Self-Checkouts In Supermarkets

[Deleted member 2719]

As i am sure you will agree it is difficult to avoid using supermarkets, but i will only use checkouts and hope that other people will do that too, so as to protect jobs. I understand all about making profits in business, but there is profits and profits and these fat cats are monopolising the world as the banks do so they get zero sympathy from me and i certainly won't be trying to help them get richer easily.
Sounds like anarchy but who give a f*ck!!

 

[*Gullsworth*]

As i am sure you will agree it is difficult to avoid using supermarkets, but i will only use checkouts and hope that other people will do that too, so as to protect jobs. I understand all about making profits in business, but there is profits and profits and these fat cats are monopolising the world as the banks do so they get zero sympathy from me and i certainly won't be trying to help them get richer easily.
Sounds like anarchy but who give a f*ck!!

Will you be trying to find a turnstile operator at The Amex mate?

 

[Acker79]

I've tried them a couple of times and won't be using them again. There's the double fear of a) accidentally scanning something through twice and paying over the odds for your shopping and b) accidentally not scanning something through and being done for shoplifting. When the technology's improved to the point whereby you can place your basket of shopping down on the pad and it tots it up on the spot then I may be persuaded to have another go. Until then, thanks but no thanks, don't need the aggro.

As someone else says, the bags are weighed, you can't put something in there that hasn't been scanned and still continue scanning, so can't accidentally bag something, and you can't scan a second item until you put the first in the bag, so you can't scan something twice.

I like them , purely because

a) I understand how to use them
b) I never buy much at supermarkets anyways
c) it's ALOT better then being stuck behind some old fart pissing around with there change and having a chat with the checkout assistant for 10 f**king minutes

Another benefit, I popped to sainsbury's today and it was jam-packed with people. Every till was open, but for any of the various reasons given in this thread, most people didn't use the self-service tills, so I was able to walk in, grab my shopping and walk straight to the self-service tills without any queuing in a very busy shop.

 

[drew]

All for the cost of a job!

But you have now quarms about using a supermarket that has put the local butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer etc etc out of business.

Self-service doesn't replace checkouts, though - they are in addition, as an alternative for your convenience. Allegedly.

Have you not heard of the phrase 'thin end of the wedge'?


As for taking trolleys through, why not. It doesn't say it is for 10 items and in fact in Tesco B/H there is even a sign for trolleys I believe.

 

[Acker79]

As for taking trolleys through, why not. It doesn't say it is for 10 items and in fact in Tesco B/H there is even a sign for trolleys I believe.

Asda marina has two lots of self service, one labelled quick with only a small space for scales, indicating one basket or only a few items, and a second set with weighing space for several bags, for people with trolleys.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

As i am sure you will agree it is difficult to avoid using supermarkets, but i will only use checkouts and hope that other people will do that too, so as to protect jobs. I understand all about making profits in business, but there is profits and profits and these fat cats are monopolising the world as the banks do so they get zero sympathy from me and i certainly won't be trying to help them get richer easily.
Sounds like anarchy but who give a f*ck!!

If you have a pension, in fact any investment at all, then you are almost certainly a shareholder.

So, the people at the top, the execs etc., get paid a shed-load - more than they're worth ? Possibly, but whatever you do, iwon't affect that. In fact, reducing their income by hurting their business will cost the jobs of people who can't afford it, long ,lomg before the so-called fat-cats are hurt. It's the way of the world.

 

[Durlston]

I don't use them because I'm not the sharpest tool in the box.

 

[Djmiles]

I like them , purely because

a) I understand how to use them
b) I never buy much at supermarkets anyways
c) it's ALOT better then being stuck behind some old fart pissing around with there change and having a chat with the checkout assistant for 10 f**king minutes

Agreed. Very simple machines to use, and I find it baffling how people struggle to use them.

 

[The Hon Sec]

While there is a choice I will never use the self service check outs because of the loss of jobs referred to above. Prefer to queue.

They've helped to close local businesses and I am not going to help them get rid of local jobs.

 

[Djmiles]

While there is a choice I will never use the self service check outs because of the loss of jobs referred to above. Prefer to queue.

They've helped to close local businesses and I am not going to help them get rid of local jobs.

Or you could just not shop there. Wouldn't that bring the local businesses back?

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Will you be trying to find a turnstile operator at The Amex mate?

