Not sure which thread to put this in. I went to a supermarket today to get some supplies and it was like the staff were on strike, no trollies by the store at all, loads of empty shelves and items that weren't priced or priced incorrectly, dead plants in the gardening section, one staff member was refilling some fruit trays and was throwing the fruit in there like it was going in the bin not being laid out to be sold. The checkout 'girl' who served me was 70 if she was a day and didn't say a word to me while ringing items up. I handed her a beer bottle and said there's another 11 in the trolly (they're non-alcoholic don't judge me ) and she grunted assent and scanned it through. Then my broccoli didn't scan so she scanned some chewing gum from the display by the tills, threw it back at the display stand, pressed some buttons and handed me the broccoli. I checked my receipt afterwards and I hadn't been charged for the chewing gum or the broccoli so no idea what that was about. My wife checked my receipt when I got home though and pointed out she'd only charged me for the one beer though so I've stolen 11 non-alcoholic beers and a broccoli today
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Maybe. It was the same story at Asda last week, everyone seemed very depressed that they'd introduced a new self-scan system and reduced the checkouts to only 4 with an actual person behind them. Lots of jobs being lost or moved to other areas I imagine. I was served by the Bulgarian lady who is normally the nicest person you could ever meet and even she was unusally quiet.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I hate self service checkouts and will avoid them at all costs. Once in my local M&S I was queueing to pay for food and a woman said "would you like to come over here" 'Over here' was the self-service tills, but I assumed that she would scan it. After all she didn't say "Would you like to come over here and do it yourself". I just stood looking at her and she said "They're self-service tills". I replied "I know. I was stood in that queue because if I wanted to operate a till I'd get a job in a supermarket". Still no movement from her so I just walked off and left her with the basket. There was an element of cutting off my nose to spite my face, but there's an M&S Food near us so I went in there and got the same stuff.
Me too. Hate them with a vengeance. OH and I have a routine. I go thru with the loyalty card and shopping bags and he puts everything on the belt in groups which I then pack in bags per group. I am better at packing than he is and it makes it quicker to put it all away at home. One of us pays the cashier. Takes a couple of minutes to process a whole trolley.
Took even longer the one time I went back for two baguettes I'd forgotten and did the "quick scan". Had to find my reading glasses, work out how to use it and then how to pay. Not for me.
I too have walked out leaving a whole, full trolley at the cash desk if some bloody cashier pisses me off.
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Sound like more than your average demotivated staff. Sounds like there could be a story there.
Took even longer the one time I went back for two baguettes I'd forgotten and did the "quick scan". Had to find my reading glasses, work out how to use it and then how to pay. Not for me.
I too have walked out leaving a whole, full trolley at the cash desk if some bloody cashier pisses me off.