Real People Check-Outs

I love self service check outs. I do smart shopping which scans as I shop and am in and out and on my way home well before the poor buggers in the queue at the manned tills get served. Keep using the manned tills i say as it makes my shop even quicker.
 
I always use SSCO when available - I don't want, to see, snotty hands all over my goods - :-D
My main gripe with them is not allowing me to place my bags in the packing area, without one of the staff having to OK them.
 
BobUpnDown said:
I always use SSCO when available - I don't want, to see, snotty hands all over my goods - :-D
My main gripe with them is not allowing me to place my bags in the packing area, without one of the staff having to OK them.
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It does seem a bit stupid that you can be trusted to scan expensive items but not a carrier bag.
 
Went into one of these smart supermarkets the other day in Greenwich by the station called Aldi Shop & Go. You need a cc to enter and then in conjunction with the app you automatically get debited as soon as you leave the store with your goods.

Also you buy alcohol by face recognition technology and unless you live a life of putting Camay on your face to make you look 16 it works fine. Sadly though it's another step towards a non interacting society. Black Mirror stuff.
 
AytonMews said:
Do they have any staff at all in there?
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I went into one of the Amazon shops in London and there was security and other staff stacking shelves and someone else near the check outs to help idiots like me. My son reckons they also have staff watching cameras at the moment to iron out any bugs in the system. I'm not sure how true that latter part is.
 
I was in Guisborough Marksies the other week. Middle of a week day but the checkout did build up and I was the only 1 about 4 back with a full basket.(mostly trollies) This M&S lady approached me and offered me self service and sort of said she would help. Before I moved off from the main Q I said "did you say you would help me" , she said yes, so we waddled along to the self service robots , during which I said sheeplishly to her , did you see the utmost look of horror and fear on my face ,, she said yes and we both cracked up. :ROFLMAO: basically she did all the scanning and the buzzing and pushing of the touchscreen and I just packed and paid. What a team performance. I wanted to permanently sign her for every shop in all places but she said she was happily contracted to M&S
 
I had to look that up. To be honest I had wild ideas of what that meant and I felt best to do that google search in Incog mode. However now I understand, No , I was just happy it worked out . I could see she could sense I was not a G. native ,, having come up from the Redcar lowlands for a posh shop day outside my comfort zone :ROFLMAO:
 
I know many of the staff at my local Aldi and our Morrisons.

In Aldi the checkout guy always shouts morning councillor, I'd rather he called me Ian, but he lives in my ward and we talk local nonsense when he is doing his checkout thing- although he knows that we buy more wine than we should lol; a woman in the same shop used our bathroom fitter to have hers done- wish she hadn't as 5 years later we both had the same problem.


We know the trolley chap and most of the staff in Berwick Hills Morrisons because we used to talk to them when checking out; we rarely see them anymore!
 
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