Asda are banning cheques.... ye ha

[Loosehead]

Anyone else delighted with this news? Gets rid of one of the many pains in the proverbial!

[nedflanders]

yes now they need to ban oap's in motorised scooters, adults letting their kids push the trolleys, people standing in the middle of the aisles chatting to friends etc.etc. I am prone to a bit of shopping rage. "all queuebusters to the checkouts please"

[flip-flop]

Oh yes, fantastic - and to add to ned's hates, can I also add old people who go to the supermarkets on a Saturday morning and people (sorry, women) who wait for all their shopping to be scanned before they start packing and then, once they've packed, they then delve into the black hole that they call their handbags and rummage around for what feels like hours to find their purse.

Oh yes, and people who stand in front of (for example, the fish past section) have a very lengthy conversation about what or whether they should purchase a bit of crab paste when all i want to do is grab a jar of sardine and tomato.

Supermarkets - mainly ex Safeway Morrisons in my experience, who wait until the queues at the checkouts are starting to snake towards the M25 before they bother to open any other tills.

Etc... I could go on all day on this one.....................

Finally, just an observation here, if old people are pleading poverty so much, how is is that so many of them can afford to shop for food at M&S??? I was in my local M&S on Saturday and it was like god's waiting room!!

[Loosehead]

And what about those plonkers who think "Baskets Only" means put your basket in trolley and then pi55 everyone else in the queue off by taking enough space for 3 people.

And what about that gas they pump into the atmosphere that turns everyone (except me it seems!) into a dawdling zombie and how do they know to always be in my way aaaarrrrggggg, my local asda like the set from "dawn of the dead"

[sp1814]

Other end of the spectrum...people who pay for a packet of chewing gum and a copy of The Independent...with a switch card.

Carry some change for God's sake.

[Loosehead]

And why oh why do you still have to sign for cashback, it's "chip and sodding Pin"!

[casaespana]

Still on OAPs. With their free bus travel, (they now won't walk anywhere) and rich enhanced M&S food they are now fast becoming the next obese generation. We will soon have to enlarge doorways on public transport and supermarkets, for them to pass through, without becoming stuck. As usual the taxpayer will have to pay for it.

[kags]

I think you have to sign for cashback so that you don't go back later and claim the assistant never gave it to you. However, in my local COOP, they make you sign BEFORE they give you the money. I had the manager out to explain the ridiculous policy, but he had had a brain bypass, and just said it was "company policy". I told him their policy protected neither the customer nor the shop, but he said if there was a dispute they always give the customer their money. Now there's tempting....

[Gef]

Chip and pin is just as slow as using a cheque. I would love to see some "Cash only" checkouts.

[Pippa68]

I'm with sp1814 ~ doesn't anyone use real money anymore?

This morning I was in a queue & everyone was using debit cards..the chip&pin was taking forever & I very nearly threw my basket in the aisle. Instead I moved to the basket/cash only till which had miraculously opened seconds before ~ only to stand behind a customer who handed over a debit card..the cashier smiled & processed the payment. Sheesh.

[Pippa68]

Gef ~ I feel your pain!!!

[Loosehead]

I generally use cash, occasionally the debit card. I never have cash back though.

Gef on what planet can a debit card be slower than a cheque. You tear out a cheque hand it over they print it you check it, sign it they take your debit card and write war and peace on the back taking lots of time to check all the stuff. Compared to: card in slot type pin viola!

I can tolerate chip and pin but cheques make my blood boil especially when they guarentee it with a debit card! Why not just use the card, Oh I know you need the 3 days for it to clear because you're skint! The get organised!

[dyli795]

Ye Ha !!! Indeed !!!

From reading all the input, the realy good idea is the "Cash Only" queue. Whatever happened to good old cash?

[lady_p_gold]

Never carry cash and the other day I got caught out at Kings Cross as you had to pay to use the ladies .. nightmare !!!!! That's one place where they don't accept a debit card ... yet ....... !!!

[campbellking]

Please just ban the people who stand behind you in the queue and repeatedly bash you with their shopping basket;you take a step forward to avoid them and they just come further forward and bash you again....

[Gef]

Sorry Loosehead but I am organised. I always use cash. I know that a cheque takes a while but chip and pin takes just as long - put card in, wait ages, put in pin, wait ages. Why can't people just use cash?

Pippa I know what you mean. Only once found a supermarket with a cash only checkout. Great I thought until the idiot in front of me then proceeded to pay by card. Felt like telling him to pxxs off - aaarrrrgh.

[netibiza]

Leave the OAPs alone, they've probably done more in their lives than you lot will ever do, and I hope they dawdle and mutter and forget things right in front of you all at the checkout!!

[Bohne]

Why would that be delightful?

I don't get it!
Are you one of the people who are always in a hurry and will probably have a stomach ulcer by the age of 40?

[Loosehead]

I agree cash is king gef, I mostly use it, the card/cheque thing is really me trying to grade what anoys me the most and it's cheques.

I think what annoys people about oap's is that they can go shopping anytime but they always seem to be dodering about delaying you in your lunch hour when they have all the time in the world and you don't

[Loosehead]

Bohne, it's delightful because one of my bug bears is being removed, where you not delighted when something that annoys you was removed?

I am well over 40, I've never had an ulcer and I'm still fit enough to play Rugby every Saturday with blokes from 18 onwards.