ASDA Considering their position of Self Checkouts.

[Mice!]

1 minute ago, oowee said:

👍 I once drove 50 miles back to the Cotswold's after forgetting to pay for a breakfast. 

You should have just rang up and paid 😅😅

I think the self serve in Aldi are brilliant,  everything scans, just discounts that need applying,  big bananas sometimes cause an issue. 

Why would I want to wait with a carrier bag full of shopping while someone unloads a weeks shop?

[oowee]

12 minutes ago, Mice! said:

You should have just rang up and paid 😅😅

I think the self serve in Aldi are brilliant,  everything scans, just discounts that need applying,  big bananas sometimes cause an issue. 

Why would I want to wait with a carrier bag full of shopping while someone unloads a weeks shop?

If i knew where it was i would have. I had to first find the place. 🤣 

We are stuck with internet shopping. It's great but we miss bargains and rarely find new things to buy. Now it's a treat to go into a supermarket 🤣

[countryman]

At our main Tesco the self service tills have one member of staff overseeing them, I swear this girl there has a real power thing going on, we got stoped a few times for spot checks where they scan several items to see if you paid for them all, you stand there like you are a shop lifter and people look at you and think you have stolen things, we don’t shop there any more , Aldi have self service tills but we must look more innocent to them as we have never been spot checked or seen any one else checked.

[dabbers]

22 hours ago, Minky said:

Well we love the self service system in Tesco. the Mrs gets the scanner by showing the club card under the scanner.  I get a big trolley and load the tote bags into it.. By the time I get in there she has got the bananas to the scales. using the scanner we soon get round the store.  when finished we go straight through the paying area.  The transfer is quick and either of us pay using the App on out phone,s.  There is no messing about queuing up for ages for people to unload their purchases onto the conveyor belt and THEN having to put these into bags and then loading these bags back into the trolley.  THEN waiting for PEOPLE to decide how they want to pay either by having to go through a rack of card or raking through the purse trying to find the right money OR in the odd case having to put stuff back because they haven't go the money.  Nowadays they don't run all the operator tills so the ones that ARE operated have a fair old queue.  If I were Tesco I would remove the operator tills down to one or two and use the checkout staff on shelf staking or fewer staff.  Then put more self service tills in and more shelves for extra products. We hardly ever use cash nowadays. The only place that I use cash is the weekly sub at the the rifle shooting club.  every payment is online and I almost see that the only people who use cash are likely to be on some sort of fiddle.  it is slowly becoming like the TV advert where the bloke is at a roadside stall and wants to buy a bag of spuds.  He's got a fiver BUT it's Crypto only.  Even all of the grandkids have bank accounts and when we give them a draw it is via direct transfer or NSI bonds.  Even if they want ice creams from the van it's just click it on the phone.

It appears as if an amount of people on here are looking to basically steal and fiddle from the shops.

you insane ,i use cash always .

[12gauge82]

17 hours ago, countryman said:

At our main Tesco the self service tills have one member of staff overseeing them, I swear this girl there has a real power thing going on, we got stoped a few times for spot checks where they scan several items to see if you paid for them all, you stand there like you are a shop lifter and people look at you and think you have stolen things, we don’t shop there any more , Aldi have self service tills but we must look more innocent to them as we have never been spot checked or seen any one else checked.

If you wanted to be awkward about it, once you've paid, they have no right to search you or your items, or stopping you taking your items from the shop. To someone with power issues, that would really mess with their delusions of granduar 🤣

[Vince Green]

17 hours ago, countryman said:

At our main Tesco the self service tills have one member of staff overseeing them, I swear this girl there has a real power thing going on, we got stoped a few times for spot checks where they scan several items to see if you paid for them all, you stand there like you are a shop lifter and people look at you and think you have stolen things, we don’t shop there any more , Aldi have self service tills but we must look more innocent to them as we have never been spot checked or seen any one else checked.

My experience is exactly the opposite. One member of staff overseeing about twenty tills. They look like they have lost all motivation to be helpful and couldn't care less anymore.

Having to deal with grumpy rude and just plain stupid customers for a whole shift must be mind numbing

[Minky]

4 hours ago, dabbers said:

you insane ,i use cash always .

No, you insane.  Cash is a pain. I  can pay bills online anytime day or night, I can transfer money anywhere instantly.  I  can't drop and loose my wallet, I can use my a/c card all over the world.  I dont have to convert £s to other foreign currencies.  I  can't be mugged.  Where do you get the cash that you always use.... tin box under the bed. If someone gives me cash,,, or a cheque I have to go somewhere to pay it in. And that isn't easy to find a bank nowadays. 

[Minky]

On 17/08/2024 at 18:28, 12gauge82 said:

Got to be honest, you've lost me at your final paragraph, the shooting community is probably one of the most law abiding in the country. What on earth gives you the idea people on here want to steal? 

Most pe9le are straight but if you go back and read the posts on this thread there are several mentions of clicking one item and putting two in the trolley,  clicking one item and putting different more expensive  items in the bag,  It might be just a case of beating the system.  I notice that my local Tesco have now fitted one way barriers to stop people  walking out of the input with trolleys loaded up. It's like the people who take kids in and eat stuff as they go round and chuck the wrappers in the shelves.  I  saw a few lads of the caravan club division walking round having a good old fill up.

