To be really sick of supermarkets treating paying customers like scum

[OptimismvsRealism]

Sainsbury's traps you in the self service pen of shame until you scan your receipt like a good little girl

Tesco won't take the security tags off your wine until you've not only paid but they've examined your receipt in detail to make sure your wine is paid for - sort of a performance so you remember your place

Waitrose makes a bit song and dance about doing the rescan of self scanning shops (I don't do self scanning because why would I sign up for this extra work?)

Just in Lidl and my wine set off the security alarm even though I've had the tags taken off and the security guard chased me out the door to try to get me to show him inside my bags (er no fuck off pal)

Aldi staff try to look in your shopping bags as you queue

Does anywhere NOT get a kick out of treating their profit drivers like filth any more?

I will probably just have to live off UHPs from the local Greggs at this rate

Many do though. Our small town has three bakeries, the next nearest has two. We have a local butcher as well, there's another two a 15 minute drive away, then another 25 minutes away just off the top of my head.

@S0livagant lucky for you 🙂

We have a strong culture of shopping small and local around here. Plenty of allotment growers giving away and swapping produce too. Eggs at farm gates. Farmers market. I could potentially only go to the supermarket fortnightly if it got too unfriendly.

Oh it's you again. You lead a very hateful life OP - you don't like old people, bikes, queuing and now supermarkets.

@S0livagant my mums town has a monthly farmers market and a food fair a couple of times a year.
People complain about it because it's "far too expensive" 🤣🤣🤣

Ours isn't for what you get, non upf bread and fruit and veg that is fresh and tastes of something. I save by what I don't buy at the supermarket, I mostly stick to basic ingredients.

Really? I live in a smallish/ mefium town We have 4 independent bakeries plus Wenzels Greggs and Gails

As well as at least 3 butchers, 3 farm shops and a greengrocer

I won't shop in Boots anymore

@Gogogo12345 oh everywhere has Greggs.... usually several branches.
Except they don't sell loaves of bread anymore.
(can't comment on the other 2)

@mrandmrsrobinson why?
What's Boots done to you?

Well Gails and Wenzels def sell bread as do our independent bakers Not surprised about the greggs though. Only ever seen school kids and workmen in it

Nearest Gail’s is 10 miles
independent bakers in the same town
wenzels 7 miles

butchers, 7 miles but you have to pay £3.50 to park

supermarket is 3 miles

me too! but not for years.

Where?

but this poster is saying they actually stopped them being installed

and the rest

Seems. Seems very unhappy. Even when away on holiday the OP is bitching (about Britain that time)

In fact one of the threads was entirely about how utterly unhappy she is.

Well if you dwell on stuff like this…

If it's not to stop theft, what's their reason for doing it?

Several towns in the SW. A family member's local overground in SE London.

I can understand a community not wanting them. They change the look of the station and look less welcoming and open.

Maybe @OptimismvsRealism has the look of a dodgy shoplifting type, and that's why they seem to struggle so much with every single supermarket they've ever been in.

I use the Scan & Shop thing at Sainsbury's, even though it annoys me, but it is just so bloody quick! No queuing, no faffing about, just go up to one of the S&S checkouts, pay and bugger off. We don't get "penned in" at our Sainsbury's, although sometimes you have to scan your receipt to get out of the gate at the self-service tills in morrisons. It's morrisons though, so the gate is usually broken!

i am in SE London! which one?!

W. T. F.

Same as supermarkets. My local Tesco used to look open and welcoming to walk in without gates.

Anerley

It is Tesco.

indeed

to shoplifters

Yes, it is Tesco? Now they look unwelcoming with barriers up. I am ND and it makes shopping a more stressful experience for me.