Reply to: It's hard enough trying to buy something from one of those tills.....

[vetran]

I bet the store manager still has nightmares of when the trucks of onions kept turning up due to the centralised stock re-ordering system saying they were running low all the time.

Though in this day I don't see why they need to manually scan anything. Just have all the packages RFIDed up and everything is scanned automatically as they approach the checkout for payment. No more loose onions though, got to be bagged and RFID tagged.

passive are getting there on price

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the range is possible

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now just work out how to isolate & only read a single trolley in store.

Of course buying a metal box e.g. oven tray and putting the expensive items in there would be the first exploit.

[Hobosapien]

They were introducing these when I was in second year of uni, I remember having a mate who once ate for free all term time by ringing up everything as loose onions

I bet the store manager still has nightmares of when the trucks of onions kept turning up due to the centralised stock re-ordering system saying they were running low all the time.

Though in this day I don't see why they need to manually scan anything. Just have all the packages RFIDed up and everything is scanned automatically as they approach the checkout for payment. No more loose onions though, got to be bagged and RFID tagged.

[Platypus]

a none starter in Britain due to "shrinkage"

Funny, because my local Waitrose does this.

Are the Swiss all such obedient robots? They must be great fun to hang out with.

[quackhandle]

Noticed in t'Asda other day that there was video cam recording each shopper at the self service tills.

I pulled a face. Yes I am that childish.

Flicking V's next time.

qh

[tiggat]

They were introducing these when I was in second year of uni, I remember having a mate who once ate for free all term time by ringing up everything as loose onions

[vetran]

Yep, theft losses offset by savings in lower wage cost.

If Tesco et al want to compete with the budget stores (Aldi, Lidl), they just need to offer random supermarket sweeps, where every hour or so a lucky shopper gets a free pass at the till, nothing to pay.

They can limit their losses by only including those that have self scanned up to a target threshold, say £100.

Punters would pile in, they can't resist the chance of a freebie.

This marketing bollox is so easy.

needs more kittens!

[Hobosapien]

Yep, theft losses offset by savings in lower wage cost.

If Tesco et al want to compete with the budget stores (Aldi, Lidl), they just need to offer random supermarket sweeps, where every hour or so a lucky shopper gets a free pass at the till, nothing to pay.

They can limit their losses by only including those that have self scanned up to a target threshold, say £100.

Punters would pile in, they can't resist the chance of a freebie.

This marketing bollox is so easy.

[psychocandy]

Got the portable scanner thing in tescos near me. Randomly you do seem to get selected for a check. What they do then is come over and randomly scan about 5/6 items to make sure they've been scanned. If you do happen to have missed one then nothing happens.

I just always assumed they must know that stuff gets nicked/forgotten about but they've still worked it out, even with the loss, that its more cost effective for them.

[vetran]

Expect to see one assistant for each self service till.

An example where technology threatens to make humans redundant and human nature fights back.

I never progressed beyond stealing penny chews at the corner shop as a kid. Like many, that guilt stopped me becoming the thieving scumbag that pervades society. [angel emoticon goes here ]

no but one assistant per 8 tills would be handy!

[vetran]

you may be right, i'll ask the housekeeper

you pay her so poorly that she has to moonlight at Tesco?

INKSPE

[Lance]

Taking a portable scanner and self scanning the weekly shop as you go round is also big in Switzerland, again a none starter in Britain due to "shrinkage"

We have these. But only in nice areas.

Surely France would have a bigger problem? Anything not firmly attached seems fair game over there.

[reddog]

I live in Switzerland, in Switzerland you do not have the problem of 'in the bagging area', they just assume you will scan it and put it in whatever bag you want.

Also on Switzerland, you can delete stuff you have accidentally scanned, again saving on faffing around with staff.

The main reason they can do this is because they have faith that their customers aren't going to nick stuff at any opportunity.

Taking a portable scanner and self scanning the weekly shop as you go round is also big in Switzerland, again a none starter in Britain due to "shrinkage"

[FrontEnder]

You mean the "one for me, one for" aisle?

[Hobosapien]

Expect to see one assistant for each self service till.

An example where technology threatens to make humans redundant and human nature fights back.

I never progressed beyond stealing penny chews at the corner shop as a kid. Like many, that guilt stopped me becoming the thieving scumbag that pervades society. [angel emoticon goes here ]

[BR14]

less than £200 its not like the Police are going to attend.

Its hardly surprising.

That may explain why the supermarkets seem to have 1 person attending to the self service tills now.

It used to be 0.25 of a person they seemed to be gathering the trolleys & cleaning the loos at the same time.

you may be right, i'll ask the housekeeper