Our local Sainsbugs, has gone over to all self service tills, they have installed some larger bases than before so you can get a weeks shopping on them but it's still a PITA.
MUCH MUCH worse, there is a planning process started to demolish our small shopping centre and rebuild on it and nearly all of the car parking, (there is a station carpark as well). They are talking about 25 towers one to be 29 stories high, over 4000 dwellings, it will make our little town centre bigger than canary wharf. The locals are up in arms, but we know what will happen, they will just keep tweaking it and reapplying, even if they only get permission for half of it it will be horrendous.
I’d go with cacti … dress the children in woolly jumpers and hook them onto the cacti for journeys … that’ll keep them more under control than seatbelts will.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@wild edges - put a clean bag in the machine or empty it and then vaccuum up the sand to use for cactii in the greenhouse out of harm's way.
@Allotment Boy vote with your feet and find another supermarket with people at the cash desks and tell Sainsbugs you don't approve. Personally, I don't want to spend my time scanning as I go or scanning when I've finished working my way round the store checking things off my list. They seem to forget they're a service enterprise.
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)."
What are bases @Allotment Boy? We are close to a superstore. Never heard of that
I mean the bit where you have to put your items once you scan them, I think they call it the bagging area. Standard self service tills are nowhere near big enough for a weeks shopping.
As in unexpected item in the bagging area? Like your shopping or your carrier bag is unexpected. Now if it was a piglet or a tractor tyre, I would understand it.🤔
I always take a rucksack when I go shopping by bus to Limerick. No point trying to put that in the bagging area in the DIY tills in T***o. Takes less time to queue up for the one and only manned till, where they recognise a rucksack as a bag for putting my shopping in.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
If I had a trolley full and discovered there were only self service tills I would dump the trolley and walk out. I object to any self-scanning but a trolley full would really be taking the urine.
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MUCH MUCH worse, there is a planning process started to demolish our small shopping centre and rebuild on it and nearly all of the car parking, (there is a station carpark as well). They are talking about 25 towers one to be 29 stories high, over 4000 dwellings, it will make our little town centre bigger than canary wharf. The locals are up in arms, but we know what will happen, they will just keep tweaking it and reapplying, even if they only get permission for half of it it will be horrendous.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Allotment Boy vote with your feet and find another supermarket with people at the cash desks and tell Sainsbugs you don't approve. Personally, I don't want to spend my time scanning as I go or scanning when I've finished working my way round the store checking things off my list. They seem to forget they're a service enterprise.