Supermarket self-checkout

[mr bagcroft]

There are some people who like it that way, though.

With some things, like making purchases described above, or going to the supermarket, I couldn't care less about "service" or a social or human aspect. I just want to get in and out or get it done with a minimum of time and fuss. If there's a small fee for that convenience, so be it.

People actually want social interaction when going through a check out ?? I don’t get that. I’m like you I want to get in and out with the bare minimum of human interaction.

 

[utility]

Hahaha, TLDR.

Try living in suburbs with housing commission flats. People take trolleys through self-checkout all the way to their front lawn and dump them on the nature strip.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Hahaha, TLDR.

Try living in suburbs with housing commission flats. People take trolleys through self-checkout all the way to their front lawn and dump them on the nature strip.

Not just in those suburbs, there was an epidemic of it where I live a while back, seems to have eased off now thankfully.

Re the self-serve checkouts, my local Woolies has done some renos and we now have double the number of self-serve checkouts (about two thirds of them being card only).

 

[the fly]

Hahaha, TLDR.

Try living in suburbs with housing commission flats. People take trolleys through self-checkout all the way to their front lawn and dump them on the nature strip.

The trolleys at my local Coles have some sort of locator in them which is supposed to make the wheels stop rolling when you try to leave the carpark with them.

 

[Off The Couch]

The trolleys at my local Coles have some sort of locator in them which is supposed to make the wheels stop rolling when you try to leave the carpark with them.

Same except they forgot to take into consideration that the carpark is across the road and their boundary was the footpath surrounding the centre. Didn’t take long to realise that people weren’t happy but it meant they had to extend the radius about a block

 

[Engimal v3]

This is also not nearly as big an issue as people who use the self serve with no f**king clue what they are doing.

I worked 2 years at Woolies, and once had an old lady cram coins into a card-only self checkout then ask me why it wasn't working.

 

[Beerfish]

I worked 2 years at Woolies, and once had an old lady cram coins into a card-only self checkout then ask me why it wasn't working.

Did you tell her it was because she was actually dreaming and really at home asleep in her chair?

 

[Cleavy]

Try living in suburbs with housing commission flats. People take trolleys through self-checkout all the way to their front lawn and dump them on the nature strip.

then call the trolley hotline and get them removed. (sorry, used to work for Coles in Head Office)

 

[phantom13]

Went to grab a yoghurt and some fruit thenother morning (day after the brought in the plastic bag ban) and there was an old bitty with a trolley full in the self serve checkout bit. Because the plastic bags had been banned the didn’t have any at all in the self serve aisles and she was going absolutely mental at the assistant. I had a good chuckle.

 

[PoppedCorn]

How ******* hard is it to just completely ban them and supply some decent alternatives
Fmd.

If I go to the local shop I use a box they supply
If I go to the market I just chuck the veg in one of those old lady type 2 wheely carts
If I go to coles I use reusable bags I've had for years

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

then call the trolley hotline and get them removed. (sorry, used to work for Coles in Head Office)

I do this (report them online) but it was a daily task a while back there were so many being dumped.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

I can actually remember back in the 'olden days' before we had plastic bags. Mum had a wicker basket which she would take for just a small amount of shopping and for the weekly shop the supermarket would pack all the groceries into a box and then would carry it to your car for you.

 

[mr bagcroft]

You do NOT take trolleys through the self check out. FMD
/end thread.

 

[Firestarter]

You do NOT take trolleys through the self check out. FMD
/end thread.

I would because I know wtf I'm doing and can be in and out in a quarter of the time it takes the people to whom you'd be referring.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

You do NOT take trolleys through the self check out. FMD
/end thread.

Took mine through this morning. Didn't have many items but one was a big bag of kitty litter so needed the trolley for that.

I think the question is not whether you should take a trolley through but whether you should take a big shop through.

 

[mr bagcroft]

Ok I should have said IDIOTS shouldn’t do it. Excludes you two guys, however does include a shitload of people.

 

[Firestarter]

Ok I should have said IDIOTS shouldn’t do it. Excludes you two guys, however does include a shitload of people.

No worries. You mean these people.



1.46 onwards.

 

[GreyCrow]

Coles have read your thread and the Coles Colonnades Self Serve now has a big big sign saying 12 items or less through here

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Coles have read your thread and the Coles Colonnades Self Serve now has a big big sign saying 12 items or less through here

I hope they have more than one staffed checkout open then.

 

[GreyCrow]

I hope hey have more than one staffed checkout open then.

They had 4 today

 

[Reynolds Number]

I believe you can earn up to $5000 a day working on the couch at home.

This is why self service checkouts are on the rise.

 

[Cleavy]

Coles have read your thread and the Coles Colonnades Self Serve now has a big big sign saying 12 items or less through here

run over the self serve staff member with your trolley, if they make a fuss.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

People actually want social interaction when going through a check out ?? I don’t get that. I’m like you I want to get in and out with the bare minimum of human interaction.

Some go to Brothels for social interaction, others supermarkets

 

[Reynolds Number]

One poster on here was picking up ladies at Spotlight.

 

[Cleavy]

People actually want social interaction when going through a check out ?? I don’t get that. I’m like you I want to get in and out with the bare minimum of human interaction.

would rather have a short interaction with attractive Caitlyn check-out chick, compared to Sally self-serve who doesn't want to be there.