Scanning your own items at supermarket

[kingcook]

get the barcode for a tin of beans and tape it to the back of your hand. scan the cheap items normally , scan the expensive items with the back of your hand

put your gloves and false nose on, run like heck

That works well if the expensive items are the same weight as a tin of beans

[kingcook]

The bit at the start when it asks you if you've bought your own bags and place them on the scale... anyone tried filling it with stuff first? So that stolen items are included as part of the bag's weight.

[Zippy]

I hate the self-service tills. The staff insist that 'they will be quicker to use' then bugger off. And have to come back several times when it transpires that I want to purchase a bottle of wine, a vegetable knife and some glue.

[VectraMan]

I stole a bottle of wine once by putting it in the bag first without thinking, then when it complained pressed the "I'm using my own bag" option and carried on. I didn't intend to, honest officer, and only realised later that I'd bought wine without needing the assistant to okay it and twigged what I must have done.

[bless 'em all]

It's possible to break the Sainsbury's self checkout simply by inserting your credit card before scanning your Nectar card. It then refuses to authorise your card. If you then insert cash, it refuses to give you change and hangs completely. Works every time. I patiently explained the exact sequence of events required to reproduce the problem to gormless "How can I help you?" youth, but, as he failed to take notes, I fear that my detailed bug report may never make it to the techies who could possibly fix the problem.

It's possible to break the Tesco self-scan checkout by simply smashing a 2 liter tub of ice-cream onto the scanner after repeated, unsuccessful attempts to get it to scan.

Fxcking things.

[darmstadt]

I 'assisted' on a project some years ago here where you scanned the goods as you put them into your trolley and then passed the scanner to the checkout person who placed it into their till and then you just paid. Didn't last long

[darmstadt]

I hadn't actually seen these things until a couple of years ago when I was in a Sainsbury's in Earls Court and had to try them out, no problems. Saw them again this year and there were more people helping out on the self service checkouts than there were on the real checkouts (were at least you can have a natter with the lady on the till and sneakily look down her top!)

[escapeUK]

But what do expensive consultants think about having to do a job that really someone on a tenth of their wage should be doing for them?

[darmstadt]

I was banned from sainsburys for shop-lifting pick'n'mix, I got caught twice. I told them I had an addiction and can't walk past the open trays. I'm not allowed in tesco metro holborn either.

Any relation?

[EternalOptimist]

I hadn't actually seen these things until a couple of years ago when I was in a Sainsbury's in Earls Court and had to try them out, no problems. Saw them again this year and there were more people helping out on the self service checkouts than there were on the real checkouts (were at least you can have a natter with the lady on the till and sneakily look down her top!)

I hate it when the birds at the check out look down my top.
Dont they realise I am NOT an object.
I have thoughts, feelings. I am a PERSON for chissake.

The way they run their lavicious eyes over my rippling body just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

still, they cant help it poor things. Driven by their base desires. Thats what they are