Self checkout machines

Glenster · 10-05-2017 11:17AM #1

Just saw this story on BBC

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170509-the-unpopular-rise-of-self-checkouts-and-how-to-fix-them

Am I completely in the minority in saying that I much prefer using them, and find them MUCH faster when buying under 20 items.

The only downside is that sometimes you're stuck behind a luddite moron who cant use it.

Kimbot · 10-05-2017 11:19AM

I mainly use these now as they are so handy.

Hector Bellend · 10-05-2017 11:19AM

Like everything else in life.

Great if used properly, nothing is moron proof though

osarusan · 10-05-2017 11:22AM

Annoying when the barcode is creased in some way and won't scan. Staff should be a bit more careful.

Then I take ages because I have to enter it manually, and I know the people behind me are thinking I'm a luddite moron, and idiot, or a dork who can't use it properly.

Conall Cernach · 10-05-2017 11:22AM

Unfortunately about the only thing I buy in shops that have them is alcohol and you have to go to a cashier with that.

maudgonner · 10-05-2017 11:24AM

I prefer them to manned checkouts, rarely have a problem. Great for getting rid of spare change too, as long as there isn't a queue of people behind you waiting for you to shovel in your fistful of 2 cent coins :pac:

osarusan · 10-05-2017 11:25AM

Also, maybe it's just Tesco, but that 'coupon' thing that comes up on screen and is related to rounding somehow is very f**king annoying.

me_irl · 10-05-2017 11:25AM

Handy if you spot some local football team trying to scrape funds together by "helping" at each til.

To the self checkouts I go!

Captain Pleasantry Avoidance wins again.

gramar · 10-05-2017 11:26AM

Every supermarket should have them for people with just a few items.
I hate having to queue behind people with trolley loads when you just have a couple of things.

me_irl · 10-05-2017 11:26AM

gramar wrote: »

Every supermarket should have them for people with just a few items.
I hate having to queue behind people with trolley loads when you just have a couple of things.

"Go on ahead there bud."

Glenster · 10-05-2017 11:27AM

The article says that 93% of people prefer traditional checkouts.

And creates a scenario in which it can say that manned checkouts are faster.

Crazy right?

Ubbquittious · 10-05-2017 11:27AM

Hate the yokes and their annoying English accents

me_irl · 10-05-2017 11:27AM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Hate the yokes and their annoying English accents

It *beeps* with an accent?

Atlantic Dawn · 10-05-2017 11:28AM

They work fine except when you have people with a full trolley wanting to use them, if they are so much of a fan they should drop their CV in for a job. Tesco in Finglas have installed bollards at the entrance to them so trollies can't access them, a great feature, should be added to all stores.

Neighsayer · 10-05-2017 11:28AM

I hate these effing things and I cannot get my head around the store staff who get obviously annoyed when I say no thanks I don't want to use that or learn how to use it I prefer the manual checkout. I know they're instructed to direct people towards these and assist them but some of them take it as a personal affront when you refuse or look at you like you've just come down from the hills. Hey Turkeys, Christmas is coming but you should hardly be in a hurry to get there.

gramar · 10-05-2017 11:29AM

me_irl wrote: »

It *beeps* with an accent?

"unexpected item in the bagging area" :pac:

me_irl · 10-05-2017 11:30AM

gramar wrote: »

"unexpected item in the bagging area" :pac:

Thought that was an Irish accent... Like the female voice on the Luas no?

"Rye-al-toe".

HigginsJ · 10-05-2017 11:33AM

All shops should have them, not having to talk to someone when I am buying my food is great. I hate it when people don't know what they are doing though and won't put their items onto the weigh area once they have scanned them, I want to go and slap them and send them back where they belong. Also people with full trollies of shopping should be banned from them, not for you!!
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Glenster · 10-05-2017 11:33AM

gramar wrote: »

"unexpected item in the bagging area" :pac:

I always thought it was a bit sexy, I'm always like,

"there'll be an unexpected item in your bagging area if you're not careful you minx"

I try not to say it out loud though.

HigginsJ · 10-05-2017 11:34AM

Glenster wrote: »

I always thought it was a bit sexy, I'm always like,

"there'll be an unexpected item in your bagging area if you're not careful you minx"

I try not to say it out loud though.

:pac:

topper75 · 10-05-2017 11:35AM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Hate the yokes and their annoying English accents

The English are gone Bull.

murpho999 · 10-05-2017 11:35AM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Hate the yokes and their annoying English accents

Supervalu has Irish accents.

Tesco are really guilty of the English ones.

TheDoc · 10-05-2017 11:35AM

Use them exclusively outside of the big shop we do where we use a till.

I seem to just have a knack for it. Lightning quick and I'm through the hole thing in the sort of time that it has been a massive change and positive change to shopping for me. Sure annoying when you are in a queue with people who dont know how to use them or doing stupid **** but sure look, I still here people complaining or moaning about paying for plastic bags and that's in nearly a decade.

Anywhere there is an automated/machine based service, I'm using it.

If the cinema could just come up with some self service for food I'll be proper laughing. I use automation so much everywhere, that the cinema sticks out like a soar thumb. The machine for collecting tickets frequently isn't working in my local. Also more often then not we are getting food, and the staff either look to be on a go slow or there is just clearly not enough tills or staff on for what is a peak time. I'd always arrive early knowing this, but something that I figured after years and years they'd have figured a way to make more efficent.

I remember one cinema, I don't know if it was abroad or the one in town. I just paid someone at a till, walked into this room where it was self serve popcorn and drinks and it was a brilliant and fluid experience. There was a till there with the bags of chocolate behind you paid for but everything else you were just in, pickup, out.

me_irl · 10-05-2017 11:35AM

HigginsJ wrote: »

Also people with full trollies of shopping should be banned from them, not for you!! <big bang theory gif that I'm not quoting>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_asp-0lq4

gizmo81 · 10-05-2017 11:35AM

I was in a Spar a while back with them in it which I thought was different.

donegal_man · 10-05-2017 11:36AM

They're great. Get the customer to do the job that would have been done by a cashier thereby reducing staff costs and generating savings which improve the bottom line and will no doubt be passed on to the customer in due course.

Gravelly · 10-05-2017 11:37AM

Glenster wrote: »

Just saw this story on BBC

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170509-the-unpopular-rise-of-self-checkouts-and-how-to-fix-them

Am I completely in the minority in saying that I much prefer using them, and find them MUCH faster when buying under 20 items.

The only downside is that sometimes you're stuck behind a luddite moron who cant use it.

I'm probably that luddite moron in front of you. For some reason I always seem to have a problem with one item, and the staff member always seems to be on a different continent at the time.

ScrubsfanChris · 10-05-2017 11:37AM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Hate the yokes and their annoying English accents

You not encountered the Centra ones? Proper Irish lad voting those ones

Always use them if I have a few items. The most annoying thing though is paying by card, they don't have the "tap to pay" system and its just so slow going through the pin process on those things, much slower than a normal register for some reason.

HigginsJ · 10-05-2017 11:39AM

me_irl wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_asp-0lq4

Ok then.......

Samsgirl · 10-05-2017 11:41AM

One of my bestest discoveries waa that the annoying voice can be muted!! No more arguments in Tesco.

antodeco · 10-05-2017 11:41AM

TheDoc wrote: »

Lightning quick and I'm through the hole

:pac:

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