Anyone notice the new Creepy intimidating cameras in Aldi Kings meadow cork road, they are huge self facing cameras at the serve yourself they are a few iches from your face, surely a data protection privacy breach.
My local Dunnes had a struggle to stop customers trying to use the self service till with trolleys. There's a sign up, reminding people, baskets only, no trolleys, and in fairness, they keep the normal checkouts well staffed. The self service space is quite narrow, deliberately so I presume, so that it doesn't easily accommodate trolleys. But I still see people trying it occasionally.
Amazon have those stores here in UK. You walk in pick up and walk out. Gets billed to your Amazon account automatically.
Yeah, that's it. Didn't realise it's been going so long.
Do you mean using your own scanner that you pick up on the way in? My local SuperValu has that system and - to the best of my recall - it dates back to the days when they were Superquinn. I think Tesco has it too.
I can see both sides to this and I don’t like them myself. However I do feel a pang when I’m queuing with a trolley full of items and there’s someone comes up behind me looking expectantly at me to let them go ahead of me with their basket when there’s loads of self service tills idle.
Yeah, that's basically the answer I was given.
But it still puts me off popping into Lidl if I only have 4 or 5 things to get, as the shop is always so busy that it can often be too long to queue.
Most Lidl shops are so busy and the staff are so efficient I'd imagine the self service check out would be counter productive.
in decathlon you pop your items into a “bin” at the till and it reads the tags, no scanning needed. Itemised list on a screen so you can check out yourself. Very efficient. No hand held devices or silly messages from a robot till.
Marks & Spencer self scan is great, under a certain value you scan and bag your items as you pick them using your own phone and hit pay when you are done and exit the shop. Perfect for lunch time shopping. No queues at all.
It's possible I suppose, but this was a smallish corner shop in Lithuania, think the brand was IKY? Didn't 'feel' Amazon sized but I suppose you never know who owns what behind the scenes.
I asked the Lidl in Derry when they were installing self service checkouts and was told never, as they are one of the busiest Lidls in the country and have no need for self services.
Hopefully the person who told me that was wrong, as self service is great, and it would be well suited to a Lidl, as they are so busy so often.
Click and collect: the job-creating modern process which sees someone else responsible for taking YOUR shopping from the shelf for you.
Like what?
That will be here a lot sooner than that. Already being done for medicines and takeaways.
I absolutely love self checkout. Scan, pack, pay, go. No interaction with anyone. The thoughts of having to queue and put goods on a bel is off putting.
Thankfully we get a choice in most supermarkets
Is that because of cameras? 🙄
OP, every supermarket has security camera throughout the store. What's any different with Aldi having them at the checkout?
They installed self checkouts in my local Lidl and hardly anyone uses them. People still queue to use a manned checkout.
They've only started introducing them this year in some stores, they're brilliant to have, in and out in 2 mins if you just need a couple of things instead of standing behind a trolley hoping they'll let you go ahead of them.
I'd be fairly confident that there were other reasons that necessitated the increase in staff numbers.
Sorry I meant to say at Aldi and Lidl in ROI, don't shop in Tesco at all.
We are being recorded in many retail businesses these days.
It's done to reduce the amount of stock being stolen.
The cost of stolen stock is added to the prices paid by those of us who are honest and pay our way.
That's as it should be really. I haven't seen the self-service check outs in Aldi myself.
Alas, I haven't been near an Aldi since they got rid of click and collect. 😥
Not at my local Tesco, most of the time it's only self check out. It's why I seldom go there, except for emergencies.
Self service check outs taking jobs is a myth. I know over a supermarket who have over 20 extra staff since getting self service check outs.
99% of the time there's still a checkout open with a person at it for trolleys, if there isn't (usually off peak) they'll get someone over to one pretty quickly. Very few times I've seen people with even the shallow trolleys at self service check outs.
Some American stores have cameras at all checkout s so if you move an item and don't scan it an alarm go,s off .if you go inside a shop they have a right to record you as long as it's only used for security purposes
Might take more than a decade, but the future are shops like that one a poster mentioned in Vilinius. Lift and go, pay on way out.
They're coming.
We're worlds apart if you think in a decade queues will be a thing of the past.
I always assumed self-service checkouts were meant for those with a small number of items,, who didnt want to wait behind someone with a full large trolley. The bagging area would not be big enough for a full large trolley shop?
Security tags on large e6 Comfort laundry bottles in Dealz 😯
Tech or humans?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology
Live in Ireland myself, the North has Sainsbury's.
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