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  • Pricks who, in a busy supermarket, don't pack items as they scan at a self service till. Big queue forming, people getting pissed off, eyeing up potentially free tills. "Oh, that guy has just paid, must be my turn". Nope, they have to thumb open their plastic bag (which they probably didn't pay for) and lift each item, one by one, a second (third if you count putting it into their basket) time and put it into the bag.

  • Self service tills that constantly require supervisor override codes when you bring your own bags. You may as well just scan it all, pile it up and pack it after you’ve paid.

  • Self service tills. And all the other tech that seeks to stop humans interacting with one another.

  • You may as well just scan it all, pile it up and pack it after you’ve paid.

    1. Just do that
    2. You can keep the bag you're using next/below the scales and every 3-4 items pack them into your bag. The tills don't mind bunches of items being removed once they've been on the scales for a while.
  • I don’t pack until after I’ve paid. Fight me.

  • Makes for more rational bag packing anyway. Place heavy items in one section of the bagging area, lighter / crushable items in another. Heavy items in the bags first, even distribution of weight between bags.

  • Pricks with handbags, at the bottom of which they store their money, credit card or purse. Once everything is scanned and bagged they then start rummaging in the handbag in order to pay.

  • No need for that if you load the trolley or basket correctly in the first place. Then scan the heavy items first (which will have been piled up on one side of the basket/trolley so as to not crush the light stuff during the shop).

    And I've yet to find a self service till that hasn't properly recognised my own bags, or if I've gone without one, had a problem scanning a new bag.

    Segregate the tills, I say. Those who know how to maximise efficiency get their own lane.

    Supermarkets are soul destroying places to be, why would you willingly prolong the time spent in one?

    Scan as you shop is the best thing to happen to supermarket shopping. Bonus points if you pack your stuff on the way round with a thought of how it needs to be put away at home.

  • Also this. And it's usually after they've queued for what is definitely enough time to have worked out where they payment method lives.

    Or people who feck off to get something else when their stuff is dangerously close to the cashier or they're half way through self service check out. If you haven't finished shopping, don't go to the till. If you've forgotten something it can be gone back for after you've checked out (if you're shopping with someone else to watch the stuff) or if solo, it wasn't important enough to remember on the first go round.

  • I yearn for the days of early COVID shopping for reasons only to do with the ease of doing the big shop (all the other covidy stuff can obviously fuck off).

    Go by myself. Scan as you shop. No kid to entertain or partner to drop random shit in the trolley. One way systems in the aisles. Shopping list written with a mind to the direction of travel throughout (after a few weeks of working it out).

    I could easily do the big shop in 10-15 minutes. With the three of us going, and other families knocking about you'd be lucky if it was less than an hour.

  • You sound like fun

  • I have never understood why people take their small kids to the supermarket when they have a partner, seems like unnecessary purgatory. When mine were small one of us would go and one would stay at home with the kids.

  • My kids love the supermarket

  • It was Tears For Fears, I think during Shout

  • An awesome cover version. I’d enjoy seeing them love.

  • Get them tested

  • The supermarket is no place to be fun.

  • Segregate the tills, I say. Those who know how to maximise efficiency get their own lane.

    This please for filling station forecourts. One set of pumps for those who are capable of paying at the pump, and another set for motorists over 50 years old.

  • motorists over 50 years old

    Oi!

  • Explain this then

  • Getting in to work early to get ahead only to get stuff chucked at you so you fall behind. I'm not the quickest atm any way. Not moving from my computer till 3.30 all letters and numbers seemed to blur in to one jumbled mess.

  • I've been stuck behind a number of people who can't get their iTwat payment bracelets to work.

  • At the Pret close to my work today, the payment system would only work if you had a physical card to insert. It was a joy to see the 'phone and watch brigade have to fuck off empty handed.

  • What kind of monster takes a trolley through the self service check out, Jesus Christ if you’re doing that you need to take a long hard look at yourself

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