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Self-service check-outs can STFU
**helen**
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Just saw this rant on C.A.L.M - made me chuckle.
http://www.thecalmzone.net/2013/06/the-rant-self-checkout-tills-can-stfu/
http://www.thecalmzone.net/2013/06/the-rant-self-checkout-tills-can-stfu/
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Otherwise, pffttt, if you dont like it go to a checkout
As for not charging you correctly for items - that's one of the best things about self -service! If you then taken the item and receipt to customer service, they'll often pay you double the difference of what you were overcharged - which means that sometimes I have actually been paid to take the item from the store
If I had thought of it in time, I'd have begun to jump around yelling "JACKPOT!!!"
The self-service machine is great. No matter how long the queue, no one else ever wants to use it in my local shop. Feels like queue jumping The thing that annoys me is when you can't find what you a buying. I went to the bakery and got a cheese twist. I could not find it on the list at all. Grrrr.
" So I say thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing, thanks for all the joy they're bringing, who can live without it, I ask in all honestly what would life be? Without a song or a dance, what are we? So I say thank you for the music, for giving it to me "
'' It's a beautiful day and I can't stop myself from smiling "
How annoying! I had similar - bought a train ticket with a £10 and got pound coins (ok, it was only 5) back. Was hoping for a £5 note. Don't think I've ever had notes back from the train ticket machines.
Morrisons self checking out seems to be rocket science, I spent ages pondering where I was meant to put the money until I got someone from staff telling to to but it in to the little slot at the top that said pay here, but the slot was odd, it didn't take my money or anything? Omg. - Well until Staff did it
me too I worked on the self scan tills at Asda for a good while and most people just don't get it. yes they will have occasional blips and be quite annoying but the basic principle of scan something, put it in a bag, scan something else...is not difficult.
The moneys just meant to go in to their and machines just meant to drag it along?
I like the Sainsbury's one. They spit out vouchers if you could have bought your shopping cheaper at Asda (yes, you could) but the voucher printer is miles from the receipt printer. So everyone always leaves them there. Ching-ching.
Insert cash or touch pay with clunge.
The Sainsbury's one near us has those, too. Inconsistency. Tut.
just lowering the tone...
I have used self-service chekouts in the Carrefour in Palma for one reason: They are multilingual. you can select English, Spanish or (of you are that way inclined) German.
This is a boon to an ignorant Englishman like me who doesn't know much Spanish.
This. I have a few jam jars filled with them so generally take a handful when I go to the supermarket.
How much of a shit brain do you have to be to not process the idea that OF COURSE YOU WILL BE ID'ed at a self service checkout?
Also, saying "a snobby, unreasonable wench" then calling the staff zombified because they don't race over so that he can buy some beer is a bit fucking rich.
I guess I should have expected something like that from a self confessed 'stand up poet'. And fuck me, the hair and shirt in the picture don't exactly scream TASTE.
Clearly I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning but fuck that guy. I hope a giant digital fist grows out of the next self service till he goes near and punches him in the eye and then asks if he needs assistance as he slumps to the floor burbling poetry.
Don't like 'em, don't use 'em. Go stand at the fag counter and watch me smile as the assistant tells you to fuck as you have more than five items.
Along with lots of other EPOS systems I design and install these things for a living.