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Dunnes oul ones on the tills

  • 08-02-2018 6:12pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭


    Do be lovin the chats amongst themselves when the queues do be long. Sure what else would they be doing


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Do be do be do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭pudzey101


    thats what self service machines where put there for


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    To be fair to the oul ones, they've taught the young ones well and they're almost as proficient at the chats among themselves. A lot of them also seem to have perfected the "Dunnes scowl", which is again great testimony to the training provided to them by the oul ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    thats what self service machines where put there for
    The self-service machines in Dunnes are worse.

    "Please remove your items!" after about 5 seconds.
    Yeah, give me a minute, will ya? At least the Tesco ones give you a chance to actually get your stuff without hassling you...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭nails1


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    thats what self service machines where put there for

    The do be the worst. There’s usually two of the machine supervisors having the chats a few feet away. I do have to holler at least three times to get their attention and have me fiver off voucher validated


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    I left Dunnes just about the time you posted this thread and I stood for ages while the aul one on the till chatted to the aul one and young one who were finished for the night but doing their shopping at the end of their shift. I don't want to have to wait for you to finish bitching about your shifts before you scan my sh*t through thanks.

    Marks and Spencers are the worst though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭rgodard80a


    All those low education jobs will be lost soon enough.

    Amazon are rolling out no cashier stores in the US as a trial.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-go-store-no-cashiers-checkout-lines-seattle

    So all the primary school level jobs will be going soon, cashiers, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, forum moderators.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Supervalu is worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Aldi / Lidl for the win.

    Plus people let you skip ahead if you're only getting one or two things and these are the only supermarkets I've ever seen that in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    nails1 wrote: »
    Do be lovin the chats amongst themselves when the queues do be long. Sure what else would they be doing
    In English, please.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Who the hell shops in dunnes? Tescos all the way here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    thats what self service machines where put there for

    Neither Dunnes near me have self service. No way to escape the goss....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,242 ✭✭✭duffman13


    Who the hell shops in dunnes? Tescos all the way here.

    The two Tescos nearest me are **** holes. All the staff need a good power housing and some retraining. Aldi for the win, M&S are awful too. It's possibly a union thing as Dunnes, Tesco and M&S are heavily unionised or it could be just poor management


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Fcuking peasants
    The lot of ye.

    I insist my domestic staff only shop in M&S.
    Mortified for you all.

    What even is an Aldi?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Agree that Aldi is the biz. Cashiers are polite but focus on getting the stuff through the scanner as quickly as possible.

    And they have REFUSED to install self service tills because they listen to their customers. I really hate ss tills. Hate them with a passion. I'd prefer a scowl from an oul one than a disembodied voice giving out to me in front of everyone. So I will not use them anywhere, and if they are the only option I walk out. Well it's my decision.

    Was horrified recently to discover that Lidl have....... ss tills, what fresh hell is this! They won't be getting my custom now, it is just too much hassle. They will only open the Human tills when there is someone with a groaning trolley waiting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭NollagShona


    Thinly veiled "I have money thread"

    /Waits for Lidl to reduce their cheap stuff to cheaper...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    Aldi staff get their scan times posted on the staff notice board, that's why they can't chat!

    Plus they don't start scanning until they are ready,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,242 ✭✭✭duffman13


    lazeedaisy wrote: »
    Aldi staff get their scan times posted on the staff notice board, that's why they can't chat!

    Plus they don't start scanning until they are ready,

    The staff in local Aldi are very friendly, they speak to me as opposed to shouting over me to their co-workers about how they cant wait to finish for the weekend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    duffman13 wrote: »
    The staff in local Aldi are very friendly, they speak to me as opposed to shouting over me to their co-workers about how they cant wait to finish for the weekend.

    I honestly have no connections with Aldi, but I agree the staff are polite and friendly, but focus on their job which is to scan the stuff through asap.

    The other supermarkets are pants in comparison.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Who the hell shops in dunnes? Tescos all the way here.

