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up_the_ante 22 Jul 2019 01:46:32 1,574 posts
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Alastair wrote:
The David Walliams voiced announcement that's played just when you leave a station on Virgin Trains. The fake 'ahhhh' at the end is the worst bit.
Please fuck off.

My local M&S food shop had Ant and Dec voicing the interaction stuff on the self-service tills for about a week recently. I really felt sorry for the assistant that has to stand there for hours.

Rogueywon 22 Jul 2019 07:19:24 12,387 posts
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@up_the_ante Yeah, we had the same for several weeks at my M&S food - think it was a national thing. It was fucking terrible. They should at least have given people a "shut the fuck up you annoying twats" button on the splash screen.

Armoured_Bear 22 Jul 2019 07:21:22 31,233 posts
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The self-service tills in the UK with the whole bag/weight of goods check that makes it such a slow, tedious process that it's not worth bothering with.

Frogofdoom 22 Jul 2019 07:35:02 17,973 posts
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Only if you are a cretin, I use them all the time as they are way faster than normal tills.

Edited by Frogofdoom at 07:35:21 22-07-2019

Decks 22 Jul 2019 08:20:27 31,013 posts
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He likes to use the normal checkouts so the checkout lady can see he bought the more expensive sliced ham.

Frogofdoom 22 Jul 2019 08:24:27 17,973 posts
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It's the desperate hope that they will engage in conversation. Why are you buying Billy bear ham, you are a middle aged man.

TechnoHippy 22 Jul 2019 08:34:04 19,245 posts
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Wait - there's bear ham?

nickthegun 22 Jul 2019 08:36:34 87,711 posts
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You have to play it tactically. Anything that needs age verification or a tag taken off with an obviously useless wanker on deck is usually faster going through a till.

Frogofdoom 22 Jul 2019 08:39:10 17,973 posts
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@TechnoHippy https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/29/important-information-the-maker-of-billy-bear-ham-also-makes-happy-tractor-ham-6742867/

Decks 22 Jul 2019 08:40:13 31,013 posts
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Yeah I normally make a quick judgement on whether the age verification hoverer is on her game or not.

TechnoHippy 22 Jul 2019 08:46:55 19,245 posts
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@Frogofdoom Sadly not what I was hoping for, but thanks anyway :-)

nudistpete 22 Jul 2019 09:12:52 1,273 posts
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Decks wrote:
Yeah I normally make a quick judgement on whether the age verification hoverer is on her game or not.

I thought it was law that the till hoverer was at least 30ft away from the till area deep in conversation with a colleague?

Which reminds me, if the wife was in this thread she'd say "retail employees that go out of their way to ignore the customer by chatting with their mates". Apparently when she worked on the tills at Marks and Sparks back in the day, chat between colleagues that could be witnessed by customers was punished by beatings with a shovel.

hedben2013 22 Jul 2019 09:22:37 2,261 posts
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At my local Co-op the age verification on the self-checkouts has to be done by whoever's on the normal tills- potentially while they're also servinhg a queue of people. You'd have thought this would delay things, but they've neatly solved this problem by just immediately dismissing the age warning as soon as it pops up, without even looking up from the food they're scanning.

Pretty sure my 11 year old daughter could get a bottle of vodka there.

Psiloc 22 Jul 2019 11:23:55 6,366 posts
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At our local Morrisons there is no age verifier person as far as I can tell. If you scan an age restricted item, you are stranded

Psiloc 22 Jul 2019 11:26:50 6,366 posts
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This is in spite of them installing a few of the big self service checkouts with the conveyor belt. Watched a bloke unload all of his items, get a few items in before scanning a beer or something, and then stand there for ten minutes realising he had seriously fucked up

Rogueywon 22 Jul 2019 11:59:10 12,387 posts
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My other self-service checkouts frustration comes from the people who manage to block up three units in the process of trying to use one. Saw this yesterday. Woman stood using one, with her buggy sticking as far out as possible to one side, so that it completely blocks the checkout on that side, and her trolley arranged horizontally on the other side so it does the same there.

up_the_ante 22 Jul 2019 12:02:30 1,574 posts
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Some of the assistants take the age check seriously and will bend around to look at your face straight on for a second. Then they get that little bit of paper out of their pocket and try and scan it.