BUT.. how does this compare to those in business and government on blatant fiddles.

Edited August 18 by Minky

[matone]

I avoid any stores without, or few, staffed checkouts,it`s pure avarice on their part. They should be creating jobs with their huge profits made from society.

Pure corporate greed.

[.357shooter]

If you do their job you should get discount.

[matone]

.......agreed,but all we get is gratuitous profiteering !

[Wymondley]

Self checkout, a godsend for us introverts... I no longer have to listen to Mavis on the till going on about her grandchildren, her husband's operation or what her cat did!

I'd guess the Sainsburys in town don't suffer with shoplifting, as I've never had an issue even when you get the "unexpected item in bagging area", someone just comes and cancels it.

[12gauge82]

12 minutes ago, Minky said:

Most pe9le are straight but if you go back and read the posts on this thread there are several mentions of clicking one item and putting two in the trolley,  clicking one item and putting different more expensive  items in the bag,  It might be just a case of beating the system.  I notice that my local Tesco have now fitted one way barriers to stop people  walking out of the input with trolleys loaded up. It's like the people who take kids in and eat stuff as they go round and chuck the wrappers in the shelves.  I  saw a few lads of the caravan club division walking round having a good old fill up.

BUT.. how does this compare to those in business and government on blatant fiddles.

I think the posts you refer to are simply highlighting the loopholes a thief could use. I certainly don't think anyone on here was advocating using one. 

With regard your last paragraph I agree. The only difference between a criminal and the practices of some in business and government is their ****y behaviour is legalised. On a morel level, there's virtually no difference at all. 

[clangerman]

real thieves are the ones behind tills stores think we are little more than cattle to be taken advantage of at every opportunity they saved a fortune with self service yet kept every penny for their greedy selves rather than pass on savings to customers 

[Vince Green]

My main complaint is that people in general are so slow using the self service tills 

They take one item at a time out of their trolley. Search for the bar code, have three attempts to scan it then place it carefully in their bag. Most people muck it up at least once and have to get the staff member over to clear the error message.

Then they start looking in their bag for some means of paying.

A good checkout operator will scan a whole trolley load of shopping through so quickly you don't even have time to pack it. Plus it's already unloaded onto the conveyor while you are waiting.

Much more efficient

[Newbie to this]

On 18/08/2024 at 18:49, Minky said:

If someone gives me a cheque I have to go somewhere to pay it in. And that isn't easy to find a bank nowadays. 

Get with the times, you don't need a bank to pay in a cheque, just use your banking app. 

Edited August 20 by Newbie to this

[ditchman]

2 hours ago, Vince Green said:

My main complaint is that people in general are so slow using the self service tills 

They take one item at a time out of their trolley. Search for the bar code, have three attempts to scan it then place it carefully in their bag. Most people muck it up at least once and have to get the staff member over to clear the error message.

Then they start looking in their bag for some means of paying.

A good checkout operator will scan a whole trolley load of shopping through so quickly you don't even have time to pack it. Plus it's already unloaded onto the conveyor while you are waiting.

Much more efficient

and thats it in a nutshell .....i constantly watch the messing about that the self servers go thro....and the assistance they need...

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, All I can see of this is the Supermarkets are finding the self service till rife for stealing !!!!

[Minky]

7 hours ago, Newbie to this said:

Get with the times, you don't need a bank to pay in a cheque, just use your banking app. 

I AM with the times.  Me personally I  don't really ever get cheques.  I  have on the odd occasion scanned a cheque through the app but the company used to send a driver out to bank which was difficult  because so many have been closed down. 

[Genghis]

On 18/08/2024 at 19:11, .357shooter said:

If you do their job you should get discount.

Customers were once shocked at the idea of having to walk around a store and pick up items themselves as opposed to everything being behind a counter and the shop assistant grabbing them for you.

 

I’d rather scan the items myself than have to queue at a regular till for 15 minutes because the person in front likes to chat.

[Minky]

9 hours ago, Vince Green said:

My main complaint is that people in general are so slow using the self service tills 

They take one item at a time out of their trolley. Search for the bar code, have three attempts to scan it then place it carefully in their bag. Most people muck it up at least once and have to get the staff member over to clear the error message.

Then they start looking in their bag for some means of paying.

A good checkout operator will scan a whole trolley load of shopping through so quickly you don't even have time to pack it. Plus it's already unloaded onto the conveyor while you are waiting.

Much more efficient

I don't see this much if at all.  Most people use the barcode scanner and bag as they shop, so when they get to the self service checkout the goods electronically transfer and just flash the card or phone and away.  Occasionally the odd customer gets a  few items spot checked.  The only people that cause holdups are as stated, scanning and bagging at the checkout,   getting caught trying to fiddle or just complete muppets. But they cause the same pro less all along the line.  The people that mainly use the self service system are people who want to get on and not use the till area as some sort of social chat club.

I did go into a Lidl and the customer profile was generally a load of roughs who only had a bit of money and a full trolley going through the tills where half of the trolley had to be put back on the shelves or didn't really have any sense of getting somewhere else now.  I could smell the weed on the wind and I did see one woman recovering fag butt's from the fag stubbed onto of the main doors. That is a real hold up.

Edited August 20 by Minky