Most depressing product in a supermarket?

[Ganymede]

UHT milk

Great for using in dishes where the milk is cooked, eg custard, bechamel sauce, cocoa. Although, to be fair, I always buy some at Christmas but never at any other time... so...

 

[i hate hills]

Salad.

 

[annedonnelly]

Because of this thread I paid a bit more attention to the pre-packed salad stuff in Asda this morning...

Hard-boiled eggs - ready shelled, then packed into plastic!!

I bet it's more difficult to get it out of the plastic than to shell it.

 

[NorthernDave]

Most depressing?
People wandering round with those self scanning devices, blocking the aisles while they put another low waged minion out of work...

 

[Tin Pot]

Most depressing?
People wandering round with those self scanning devices, blocking the aisles while they put another low waged minion out of work...

The self checkout counters are pretty depressing.

They want my money but can't even be bothered to take it off me at the checkout.

The big stores/city locations I can understand it, but I just hope our local supermarket converts back into proper shops.

 

[Hyslop]

Not a product as such, however being asked(whilst obviously carrying such)whether or not I recquire a plastic carrier bag.I could jump up and down waving it and screaming and still-"Do youse wanna bag eh?

 

[classic33]

Not a product as such, however being asked(whilst obviously carrying such)whether or not I recquire a plastic carrier bag.I could jump up and down waving it and screaming and still-"Do youse wanna bag eh?

Its for when they start charging for the bags.

 

[classic33]

Most depressing?
People wandering round with those self scanning devices, blocking the aisles while they put another low waged minion out of work...

Went back for one of them once, scanned the four items in the basket and went to the only empty checkout. Refuse to use the self service checkouts though.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3890740, member: 259"]You have to pay about 10p for a bag in supermarkets here, like in Ireland. You can buy a 'bag for life' for about 40p though, or get a used cardboard box free near the exit. I think it's the same in a lot of European countries now. I'm for it.[/QUOTE]
Hemp ones being considered over here. Idea came from down the valley.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3890740, member: 259"]You have to pay about 10p for a bag in supermarkets here, like in Ireland. You can buy a 'bag for life' for about 40p though, or get a used cardboard box free near the exit. I think it's the same in a lot of European countries now. I'm for it.[/QUOTE]
Sainsburys is headed that way with the boxes.

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3890720, member: 259"]Sorry, but I like them. I just want to get in and out as fast as I can. I can't be bothered with queueing if I can possibly avoid it.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather be served by a person but I have found a use for those auto-checkouts: getting rid of the monumentally astounding amount of small change in my old Mum's purse. For some reason it seems to stack up so when I do her shopping for her I feed it all into the machine instead of burdening the check-out staff with it (or, let's be honest, having to count it all myself while the queue breathes down my neck). Good old Mum. (She's eighty-five you know!)

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 3890740, member: 259"]You have to pay about 10p for a bag in supermarkets here, like in Ireland. You can buy a 'bag for life' for about 40p though, or get a used cardboard box free near the exit. I think it's the same in a lot of European countries now. I'm for it.[/QUOTE]
We must've bought a hundred "bag for life"s over the years.

Why can't they just issue degradable stuff like brown paper?

 

[mjr]

Went back for one of them once, scanned the four items in the basket and went to the only empty checkout. Refuse to use the self service checkouts though.

The hand scanners are good for running totals, too. I don't see any benefit for customers in the self service checkouts because the blasted things always throw a hissy fit at something and you have to wait for the poor sod who is trying to staff six checkouts on their own so it's no quicker than the normal ones.

 

[classic33]

The hand scanners are good for running totals, too. I don't see any benefit for customers in the self service checkouts because the blasted things always throw a hissy fit at something and you have to wait for the poor sod who is trying to staff six checkouts on their own so it's no quicker than the normal ones.

The advantage isn't there for you, its there for the store.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3890773, member: 259"]But Shirley, the point is you change them for a new one for free if they get knackered? A hundred is pretty good going though!

I don't think paper is a very good green alternative.[/QUOTE]
You saying he's past it?