howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#2
Makes me feel a bit naive to be honest. Its never crossed my mind to try and steal anything from a supermarket.
Thats really shocked me, thinking about it, when you look at some of the people strutting self importantly back to their car, and they may well be shoplifters. Who should probably be called thieves.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
i am against the check outs altogether and if forced to use one i just pretend i don't know how to use one and a member of staff does it for me. the big stores are just trying to cut staff without any benefit to the customers.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
I have tried using the self service tills a couple of times but found they were awkward to use and only marginally quicker all depending how busy the store is, by going to the usual checkouts I can chat to those manning the till while I am putting the shopping in my bag.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,037
#5
I hate the blessed things. I have only used them about half a dozen times (reluctantly) and every time I have used them, I've needed assistance as the damn things haven't worked properly. I'm not saying some of those haven't been user error but - agggghhhhh!!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#6
Even celebrities do it. Anthony Worrall Thompson was caught and prosecuted a couple of years ago for nicking food from Tesco.
And there was a rumour that Nigella was seen smuggling two melons out of Waitrose.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
i didn't they prosecuted him, just banned him.
difficult for the stores to catch the culprits as there is usually just one staff member covering 4 check outs and even then it is more or less impossible whether everything has been scanned properly.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
They make it so easy to nick the goods,all because to cut back on staff, so let them get on with it,or take staff back on full-time.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#9
Peter #6. They weren't melons - similar size maybe.
Roger
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#10
I think they was a pair of baps.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
#11
Now, now boys, you will have us ladies making jokes about your plums soon!
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
#12
I can't help but agree with Vic.
I've never stolen anything in my life, I would regard myself as a fairly honest person but these self service tills constantly make me wonder how supermarkets can be scammed, in response to the way that they constantly scam the consumer. As part of my curiosity, I can honestly say that the weight tolerance on salad boxes in Morrisons is up for potential exploitation. Some may treat it as their own inverted version of the deception that is 'the BOGOF'
As I say I would never do such a thing, but when such large organisations do as they wish (to town and countryside) under the claim of offering jobs, I can't help but think that they breed such dishonesty. I try not to use self service tills wherever possible.
I'm sure some would suggest that self service tills help reduce the cost to the consumer, but this is just as big a lie as competition between energy companies - just look at the price match promises of the major supermarkets. The bottom line being that most things in supermarkets are overpriced in the first place.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
spot on daz, they deserve to be ripped off.
the one at whitfield is a prime example, i can never see why people spend money on petrol/bus fares when they can buy most of what they want in the town centre and save money at the same time.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
#14
It's convenience Howard, doing all your shopping in one place!
No one ever points out that the linear distance around the average supermarket probably exceeds that of the average highstreet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#16
Tesco's only has about 6 compared with many more manned tills, when they've got money in they're well used.
If you avoid buying items that need weighing (loose veg, etc) then they're simple to use.
Not sure about all those "click and collect" tills, there's never anybody using those.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#17
Another day brings a new achievement, just back from Asda, scanned 5 items, fed my money in and got change plus a till receipt and all without calling a member of staff over to help.
Ready for my next challenge now.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,948
#19
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Another day brings a new achievement, just back from Asda, scanned 5 items, fed my money in and got change plus a till receipt and all without calling a member of staff over to help.
Ready for my next challenge now.
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