CycleChat Investigates - Self Service Tills

[tyred]

You're supposed to pay for your shopping?

 

[slowmotion]

Can somebody tell me which side the "Bagging Area" actually is????

 

[Gwylan]

Can somebody tell me which side the "Bagging Area" actually is????

It's where all the unknown objects arrive from outer space.

 

[slowmotion]

Here's an article on the "banana trick". It seems that self-service tills are not as great for the supermarkets as they anticipated.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shop...Oax30evfM4T8tHUJsc7flZ_QffsxBOP2Fpz4bRRaqTLex

 

[Drago]

Can somebody tell me which side the "Bagging Area" actually is????

I know what de-bagging is. Presumably bagging is the opposite.

 

[mustang1]

I use them the vast majority of the time but I see a human is available, then I go to the human instead because I like a bit of interaction, even a simple hello.

And no, I wouldn't like an AI automated till that talks to me.
Till: hello
Me: hi, how are you, what have you been doing lately?
Till: I am fine, I've just been hanging around here and am always busy.

Everyone uses them because they don't like waiting around. It's a fast life unfortunately. And yes, I also dislike that jobs are taken away but the supermarkets will say that it keeps grocery prices down. Uhm, really? That doesn't seem to be the case really does it.

 

[Drago]

Sitrep - were nearing the end and the sane folk are in the lead, with the self service till lovers right up their behind. It's going to be close.

 

[Mike_P]

Here's an article on the "banana trick". It seems that self-service tills are not as great for the supermarkets as they anticipated.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shop...Oax30evfM4T8tHUJsc7flZ_QffsxBOP2Fpz4bRRaqTLex

That should be resolvable. Sainsbury's have weighing scales that auto detect what fruit/veg it is. Not really tested them but they always know what bananas are.

 

[matticus]

I use them the vast majority of the time but I see a human is available, then I go to the human instead because I like a bit of interaction, even a simple hello.

And no, I wouldn't like an AI automated till that talks to me.
Till: hello
Me: hi, how are you, what have you been doing lately?
Till: I am fine, I've just been hanging around here and am always busy.

Why don't the customers engage in human interaction with each-other while they are using the tills? Surely this is shared responsibility within society - we can't put all the pressure on the till droids/operatives!

 

[Electric_Andy]

That should be resolvable. Sainsbury's have weighing scales that auto detect what fruit/veg it is. Not really tested them but they always know what bananas are.

In Morrison's I buy eggs off the stand which you have to put in half dozen boxes. I scanned the box, and it asked for a quanitity so I enetered 1 (1 box). It wasn't until I got home that I realised it had charged me for 1 egg. So I stole 5 eggs

 

[screenman]

Why don't the customers engage in human interaction with each-other while they are using the tills? Surely this is shared responsibility within society - we can't put all the pressure on the till droids/operatives!

I do, I enjoy talking to most people.

 

[screenman]

In Morrison's I buy eggs off the stand which you have to put in half dozen boxes. I scanned the box, and it asked for a quanitity so I enetered 1 (1 box). It wasn't until I got home that I realised it had charged me for 1 egg. So I stole 5 eggs

How are you going to sleep knowing one of Drago's old pals will be knocking on your door at any time.

 

[Mike_P]

Staff are hawk like in Aldi IME where you have to put in the quantity of say bananas, why on earth can they not be weighed like everywhere else.

 

[Electric_Andy]

How are you going to sleep knowing one of Drago's old pals will be knocking on your door at any time.

I sleep with one eye open

 

[potsy]

I actually stopped going in Aldi after I once unloaded all my shopping onto the conveyor only to be told the till wasn't being opened (even though there was a call out for someone to open it)
I then left the shopping there and walked to Sainsbury's!

Having heard they had installed some of these self checkouts I went for a look, have used them a couple of times now for a small basket shop, wouldn't want to use them for a decent trolley shop though.

Scan as you shop is the only way to go