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Eh? From the scanner? It's when you scan something that is on special offer, i.e. Two for one, or three for two or something. The scanner then goes doobbly-doop so you look at the screen and it tells you.


The Flying Picket version, the only version I know, doesn't have any doobbly-doops like the Yazoo version, so I didn't see the connection at first.

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Sheesh! How the other half live!
We get nothing like that in Aldi!

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Some Sainsburys have started doing them as well, though in my experience they aren't as easy to use. The one I've started using recently .....you have to watch it, as it sometimes beeps when you scan something, but the item doesn't always come up the screen, which means if you don't check, there could be items in your bag you haven't paid for. Also, the Sainsbury one keeps losing the wifi connection, which can take a minute to come back.

Still better than the wretched conveyor belt drag though.

However. I prefer the Waitrose one. No probs at all.

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Aren't these hand-held devices easy to fiddle? At least with the self-scanning tills the item you have just scanned is detected when you put it in the bagging area (a glorified weighing scale) and items not scanned are detected by extra weigh being added that hasn't been accounted for.

What anti-theft features are there with a hand-held scanner?

Asking for a friend

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I prefer the conveyors at my local (smallish) supermarkets - there's not usually a long wait (a couple of customers only) and there's usually a friendly check-out assistant, so usually conversation ensues.

I leave the self-scanners to mums-in-a-rush and post-millennial-techies .....

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Serious answer= 0:10 (three notes)

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I’ll just get the missus to hum a few bars as I put stuff in the trolley at Morrison’s....

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I only go to Waitrose to buy their Wilderbeest & wild truffle pasties.

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If you say so.

Everything comes to he who Waitroses.

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That's exactly what I was thinking about these hand held device.

How do they work?

I was looking at them in Sainsburys today.