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Minstrel SE
I agree that with a trolley full of food I would head to a cashier but for one item or just a few items there is nothing they add to the experience. I have still got to dig my cash or card out and I might as well do it at my own pace infront of a machine.
Yeah I know what you mean, but for me the machine would still be slower, because as I've never used one before, it'd take me a bit to work out how to do so - most likely longer that it would to go to a manned express checkout, at the midweek off-peak times of day I use supermarkets, where I'm usually first or second to be served.
Very rarely are there any queues at that time :)
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Thay have been cutting staff anyway because the reality is 10 till lanes with three cashiers in sight.
Indeed, and that's what they should be addressing, rather than opening more and more self-service checkouts, and getting 80% of the normal checkouts manned, rather than 30% of them, which is usually the case!
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Yes we probably do need to complain but while you are at it complain about the shoddy treatment of staff in warehouses and superstores. Often the staff you deal with will be overworked and on some commission basis which is detrimental to all of us. We all like the best price and dont really question where the costs have been cut.
Absolutely! However, I'm someone who believes in staff being properly paid for their work, so I'd welcome paying a little more for my shopping to help that cause.
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Would you all bother a bank cashier to withdraw £20...nope we mainly use servicetills. That used to be my crap job and you lot took it away from me :)
Really?
Well, if I'm inside a bank it'll not be to withdraw money, but more likely to deposit it - and I don't trust doing that stood at a machine. Plus, as I said, I don't like the precedent that they set. They lost you your job after all!
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Shopping is mainly a mundane experience for me so I would rather do as much as possible while in a semi daydream.
I hate grocery shopping, but quite enjoy other types of shopping, such as for records, beer and wine, certain types of clothes, nice things for the house and [shock horror] Christmas shopping, (as I enjoy the vibe) when the towns and shops are quiet, and I can get in and out, having got what I need, before the hoards of unwashed descend! ;)
Marco.