Those Self Service Suprmarket Machines.

Mint Sauce

Just how small change will they take in one transaction? i.e. 1,2,5,10, and 20c pieces. To much hassle counting and bagging it all, then queuing for the 2 or 3 manned desks at the bank, and don't fancy giving some counting machine manufacturer/Centra 9% of it.

I usually go down the bank route, or occasionally to Centra if in rush. What do the rest of the good people of AHs do?

srsly78

They take up to e100 from what I have seen (mostly coppers and a few 10s). Put as much in as you can, and then just move to the next machine, then repeat etc etc. Can't believe people actually pay for this service!

TheBody

I love those machines for getting rid of change. They take quite a bit. I hate having tons on change in my wallet.

Hippies!

I divide it among the 100 or so people who ask me for money every week in town.

Mint Sauce

srsly78 wrote: »

They take up to e100 from what I have seen (mostly coppers and a few 10s). Put as much in as you can, and then just move to the next machine, then repeat etc etc. Can't believe people actually pay for this service!

I did try this at a self service machine at a london train station was, payment was rejected once I reached £20. Have only every put in about a tenner in change in the Tescos machines, although that did contain a few 50c + coins.

28064212

Surely it's less hassle to bag them up than it is to feed hundreds of them into a coin-slot?

Mint Sauce

28064212 wrote: »

Surely it's less hassle to bag them up than it is to feed hundreds of them into a coin-slot?

I have heard though if you put in too many of the one type of coin at once, it will reject.

Mr. Manager

Then just pay for your stuff in segments, no?

Where To

I only spend my money in shpos where I can sleazily rub the smooth fairy steeped hand of yhe lovely smiling cashier.

im invisible

Unexpected Item in Baggage Area!

kneemos

Where To wrote: »

I only spend my money in shpos where I can sleazily rub the smooth fairy steeped hand of yhe lovely smiling cashier.

Your hands are shaking.

hardCopy

28064212 wrote: »

Surely it's less hassle to bag them up than it is to feed hundreds of them into a coin-slot?

The tesco machines use a hopper instead of a coin slot, it's designed to take a handful of change at a time.

antodeco

Whatever you do, dont use photocopies of coins! They dont work

Wattle

That girl who lives inside the machine can be pretty impatient too. 'Please take your items. Please take your items'. All right there love relax the cacks I'm going as fast as I can.

LizT

I just use the self service Tesco checkouts. They have a handy little basket but they're really slow at counting.

Jimoslimos

I know the asda ones in the UK take a fair amount, I usually use them to offload as much change as possible then pay the balance with debit card.

I remember being in Sydney once trying to pay for two train tickets with a load of change. Machines had a 20 coin limit so went up to the counter. Fcuking jobsworth also insisted on only accepting a certain amount of coins. Solution: Went up twice and bought the two tickets as two separate transactions. End result: Wasted time and still handed over the same amount of coins I would have in a single transaction.

jack presley

im invisible wrote: »

Unexpected Item in Baggage Area!

Did you ever place a bag in the baggage area and get that warning? Surely a bag is something you'd expect to find in a bagging area?

Capt'n Midnight

28064212 wrote: »

Surely it's less hassle to bag them up than it is to feed hundreds of them into a coin-slot?

if you think the queues in tesco are bad wait till you go into AIB :eek:

Mint Sauce

Well 15-20 euro worth of coin, had to pay it over 5-6 handfulls. Balance paid with notes. On the plus side, with the notes had over paid by a couple of Euro, change included 50c and €1 pieces, rather than all the shrapnel I paid in.

Giblet

Some woman was using an entire trolley through it in my local dunnes. Was hilarious when she couldn't fit more in the bagging area. Has a sign saying no trolleys as well!

murpho999

I hate that people don't put bags on first and bag items as they scan.

So they scan first, which takes ages. Then pay and then bag the stuff.

Taco Corp

Whatever you do, don't just feck it all into the machine in one go. Learnt that the hard way.

