Tescos scan as you shop

[devnull]

This just launched in my local tescos ultrahypermegasupermarket:



Pretty easy to use, and you can even pack as you shop. Anyone else used this?

[Mobile Chicane]

£2.30 for a rice salad is taking the piss a bit.

[devnull]

Mobile Chicane said:

£2.30 for a rice salad is taking the piss a bit.

Ah, but it has some fancy name and has king prawns in it.

[calibrax]

devnull said:

Pretty easy to use, and you can even pack as you shop. Anyone else used this?

Or use the website - even easier to use, delivered to your kitchen, no risk of trolley dents on your car...

[ralphrj]

devnull said:

Anyone else used this?

Has been available at our local Tesco for a few months now. The wife loved it at first but then made an error scanning what she thought were 2 identical packs of ham (i.e. she scanned the top 1 twice assuming she had picked up 2 packs of the same product). She was selected for a random check where a member of staff rescanned the shopping and the error was discovered. Even though there was no difference in price the system assumed that my wife was trying to pull a fast one and subsequent shopping trips using the scanner always resulted in being referred for manual checking so we no longer bother.

[BMR]

Safeway used to do this years ago.. it was called Shop N' Go if I remember.

I was fascinated by it at the time.. it made being dragged round the shop as a young boy seem exciting. I remember they also randomly selected you for everything to be re-scanned like this Tesco scheme.

I don't know for certain why they stopped it - may have been due to the Morrisons takeover or that it wasn't cost effective.

[Podie]

Welcome to 2007.

[illmonkey]

Waitrose had it for ages. Works well, hardly ever get a rescan. You need to be a member to use one, but you get free coffee/tea and deals as well. 10% off all booze currently

[WCZ]

pretend to use it then walk out with free stuff , awesome.

[mu0n]

Yep, never again.

It took me fking ages.

[Anonamoose]

illmonkey said:

Waitrose had it for ages. Works well, hardly ever get a rescan. You need to be a member to use one, but you get free coffee/tea and deals as well. 10% off all booze currently

We are not members and we use it. We just registered our card and details.

[Podie]

WCZ said:

pretend to use it then walk out with free stuff , awesome.

Get arrested. Less awesome.

[illmonkey]

Anonamoose said:

illmonkey said:

Waitrose had it for ages. Works well, hardly ever get a rescan. You need to be a member to use one, but you get free coffee/tea and deals as well. 10% off all booze currently

We are not members and we use it. We just registered our card and details.

I thought that was membership! I stand corrected.

[Anonamoose]

illmonkey said:

Anonamoose said:

illmonkey said:

Waitrose had it for ages. Works well, hardly ever get a rescan. You need to be a member to use one, but you get free coffee/tea and deals as well. 10% off all booze currently

We are not members and we use it. We just registered our card and details.

I thought that was membership! I stand corrected.

If it is I want my free tea and coffee!!

[illmonkey]

Anonamoose said:

illmonkey said:

Anonamoose said:

illmonkey said:

Waitrose had it for ages. Works well, hardly ever get a rescan. You need to be a member to use one, but you get free coffee/tea and deals as well. 10% off all booze currently

We are not members and we use it. We just registered our card and details.

I thought that was membership! I stand corrected.

If it is I want my free tea and coffee!!

Do they have a coffee machine? Ours is near the customer services part, sometimes they just ask to see the "my waitrose" card. Maybe thats the membership then?

[Personal]

Podie said:

Welcome to 2007.

Quite. Bizarre that anyone feels this is news/discussionworthy.

I can't recall the last time I used anything else in Tesco, Sainsbury or Waitrose.

[chockymonster]

illmonkey said:

Do they have a coffee machine? Ours is near the customer services part, sometimes they just ask to see the "my waitrose" card. Maybe thats the membership then?

Ours are too, they've just been refurbished so you no longer speak to anyone when you check out which is a bit sad.

[illmonkey]

chockymonster said:

illmonkey said:

Do they have a coffee machine? Ours is near the customer services part, sometimes they just ask to see the "my waitrose" card. Maybe thats the membership then?

Ours are too, they've just been refurbished so you no longer speak to anyone when you check out which is a bit sad.

Sod that, I want to spend as little time as possible in a supermarket.

Oh, buy booze every shop, then you need to get it authorised by someone, chat away.

[Cotty]

Personal said:

Quite. Bizarre that anyone feels this is news/discussionworthy.

I can't recall the last time I used anything else in Tesco, Sainsbury or Waitrose.

I have been using them in Sainsbury's for years.

[mnkiboy]

Only ever used it twice, as the local supermarkets don't offer it. Found it took so long to get through the 'checkout' due to being picked for the random check each time, it negated the time saving of doing it all yourself.

Anyway, I thought all products would have RFID tags by now, so your intelligent trolley would tot it all up as you threw stuff in. 'Tomorrow's world' has a lot to answer for.