Tesco Self Service Till and Using Own Bags
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aw sweet, guess you still believe in santa
....or believe in the invisible hand of the marketplace possibly?
I hope the people who worry about the sales assistants job security didn't write their posts on PCs. God knows how many people those infernal machines have put out of a job. Not to even speak of how those darn automobiles totally destroyed the livelyhoods of those in the horse and carriage business, or how advances in medicine put the poor producers of disproved treatsments out of business or at least decrease their profits 
Some people seem to think a job is good just because - like some higher power sends the money down as a reward. Sure, this is kind of true occasionaly in the public sector, but the truth is that in the absence of the threat of violence to pay for useless professions that create no value they would not exist.
So if technology makes some job redundant, that's a brilliant thing for society. We have just created value, and freed up a human resource to use to create value in some other sector.
But sure, if you want to employ people standing around doing nothing, feel free to do it. Just don't do it with MY money, whether the sector is public or private (In the supermarket example, reduced costs means lower prices in a competetive market. I know this is not exactly the case, but that's not the private sectors fault that there are heavy legal restrictions to entry. So point blame in the right direction.)
Some people seem to think a job is good just because - like some higher power sends the money down as a reward. Sure, this is kind of true occasionaly in the public sector, but the truth is that in the absence of the threat of violence to pay for useless professions that create no value they would not exist.
So if technology makes some job redundant, that's a brilliant thing for society. We have just created value, and freed up a human resource to use to create value in some other sector.
But sure, if you want to employ people standing around doing nothing, feel free to do it. Just don't do it with MY money, whether the sector is public or private (In the supermarket example, reduced costs means lower prices in a competetive market. I know this is not exactly the case, but that's not the private sectors fault that there are heavy legal restrictions to entry. So point blame in the right direction.)
Supermarkets will always need lots of people. The first to go will be the useless ones anyway, so as long as you're not useless you've got nothing to worry about.
Other countries seem to be able to trust people more
Perhaps people in other countries have more respect then. People seem to think they can do whatever they like in supermarkets here, the amount of empty wrappers, packets, bottles etc I find lying around on my department alone on a daily basis is disgusting. Then there's the more valuable stuff, or the items that people destroy the packaging of after taking it out to "see what it looks like". It's a toaster, everyone knows what a toaster looks like and there's even a picture on the box. What's inside is not going to surprise you.
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Many other countries manage to resist the selfishness and rampant greed that the British are constantly told is good for them.
You NEED to have a display copy (of each colour preferably), then people would not take it out.
Pictures do not show you how good the finish quality is, the exact colour shade, and so on.
Easy way to get around it weighing the bags and throwing a wobbly is just to have your first item as something heavy (4 pint of milk works well for me), put it in the bag and then place the bag and the milk on the platform. That way it doesn't notice that your weights are out. Do that for each new bag. Simples.
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Here is your problem. They arent designed to take a lot of shopping through. At college i would use self service once or twice every day and virtually never had a problem with 1-10 items. At uni i never have a problem going through with about 10 items in a basket. I see people go through all the time with overflowing trolleys and baskets and its just stupid, obviously its going to take longer/go wrong.
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I like them, one of the Tesco's near me has ones with a conveyor belt
I find it hard to control my temper with these people, as well as those who seem incapable of correcting a simple mistake, like when an item doesn't scan and the damn thing tells them to take it out again, yet they stand around looking lost like it'll fix itself. Some people should just not be allowed out of the house.
They do this in Belgium you are controlled randomly (they don't check everything just 5-7 random items in your trolley (they usually pick high value items to check) if you are caught expect to be controlled more often... keep making "mistakes" and you lose the right to self scan.
The system Safeway had was like this but even better, handheld scanner and green boxes.
Scan, chuck in green box, Return scanner and pay.
Leaving all the stuff in the boxes and lift into car.
So much simpler, it was ahead of its time with all the recycling stuff.
Hate em, will only use them if I have to, this coming from a former (I'd like to think!) social inadequate, mainly because I'm a bumbling fool.
On pancake day last year I went to tesco and queued for ages on the self checkout, it turned out that on that day in particular the self checkout didn't want to sell oranges! Of all the days
On pancake day last year I went to tesco and queued for ages on the self checkout, it turned out that on that day in particular the self checkout didn't want to sell oranges! Of all the days
We do. Doesn't stop people doing it. If you're going to open a box, just don't damage the damn thing.
Plus it's not feasible to have a display model of everything, especially things like toys, bedsheets etc.
Sainsbury's still do it, it's fairly popular too.
Then dont complain when people open boxes to check the items, I almost always do it to check quality, feel, etc.
It's not unreasonable to expect people to have some respect. If people actually ask if we can open it for them, we usually will; at least then it's done properly and without rendering the item unsellable.
I really like the self-service checkouts. I live in Essex where the average IQ is probably 50, so most people avoid them like the plague as they do require you to be conscious to operate them. I can scan my items quicker than the checkout staff, so combine that with no queue, and I am usually in and out of Tesco in a jiffy.