Oh dear : Now I work for Tesco

[Lucifer Box]

I wonder what cheap item weighs the same as their most expensive bottle of wine.... hmmmm.....

Their cheapest bottle of wine.

[SallyAnne]

The bloody thing did, at one point, say something like 'unauthorised item placed in bag'.... the manager hovering around the area pressed something on the screen and jiggled the carrier bag that was sitting on some sort of pressure pad type thing... I presume that it is supposed to weigh the items to see if you put something in that is different from what is scanned...

I wonder what cheap item weighs the same as their most expensive bottle of wine.... hmmmm.....

That part of it is shocking like - you're made to feel like a criminal if anything goes wrong with the process.

Have you heard that one of the supermarket chains is bringing in technology to get an ID inprinted on your skin (like a human bar code) to scan you and the items as you walk out of the shops?! What type of moron would opt for that?!! I cant remember which chain it is, or how far along they are in the process.

[Sockpuppet]

I like these tills. Maybe your all just not IT literate enough to use them


Seriously its makes buying a sandwich at lunch so much easier.

[mcquiggd]

Eww.... I have a choice of 3 delis nearby... lunch is something to savour... yum!

And I spend far too much time with machines anyway... much nicer to have some lovely young filly offering me her soup of the day....

[TheMonkey]

I love those tills. The staff always just "continue" when you get an unexpected item in the bagging area problem. I've nicked a load of stuff thanks to that flaw.

Is it just me or is Tesco starting to be like OCP in Robocop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Consumer_Products

[kramer]

did anyone read the article about some retailers group looking into inplanting customers with chips whihc would link to the bank cards so the customer can walk out with goods and just have the credit taken off as they come out the door..... no more tills...
I believe their is a club in spain where this is used for memebership and drinks purchases.

[Sockpuppet]

did anyone read the article about some retailers group looking into inplanting customers with chips whihc would link to the bank cards so the customer can walk out with goods and just have the credit taken off as they come out the door..... no more tills...
I believe their is a club in spain where this is used for memebership and drinks purchases.

I think "implanted" is the wrong word. You are thinking of RFID and no not yet. Its far, far, far too expensive to put a RFID chip on everything.

[SallyAnne]

did anyone read the article about some retailers group looking into inplanting customers with chips whihc would link to the bank cards so the customer can walk out with goods and just have the credit taken off as they come out the door..... no more tills...
I believe their is a club in spain where this is used for memebership and drinks purchases.

Did I not mention that??!

[Lucifer Box]

SallyAnne, some of people on here are a bit deaf and/or foreign. Try shouting.

[SallyAnne]

SallyAnne, some of people on here are a bit deaf and/or foreign. Try shouting.

He might have chosen to ignore posts from me.....that might have made some recent threads quite difficult to understand!