I Hate Coles Self-Serve Checkouts

[icyfroth]

Woolworth's are much easier.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Well how about when they open a new checkout and then direct/usher the LAST person in the queue (just pulled up with their trolley) to the newly opened register!

Where's the sense and logic to that?

[imastawka]

Yeah, but I can't complain on that front.

That person is usually me. lol

What can I say,  they love me

[bright.ton42]

I love self serves.  I like to stack the goods in my bags as I want them,  I find them very quick, and I don't have

to put up with Have a Good  Day particularly when my day is Bad, lol. 

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And for those germophobes ever think of the biggest carrier of germs?    Coins.   Shopping items where people handle

them and put them back. 

Our local Coles has a slot thing where you can pull out antiseptic wipes to wipe the trolley

handles which makes me snicker. 

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I have no idea how germ phobes have survived till adulthood.

[**tay**]

Woolworths management has cut the hours of checkout operators so serverely, the big trolloys have no choice but to go through the self serve, or wait in line for hours for the one checkout operator to get to them.

[cherry*135]

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@imastawka wrote:

What about the num-nuts who have 3 or 4 things

and ask you if they can go before you?

Cos my time's not important!

"Use the express or self serve or I'll drop ya where ya stand!!"

(sorry, did I say that out loud?)

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Haven't had that happen. Most shoppers only have baskets of items at our one and only supermarket in town (no competition, so go further afield for main shopping).

Before self serve machines we did get long queues though, because of holiday visitors and W only having a few staffed counters open.

Even if the posters here don't use the self serve checkouts, other customers do, which shortens the queue the anti self serve machine customers are in.

[icyfroth]

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@imastawka wrote:

What about the num-nuts who have 3 or 4 things

and ask you if they can go before you?

Cos my time's not important!

"Use the express or self serve or I'll drop ya where ya stand!!"

(sorry, did I say that out loud?)

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I don't mind letting ppl with only 1-3 items in front of me if I have a shopping trolley full. It goes both ways and I've always been let through in a reverse situation.

[electric*mayhem*band]

The first (and only time) I used one of those self-service contraptions, I received the following message on the screen:

WARNING ! Unidentified commodity in bagging area.

What ?  It then closed down, and wouldn't function.

By the time an assistant had fiddled around with the thing - muttering 'gremlins' - and reset it, I could have been through the manned checkout.

[icyfroth]

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@electric*mayhem*band wrote:

The first (and only time) I used one of those self-service contraptions, I received the following message on the screen:

WARNING ! Unidentified commodity in bagging area.

What ?  It then closed down, and wouldn't function.

By the time an assistant had fiddled around with the thing - muttering 'gremlins' - and reset it, I could have been through the manned checkout.

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Yeah that gets my goolies too!

[shepherdsrule]

In Coles, WW, KMart and BigW near us I have not seen less than 6 self serve checkouts in a store that has them - usually with only one overseer staff member.

5 x annual wages, plus holiday pay, plus penalty rates, sick leave/ overtime, leave loading and superannuaton, not to mention work cover/insurace, each store hosting 6 SS can save in excess of $250K a year.