Supermarket improvements

CJ Haughey

Crazy experience in Tesco earlier made me wonder should they introduce some improvements, put in lanes, yield, roundabouts or even fly overs what ever it takes.
Make the trolley wheels only push in forward direction, cut out this walking backwards nonsence which blocks up the isles. Be made walk around again if you miss you product.
Issue fines for people who stop talking trash to one another while blocking up isles. Dangerous trolley driving while your kids are hanging off the side of it. What other developments can be made to make the supermarket a safer happy place.

PandaPoo

You can't say you had a crazy experience and not tell us what it was...

donvito99

It's a good thing you're no longer in power Charlie. Senility setting in now.

kneemos

Clamping.

pablo128

I bought my missus a car. Now I don't have to go through that type of crap anymore. She potters off to the supermarket with her mother.

Eutow

Boot everybody out of the shop, except the workers obviously, when I want to shop there.

The Th!ng

Trap doors over pits filled with spikes. If your trolley is greater than a certain weight it triggers the trap door.

the evasion_kid

A laser that reduces women who pay their shopping bill in loose change to dust

PandaPoo

the evasion_kid wrote: »

A laser that reduces women who pay their shopping bill in loose change to dust

What does it do to the men?

kneemos

PandaPoo wrote: »

What does it do to the men?

Rewards them with a free six pack.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!

Secret hotline where I can make a quick call to let them know im on my way. They clear the whole supermarket of people, and I can shop in peace!

EoghanIRL

Eradicate "unexpected item in bagging area".

Shannon757

They should bring in the Garda Trolley Corp

lazybones32

If Irish people can't obey the rules of the road, what makes you think they will obey/comply with supermarket rules/etiquette?


Putting on your hazards negates double-yellow lines...

Karl Stein

Have your money/card ready you ****wits - you're not going to get an opportunity to haggle and reject the deal.

CJ Haughey

At a very minimum people should shop as they are driving, drive/push trolley on the left hand side of the isle. When exiting the end of an isle stop and look and give way to oncoming shoppers to your left and right.

Smidge

Shannon757 wrote: »

They should bring in the Garda Trolley Corp

Quiet you, you're giving them fecking ideas :mad:

DoYouEvenLift

There's online shopping nowadays

eternal

The worst is when the people who weirdly buy the same stuff as you and get to the shelves/areas first and clog up the whole place humming and hawing over nothing. You're either buying the bananas or you're not arsehole.

Shannon757

Sure 'ave you seen the roadworks in the bread ailse

buried

The Shopping trolley is a highly ignored, underrated gadget of the supermarket retail world. Put some sort of digital interface screen gadget onto each trolley, give the customers their own digital 'loyalty card' or whatever to plug into the trolley interface screen, that loyalty card then turns the interface into the shoppers personal shopping guide for the store, informing the shopper what deals or what products they may like given the shoppers previous buying history. Put a self service barcode scanner on the shopping trolley interface to scan your entire shop and see what the actual bill is while you shop, put an extra credit card slot into the interface so you can pay for your groceries as you go about the place so you can quickly get the hell out of the place too.

Karl Stein

A good Turk always walks to the right.

Atlantic Dawn

People who bring a full trolley in to the self scan tills should hand their CV in to apply for a job on the checkouts.

CJ Haughey

buried wrote: »

Put a self service barcode scanner on the shopping trolley interface to scan your entire shop and see what the actual bill is while you shop, put an extra credit card slot into the interface so you can pay for your groceries as you go about the place so you can quickly get the hell out of the place too.

That already exists, have not seen it here though yet.

http://www.tesco.com/scan-as-you-shop/

conorh91

buried wrote: »

Put a self service barcode scanner on the shopping trolley interface to scan your entire shop and see what the actual bill is while you shop

Great idea, but I'm not sure the supermarkets would see a benefit.

People would become more price-conscious. When I'm paying for groceries, I'm often surprised by how my groceries are more expensive than I would have estimated.

If I were seeing the bill tot up as I moved around, I'd be less likely to purchases impulse products, especially alcohol, or items nearest the checkout.

Shannon757

CJ Haughey wrote: »

That already exists, have not seen it here though yet.

http://www.tesco.com/scan-as-you-shop/

Didn't they used to have them in Superquinn?

frankoreagan

Some sort of signal that shows the discount, almost out of date section is occupied, so I don't have to share the embarrassment of being **** poor with someone else.

