U-scan checkout

djs0302 said:

I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

Your comment was simply rudeness predicated on ignorance... her sarcasm
was wasted on you. The proper way to return change is to place it down
on the counter while counting, not to cram a fistful into someones
hand... same as bank tellers are instructed. You were supposed to
count out your change in front of her to verify it's correct and then
say thank you, sincerely, not snotty. That cashier was correct and
you, little snot-nosed dumb punk that you are were WRONG! The concept
is to invite people to count, not to invite bodily contact. I don't
want my change stuffed into my hand... it's a business transaction, not
a gift from grandma. It's more and more becoming a cashless society, I
notice more and more folks, especially young folks (under 40), haven't
a clue how to handle cash, in fact MOST can't count... I can't tell
yoose how many times some check out dude/dudette has handed me a
fistful of cash and then looked shocked as I began to count and would
suddenly blurt out with a nervous look on their pimply puss "Is that
okay?" Well, DUH!

Sheldon

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I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

I think that was rude. Just hand me my money, I don't have cooties. I
don't blame you for being annoyed, not only for the wait but the change
thing, too.

nancy

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I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor though it
may be.
H

Nancy Young said:

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I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

I think that was rude. Just hand me my money, I don't have cooties. I
don't blame you for being annoyed, not only for the wait but the change
thing, too.

Sometimes, culture has a lot to do with it. For some Asians, it's
rude to put money directly into your hands. They put it down on the
counter, you pick it up. Personally, I don't care how I get it as
long as I get the correct amount.

Hairy said:

I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor though it
may be.

It's a lot slower for the customer too.

On Mon 13 Jun 2005 08:47:31a, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Hairy said:

I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor
though it may be.

It's a lot slower for the customer too.

Not for me. I can scan more quickly than many of the register clerks and the
lines are invariably shorter. I was delighted to depersonalize yet another
bottleneck. Electronic banking of all sorts was the first breakthru for me.
Even the very first ATM machines back in the early 1970s were a godsend.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Wayne Boatwright said:

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On Mon 13 Jun 2005 08:47:31a, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:02:49 -0500, Hairy wrote:

> I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor
> though it may be.

It's a lot slower for the customer too.

Not for me. I can scan more quickly than many of the register
clerks and the lines are invariably shorter. I was delighted to
depersonalize yet another bottleneck. Electronic banking of all
sorts was the first breakthru for me. Even the very first ATM
machines back in the early 1970s were a godsend.

I like them as well. I can package my groceries they way they should be.
No more bruised or squashed food. One day I returned almost $30 worth of
fruit, veggies, herbs, breads etc that this gal kept putting heavier items
on. If I hadn't already told her and stood there pulling stuff out and
rebagging I wouldn't have been as ticked. The stuff I brought back was
stuff that I didn't see while I was repacking. She set a can of tomato
juice on a bunch of grapes!

While checking out yesterday a young couple with a couple of young'uns chose
to use one of these. The dad apparently hadn't seen one before and was
rather excited. He provided my entertainment while I checked out my couple
of items. The wife got rather annoyed cause he was over anxious and tried
to scan something when she was.. had to wait for the gal to clear the
machine for them. Dad got the "lecture" from mom lol. While I was walking
away I overheard him say "Now I can? Is it my turn now?" lol

Debbie

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I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor though it
may be.
H

Labor saving - Job Killing Plans

1. ATM Kills Tellers No discount to the user
2. U-Scan checkouts No discount to the user
3. Self service Gas Discount to the user
4. Salad Bar No discount to the user

What else?

Dimitri

I like them. I can better watch that the sale items are properly
discounted. The main anoyance is that some of them don't work well with
light items. If you scan something very light, and put it in the bag,
it doesn't register and it takes employee intervention to get things
working again. I have also noticed this seems to occur more and more
often as the machinery gets older. Also, there is no reason not to have
a comprehensive code chart for produce at the scanner. The tiny lists
they have are pathetic.

Dean G.

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Nancy Young said:

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Quoted message said:

I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

I think that was rude. Just hand me my money, I don't have cooties. I
don't blame you for being annoyed, not only for the wait but the change
thing, too.

Sometimes, culture has a lot to do with it. For some Asians, it's
rude to put money directly into your hands. They put it down on the
counter, you pick it up. Personally, I don't care how I get it as
long as I get the correct amount.

That's one of the things I noticed in Italy. They never hand the change
to you; they have a little dish on the counter where they put it for you
to pick up.

