Self Service Checkouts

[gness]

Do you think they have feelings? Get upset and lonely at being ignored?

I hate the things and very few of us use it because we like the chatter and gossip...but in a short queue at my little store today the self service machine burst into life.....

No-one had been near it yet suddenly it announced....Please take your change...and started firing money out....☺

I guess it just wanted attention....☺

[jim360]

All machines have feelings if you annoy them long enough. :)

[Psybbo]

Oh lovely, I refuse to use them but may have to reconsider after seeing that. Never thought of them feeling rejected before.

[Psybbo]

How close were you? Perhaps your magnetism had gone into overdrive

[gness]

Jim......I didn't annoy it.....did it feel my vibes then?

Hi, Psyb.....no-one moved.....wonder if the queue had been one would that one have made the machine happy by taking the change....☺

[gness]

Mmm....maybe the powerful magnets on my new bag......I attached myself to every car in the car park on the way back.....x

[jim360]

Oh don't worry gness, it's not personal -- blame the people who'd ignored it the rest of the day!

[Brinjal]

I love them except when I buy booze then have to wait for someone to authorize.

[Eve]

Wow! :)

I don't mind them, can be useful if you're only getting a few bits and there's a queue.

My exception is the Morrisons one, they hate me for some reason and the feeling is quite mutual :)

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

because she can't serve 6 people at once on a till Scrivens

[ummmm]

I love self service. It doesn't ask me if I need help with packing my two items!

[bibblebub]

I always enjoy passing those queuing at a till with only a couple of items each, heading straight for an available self-service machine and seeing them still queuing when I've finished. It's a bonus when the previous user of the machine has forgotten to take their change.

[EcclesCake]

I loathe them, when I am buying a sandwich and a drink in M&S I want to put my lunch straight into my handbag......not place it in the bagging area to then have to bend down again to pick it up to put in my bag......grrrrr!

I tried to buy a bottle of water at a Tesco Express in London recently and ended up leaving empty handed as it was involving a ludicrous number of questions and answers required. I crossed the road went in a newsagent picked up a bottle of water handed the chap behind the counter £1 and left.......much more straightforward.

[gness]

But it's getting all the gossip I would miss if I used one......maybe it's living in a little town......or maybe it's being too nosy.... ☺

[fraser]

hi gness I work nights at Tesco and when I finish in the morning have to use self service, they take ages to wake up!! I been up all night and just want milk for coffee when I get home!!

[Psybbo]

I read recently that supermarkets were losing quite a bit because of people mis-using these machines so maybe they'll soon disappear. However, a lovely young man dragged us from the back of a long queue and put us through one of these, assuring us we would be out very quickly. It worked as he put his staff card in and really he was using it as a till. I hate B&Q because you have no option!

[Psybbo]

Sorry to be so long winded ^^

[ethandron]

I agree with ummmm (I generally do, I've just never said) :)
Today I bought a litre of gin and a litre of vodka, and six limes, from Asda, using self checkout...no probs.
I also bought four pillow cases from tesco today too, using self checkout...no probs.
There were queues at all the tills in both shops, no queues at the self checkouts.
No brainier.

[DaisyNonna]

Never used one, never want to. They don't smile.

[tonyav]

I avoid them.