Ok it was my fault. I decided to goto Superstore at 7pm tonite.
I cannot believe some of the people using the self check out at the busiest time of day.
Follow these rules idiots!!!
- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 50 items in your cart!
- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 5 produce items!
- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 5 bakery items!
- Don't use the self checkout if you are over 50!
- Don't use the self checkout if you cannot read English!
- Don't use the self checkout if you are going to let your kids play with the scanner like a toy!
- Don't use the self checkout if you don't write down your stupid bulk bin numbers!
- Don't use the self checkout if there is some hot chick cashier in the regular aisles. hehe
blah i'm so pissed off. I only needed to buy 2 items.
So if you can't follow these simple rules go stand in line at a regular cashier with your check book handy.
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Apparently superstore is open 24 hours now. My new plan for grocery shopping involves the "late night shift".
I agree with you on the self checkout, but for me, I've gotten annoyed with the reckless shopping cart drivers crashing into my ankles.
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Personally, unless you are a whiz with the self-checkout, I don't think you should use it if you have more than a basket of items.
I seem to always get stuck behind older women with filled carts. I can check myself through in under a minute with a basket full, and most of that time is waiting for the machine to process my payment.
lol twice I've been one of the pricks in the Self Checkout. The first time I basically bought full groceries for a weekend trip and the second time was today I was buying pillows for guests and it took me a while to scan them and then the scale thing kept messing up cause of how light they are.
However both times I was using someone elses credit card so I wasnt to sure of going through the normal till. (With their premission of course)
what stops people from scanning coupons then keeping them, or double scanning the same coupon, or scanning a coupon for an item they didn't even purchase?
i like buying produce at the self-checkout. I'm certain the cashier presses down on weighed items to increase the cost (purposely or inadvertantly)
Don't use the self check out if you have anger issues and as a result are an angry little man.
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Also do not use the self checkout if you are unaware what a bar code is; and if you cannot figure out after 3 items that the bagging area is verifying the weight of your items, you shouldn't be using it.
There's a number of time I see people taking items off the scale to put a full bag in their cart; blissfully unaware that they now have to get the cashier to clear the error. They will usually say something like "stupid machine"- to which 'Evil Ken' usually says the following just barely loud enough to be heard: "Yes, it's the machine that is stupid- not the person who doesn't know how to use it. It should be able to read your mind."
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The Safeway self check-out was brutal last night. Out of four there was two out of order. One of the other ones was occupied by an old lady with a half full cart that was arguing with the attendant on the price of every second item and getting price checks all over the place. The last one had a guy with a full (over the top and crap jammed underneath) cart and he was cautiously inspecting every item before scanning it and then sorting it in what I have to guess what alphabetical order, on the weigh scale thing. I waited in line at a regular till that had three people in it and still made it out before the next in line at the self check-out.
They should have a quick IQ test on the start-up screen of these things. If you fail it would send you to the regular check-outs and your club card would permanently ban you from excersizing your independence at the self check-out.
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Agreed that the self checkout should follow the express lane rules. It really annoys me when a total struggler is playing with one of those things and there is a long line. If you don't know how to use it, fiddle with it when there isn't a long line.
Another thing that gets me is when there's an obvious line, but some dipshlt walks right up and "lines up" closer to on side of the machines and disregards the line in the middle that's there for all four. I have no problem saying something to that person, regardless of gender or age. Usually something to the effect of "hey buddy, didn't your mom ever teach you how a line up works?"
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The Safeway self check-out was brutal last night. Out of four there was two out of order. One of the other ones was occupied by an old lady with a half full cart that was arguing with the attendant on the price of every second item and getting price checks all over the place. The last one had a guy with a full (over the top and crap jammed underneath) cart and he was cautiously inspecting every item before scanning it and then sorting it in what I have to guess what alphabetical order, on the weigh scale thing. I waited in line at a regular till that had three people in it and still made it out before the next in line at the self check-out.
They should have a quick IQ test on the start-up screen of these things. If you fail it would send you to the regular check-outs and your club card would permanently ban you from excersizing your independence at the self check-out.
I guess it is the fault of the stores not to limit the number of items that can be used at the self checkout. They placed them in the locations where the express lanes once were.
what stops people from scanning coupons then keeping them, or double scanning the same coupon, or scanning a coupon for an item they didn't even purchase?
Usually they have an attendant for the self-checkout that watches the items as they pop up on the screen (so that someone doesn't enter a produce item as something much cheaper), or sometimes people accidentally scan something twice and the attendant is actually quite adept at recognizing this and correcting the mistake on their screen.
And at the Loblaws I usually shop at, you physically give the coupon to the attendant.
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