Self Checkout Checkouts

[POPEYE]

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>

It did and i remember it well, human contact and a thank you, now useually ya get some slip of a girl who's on her mobile phone while serving you, surly bus drivers, effin machines, no c##ts got the time of day for you now

[POPEYE]

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.

Haha! there used to be a hardware shop in pompy just like that! in fact very much like the two ronnies sketch, they might even have based that sketch on this little bloke who run it,
there still is one in fratton road like that, "Robert Bish", sells everything, ya never seen such a cluttered shop but the guy knows just where everything is, i buy my micro drill bits there (modeling) great little shop

[biosurf]

I hate using supermarkets but often have no choice as they are the only thing open at the time I need them.

I'm surprised more small businesses haven't at least trialled say closing early one day but having one day a week that they stay open to 8pm or summat. I reckon it could work and bring a lot of money from people who commute so can only shop local at the weekends.

[flounderbout]

This

[biosurf]

This

I think ye'll find, that's LEGAL TENDER!

[Bogus]

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.

l...

In the interests of pedantry, does this mean you are now dead ?, or is my understanding of the word fatal flawed.

[gwh200]

Yes. He is gone. I have first dibs on his surf, hi-fi, Lexus and cats.

[Rustinho]

In the interests of pedantry, does this mean you are now dead ?, or is my understanding of the word fatal flawed.

Mr A doesn't have to be dead but I suspect the person responsible for designing the auto-cashier may have gone into hiding just in case.

[dieselboy]

I remember looking this up so I knew what I was talking about during the arguement whilst trying to use Scottish money whilst back home / on the way home etc. Apparently it is not legal tender, according to various Google searches (could be wrong)..? So I gave up on the idea of trying to educate cashiers.

I took up trying to spend Gibraltar money in England instead. Over there if something costs £15 and you give them £15, they give you change.