CJ Haughey

Shannon757 wrote: »

Didn't they used to have them in Superquinn?

I dont know, never shopped in Superquinn. Did they discontinue them you think?

COYVB

I love going to the supermarket, but I'll only do it at strange hours where I can wander around at the dead of my ease. I'm a 31 year old man and I spend more time in the toy sections and looking at movies than I do actually doing the groceries

Lingua Franca

CJ Haughey wrote: »

I dont know, never shopped in Superquinn. Did they discontinue them you think?

They have those handheld scanners in most of the larger branches of Albert Heijn (Dutch Tescos) here in the Netherlands. I'm a big fan of them, I like scanning and packing as I go and then not having to queue, unload, repack, talk to other members of my species etc.

Lingua Franca

conorh91 wrote: »

Great idea, but I'm not sure the supermarkets would see a benefit.

Intitial purchase price + maintenance + customers watching what they buy versus paying human beings to do a job the customers can do by themselves.

If they could phase out the staff, with all their greedy national insurance, pensions, holiday pay and bonus scheme demands altogether, they'd be much happier.

syngindub

no conversation during checkout. zero tollerance

HeidiHeidi

CJ Haughey wrote: »

I dont know, never shopped in Superquinn. Did they discontinue them you think?

If it's the handheld scanners you're on about, they still have them in the Supervalue (ex SQ) that I use.

Like most things, they're good when they work.

But the system is apparently programmed to randomly put things through a re-scan (presumably so your back isn't 3/4 full of stuff you haven't scanned).

I was recently in a tearing hurry, had my bag packed and ready to go, went to Superscan checkout, it wanted a re-scan. Sent to another till, where some worker had fainted or collapsed or something (he was fine in the end) so there's about 10 people looking at him and nobody scanning anythng. Went to another till where they were actually dealing with customers and queued up (for a 3rd time), the man ahead of me decided to have a full-blown debate about some cake he'd bought, an assistant was found to saunter back to the cake section to compare, he sauntered back and the debate continued. By this stage I'd nearly had a stroke with annoyance.

I hate Supervalu.
Come back Feargal Quinn, all is forgiven :mad:



tl;dr - handheld scanners are not necessarily the golden ticket to speedy shopping

Desolation Of Smug

Micro RFID chips on everything, wander in, pack your bag as you go, wander to pay-point and pop in your card. Probably wouldn't work though, loose fruit and veg would be the stumbler..people would end up eating the chips.

Rackstar

CJ Haughey wrote: »

I dont know, never shopped in Superquinn. Did they discontinue them you think?

Some super valus still have them. Balinteer does

Pumpkinseeds

Supermarket fcukwittery brings out the red mist. I don't trust myself with the trolley when we do the weekly shopping, so Mr Pumpkinseeds pushes it. It's just so tempting to mow some fcukwit down with it.

Aongus Von Bismarck

While I tend to buy my cheese and charcuterie from a specialist deli, I've sometimes been forced to pick them up from a supermarket. They wrap the cheese in cellophane. It completely destroys both the taste and mouthfeel of the cheese.

When I was back in Ireland for Christmas I decided I'd prepare a cheeseboard as the dessert for a meal I was making. A selection of Irish cheeses. I went to the local Supervalu. All the cheeses wrapped in cellophane. The course was a disaster as a result. If they don't know how to store and condition the cheeses they carry then they shouldn't bother. Stick to selling easi singles and grated cheddar.

tomwaterford

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

While I tend to buy my cheese and charcuterie from a specialist deli, I've sometimes been forced to pick them up from a supermarket. They wrap the cheese in cellophane. It completely destroys both the taste and mouthfeel of the cheese.

When I was back in Ireland for Christmas I decided I'd prepare a cheeseboard as the dessert for a meal I was making. A selection of Irish cheeses. I went to the local Supervalu. All the cheeses wrapped in cellophane. The course was a disaster as a result. If they don't know how to store and condition the cheeses they carry then they shouldn't bother. Stick to selling easi singles and grated cheddar.

Is cheese not essentially eating a lump of fat???

Ed_Stephens

Simple, ban children. My local Aldi is now opening till 10pm every night so I think Monday at 9.30 could be my new shopping slot.

cloud493

Well maybe if people weren't so moronic when I'm trying to deal with 4 different people on a checkout at once, I would be a better worker.