--Charlene

--
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with you. -- http://www.gwerin.org.uk/silly/signs_that_you.htm

email perronnelle at earthlink . net

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Labor saving - Job Killing Plans

1. ATM Kills Tellers No discount to the user

Hell, they *ADDED* a service charge!

I won't assemble my own burgers, either.

nb

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Labor saving - Job Killing Plans

1. ATM Kills Tellers No discount to the user

Hell, they *ADDED* a service charge!

I won't assemble my own burgers, either.

nb

Interestingly when a person makes a deposit or a withdrawal at an ATM they are
doing the data-entry for the bank thereby eliminating the DP entry people
(jobs).

Dimitri

notbob said:

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Labor saving - Job Killing Plans

1. ATM Kills Tellers No discount to the user

Hell, they *ADDED* a service charge!

I won't assemble my own burgers, either.

Well, that's how Booger King started out, customers assembled their own
Big Woppers, and loved it... and BK quickly grew to epic proportions...
and then once they reached booger niverna they stopped the whole Have
It Your Way thingie (with fresh off the grill boogers), and jacked up
the price (and for old heat lamp boogers). So what it truly amounts to
is we know what yoose is, it's at what price. At the old low price you
darn well will play with your own meat in public... I know I would... I
still remember stacking up enough fresh salad fixings on my wopper to
qualify it as a very decent three person chefs salad.

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I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

Wow, what a horrid experience! How did you ever survive? I hope you got her
fired and then went home and had a stiff drink - lord knows you deserved it.

--
Peter Aitken

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Hairy said:

I refuse to use U-scan checkouts. It's just another job lost, poor though it
may be.

It's a lot slower for the customer too.

Not for us. At many of the local supermarkets the clerk doesn't bag the
groceries until they've all been rung up. Add to that the chatting with
the previous customer or trying to chat with us instead of scanning the
next item or staring into space while we've been trying to give them
payment and it gets very slow indeed.

The self-scan checkouts at the markets we use most haven't resulted in
any jobs lost. There are never enough clerks at the tills anyway and
those queues are normally very long even in supposed offpeak times.

Sheldon said:

still remember stacking up enough fresh salad fixings on my wopper to
qualify it as a very decent three person chefs salad.

Yeah, back when a Whopper cost $.52 (Nashville, '69)!

Hey, for 52¢ I'll damn sure assemble (yes, big ol' tomato slices,
onion slices, crisp iceberg lettuce) my own burger. Unfortunately,
the trend in the late eighties was to charge *MORE* for the privilege
of providing the labor. Places like Squeezer's, Trio's, A&W, etc,
were charging $4-4.50 for an *alleged* DIY burger while you could get
an excellent finished burger handed to you for less at other
establishments. Fortunately, these more-work-for-you,
more-money-for-us, joints were short lived and died a quick and
merciless death.

nb

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djs0302 said:

I went through the self serve checkout lane at the grocery store today
and it didn't have enough change so it told me to get my change from
the cashier who was suppose to be watching the U-scan lanes. Well I
waited for someone to show up and when someone finally did she just put
my change there on the counter instead of handing it to me. I said,
"Gee thanks." and she said, "You're welcome." Apparently my sarcasm
was wasted on her.

Tempest in a teapot !
<rj>

Wayne Boatwright said:

Not for me. I can scan more quickly than many of the register clerks and the
lines are invariably shorter. I was delighted to depersonalize yet another
bottleneck. Electronic banking of all sorts was the first breakthru for me.
Even the very first ATM machines back in the early 1970s were a godsend.

Yahbut, it is very rare hereabouts to use a scanner that doesn't
misread something or other. Or maybe it's just the local Albertson's
scanners that are dyslexic. The last time I used one, I had scanned
all my items, then "the voice" said "remove the unscanned item from
the bagging area and scan." I *had* freakin' scanned it and could see
it on the screen, so I just held it in my hand while I finished the
transaction. Or God forbid you're buying a bottle of wine and the
scanner clerk isn't there!

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's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

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Not for me. I can scan more quickly than many of the register clerks and
the
lines are invariably shorter. I was delighted to depersonalize yet
another
bottleneck. Electronic banking of all sorts was the first breakthru for
me.
Even the very first ATM machines back in the early 1970s were a godsend.

I agree on the ATM, I'd be lost without them.

Tried the self check twice. Two different stores. More trouble that it was
worth when they didn't work properly so I'm never going back to them.
(unless they give me a 5% discount)