    Dunnes do vouchers tesco don't.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    At least they use words unlike this one

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    tskk


    I was in Dunnes in a rough part of Dublin the other day and yer wan while handing me my receipt was fairly audible in saying

    "Ah jaysus, I hate this f*cker that's next in the queue, I can't f*cking stand him"

    He heard every word while putting his stuff on the belt.

    It was hilarious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    ziggy wrote: »
    Anybody ever been in Walmart in the states??

    F**k me, that is slow!! :eek::eek:

    I'm convinced they're sedated at their till. Even their faces look like they're melting


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Dakota Dan wrote:
    Dunnes do vouchers tesco don't.


    Tesco accepts Dunnes vouchers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Do you talk in work? Well then shut up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Marks and spencer more interested in talking sheee ite in an attempt to seem friendly than actually getting though the queue efficiently. Presume management agree cuz it’s likely that in every one of their stores I have been in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    duffman13 wrote: »
    The staff in local Aldi are very friendly, they speak to me as opposed to shouting over me to their co-workers about how they cant wait to finish for the weekend.

    Agree with this. My local Aldi has also hired a couple of girls that manage to look very attractive even in their Aldi uniform. I can only imagine they are stunners in real life.

    Aldi all the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I don't know about M&S, I'm not that often I there and the one I go to is empty most of the time so there isn't much of a problem. However Dunnes are absolutely awful. I made a mistake of going to one on Friday with a small child. I was stuck in the queue for about 25 minutes while the shop assistants scanned things at glacial pace and customers spent about 30 seconds per item contemplating into which bag should they put it. By the end I was ready to abandon the trolley and my son in the store (he was slightly testing till he was three :D). And that is after I spent 20 minutes looking for chillies and then realised they don't stock them because they don't go with Sunday roast.

    Anyway for me the local Aldi is by far the best, better than Lidl but that could depend on the store. Tesco has less annoying customers but staff isn't much better. I usually go to self service cashiers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Lidl and Aldi are the best for not messing about, but it can be painful if you're only picking up a few small items, not everyone has the grace to let you go ahead of their trolley for a family of 6 unfortunately.

    Dunnes though have the art of the aul' wan chat down to a fine art. The amount of times I've been buying stuff in my local one and a good 30 seconds lapses between my arrival and any sort of acknowledgement that I'm even there because they're in the middle of talking about something non-work related. "Sure I was supposed to have my lunch half an hour ago...yeah, I know...yeah, yeah, arra yeah....will Mary come down and cover me maybe and we'll go then....did you get that thing you were on about earlier....ah, yeah, yeah, that's great...oh I will yeah, that's on Friday isn't it"

    Doesn't happen in Tesco, Lidl, Aldi at all...or even with younger staff in Dunnes. I mean obviously all staff chat in between customers, or with customers themselves, or say stuff in passing, all that's totally normal....but no idea why it's such an older Dunne's staff thing to actually refuse to let a customer interrupt your conversation.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,998 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Do you talk in work? Well then shut up

    I do but not when I'm with customers, it's common courtesy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    All Supermarket workers are Gods! From the till's to the deli to the stores. Even the feckin delivery drivers are gods. Where would we be without these brilliant people that work for crap wages. I started out in a supermarket for 1 fookin pound 33 pence an hour. I appreciate them all, be they from Ireland, Poland, Latvia or wherever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,810 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    When I saw the thread name, Dunnes oul ones on the tills, I thought Margaret herself was doing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Ursummupet


    Water John wrote: »
    When I saw the thread name, Dunnes oul ones on the tills, I thought Margaret herself was doing it.

    I thought it was a new porn film. Irish style.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,810 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The shopper rings twice!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Ursummupet


    Water John wrote: »
    The shopper rings twice!!

    A reminder to all customers our new and exclusive vibrator range can be tried and tested at the checkout with a till registrar of your choice for free today.Available in store.
    Frig Em Friday, because we care.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,875 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Sky King wrote: »
    Aldi / Lidl for the win.

    Plus people let you skip ahead if you're only getting one or two things and these are the only supermarkets I've ever seen that in

    It's like there is this Aldi/Lidl code! I love it. I always make sure to let people by and I'm always let by if I've only got a few bits.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Feisar wrote: »
    It's like there is this Aldi/Lidl code! I love it. I always make sure to let people by and I'm always let by if I've only got a few bits.

