Supermarket self checkouts and mistakes

[Hilts]

'Unexpected item in bagging area'.


Should be followed by a nice soothing female voice saying something like 'Stay calm, breathe. Relax. Help is on the way.'

[FiF]

HTP99 said:

FiF said:

That spoils the game where the shopper consistently beats the speed at which the device works so you cut it off mid sentence. Though that does seem to confuse the worst designs. Morrisons looking at you numpties.

Morrisons have by far and away the worst self scanning machines closely followed by the ones in B&Q, Sainbsurys seem to have the easiest and quickest ones to use.

Agree with the relative ranking re Morrisons and Sainsburys. Don't seem to have too much trouble with BandQ except for the namby pamby interfering nanny if I want to buy anything sharp or containing any solvent.

Though to be fair as I tend to go on old farts discount Wednesday perhaps the staff are happy to just override the thing once and let me get on with it so they can deal with the never ending confusion of the pensioners.

[Who me ?]

My problem is not usually with the checkouts, but the condescending prats in charge. 90% of the time if the weight does not register ,I take the item off. But the half trained monkeys see an OAP and can't understand that anyone with a slight bit of programming knowledge can reverse engineer the program and work out how it is supposed to work . Problem is that when a store pays peanuts, they get low IQ monkeys.
Other problem is that certain stores first check is on what is on out tray, as they ALWAYS assume that the shopper is on the fiddle.

[calibrax]

Main shop done online, delivered to my door each week. For any fresh meat/veg I nip off to the farm shop, and anything else I get from my local minimart.

Result is, no car parking dings, no queuing at checkouts, better quality fresh stuff. Job jobbed.