View Single Post
  #162   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
John Rumm John Rumm is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 25,191
Default OT-ish B&Q automated checkout

On 16/04/2013 18:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/04/13 15:47, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:04:54 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
PeterC wrote:
I know it's "all for a good cause" (is it ?) but my heart sinks when
I see these charity packers at the tills. Last few times I have said
to the volunteers that I will give them money *not* to pack my bags.
I don't let 'em touch my stuff. The rucsack on the conveyor is higher
than most people and I want the hard, heavy stuff at the bottom. Not
yet that crumbly that I need help.
I generally just put everything back in the trolley, and pack up at the
car. Wish everyone did.

That must rate as one of the most ****ing obvious solutions ever. I'll
try it this weekend, but already I can seem myself in 2040 saying "why
did I even wait so long to do this ..."

Are you a messiah ?

frankly, I am not convinced that the easiest thing isn't just to
randomly bung the stuff in bags and sort it just ONCE when you get home.


Load the belt in the right order, and its naturally segregated into
appropriate bags by the time you get it home...

Or, sort it by weight and crushability (EggsonTop principle) for transit
only.


and frozen stuff together etc.


--
Cheers,

John.

/================================================== ===============\
| Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk |
\================================================= ================/