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Self-checkout machines.....
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GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
I gave up on Waitrose "Quick Check" when three shops in succession I had to take my shopping to customer services for a routine "random check".
Since then they've opened a new store, with café (handy for folk cycling to the coast from the smoke, I'd say) and with many many more staffed checkouts. So I'm happy. Or I will be once I've got a cargo bike solution sorted so we can stop using the car again.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
You've been terribly unlucky. I've never had a random check in our local Waitrose since it opened three or four years ago.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Self checkouts are usually quicker. So really there should be a premium for using them
That's not how it works. It's cheaper for them and the best incentive is to make it quicker than the alternative. As time passes and more get used to it manual will be greatly reduced until there's just a couple with long queues.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
I don't use them, but I like the Antony Worrall Thompson method. 
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
[QUOTE 3929039, member: 259"]Try going in with a kilt on?[/QUOTE]
I have.
I have.
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They're not in my experience - they never work and you have to wait for the assistant with the key who's attempting to manage 6-8 tills at the same time, all having the same problem.
Bring back with the 10 items or less till.
I tried to use the fag kiosk at the local ASDA t pay for my butties, but even that have the self service till... with an assistant who's sole duty is to stand their and guide you in their usage. I don't know which is more pointless
a, a self-service till with staff supervision.
b, the member of staff that stands in the doorway handing out baskets and saying hello
c, the fool with the giant pointy hand on a stick that points out tills with little/no queue
awomaninsane
Senior Member
- Location
- Under the wings of the Angel
I cant bear shopping in Aldi. I like their food stuffs and the occasional special offer household item but their tills are awful. They swipe your stuff through so fast it is not humanly possible to pack it so you end up chucking it back in your trolley and packing it into your bags after paying. That is too many times loading and unloading your shopping.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Err, you do realise I wasn't being entirely serious don't you?
Anyway, I'd happily pay a fiver premium for the self serve experience. I get a feeling of satisfaction when the scanner beeps my barcode successfully that goes beyond monetary value
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Five "random checks" at cph airport out of the last six flights home. You may have a point.
I think it is the courier bag that does it.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Adrian's solution a few comments back works very well.
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
- Location
- That London
"Unexpected item in the bagging area" is the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Many years a ago a mate visited a brothel in Bangkok which accepted the then relatively new credit cards.
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