Reply to: Oh dear : Now I work for Tesco

[mcquiggd]

I used to work with the guy that wrote the code for those things, all in all he was ones of he best coders I have ever worked with who actually took the results of testing seriously and adjusted his output accordingly. by the end of my time at that gig I was having problems finding any defects in his work because he had unit tested it properly and locked it down so that you couldn't enter data he didn't want.

I think he missed something... one of the tills was sat there repeatedly saying 'unauthorised item in bag area' like a female dalek, while people looked on in disgust... of coure everyone just queued up to be served by a person and got through much faster...

The things are so slooooow .... scan your item... put it in the bag, wait for the 'unauthorised item' comment, jiggle the bag, next item..... oh dear, a bottle of wine.. can someone come out from the back and approve it please..? 10 minutes later, try feeding bank notes into it and then catch the change it vomits at passers by, or go the chip and pin route so Tesco can target you with junk mail....

jesus, they need more staff to look after the bloody things and take over when they break than they needed to run the store before...

[Lucifer Box]

LOL! You are Mike Lowe and I claim my crisp £5!

How about a £5 F&M gift voucher?

[hyperD]

I just send my man down to Fortnum & Mason to pick up the groceries.

LOL! You are Mike Lowe and I claim my crisp £5!

[n5gooner]

I was in France the other day, in one of the Tesco like shops, and all the items in the shot had little electronic tabs, anyone know what they were???

[Ardesco]

I really like them!

I guess if you work in Tesco's your whole life, putting on a suit, doing the monday morning train journey, and the hotel for 4 nights etc would be amazing.
For me, spending 10 minutes zapping my food through on one of those bleep machines is excellent fun

I used to work with the guy that wrote the code for those things, all in all he was ones of he best coders I have ever worked with who actually took the results of testing seriously and adjusted his output accordingly. by the end of my time at that gig I was having problems finding any defects in his work because he had unit tested it properly and locked it down so that you couldn't enter data he didn't want.

[Lucifer Box]

So many people to ignore, so little time.

[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!

[Lucifer Box]

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

[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??!

[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.

[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.

[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

[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....

[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.

[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.