One Third Of Shoppers Walk Away From Self Service Tills

[carolegif]

Your thoughts?

[LazyGun]

LoL @ JNO

We have an M&S express store at a local services to me. I occasionally stop there to shop. The shop assistants there all have advanced degrees in packing, I reckon. Unbelievable the amount of stuff they can stash away in a bag!

[anotheoldgit]

China Doll

/// and I'd rather not have small talk so for me they're brilliant. ///

Id rather listen to a human-being's small talk, than listen to that infernal robotic talk.

[anotheoldgit]

LazyGun

/// who still uses a local slaughterhouse, the meat from animals in local
herds. ///

Not trying to be pedantic here, but shouldn't that be abattoir, slaughterhouse is enough to make one a vegetarian for the rest of one's life.

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

/// they are usually clear as lots of people are scared of them. ///

How can you be sure they are not scared as you state, but simply making a stand against the loss of jobs?

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// I can pack a Sainsbury's bag ///

I do hope that that is a reusable Saibnsbury's bag that you use over and over again, must think of the environment you know?

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

/// Observational skills have helped me develop the theory AOG. ///

That's interesting trigger, because I have never seen anyone running away from them with their mouths wide open, hair sticking on end and their hands up in the air.

[trt]

They are good for using multi photo copied vouchers :-)

[jno]

in the USA and Australia, some supermarkets still have two-person tills, one to scan and one to pack the bag. I don't think I've ever seen that level of service in this country.

[mccfluff]

jno - i have years ago, one of my first jobs was a packer in a supermarket

now you get kids trying to raise money for whatever cause offering to do it for you

[jno]

it could be your headphones they're scared of, triggs?

http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/images/pics/thrillerheadphones.jpg

[jno]

ah, that'd be before my time, fluff (no offence, I haven't been in this country all that long)

[Prudie]

Realistically if they didn't exist I don't believe the supermarkets would hire more staff just make you queue longer. I always use them but not for big shops. I've learned to laugh at them and their unexpected items in bagging area.

[EcclesCake]

I loathe having my bags packed! I'm a little OCD about it and no one else would know that I want X,Y and Z in one bag because that is all to go upstairs and A,B and C are all for the garage etc.

[jno]

put them on the belt in the order you want them bagged, Eccles. As soon as one lot's done grab the bag, so the checkouter has to start a new one, and take out any you want to put in another bag.

[China Doll]

Exactly Eccles... or apparently that bread does not go underneath tins and a bottle of squash :-/

[jno]

be fair now, she may not notice the difference herself