Will we boycott The Amex if the turnstiles are operator free and accessed by smartcard?

 

[Lush]

Every time it announces "unidentified item in bagging area" I die a little inside.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Every time it announces "unidentified item in bagging area" I die a little inside.

Maybe if everybody just put the unidentified item in their carrier bag at that point the supermarkets would up their game a bit.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Will you be trying to find a turnstile operator at The Amex mate?

Big difference there mate - the Albion are not monopolising football (while not yet!) However these giant supermarket groups are just trying to crush ever small business going they are ruthless and won't stop until they are told to. they are trying to trade in every product/service available to man. As for the gull-able customers who buy tesco insurance tesco shopping and use tescos banks perhaps they are just brain dead or don't give a shit about the future of our country.

I hate them as i do banks W*nkers all of em.



Any way nice weather today mate.

 

[armchairclubber]

Absolutely hate them and vow not to use them where possible. Local Sainsburys 2 staff on regular checkouts and 2/3 staff with microphones directing you to the self service which take twice as long as they throw up all sorts of objectons - even if knowing how to use them. I refuse.

Local Tesco will ONLY allow self service after about 9.00 pm unless you require cigarettes (which I don't), and even if you do they often make customers use s/s. The staff look embarrassed while they stand there watching you but obviously "rules and regulations".

I TRY to laugh

 

[armchairclubber]

Maybe if everybody just put the unidentified item in their carrier bag at that point the supermarkets would up their game a bit.[/QUOTE

Absolutely & Thanks, I am willing to meet 5 or 10 people on here on a weekly basis with this very objective

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Big difference there mate - the Albion are not monopolising football (while not yet!) However these giant supermarket groups are just trying to crush ever small business going they are ruthless and won't stop until they are told to. they are trying to trade in every product/service available to man. As for the gull-able customers who buy tesco insurance tesco shopping and use tescos banks perhaps they are just brain dead or don't give a shit about the future of our country.

I hate them as i do banks W*nkers all of em.



Any way nice weather today mate.

Surely they are just giving paying customers what they want, a choice of standing in a long queue behind someone with a full shopping trolley to be served by a checkout operator or standing in a shorter fast moving queue to use a self service till. Not everyone has time to stand and wait ages to be served as they might be on their lunch break and don't want to spend it all in a line waiting to pay.

As for insurance and banking services they offer, isn't that just increasing the number of companies offering these services and increased competition usually leads to lower market prices so how is that a bad thing?

 

[Acker79]

Big difference there mate - the Albion are not monopolising football (while not yet!) However these giant supermarket groups are just trying to crush ever small business going they are ruthless and won't stop until they are told to.

It's not that big a difference. The argument is the self service check out is costing someone a job, which is independent of crushing small business etc.

Smart cards could be costing turnstile staff a job, just as self-check out tills can cost people a job.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Surely they are just giving paying customers what they want, a choice of standing in a long queue behind someone with a full shopping trolley to be served by a checkout operator or standing in a shorter fast moving queue to use a self service till. Not everyone has time to stand and wait ages to be served as they might be on their lunch break and don't want to spend it all in a line waiting to pay.

As for insurance and banking services they offer, isn't that just increasing the number of companies offering these services and increased competition usually leads to lower market prices so how is that a bad thing?

See it's my belief that the supermarkets have been deliberately not opening checkouts and making customers wait for sometime so as when their 'little baby' comes along everyone will like to use it so therefore i think they have created their own market for these scanners. I can only see the greedy supermarkets making out this and they will only be looking to ramp this up in the future, probably end up with about 5 staff looking after 30 tills.

Yes your right it does create more competition, but can't they leave it alone and stick to food and let's a few other business create competition in that field. i have heard a few horror stories of how your Tescos of this world do nothing short of rape there suppliers (allegedly), but with the Tesco's etc they only see as you lucky to be doing business with us.

Good try GF but i still hate them all.

 

[Castello]

Just an innovative way for them to increase profit by reducing staff, cleverly convincing the customer that getting them to scan and bag themselves is better than the supermarket training and employing competent staff themselves.

This.

It's an interesting fact, that cars only became cheap enough for most people to afford, when Henry Ford, by any standards an arch capitalist and union busting anti communist, deliberately employed more staff and increaed wages, in order to increase production and become more cost efficient and at the same time have more people who could pay for what he is selling. In effect he paid his workers partly by selling them a car.