Self-service checkouts and "use your own bag"
Discussion
richhead said:
jdw100 said:
It’s what’s used. Don’t think they do just air.
£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
if thats whats used where you are, then fair enough.£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
There is no performance benifit to using nitrogen, its just more predictable as less water vapour, but it only works if the tyre is vaced out after mounting much like an a/c system to remove the water vapour.
Road2Ruin said:
richhead said:
jdw100 said:
It’s what’s used. Don’t think they do just air.
£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
if thats whats used where you are, then fair enough.£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
There is no performance benifit to using nitrogen, its just more predictable as less water vapour, but it only works if the tyre is vaced out after mounting much like an a/c system to remove the water vapour.
Cotty said:
Red Devil said:
I've been using Sainsbury's hand held scanners since they were first introduced.in my local store.
Why do you need a note when the home screen displays a clearly visible message telling you to tap to release from the holder?
When the scanners were first introduced the guns were locked in their holders. The customer had to swipe their nectar card and one holder would unlock and iluminate indicating that that is the gun you are to use. The procedure changed so you now tap a gun and use the gun to scan your nectar card. Why do you need a note when the home screen displays a clearly visible message telling you to tap to release from the holder?
But there is nothing to say the prcedure has changed and the instructions and unit to swipe your card is still there. People are still swiping their card as thats what the instructions say to do. Why not update the instructions and take the card swipe unit away.
Maybe when the guns were introduced to your store they were already uing the newer method and wouldn't have the card swipe unit by the guns.
Edited by Cotty on Saturday 13th April 10:57
I guess the visually different display where they're now all illuminated together with the tap message thereon hasn't registered with people that something significant has changed.
jdw100 said:
I haven’t put petrol in a car for years.
Same as putting nitrogen in tyres. Once a month I get an attendant at the petrol station to check all four and top up as necessary.
I do have the skills though. Why would I want to get out of car and handle a pump though? I wouldn’t unload groceries from the van if delivered to my house.
Incredible that they put them into your cupboards for you. Do they put them in your mouth aswell? Pre chewed?Same as putting nitrogen in tyres. Once a month I get an attendant at the petrol station to check all four and top up as necessary.
I do have the skills though. Why would I want to get out of car and handle a pump though? I wouldn’t unload groceries from the van if delivered to my house.
Which supermarket is this!?
richhead said:
jdw100 said:
It’s what’s used. Don’t think they do just air.
£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
if thats whats used where you are, then fair enough.£1 every month or so.
I doubt i see a performance benefit with the traffic here at times!
There is no performance benifit to using nitrogen, its just more predictable as less water vapour, but it only works if the tyre is vaced out after mounting much like an a/c system to remove the water vapour.
For £1 every 4/6 weeks - not really bothered what they use.
I did get up to the giddy heights of 120kph once last week but only for a short stretch and I don’t think tyres with 78% nitrogen or 100% made much difference.
pocketspring said:
PurpleTurtle said:
pocketspring said:
Of course, the supermarkets shoot themselves in the feet yet again by the whole use the receipt to get out past the barriers.
You do your shopping, get the receipt printed out for the barrier. Get outside, no more use, in the bin.
It's a Saturday afternoon and the shop is busy with young part time staff. Darren, the local scrag head, finds the receipt, goes in the shop and grabs an item. He then goes to the youngest and probably most inexperienced girl at customer services and gets a refund.
Easy pickings.
Except the vast majority of supermarket transactions are by card, so they ask for the card it was paid on. Easy to track repeat-refunders and block them.You do your shopping, get the receipt printed out for the barrier. Get outside, no more use, in the bin.
It's a Saturday afternoon and the shop is busy with young part time staff. Darren, the local scrag head, finds the receipt, goes in the shop and grabs an item. He then goes to the youngest and probably most inexperienced girl at customer services and gets a refund.
Easy pickings.
Darren would find it far simpler to brick the window of your car in the car park to relieve you of your contents, selling your laptop/iPad etc to his local fence than try to scrape enough together for a fix having returned a yoghurt and a satsuma tracked from a discarded shopping receipt.
You may roll your eyes but I have 21 years experience in the field so I now what I'm talking about. I never known or heard of anyone breaking into a car in the car park. You might find there's, you know, quite a lot of witnesses about. #rollyeyes etc
Deranged Rover said:
More importantly, what about the "middle of Lidl"?? I can't believe all the stuff I've stumbled upon there that i never previously knew I needed!
If Lidl ever start doing delivery, I reckon they should have an option for you to specify a maximum amount for a 'lucky dip' item from there!
There’s a Viz cartoon called ‘Lidl Richard’, dedicated to that middle aisle.If Lidl ever start doing delivery, I reckon they should have an option for you to specify a maximum amount for a 'lucky dip' item from there!
lizardbrain said:
PurpleTurtle said:
Just tried this on my lunchtime shop, using the heaviest item I had - a 750g bag of new potatoes
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/273...
It detected the additional weight of my bag and so I had to either call the non-existent assistant or do the whole rigmarole of scanning it onto the scales then into my bag. Ball ache city.
Sorry about that!https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/273...
It detected the additional weight of my bag and so I had to either call the non-existent assistant or do the whole rigmarole of scanning it onto the scales then into my bag. Ball ache city.
What does the bag weigh just for science
Incidentally this morning I was caught without a bag but needed some items from the same Tesco - same till as last week, but didn't have my own bag with me, so had to shell out said 30p. Guess what? Having scanned that (lighter than my own) bag to recognise it, I had no problems with the old 'bung the heaviest item in' technique.
I don't want to be all conspiracy theorist, but is this a ploy to get us to buy their bags!? (joke)
PurpleTurtle said:
This was with a canvass style tote bag. I try not to shell 30p on a Bag For Life each time.
Incidentally this morning I was caught without a bag but needed some items from the same Tesco - same till as last week, but didn't have my own bag with me, so had to shell out said 30p. Guess what? Having scanned that (lighter than my own) bag to recognise it, I had no problems with the old 'bung the heaviest item in' technique.
I don't want to be all conspiracy theorist, but is this a ploy to get us to buy their bags!? (joke)
Several years ago (5 or 6 I think) I bought a load of the Ikea foldable carrier bags as they were about £1 each. They live in the car until needed and if they get dirty, they go into the wash before going back into the car. In all the years I've only had one bag quit on me.Incidentally this morning I was caught without a bag but needed some items from the same Tesco - same till as last week, but didn't have my own bag with me, so had to shell out said 30p. Guess what? Having scanned that (lighter than my own) bag to recognise it, I had no problems with the old 'bung the heaviest item in' technique.
I don't want to be all conspiracy theorist, but is this a ploy to get us to buy their bags!? (joke)
Chasing Potatoes said:
jdw100 said:
I Leave trolley for security/parking to return.
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How do you manage to drive with your head up your backside?.
Not sure what that has to do with anything though?
Security will wheel trolley out to car and load into boot if you let them.
Mate of mine in his 70s with health problems: this means he can more easily do a ‘big shop’.
It’s their job to take back trolleys - I gave up trying to do it myself.
I can’t see how any of the above is a bad thing?
Also, trolleys are chunky plastic with nice wheels and a brake - so they won’t damage your car or go flying round a carpark like metal UK ones.
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