Self checkout

Alan said:

Quoted message said:

If I'm the only one waiting, I stand between the 4
registers making it clear that I'm getting the next
available station rather than waiting for a
particular one.

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That never happens where I shop. There is a line for
each register, and that's normal. People don't try to
jump around.

The two places I shop that have these it would be impossible
to form a line at the 2 front-most stations without either
blocking the exit from the rear stations, or getting up
close and personal with the person using the rear stations.

-sw

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:15:12 GMT, "Kswck" <[email hidden]>
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

Quoted message said:

There are people who basically act as a Pit Boss who watch.
Those are the ones who will suddenly appear and tell the
computer that you are old enough to buy beer, or find the
right code for a fresh food item, etc.

Ralph's here in Aliso Viejo put 4 in at what must have been
great expense. They were buggy as h*ll for weeks, then
seemed to work well. Next thing I knew, they closed 'em down
and, although they're still there, they're blocked off and
have been for at least a month. <shrug>

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

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In rec.food.cooking said:

Ralph's here in Aliso Viejo

Ralphs is one of those Califonia things I know nothing
about, other than the references to it on the Mothers of
Invention's Billy the Mountain record.

Where no prices are lower prices than Ralph's....

The mid-1960's jingle popped into my head as soon as I saw
Ralph's mentioned.

Is there really an Eddie who has 16 tailors, like in Eddie
Are You Kidding, from the back side of the same disk?

--
...I'm an air-conditioned gypsy...

- The Who

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Janet

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:44:20 -0700, Arri London <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

blake murphy said:

On 26 Mar 2004 23:40:12 GMT, [email hidden] (Naomi

Darvell) said:

. I had high hopes for the machines, but they need to
work the bugs out.

Naomi D.

i'm against anything that adds mechanical voices for
everyone to listen to.

your pal, ned

The ones we use locally don't have mechanical voices at
all. The only noise is the occasional warning beep.

the ones i've offer a rundown of the produce items 'one
pound of cabbage' and lots of instructions.

your pal, blake

Quoted message said:

Ralphs is one of those Califonia things I know nothing
about, other than the references to it on the Mothers of
Invention's Billy the Mountain record.

Where no prices are lower prices than Ralph's....

<snip>

When I first moved to southern California, I couldn't
believe that someone would name a *grocery* store "Ralph's."
Kind of like naming a grocery chain, "Hurl." <veg>

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

When I first moved to southern California, I couldn't
believe that someone would name a *grocery* store
"Ralph's." Kind of like naming a grocery chain,
"Hurl." <veg>

In Texas there's a chain called H.E.B., which stands
for "Howard
E. Butt". Yes, they have a food store with the word "butt"
in the name.

--
Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot)
com

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

When I first moved to southern California, I couldn't
believe that someone would name a *grocery* store
"Ralph's." Kind of like naming a grocery chain,
"Hurl." <veg>

(laughing!!) They must not know what Ralph means otherwhere
in the country. Having said that, I really was amused by the
Ralph's by the harbor in San Diego. Huge vegetables and they
sold booze, too.

nancy

Quoted message said:

No. I shop at about three different supermarkets in the
Cherry Hill, NJ area where I live. None of those has any
security guards as far as I can tell. I sometimes shop
at a Superfresh in Center City, Philadelphia where I
usually see a security guard watching at the exit, but I
don't recall seeing any other security guards elsewhere
in that store.

It's strange. We don't have much crime, but apparently
there's a ring of meat smugglers operating out of Calgary.
The meat is smuggled out of the country and sold on the
black market in Asia for 10x the cost of shipping it.

I would have thought the mad cow debacle (the cows both in
Canada and the US come from here) would have stopped it, but
apparently not. I suppose that if you don't mind spending
$35 a pound for beef, you don't care.

wd40

blake murphy said:

Arri London said:

blake murphy said:

On 26 Mar 2004 23:40:12 GMT, [email hidden] (Naomi
Darvell) wrote:
>. I had high hopes for the machines, but they need to
> work the bugs out.
>
>
>Naomi D.

i'm against anything that adds mechanical voices for
everyone to listen to.

your pal, ned

The ones we use locally don't have mechanical voices at
all. The only noise is the occasional warning beep.

the ones i've offer a rundown of the produce items 'one
pound of cabbage' and lots of instructions.

your pal, blake

I suspect all the machines come from the factory programmed
the same way, but the 'voices' can be turned off if the
punters complain.