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Supermarket automatised checkout.

These are obnoxious inventions

Today, I put my weekly shop through one. I knew this was asking for trouble.

Yes, I am aware what a bagging area is.

All went well till I loaded the area again, when an automated voice , disdainfully enquired, ‘Did I need more time, someone is coming to help you’.

Then when I was about to checkout, a note came up that the transaction could not proceed. So I held my hand up like a naughty boy. . Eventually someone came. He told me rather arrogantly that Ithe machine could not tell that I was over eighteen. The guy proceeded to press a load of buttons, to allow the transaction to proceed. Although he took three minutes, the computer did not ask him if he needed more time. Why not I thought, he clearly needed someone to help him.
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im of the firm belief you should get a staff discount if your doing the scanning and packing...
peterlee · M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout It’s a way of employing less people.
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
@peterlee yet they claim to not be employing less people because of the big rise of home shopping (home delivery of groceries, etc.) and click-and-collect. Far less customer-facing staff definitely yes. Most checkouts replaced with self-checkouts. Best way is to only use cash and if all the self's are closed, get a staffed checkout 'opened'. Watch how many people then gravitate to it.