On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 19:07:37 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 17/08/2019 12:29, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:01:40 +0100, (Roger Hayter)
wrote:

Roger Hayter wrote:

Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq wrote:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:02:11 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:28:13 +0100, R D S wrote:

B'bye!

Our local B&Q have binned them off, took a long time for them to admit
it, but they have, they aren't helping anybody!

Sainsbury's, are you watching?

I shop at both Tesco's and Sainsbury's. I almost always use the self
service checkout in Tesco's, but had so much hassle with the ones in
Sainsbury's that I no longer use them.
I had a considerable degree of trouble with a Tesco's staff member at
Broughton regarding their automated checkouts.

One arrived to find that Airbus had failed to be advised of my coming,
so I did the usual and called locally for coffee and papers while the
issue was sorted.

Went to check out my stuff at Tescos.

I was prompted for the number of bags used.

I had already hit the "no bags" button at the start.

That only refers to bags which you might have brought yourself, perhaps?
I can't remember the dark days when disposable carrier bags were still
available in Tesco's.




I called the lady over and pointed out I didn't need a bag anyway, so
why make my desired purchase conditional on applying a negative to the
purchase of a product I had no intention of buying anyway.

She stated it was only for carriers, when I went on to point out that
Tesco's had goods that I wanted even less than carrier bags and I
should have the preference of declining those also, she failed to see
the logic totally.

Sadly the diversion got a little tedious after around ten minutes, the
poor lady wasn't into philosophy, so I felt a little "short changed"
on the transaction due to Tesco's choice of bargain basement staff.


And of course you were entirely in the wrong. It is very sound
commercial and legal practice to formally ask you whether you have taken
any of the bags presented and available for your use. It would be so if
Tesco were merely ensuring that you had no excuse for failing to pay
them a sum owed by claiming ignorance of the arrangement. It is doubly
justified by the fact that Tesco have a legal obligation *not* to give
you free carrier bags. There method of fulfilling that obligation by
asking for a formal declaration is perhaps a little weak, but to do or
say nothing would be to drive a coach and horses through our whales'
only possible salvation. Had I been around you might have had this
explained to you.

Secndly, bullying shop staff is not very attractive behaviour.

You might have had better grounds for complaint in our local Co-op,
which still makes one declare the number, or absence, of disposable bags
used even though for over a year they have neither provided nor stocked
such bags. As a co-owner, however, I endure this on the grounds you
can't get the IT staff nowadays, for some reason.

That is the problem :-)

The people that write the software foruse by real people don't get out
at all!

I had a new Mazda some years back, first day out.

Remote unmanned secure site and I left the car for five mins to give
an instrument a tweak.

There were a few flies about, so I closed the car door with the keys
still in the ignition.

Returned to the Mazda to find it locked!

What dumb idiot would find it useful to add that ridiculous feature?

I had to wait hours on site for someone to come with a key!

I wouldn't do that with old fashioned all mechanical locks: there's
always the chance that slamming the doors lock them, the same as with
house door locks. Always take your keys with you.

Never had the problem before the Mazda.

The feature wasn't a mechanical or electrical fault, it was programmed
in by a totally clueless idiot who had given no thought whatsoever as
to the implcations.



There's a fine line between fishing
and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

~Steven Wright