Published on 12, July, 2020
I love self service tills in shops. They are much more hygienic than manned tills. The only unhygienic part is pressing the button asking how I'm making the payment and if I want a receipt.
On manned tills the operator touches every item of food I buy and on a recent visit I saw an operator sneeze all over herself and her hands and food items.
Now some shops are going into reverse, Booths are ripping out their self service tills, and my local branch of Iceland has gone back to manned tills only.
All opinions are welcome.
They stress me up to the eyeballs. The question is - have any of us "honest" autistic people ever tried to diddle one to get a few p off our shopping? I once entered 1 large onion as small!
out_of_step said:The question is - have any of us "honest" autistic people ever tried to diddle one to get a few p off our shopping? I once entered 1 large onion as small!
Only once and funnily enough it involved an onion! It wasn't deliberate though.
After paying for my shopping I spotted one small loose onion still lurking in the corner of my basket. I had a dilemma:
Do I pay for it in another transaction? Do I just leave it there for the next customer to find? Do I give it to a member of staff to put back? Do I retrace my steps and return it to the shelves myself?
I did not want to stay a moment longer in the store so what did I do? The easiest thing and just picked it out of the basket and straight into my shopping bag
I believe some customers do try and diddle them big time and the stores are implementing ever increasing levels of security. Last time I used one in Sainsburys it took me by surprise that I had to queue to scan my receipt to open a barrier to leave the checkout area.