Self Checkout Checkouts

[Albannach]

Ordinarily, I use them. Ordinarily, I use a card to pay.

Today I made a fatal error, I tried to put cash into a Morrison's one.

Firstly, baring in mind I'm in Scotland, The checkout 'supervisor' told me that the machines don't like 'Scottish' money! I pointed out that Stirling is about as Scottish as it's possible to get, and asked why on earth would the machine not like our money? She didn't reply.

Anyway, I tried some different notes, they didn't work either, so I had another rant. She then, by way of explanation for this second failure, went on to tell me that I was being unreasonable to expect the machine to take notes that had "at some point, been folded"

I left and went to Tesco, no issues at all...

[Sancho]

The Morrisons ones are rubbish. The few times I go in there, I end up shouting at the little man who's trying to help.

[Brummie]

I refuse to use them, apart from being a luddite I look at each one as one less job available.

[POPEYE]

I refuse to use them, apart from being a luddite I look at each one as one less job available.

me to! they wont be happy till theres not a human being in there, more profit
for the big guys, anyway on the odd times i've been cohersed by a member of staff into useing them they nearly always go wrong, and thats the staff member doing it for me far to much "automation" nowadays, especially the phone's

[Bogus]

Im with Brummie on this one. Id rather queue than use one. The greedy gits should be paying somene to man their checkouts

[jmc]

In the new Asda near me, the staff refuse to let you use the self-checkouts alone and dutifully stand there, scanning each item then handing it to you to bag.

A thoroughly efficient system!

[moonpig]

Does anybody remember a time when one walked into a grocery shop and someone behind a counter (like a pub bar but without the beer engines) greeted one and asked what they could get for one?
That did used to happen didn't it?
<RANT>If business can't be bothered to lay on staff to help I can't be bothered to shop, vis B&Q, Tesco et al.
EAT THAT MR BUSINESSMAN!!</RANT>

[Albannach]

I refuse to use them, apart from being a luddite I look at each one as one less job available.

4 of them take up roughly the same width as a normal checkout, each group of 4 has an employee manning it (constantly manned, unlike the other 23 single checkouts). Ordinarily, they are extra checkouts anyway, so they actually need more staff to operate, not less.

[TonyN]

Firstly, baring in mind I'm in Scotland, The checkout 'supervisor' told me that the machines don't like 'Scottish' money! I pointed out that Stirling is about as Scottish as it's possible to get, and asked why on earth would the machine not like our money? She didn't reply.

Thats amazing!

Try spending Isle Of Man money here, especially in motorway services, its a really nuisance when coming home from visiting my parents.

You'd think people who take money for a living would be a little clued up on it.

[Apache]

The new Tesco Express near us *is* practically unstaffed. There are no manned tills, just 4 DIY ones. The only staff members I've seen have been a security bod watching over the DIY tills and a chap stacking shelves.

That's the future folks. You chose this by giving your business to Tesco, ASDA and the like. That's why local small shops are suffering.

Being holier than thou , I prefer to use our local shops for anything but a major shop, as it's cheaper as its a short walk rather than a drive. It's nicer cos I dont have to mix with sweaty sweaty fat women buying lardy-bites for their trailing snot covered offspring cos its buy 1 get 10 free at Morrisons, and I don't have to stand 10 deep at the tills whilst sweatyfatarse in front of me wants to pay by card for a 99p purchase. And most of all, the produce (veg, meat etc) is FAR nicer than the 6 months frozen-stored cr@p dished out at the local supermarket.

I even use the local hardware store at the top of the road as he's more often than not cheaper than B&Q for small odds and sods!

This is why I'm better than you all

[MadcapMagician]

I once changed £250 into £5 coins and had lots of fun spending them.

[JamesG]

I even use the local hardware store at the top of the road as he's more often than not cheaper than B&Q for small odds and sods!

This is why I'm better than you all

The guy who runs my local hardware shop won't let me buy a box of nails. He wanted to know exactly how many I wanted and what I wanted them for. I left with a small paper bag with 8 nails in having spent 80p. Love it.

[Apache]

Next time you need nails, let me know. I'll do them for half that price, including postage!

[shokenore]

please replace the item and try again

[slobodan]

Every little helps.