Features no longer at the supermarket/shops

[Candodad]

For me I remembered today there was always a “cash only” till due to transactions with cheque/card taking longer.

[WouldShouldCould]

People writing cheques when they had no money in their account. I used to shop on a Friday night and get paid on a Monday morning. By the time the cheque was deposited and cleared I'd been paid.

[WouldShouldCould]

Yes readyme we used to get the deli ticket and then do a bit of shopping.

[User478]

Pick and mix cheese! Those mini ones like babybel and mini smoked cheese that is wrapped up like a sausage!

[TheGreatWave]

if you paid by cheque the machine printed the cheque for you and you just had to sign.

That sparked a memory, I worked in BHS and we could do that, you would feed it through then give it back to them to sign.

[halfsoaked]

Waitrose near us has cardboard boxes, cheese wire, weighing scales and fresh fish and meat counters. And they wrap the cheese in wax paper but stupidly put it in cling film first .

[Vintagehearts]

@user478 yes I miss the mini cheese varieties!

[Sparklingbrook]

AFAIK you can get the counters to put your cheese into your own containers now.

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

user you can still get some of the mini cheese varieties in M&S and (I think) Sainsburys. Not as many though. I miss Bel Paese.

[Youngatheart00]

Also, just different supermarkets in general. My local one as a child was Gateway. And I’m sure I remember Co-Op being a large store (rather than a metro sized one like now....but maybe I was just small!!)

[HearMeSnore]

I remember whenever my dad wanted to pay by credit card the cashier would get out this little gadget that you put the card in, lay a piece of paper over it and then swipe a handle over the top to make a sort of brass-rubbing of the account number. It seems so quaint now!

[HavenDilemma]

Can you still use cheques?? Do cheque guarantee cards still exist?

[CaptainMyCaptain]

My husband likes paying bills by cheque. He has only recently been persuaded to use Contactless payments in pubs and cafes preferring cash.

[LuckyLickitung]

Assistants manually keying in the price per item from the price sticker (last seen in the mid-90s

I remember International becoming Gateway.

Self weighing the veg/ fruit and putting the sticker on the bag. This replaced the man doing it.

Watercress in bunches tied with elastic bands.

[LuckyLickitung]

It's not long since I saw the old style card gadget in use, it came out as a back-up when the tills couldn't communicate with the banks!

It brought back memories of being in a proper olde style department store.

[stuffingball]

Lucky

My local shop still puts some things through the til manually with a price sticker on, and the green grocer sells water cress in a bunch with an elastic band not a supermarket I know

[Rosehip10]

@Youngatheart00 No, there did used to be large, tesco sized co-op stores. I remember one in North Wales.

[BigRedBoat]

I worked in Morrison's in the mid 00s and we had a cheque printing machine at every till and the brass rubbing credit card machines would be used if the chip and pin machines went down.

[twilightcafe]

Credit cards had to be authorised at customer services before a customer went to the till. If the card was dodgy then you had to retain the card, and the issuer would send you a £50 reward.

[Vallderama]

@Abelino I used to work on a deli counter in a supermarket and I loved using the wire cutter. I prided myself on being able to cut exact measures of all the different types of cheese. Cheddar is more dense than Brie, also flatter etc.

[Vallderama]

@WouldShouldCould yes the three day delay was a lifesaver at times. It didn't always work though. I had a friend who tried to do it with her bus fare, for example. They didn't like you doing that.

[Youngatheart00]

@Vallderama a cheque for bus fare??!! That’s brilliant!

Didn’t the cheque guarantee cards stop that though - they were used to basically ensure you were good for the money?

I also remember (more 90s/2000s) Solo and Electron cards that weren’t widely accepted. As a college Solo card holder, this was very frustrating! A debit card....almost.

[HavenDilemma]

@Youngatheart00 There is a bit Co-op near me. Trolley parks, pharmacy, post office, the lot!

[DontCallMeShitley]

You needed a lot more than one book of Green Shield stamps to get anything. I used have the job of licking them and sticking them into the books.

And then there were Co-Op stamps too.

[Youngatheart00]

Oh really! Throw in some saving stamps and I might be tempted to pay a visit 🤣

Leo’s is another supermarket I remember but not sure if that was regional (south-west)

[NomDeQwerty]

M&S foods before conveyor belts. You had to load your shopping into a u shaped slider thing which the cashier pulled towards her (and it was always a her) and then she'd push the slider back down the counter. The idea was that she'd then ring up the pile of groceries she'd pulled towards her while the next customer loaded their groceries into the u.