Mint Sauce

murpho999 wrote: »

I hate that people don't put bags on first and bag items as they scan.

So they scan first, which takes ages. Then pay and then bag the stuff.

Because the tescos ones will say unexpected item in bagging area.

I scan the first item, place it in the bag, and place the open bag in the bagging area. The sensors will simply think this is your first item, then place each item straight into bag after scanning.

Might only save a minute or two, but if everyone done that it would speed everything up, and stop people trying to use the machine before you have finished, or even started bagging.

Kxiii

Why don't we get a discount for using those machines. Considering we're doing some work for them we should get paid.

Next they'll want us to go out to the stockroom and get the shopping from there save on shelf stackers.

murpho999

irish-stew wrote: »

Because the tescos ones will say unexpected item in bagging area.

I scan the first item, place it in the bag, and place the open bag in the bagging area. The sensors will simply think this is your first item, then place each item straight into bag after scanning.

Might only save a minute or two, but if everyone done that it would speed everything up, and stop people trying to use the machine before you have finished, or even started bagging.

Well I know in Superquinn it will ask if you have own bag/box. Tought Tesco did too.

People still don't pack first.

murpho999

Kxiii wrote: »

Why don't we get a discount for using those machines. Considering we're doing some work for them we should get paid.

Next they'll want us to go out to the stockroom and get the shopping from there save on shelf stackers.

Because the machines cost a lot of money and are there for your convenience.

You don't have to use them if you don't want to.

i love em for getting rid of my change i did my shopping with like 70 euro in . 1,2,5,10 & 20 was there awhile throwing it in but hey its money

Chuck Stone

Kxiii wrote: »

Why don't we get a discount for using those machines.

In the future we'll be helping unload the trucks and stack the shelves before we can take our shopping to the automated checkout.

Ghandee

Just weigh everything as onions.

176€ worth of shopping, including all your meat and baby food etc comes in at around €3.54 (allegedly)

Take that Tesco!:pac:



NB please don't do the above as robbing is bad mmmmkay?

ninebeanrows

Ghandee wrote: »

Just weigh everything as onions.

176€ worth of shopping, including all your meat and baby food etc comes in at around €3.54 (allegedly)

Take that Tesco!:pac:



NB please don't do the above as robbing is bad mmmmkay?

broccoli!

Ghandee

Weathercheck wrote: »

broccoli!

Broccoli per kilo is waaaaaaay more expensive than onions though.

phasers

I got 20 quid worth of shopping with coppers before, I went at like 11pm so I wouldn't hold up the queue though cos I hate when auld wans go to self service checkouts and take eons to buy a long pan

Ghandee

phasers wrote: »

I got 20 quid worth of shopping with coppers before, I went at like 11pm so I wouldn't hold up the queue though cos I hate when auld wans go to self service checkouts and take eons to buy a long pan

I hate that too....

Fcukers should bring euros to pay for them like the rest of us.:mad:

thomasj

murpho999 wrote: »

Well I know in Superquinn it will ask if you have own bag/box. Tought Tesco did too.

People still don't pack first.

Anyone ever get tiny electric shocks when touching the screens on the superquinn self service. I used to get it a few times that i stopped using them for a while. I have no problems with them now though.

Mint Sauce

murpho999 wrote: »

Well I know in Superquinn it will ask if you have own bag/box. Tought Tesco did too.

People still don't pack first.

They do, but anytime I tried it, it still came up unexpected item.

LizT

[QUOTE=phasers;82481496]I got 20 quid worth of shopping with coppers before, I went at like 11pm so I wouldn't hold up the queue though cos I hate when auld wans go to self service checkouts and take eons to buy a long pan[/QUOTE]

Totally read that as in Coppers and thought "Jesus, they're diversifying"

Pottler

murpho999 wrote: »

Because the machines cost a lot of money and are there for your convenience.

You don't have to use them if you don't want to.

