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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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have to be the pain of the 21st Century, even the staff at our local Tesco hate them cause if something hits that scale that shouldnt have, the amount of kerfuffle to get it sorted out  and what makes me laugh is at the top of the receipt it says "How did we do"? Well let me tell you, I chose my own trolley, I wondered round the aisle picking off the shelves what I wanted, and because I shop before 9am, only the self service check outs where available, so I had to scan all my own stuff, pack it myself, use the chip and pin machine, so in my opinion, apart from putting said groceries on the shelves, thats all you did do!!!!
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feel better now I've got that off my chest, you don't see them in Car Show rooms do you?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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no,but the way things are going,it is only a matter of time before tesco start selling cars as well as everything else
the high street will be a thing of the past |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh my daughter loves them. Nothing like playing real shops......lol But before anyone has a rant about that. We do go in the middle of the day. When theres hardly anyone around.......  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i have just left a wks worth of shopping sittin in asda due to the bloody hopelessness of the damned things!!! x  "
asda's self service machines have to be the worst of all the supermarkets they are absolutely dire.need ripping out and starting again |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Go thieving. It's easier, quicker and a lot less expensive! lol 
eh, i may be from Liverpool but don't pigeon hole me "
classic chant at Chelsea on saturday
"he's rich,they're scouse,they're gonna rob his house,joey cole joey cole" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I use the self service checkouts every morning at Asda in Falmouth, and I'm in and out in 5 mins.
Grab a paper, carton of soup, some fruit and I'm away.
Nice and quick, so love 'em  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We saw a guy stacking shelves at Tescos complaining because the top shelf was broken, and he couldn't keep it up.
.... think he had A wrecked aisle dysfunction |
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"have to be the pain of the 21st Century, even the staff at our local Tesco hate them cause if something hits that scale that shouldnt have, the amount of kerfuffle to get it sorted out and what makes me laugh is at the top of the receipt it says "How did we do"? Well let me tell you, I chose my own trolley, I wondered round the aisle picking off the shelves what I wanted, and because I shop before 9am, only the self service check outs where available, so I had to scan all my own stuff, pack it myself, use the chip and pin machine, so in my opinion, apart from putting said groceries on the shelves, thats all you did do!!!!
Rant over
feel better now I've got that off my chest, you don't see them in Car Show rooms do you? "
you better get used to it mally because within 10 years there will be no checkout assistants.thats the road they are going down |
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I hate them refuse point blank to use them, so now when i go and they ask me if i want to go to the self service and i say no they say well we will put the stuff through for you, now that is what i call pointless. Even worse is when it says unexpected item in the packing bit yea well that would be my bag. Think there is four in aline here one in front of the other and they have one member of staff next to each resetting it every time it fucks up |
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The feeling of freedom, the removal of unpleasant inevitable small talk with the cashier over your purchases and the novelty of knowing what it's like to work at a checkout without actually having to work there all day is tempered by the fact I can't work it very well. I become agitated and stressed when my substantial amounts of alcohol need an attendant to flash her special 'alcoholic customer' card at the magic eye.
I also buckle under the pressure to complete my transaction in a timely manner with a queue of tutters behind me. I don't think it helped that I did my full weekly shopping, some 60+ items on it. Things kept falling off the scales. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We were forced to use them when shopping late one night.
Problems galore.
The thing that amazed me was there are 4 self service tills and 6 staff hanging about when problems arose, these were according to the staff in the name of saving staff, when I pointed out the fact that there were more staff than tills it was lost on them. |
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By *andcCouple
over a year ago
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Don't like them on many levels, firstly I hate the, 'please place the item in the bagging area' message, I have placed it in the Fu****G bagging area!
Secondly and more importantly I like people to have a job, remember when you used to go to the petrol station and the nice petrol pump assistant used to fill your car up for you, wipe your windows and even check your oil? Not only was that excellent customer service, it was employment. The supermarkets make massive profits and the only reason to use this technology is to make even bigger profits, less customer service, less employment, best idea is to just keep queuing at the maned tills and complain to the store manager, or even better go to a store where they don't have them, lets at least TRY to keep some people working in BRITAIN!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I use the self service checkouts every morning at Asda in Falmouth, and I'm in and out in 5 mins.
Grab a paper, carton of soup, some fruit and I'm away.
Nice and quick, so love 'em "
best reason though is that I'm terrible at queing, in fact I fooking hate it, so anything that gets me in and out, then it gets my vote |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Love 'em. Quick and easy and they work more often than there's a problem with them.
As long as I'm not buying alcohol or dvds, they save me a lot of time and that's the main benefit as far as I see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love them.
easy to use & quicker.
I is a fan, also the petrol pumps where you pay at the pump. ( although, when I drive away, I always think folks will be saying 'he just drove off' ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think they are great. I tried Asda's first, love it, no messing about standing in long flaming queues in my lunchbreak, no more listening to boring uninteresting chat between customers and staff, just in and out
On the other hand, i despise the ones at Morrisons "please put the item in the bag" after every item, how flaming patronising as if we are all thick as two short planks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i have just left a wks worth of shopping sittin in asda due to the bloody hopelessness of the damned things!!! x "
I did the same in Tesco on Saturday!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I think they are great. I tried Asda's first, love it, no messing about standing in long flaming queues in my lunchbreak, no more listening to boring uninteresting chat between customers and staff, just in and out
On the other hand, i despise the ones at Morrisons "please put the item in the bag" after every item, how flaming patronising as if we are all thick as two short planks "
i sometimes pop into morrisons on way home from night shift always use the self service till and always find myself saying its in the fooking bag shut the fook up just glad noone behind to hear cos gets louder and louder |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i have just left a wks worth of shopping sittin in asda due to the bloody hopelessness of the damned things!!! x "
yet again! i do that....i will be half way around a supermarket, filling up my trolley and become overwhelmingly bored and just ditch it... |
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By *lassic1Man
over a year ago
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Ever notice how the smug attendant (female) watches the totally incompetent male trying to separate the fecking carrier bags to open them.
She comes over later and almost without touching them the bag is separated and open.
Why cant the bloody things have big steel handles that men can negotiate.
It must be a genetic thing !!!
Like womens feet are generally smaller to allow them to stand closer to the sink ....that sort of thing .
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Ever notice how the smug attendant (female) watches the totally incompetent male trying to separate the fecking carrier bags to open them.
She comes over later and almost without touching them the bag is separated and open.
Why cant the bloody things have big steel handles that men can negotiate.
It must be a genetic thing !!!
Like womens feet are generally smaller to allow them to stand closer to the sink ....that sort of thing .
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take your own bags, I do |
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