Do you pinch from self service counters?

[Nethermoor]

Firstly, yes I've stolen a few bits from Asda but genuinely by accident. At least once.

We use the scan and go devices and if there's two of you or in my case sometimes three, you can quite easily forget to scan something. Which my daughter did. So is she technically the thief? She was 7 at the time.

Anyway, the second point. As if people genuinely believe that self serve machines put people out of jobs :D Supermarkets haven't laid people off because of the machines.... they simply just move people to somewhere else. They do uber eats, deliveroo orders. Online orders for collection etc too. It's just the way things evolve.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I always use self checkout and the self scanners where possible.

Can’t be arsed with Doreen on the tills grilling me about the differences between value and Taste the Difference tomatoes or asking me how my day’s going.

I think it’s a generational thing. FOCs like to use the tills and fiddle with paper money when they do their “big shop” on pension day.

Fuck getting stuck behind that in the queue.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Mrs Ewing doesn't take a sweetener in her coffee but I always think I'm entitled to two sweeteners even though we only use one!

 

[East Level 2]

Yes
Buying items such as loose bread rolls at Sainsbury's I'd always chuck a more expensive item in the bag, saving 40p or so

Doesn't sound much of a saving until you realise 40p is eight shillings in real money.

 

[Stephen230]

Firstly, yes I've stolen a few bits from Asda but genuinely by accident. At least once.

We use the scan and go devices and if there's two of you or in my case sometimes three, you can quite easily forget to scan something. Which my daughter did. So is she technically the thief? She was 7 at the time.

Anyway, the second point. As if people genuinely believe that self serve machines put people out of jobs :D Supermarkets haven't laid people off because of the machines.... they simply just move people to somewhere else. They do uber eats, deliveroo orders. Online orders for collection etc too. It's just the way things evolve.

The turnover of staff is so high at supermarkets that they probably don’t need to actually lay anyone off. But I’d be very surprised if they don’t employ less staff than they used to, pre self service.

I was talking to a girl who works at the Morrisons right outside the MRI a while ago. I noticed she was taking the basket of people who approached the till. Carrying it over to the self service and running the items through for them. I asked her, surely it would be quicker just to serve them at the till? She said the managers go through the transactions and if they’ve served people at the till who didn’t buy cigarettes or lottery, they had to explain themselves, why they didn’t direct them to self service.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I always use self checkout and the self scanners where possible.

Can’t be arsed with Doreen on the tills grilling me about the differences between value and Taste the Difference tomatoes or asking me how my day’s going.

I think it’s a generational thing. FOCs like to use the tills and fiddle with paper money when they do their “big shop” on pension day.

Fuck getting stuck behind that in the queue.

Nay, lad! FOCs from CBL3 like my good self know which shops have the best checkouts and which don't. Rarely use money in supermarkets.

Warning: the Asda self service tills at Kingsway Retail Park have a specific secret protocol which some people may have found by pure chance. I rarely get two items past the fuckin' robot before the whole fuckin' machine is flashing and it's down to Store Log-in. The Co-op in Littleborough is faultless, as is M&S in Rochdale.

 

[BimboBob]

Sexist.
How many men are on those tills?

42?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Doesn't sound much of a saving until you realise 40p is eight shillings in real money.

And eight shillings would have got yer TWENTY FOUR PORTIONS of chips at any chip shop!

 

[MCFC Wirral]

If I’ve a basket shop at Asda then I’ve no choice but use self-service tills which I’m fine with. I’ve never knowingly stolen in my life.

The most me thing I’ve ever done in my life is apologise to a smack head selling stolen meat in the pub by saying “No thank you. I’m a vegetarian.”

 

[Cityfan]

I don't steal things but like self service when the queues are long and I've only got a small number of things.
Greatly speeded up my getting a couple of rolls and milk in my local CO op.