anything they say to you. Most likely they have asked if you have a loyalty card and your response can mean a whole variety of negative phrases: no, it is not, no I don't, no there isn't, there isn't any, I don't have one, I don't have any. Sometimes they will then go on to ask you if you want one. No. One enterprising woman then asked me why. I thought better of explaining my general dislike for the concept of store cards and that I only use one in the pet shop which is also linked to the chemist for some reason.
Best to avoid all communication and use the scab till, really.
Best to avoid all communication and use the scab till, really.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Never happened to me. It’s not always the tech’s fault!
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
ok, then. please can you explain the correct / incorrect way of putting a bag in the bagging area?
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
It’s annoying me even thinking about this
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
press the button that says you are using your own bag, then put the bag on the scale, making sure it’s not caught up on any side bits, then scan away
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Tbis is why we need to have both manned tills AND self-service tills.
Wkdloz
Member
I've never seen anyone putting their bag in the bagging area.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
No, that's how it used to work (and maybe still does in your local). In recent years, if you add anything but a couple of flimsy plastic bags it will require approval.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Maybe not, but it's never the fault of the unpaid and untrained workers.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Just the idiotic public.
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