Self Checkouts

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by trikey

You don’t have to pay a robot holiday pay...

They don't take holidays

I only used one once, because the tills were queuing and staff beckoned me to them and helped feed me through one.

Tesco, other day, the manual till I used, the operator was dashing back and forth from her till to the auto tills.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by rustymotor

I have a feeling that peoples shopping habits have changed quite a bit, you go to the supermarket and often struggle to find a small trolley and sometimes even a basket..which, could mean we are not buying a weeks worth of food in one go like we used to..

So logically, if you have more people with less shopping you would need to change the checkout system to cope with it hence, more and more self checkouts appearing. Just a thought.

I notice a lack of the small trolleys during the Friday and Saturday rush, we only do a regular any day shop, so never need a large one. The smaller/ shallower ones don't cause quite so much reaching.

[topman]

Originally Posted by trikey

Im not saying they have cut jobs, but they are certainly not increasing staff levels to coincide with growth.

Like i said i think you'd struggle to make that link, turnover could change for all manner of reasons.

[rustymotor]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

I notice a lack of the small trolleys during the Friday and Saturday rush, we only do a regular any day shop, so never need a large one. The smaller/ shallower ones don't cause quite so much reaching.

That's a very good point about the reaching Harry. Sometimes on the manned check outs the lazy staff scan the goods and hardly push them down the slide..

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by rustymotor

That's a very good point about the reaching Harry. Sometimes on the manned check outs the lazy staff scan the goods and hardly push them down the slide..

Today we took a trip to Aldi, which I turned into a trip to collect some suitable drinks into stock. This Aldi uses the coin (or token) basket and I adapted a token so it would fit, via a tiewrap onto the house key. There were no shallow trolleys, but someone was returning one with a pound coin so I gave him a pound for it. I hate the messing about unclipping the tokens before you can use them in a trolley.