More Tesco Bargains [No Off-Topic Chat - See Post #1]

Soarer wrote: »

Mahon Point have 2. The one by customer services doesn't seem to work (always says "contact a member of staff"), but the one by the freezers works grand.

We were talking about the scanners that customers can collect as they walk in and go around and scan their shopping themselves- and hand over the scanner and their credit card at the end. We were not talking about the price checkers that are scattered throughout the stores. If you've been in Superquinn, you'll know what we're talking about (they actually were the first in Europe to use them- Motorola designed them to their specifications- and then Sainsburys in the UK hopped on board- and a handful of continental supermarkets (Modelo etc). Of late Tesco have begun to introduce them in their Irish stores- and Musgraves are leveraging Superquinn's expertise in this area to roll-out similar to as many of their stores and franchisees as possible.

If you want to do a lot of price checking as you're doing your shopping, its a great way to do so- without having to wander back and forth to the price-checkers- and your shopping only gets randomly rescanned at the end (frequency of rescans determined by how accurate you are- they don't want you walking out the door with a trolley of stuff without having paid for it either). There is a trust element involved- which tends to work- as its frustrating as hell having to unpack and repack your bags for rescans. Personally I don't use them- because with a 2 year old and a 3 year old- I genuinely have no idea whats in the trolley by the time I get to the checkout- some items I put in, have mysteriously vanished, meanwhile some products I swear I've never seen before in my life- have made their way into the trolley in their stead........