As opposed to saving a load of wages and cutting down staff numbers? I'd say "my convenience" is not too far up the list of any supermarkets priorities. I used to find a nice human cashier waay more convenient, tbh. If they ever invent a shelf stacking robot, it'll be in there like a shot, probably also for "my convenience". If things keep getting so "convenient", there'll be even less jobs to go around, but sure think how "convenient" it will be..

B.A._Baracus

A few months ago I carried just under 40 euro in change to a local tesco express. Was at the self-service machine for good bit putting it all in :P (The machines can only take a certain amount of coins then the green light goes off as it counts them. You have to give it a few seconds, light comes back on and proceed to feed it more) But the store was empty. So it was grand.

I can only imagine the moans out of people in the que if you did it when it's busy.

Corruptedmorals

Pottler wrote: »

As opposed to saving a load of wages and cutting down staff numbers? I'd say "my convenience" is not too far up the list of any supermarkets priorities. I used to find a nice human cashier waay more convenient, tbh. If they ever invent a shelf stacking robot, it'll be in there like a shot, probably also for "my convenience". If things keep getting so "convenient", there'll be even less jobs to go around, but sure think how "convenient" it will be..

Yup, the Dunnes in town that has them ripped out 3 checkouts and put in 4 self service in about 2008. The machines paid for themselves ages ago, and that's years of wages saved when checkout staff who left weren't replaced.

murpho999

Pottler wrote: »

As opposed to saving a load of wages and cutting down staff numbers? I'd say "my convenience" is not too far up the list of any supermarkets priorities. I used to find a nice human cashier waay more convenient, tbh. If they ever invent a shelf stacking robot, it'll be in there like a shot, probably also for "my convenience". If things keep getting so "convenient", there'll be even less jobs to go around, but sure think how "convenient" it will be..

Of course it saves staff.

But it's still a choice and you can still go to a human cashier, so I don't see your point.

I personally prefer the self service when I have a few items.

The one time I tried to offload some coppers into a self-service machine in Tesco, I clogged it up. I've been reluctant to try since.

Lyaiera

I'm waiting for the day they have charity scanners and packers at the self-service machines.

Pottler

murpho999 wrote: »

Of course it saves staff.

But it's still a choice and you can still go to a human cashier, so I don't see your point.

I personally prefer the self service when I have a few items.

I'll reserve judgement for a few years. When there's no more cashiers and only self service machines, I'll get back to you on that. Good luck to anyone who used to work as a cashier, I'm sure they'll easily get another job.

Gotta love "progress". We're rapidly progressing ourselves out of work. I don't think the "rise of the machines" we need to fear has anything got to do with terminators, more likly just self-service machines and assembly robots.

For example,a supermarket of the future will have 1 or 2 operatives that wheel out "ready to display" pallets of stock for us to take to a self service checkout. Problem is, so many people will be unemployed, almost no-one will be able to afford the shopping. Fantasy? Wanna bet??

Grass between the tracks

I'm waiting for the day they have charity scanners and packers at the self-service machines.

That is the day I kill myself.

Grass between the tracks

But it's still a choice and you can still go to a human cashier, so I don't see your point.

There are times when that is not an option.

Pottler

The ba5tards do have one achilles heel though : "Approval needed"



sadly, they'll fix that with biometrics soon enough... :-(

EoghanIRL

The super value ones are terrible , they never work properly .

Grass between the tracks

They have these in super valu? Christ the auld wans must be livid.

SweetCaliber

My tesco has 2 self service ones and then 2 other self service ones but they have belts on them so they are designed for a full shop.

pawrick

Stopped shopping at my local tesco after they got in those machines, the tills they already had were the "express" type which are too narrow for anything other then a few items and I hate the automated tills too as I see it as an inconvenience especially when something goes wrong with them.

JupiterKid

Are posters in this thread not mixing up the coins for cash machines in supermarkets and the self- service checkouts?

I use the latter for a couple of items but always a human cashier for a larger shop. Supermarkets can't make all their checkouts self service. I also notice that Lidl doesn't have any of them.