Deleted user 22 July 2019 12:05:44

I feel this thread is going to end up with a self service till getting murdered.

First_Kill 22 Jul 2019 12:24:03 21 posts
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People. Who always have a piece of advise for you when you even did not ask about it. So annoying

JamboWayOh 22 Jul 2019 12:31:55 25,236 posts
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Just some advice for you that you didn�t ask for, the noun is advice, the verb is advise.

mrpon 22 Jul 2019 12:39:30 37,366 posts
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I wish the supermarkets would be clear (and consistent) on which side is the basket and which is the bagging area. Co-op wins on this, basket right, bagging left.

Phattso 22 Jul 2019 12:47:59 27,426 posts
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mrpon wrote:
I wish the supermarkets would be clear (and consistent) on which side is the basket and which is the bagging area. Co-op wins on this, basket right, bagging left.

In my local Co-Op THEY'RE BOTH ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS.

It's a world gone mad.

gamingdave 22 Jul 2019 12:56:03 5,087 posts
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In my local Co-Op, it really doesn't matter, because it's simply not possible to use them without having to get someone over to override the system at least once (often multiple times) making it so slow, you are always better off queuing for a real till.

Thankfully, the real tills are usually well staffed and so you often get to one quicker too.

Really though. The scales frequently don't detect items added to the bag. They don't seem to understand you may need more than one bag and need resetting when you take the first off. The scanners themselves are unreliable. Even when they are working, they are just slow to use as everything has a delay after registering one action before the next properly works.

JamboWayOh 22 Jul 2019 12:57:17 25,236 posts
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We don�t have self service checkouts in Andorra, it�s also annoying because people here don�t seem to give a shit about following the rules of the 5 items and less checkout and rock up with a trolley acting shocked when they�re told to fuck off.

Armoured_Bear 22 Jul 2019 13:10:22 31,233 posts
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gamingdave wrote:
In my local Co-Op, it really doesn't matter, because it's simply not possible to use them without having to get someone over to override the system at least once (often multiple times) making it so slow, you are always better off queuing for a real till.

Thankfully, the real tills are usually well staffed and so you often get to one quicker too.

Really though. The scales frequently don't detect items added to the bag. They don't seem to understand you may need more than one bag and need resetting when you take the first off. The scanners themselves are unreliable. Even when they are working, they are just slow to use as everything has a delay after registering one action before the next properly works.

Yep, why they annoy me and it doesn�t have to be like that.
Where I live, there is no bag weighing crap so it�s just scan-scan-scan press 2 buttons and pay contactlrssly then you�re off

nudistpete 22 Jul 2019 13:28:12 1,273 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
Where I live, there is no bag weighing crap so it�s just scan-scan-scan press 2 buttons and pay contactlrssly then you�re off

Obviously well behaved in der Schweiz. In this country if it's not glued and screwed down, surrounded by freaking lazors and armed guards people will pinch it.

Ror 22 Jul 2019 13:28:47 20,336 posts
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JamboWayOh wrote:
Just some advice for you that you didn�t ask for, the noun is advice, the verb is advise.

For fuck's sake Jambo, you are such a People.

Dougs 22 Jul 2019 13:31:31 100,414 posts
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mrpon wrote:
I wish the supermarkets would be clear (and consistent) on which side is the basket and which is the bagging area. Co-op wins on this, basket right, bagging left.

Absolutely this. And fuck me, are some of them temperamental bastards. B and Q are the worst. They bark at you something rotten. Fuckers

senso-ji 22 Jul 2019 13:45:16 10,271 posts
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The worst is my local Sainsbury's; if you try to put any lookup item through the self service, it buzzes and a member of staff has to come over and put them through for you instead, presumably to stop people stealing too many bread rolls or carrots.

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