Re: Self-Scan
Originally Posted by
Harbal
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I always use the self-scan facility when I shop in Tesco; it’s quicker and easier than going through the tills. Sometimes, when you get to the checkout, you find that you’ve been selected for a random check. I found that I had been selected for a random check this morning. Among my shopping was a pack of two electric toothbrush brush heads, which had a little security tag attached. When the assistant came to check my shopping, I mentioned the tag, as I needed her to remove it. Because of that, the brushes were the first thing she checked, which got things off to a bad start because they got flagged up as not having been scanned by me. This, she told me, required her to do a complete scan of all my shopping.
I don’t know if she thought I had deliberately neglected to scan the brushes. She didn’t show any sign of thinking that, but one can’t help but wonder. If I had intentionally avoided scanning them I would, of course, have picked up a five pack, rather than a two. Anyway, she emptied all my bags, rescanned all my shopping and then repacked it considerably more neatly than I had done, which seemed some consolation for the delay.
I have never heard of anyone checking shopping, the bag scales seem accurate to the micro gram.
I had a self serve checkout refuse to continue after I bunged some bananas in my bag. When I called the girl over she weighed the banana again and said they couldn't have been on the scales completely because they were heavier than the weight on the screen. She just replaced them in my bag but didn't change the price just used her card to tell the machine to go on.
Actually I had the machine stuff up yesterday because it complained there was something in the bagging area (my bag) I scanned the milk before pressing "I am using my own bag" and that also bought proceedings to a halt but the girl came straight over flashed her card and we were on our way again in seconds.
However it is certainly true that avocados are much cheaper when scanned as potatoes, not that I would do that, I don't like avocados.
Covid has made the self serving checkout girl's life much harder now she has to sanitize each terminal between customers but, gee, they are good at it.