DIY grocery shopping

[PRC1964]

I use self serve every day when buying my breakfast at tesco. I think they are great.

Watch out for them though, the last one I used short changed me by 10p. I mentioned it to one of the cashiers at the main tills and he said it happens quite a lot.

[tim123]

do you live in some rural backwater that has only just received this technology?

tim

[Spacecadet]

I was at a tesco Metro this afternoon buying a couple of bits.

They should have had the automatic tills there.. would have been a lot quicker than the bunch of assorted idiots they had employed trying to "work" the tills

EDIT: I've seen the self service checkouts at B&Q as well. very handy

[BrilloPad]

Watch out for them though, the last one I used short changed me by 10p. I mentioned it to one of the cashiers at the main tills and he said it happens quite a lot.

It has happened to me 3 times : but would have happened whoever the cashier.

[TimberWolf]

do you live in some rural backwater that has only just received this technology?

tim

Judging by the responses here, yes.

[Sysman]

Watch out for them though, the last one I used short changed me by 10p. I mentioned it to one of the cashiers at the main tills and he said it happens quite a lot.

So it could actually be classed as a profit centre.

<mischief mode>
Methinks someone ought to tell the Daily Mail
</mischief mode>

[TimberWolf]

A week or so later they put some human operated tills out too.

[pmeswani]

I've seen (but not used) self-service check-outs in Waitrose in operation many moons ago, where you carry a scanner as you shop and I think you also had to join the scheme or something. Anyway, there were only one or two tills dedicated to this quite unused self-service. Yesterday was the first time I've walked into a supermarket and all the tills were self-service, and there was no special scheme to join or anything to do differently from usual, except you do cashiers work. Are you telling me that what I'm describing was being done back in 2003?

It was introduced in Sainsbury's in Winchester in 1998. So it goes further back than what some people think.

[OwlHoot]

It would be a lot easier if the items all had RFID tags, so you could just wave a wand over a trolley or basket and price the whole lot in one swell foop. That way you'd need only one checkout in even the largest store.

[Sysman]

It would be a lot easier if the items all had RFID tags, so you could just wave a wand over a trolley or basket and price the whole lot in one swell foop. That way you'd need only one checkout in even the largest store.

I don't think that would work technically. What if one tag is sitting on top of another, or you have frozen stuff in tin foil packaging in the way?