A joke or two.... 2022

Sorry, I realise I was referring to self-scan. A totally different thing. As I go to the supermarket at 6 a.m. they only have one member of staff on the checkout and I got into the habit of self-scan during the lockdown. In and out with nobody around.

 

I walk into the shop and go to the section, by the entrance, where they have the hand scanners (like a gun), flash my store card under the reader and it activates a gun for you. You go round the shop, scan the bar code on the item you want and pop the item in your bag. You can see how much you are spending, on the gun. When you finish shopping you go to the self-scan checkout, aim your gun at it and it rings up all your shopping and you then use your credit (or debit) card to pay.

It only takes one trip to get used to it. Then all you are doing is going round the store, zapping the item you want and dropping it in your bag. You don't need to empty the bag when you get to the checkout.

 

Tesco and Sainsbury's.

 

Our Tesco have just increased the number of self-scan checkouts to 12. People like them. There's very little queuing because everything has already been zapped and bagged. About once every 10 shops, for me, they want to check the bags (supposedly at random) and they normally only have to check five items.

 

Trollies at one of the supermarkets round here have an electronic lock on them. If you try to take them outside the electronic boundary wire one wheel seizes up.