Time we all boycotted self service checkouts

[dave50]

They are just another way to employ less people, make shopping even more impersonal. I went to one supermarket the other day and there were hardly any staff at any of the normal checkouts, the one or two that were open there were long queues. Everyone was being gently ushered into the self service section, a bit difficult for me as I had a trolley full so I left it in the middle of the isle and walked out.

[Mick-Talbot]

I don't use the self service because I like to know if Flo won at mecca bingo the night before or if Janets shaving rash has eased up a little.

[Bazile]

******** thing !!!

lyndaB - How does the Halal business work - are the people employed by Asda ?

[rockyracoon]

I hate self service, every singe time I use them I get SEEK ASSISTANCE for no good bloody reason, then it takes an age for the assistant to finish her chit chat and come over to sort it.

[sunny-dave]

Quite so M-T - and at my Co-op you get service with a snarl too :+)

< mind you I am still scarred from my attempt to get the spotty yoof to understand my request for a bottle of Bruichladdich ... talk about 'separated by a common language' >

[Ann]

I hate them. I have really tried and tried to get used to them but every time without fail, something goes wrong and it says "call the assistant". I say to the assistant " Is it me who has done this wrong?" but more often than not, the assistant says " No it's not you, it's these self service tills, having a bad day!" Waste of time!

[DTCwordfan]

Excuse the intervention...

Hi Ann - left something on your Kaytee thread that you may have missed, long time no see x

[EcclesCake]

Fingers crossed Bunnahabhain is on offer next week Dave!

Another chance for fun & games.....

[sunny-dave]

Aberlour was hard enough ...

[albaqwerty]

I'm not overly fond of them, but whether I put alcohol through a self-serv or at a cashier's desk, no-one asks me for proof that I'm over 25.

[Mick-Talbot]

I am assuming Bruichladdich is a whisky?
Simply because it ends in ddich.


Whisky is as bad as tinned salmon :0/

[Ann]

Hi DT - thanks will take a look! Been busy with family probs and organising Christmas concerts etc, am exhausted! :)

[jno]

I talk to staff more on self-service checkouts than on regular ones. There's always something going wrong that they have to come over and sort out.

[albaqwerty]

oh mick, mick, mick.
Wash yer mouth out with a laphrroig or Highland Park.
Heathen :-D

[LyndaB]

Bazile - what are you on about? Halal? I'm mystified!

[boxtops]

There are no less staff at our local ASDA, there were 3 on the 5 self-service tills today trying to get people to understand what to do :-)

[mccfluff]

i like and use both. self service are excellent for both me and the checkout people in the morning as i don;t tend to be at my best and being left to myself is probably wise

[dotty.]

the introduction of self service tills is to encourage people with just a few items to get in and out quickly and not prevent people with trolleys full of a decent shop being held up at the check-out and complaining that the bloke who's nipped in for a butty for his lunch is stopping them getting their £150.00 monthly shop through the check out. the self service is not there for convenience of the customer but for the increased profit anf turnover of the store

[humbersloop]

@eccles ^^^

//I want to bung them straight into my handbag//

erm, isn't that more like shoplifting than self-service?? :xo

[EcclesCake]

Erm, well yes, but as I said to the nice store detective chappy....