    Yep, never fails. It's a secret code of conduct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Tesco accepts Dunnes vouchers.

    But you have to shop in Dunnes to get the vouchers.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Tesco accepts Dunnes vouchers.

    They do, but if you don't shop in Dunnes you won't get the vouchers from them to use in Tesco.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭cbreeze


    In my local supervalu a couple of years ago the cashier was chatting on her mobile phone while I was left waiting. I left the stuff there and walked out. Their customer awareness has improved since, though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Visconti


    Feisar wrote: »
    It's like there is this Aldi/Lidl code! I love it. I always make sure to let people by and I'm always let by if I've only got a few bits.

    Happens in Dublin a lot but not always. Almost never happens in Meath or Kildare . The girls on the tills in Aldi and Lidl are usually nice but the guys seem happy to shout to each other in their own language (very bad manners) especially in a foreign language as they could be talking about the customer.
    I found one instance quite annoying in Lidl. It was the time they had the stickies or whatever they were called, my daughter was collecting them. The guy in front of me got a huge handful of them for spending about €5 as he was chatting to the cashier in their own language. I was a few cents short of the €20 or whatever you needed to spend to get one and he would not give it. I mentioned the fact that he had given a handful to the previous customer and he repeated I needed to spend €20 and started to serve the next customer.
    I really should have complained but could not be bothered its bad form though in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,810 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I would say, in fairness, have not come across the poor service, being mentioned here, in a range of shops around Cork. Aldi/Lidl are my favourities though. Everything seem less uptight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    The self-service machines in Dunnes are worse.

    "Please remove your items!" after about 5 seconds.
    Yeah, give me a minute, will ya? At least the Tesco ones give you a chance to actually get your stuff without hassling you...

    First button you press on screen.....

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Sky King wrote: »
    Aldi / Lidl for the win.

    Plus people let you skip ahead if you're only getting one or two things and these are the only supermarkets I've ever seen that in
    And the old trick of sticking some bananas at the end so you have a chance to get your items bagged and payment ready while they are weighing them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Dakota Dan wrote:
    But you have to shop in Dunnes to get the vouchers.


    Dunnes voucher in the Indo Sunday or the previous Sunday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Sky King wrote: »
    Aldi / Lidl for the win.

    Plus people let you skip ahead if you're only getting one or two things and these are the only supermarkets I've ever seen that in

    I was in Lidl yesterday and it was a disaster. There were about 15 people in each of the two queues. I don't know why they put in 8 check outs when only two are ever open. Most people are buying a handful of items. If there was ever a supermarket that cried out for self service tills it was this one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Sky King wrote: »
    Aldi / Lidl for the win.

    Plus people let you skip ahead if you're only getting one or two things and these are the only supermarkets I've ever seen that in

    Really? I’ve seen that happen in any supermarket chain I’ve shopped in. And convenience shops too. Very common occurrence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    duffman13 wrote: »
    The two Tescos nearest me are **** holes. All the staff need a good power housing and some retraining. Aldi for the win, M&S are awful too. It's possibly a union thing as Dunnes, Tesco and M&S are heavily unionised or it could be just poor management

    This reminds why my summer working in Tesco whilst in college was hell. Customers regularly had barely-concealed comtempt for staff, often right from the off. Fun times. People really hate Tesco in this country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,998 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    This reminds why my summer working in Tesco whilst in college was hell. Customers regularly had barely-concealed comtempt for staff, often right from the off. Fun times. People really hate Tesco in this country.

    I like tesco, find the staff are more helpful that the Dunnes ones. But lidl/aldi are miles ahead


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    This reminds why my summer working in Tesco whilst in college was hell. Customers regularly had barely-concealed comtempt for staff, often right from the off. Fun times. People really hate Tesco in this country.

    I used to work in tech support for one of the larger ISPs in the country. People would ring up already angry at you, vent at you for about 10 minutes at 95c per minute and not really want to get their problem sorted, just to aire their contempt.

    I don't mind the till jockeys chatting in supermarkets, they normally are great at including you into the natter as well.


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