Odd check out behaviour

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I'm beginning to think I must attract 'em at the check out after this lunchtime.

I put my few items of shopping on the conveyor behind the shopping of the woman in front and the 'next customer' sign she had already placed there. After a couple of minutes while the actually person at the till faffs over packing and paying, the woman before me in the queue takes a 'next customer' sign leans over my shopping and puts the sign behind my stuff. There is nobody behind me. Why would someone feel the need to do this? I think she might be the kind of person who thinks her younger neighbours need to open their curtains.

A few weeks ago the person behind me in a check out queue picked up my sushi from the conveyor, turned it over to read what was in it and asked the lad on the till where in the shop the sushi was on the shelves. She didn't ask me about it, or in fact say anything to me; just picked it up and turned it over!

Actually can you buy school free beer/wine if you are underage ?

at 'school free beer / wine'.

I totally resent ss tills. Why should we be doing our own scanning, thereby doing away with jobs for till operators. The way its going there'll hardly be any checkout staff in a few years. Its all about bigger profits for the supermarkets.

A few weeks ago I was in the supermarket, queuing up behind three girls who were presumably housemates. When the cashier had finished scanning their (joint) shopping, they then had a really long protracted discussion about how much each of them should pay (i.e. who would be sharing which of the food, who didn't like x so wouldn't be having any of that). Imagine the most protracted post-restaurant meal debate about how to divide the bill - except at a checkout with a queue of people behind them.

Then, they started going through their purses, with the first girl saying "Can I pay 5 pounds on this credit card and the rest of my share of the total in cash?".....

I've seen people use the self scan for their trolley load, and block the next machine with the trolley they are unloading!

HateSpiders, if you ever get bored of your husband will you please send him my way? He sounds rather fun and I think I might like his accent too.

Also, has anyone been in the Lidl queue and had grannies ramming them up the bum with their trolley? My local lidl seems to attract loads of middle class pensioners who are desperate to pay and then get out (maybe they fear being seen).

hooby he is fun, and the best of husbands. He still has a poor command of English though. The village football team have taught him some bad words and he comes out with some awful stuff. The lift doors in M&S took ages to open and he grumbled loudly "Wanker door!" People were not happy.

Ooh - self checkouts. That's a whole other thread of annoyance. 'Please put the item in the bag'. Repeated. Well I would do if I could get the sodding bag open. 'Please wait; the assistant is coming, but don't worry, he or she will not interact with you in any way. Instead he or she will tap some buttons and flash a card at the scanner. Then walk away to assist the next hapless fool or thought the self checkout was a decent alternative to queuing for a human being.'

'Red cabbage: no idea!' - for all you Victoria Wood fans.

I sometimes find myself speaking to the self checkout voice - I'm not very polite. In B&Q they say 'don't forget your receipt' to which my response is, 'you need to print it first'. Not always said in my head either.

The sushi thing is odd but I don't think the 'next customer' sign is. Loads of people do this when I go to the supermarket. I must live in a weird place!

Jumbones come up at 16. I'm presuming it's some sort of mistake.

Our self service section has big signs saying 'please use this space for your basket or trolley' - its not a baskets only section.

dwerf yes, I am a filty wineo who can't stay civil and human without my wine, however I am also pregnant, so I have discovered Eisberg wine which is

This is what happens to me. Every.Single.Time

name i assumed it was a bit like those cans of ginger beer or shandy, I was never IDed for them as a child and surely shandy has more alcohol in than my piss water wine? though maybe that's cos of where I was living at the time... I remember being horrified the first time I was IDed for matches when I'd been buying them for years with no issue...

To add a happy story. When I was in lidl with my dd only a few weeks old in a sling, a very nice lady helped me put my shopping on the conveyor belt.

Did she comment on what you were buying?

AntiHop I took DD to Tesco at about 5 days old and got told very sternly by an elderly lady that babies should not be allowed outside until they're at least 6 weeks old

The rare times I go into Sainsbury's (not often as I despise it) 50% of the self service tills are closed.

Why?

Are they having their tea break??

I hate when people look at my shopping purchases on the conveyor.

Even though I do the same to others. I'm just having a nosey. I feel like they are judging me, especially with twin packs: "Two Battenburg cakes! Two?!"

Well, obviously I'm not going to eat them at the same bloody time... just one after the other.

Funny how the TWO kitchen sink strainers didn't get the same bulging eye of incredulity.

The self service tills in out Morrisons are really over sensitive. The manager has admitted lots of people have complained, but the engineers come out and say there is nothing wrong.

This means the person in charge has to come and do the pressy secret button thing and they can never resist telling you it was your fault. Yesterday apparently I didnt press the screen correctly... they will never ever admit its the tills fault or just STFU. It seems you always have to have the benefit of their opinion of what you have done wrong

I DONT CARE, JUST STFU WITH YOUR OPINIONS AND PRESS THE BUTTON

I kept away from the self serve today