Do you pinch from self service counters?

[hammocity]

13p was 2 and 7

I did say 3 pints, 39 new pence in 1975 was around 8 shillings pre decimalisation.

Edit, yes my post was a bit ambiguous!!

 

[MCFC Wirral]

The latest FIFA game was cheapest in Asda but required a member of staff to leave the shop floor to get it and another to put it through the till for security. Must have been there fifteen minutes.

The self service tills are useful for getting rid of all your change. I had about £4 in low value coins and the lot went in.

 

[hammocity]

It's a cracking ruse, go to supermarket, choose their goods and before you leave do their job for them. We will be making our own pasties in Greggs next.

The Councils do the same, nearly 2k in Council Tax and we have to use 4 different bins, effectively doing their recycling job for them, then the cheeky bastards have the nerve to refuse emptying one of the bins because there’s a plastic bottle in the garden waste.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

It's a cracking ruse, go to supermarket, choose their goods and before you leave do their job for them. We will be making our own pasties in Greggs next.

There’s a bar in the city centre (not sure if it’s still there) where you have to pay a privilege to pour your own pint. I think it’s called “Taps” or something similar.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The Councils do the same, nearly 2k in Council Tax and we have to use 4 different bins, effectively doing their recycling job for them, then the cheeky bastards have the nerve to refuse emptying one of the bins because there’s a plastic bottle in the garden waste.

4?

Rishi Sunak told me 7 bins and it wouldn’t be like this government to lie and talk out of their arse surely.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

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.

My daughter works in a McDonalds, and they were always told to instruct people to use the kiosks, but they got done for discrimination as someone tried to send a blind person to them!

I understand the managers reasoning as it does make things more efficient, but it does risk making the whole experience more intimidating for elderly or disabled people

 

[Worsleyweb]

Is that the game we lost 4-1 (I think) and Steve Lomas broke his leg? If it was that’s a similar tale to ours, our driver insisted we have a break at a pub in London, he then stopped at three service stations and like you we got back home (Ashton) at 5am. My mate was being picked up at 7 for work.

I got home and put the Cricket on TV and opened my last can of cider, Mrs H came down the stairs to go to work and just shook her head, happy days.

i was on that coach - had my Geography A - Level mock exam at 9am.

 

[CTID1988]

The amount of money they made over covid and the amount of money they are saving by using self checkout machines, it would be nice if some of those savings got passed onto us sometimes. Also, why am I being charged for paper bags in some supermarkets?! I thought the whole point of charging was to reduce plastic

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Three pints in 1975 when I bought my first beer, a pint of Oldham Brewery Mild in the Con club where my best mate lived, 13p in “new money”, 8 shillings in real money.

The conversion from LSD (yes really) to Decimal was a strange time and of course business erred on the side of rounding up to their advantage. My Granny was around mid 70’s on D day couldn’t get her head around a shilling becoming 5 “new” pence.

Half penny, penny, threepenny bit, sixpence, shilling, florin, half crown, brown 10 bob note, very green 1 pound note and the blue fiver, we rarely got to see any of the higher denomination notes, 240 pennies in the pound, and the guinea, £1 and 1 shilling, the extra “Bob” being the auctioneers commission on transactions.

Well you live and learn.

 

[abu13]

Absolutely no, can't believe this is even a ting, I would never even dream of it.

I firmly believe that this takes all the skill out of shoplifting.