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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Had to go to larger TESCO for. Couple of bits. Cashier plonked the card reader down on the desk,it was out of his reach,then the contactless part wasn't working. She was so rude to him,he walked out.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Hubby that was!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Elaine Thompson-Herah

    Isn't this " oh, I'll bite it to check it's real" the most overplayed cliché pic ever?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2021
    It’s what the photographers ask for … it gets the medal and the face in one shot for a close up 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Had to go to larger TESCO for. Couple of bits. Cashier plonked the card reader down on the desk,it was out of his reach,then the contactless part wasn't working. She was so rude to him,he walked out.

    Good on him.  I've been tempted a couple of times in supermarkets to do the same.  I had a situation in M&S Food where a staff member was trying to make me use self-service checkout because I only had a basket.  He got really huffy when I refused.  If I didn't actually have immediate need for what I was buying I would have walked out.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited August 2021
    The supermarket where my parents are doing most of their shopping for fresh stuff is a small branch of Asda (I take a car full of non-perishables every so often). Generally they don't have anyone on the staffed till, but someone is around to sort out the inevitable "unexpected items in the bagging area". My Mum doesn't like the self-service tills and usually has a small trolley not a basket, so she started asking them if she could pay at the staffed till. Now when the assistant sees her coming, they get behind the till! Good for Asda :) (Sorry, not very curmudgeonly.)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That eejit was talking himself out of a job. The more people use the unexpectediteminthebaggingarea checkout, the less chance he will have a job.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I refuse to use the self service checkouts on principle even on the few occasions I only have a few items.   I prefer people to machines and, generally speaking, SM staff here are helpful and friendly.

    I did once walk out of a supermarket leaving a full trolley of goodies for them to sort out.  Safeways in Pinner in the mid 80s.  Cashier being rude and unhelpful to the person in front of me and refusing to ask for another checkout to open despite the queue behind me.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I abandoned a trolley one Christmas. ( I was a good girl and stowed all the perishables safely but not necessarily in the right place). The Santa  roasting an open fire music was driving me up the wall😵. It was blissfully peaceful in Waitrose. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    I abandoned a trolley one Christmas. ( I was a good girl and stowed all the perishables safely but not necessarily in the right place). The Santa  roasting an open fire music was driving me up the wall😵. It was blissfully peaceful in Waitrose. 
     o:) 
    Devon.
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