Scan As You Shop...

[Chipchopper]

Anyone tried it yet.
So what did you think ?

[gingejbee]

Used it for several years now, in Waitrose. Wouldn't ever NOT use it there, brilliant and very easy.

[Chipchopper]

Thanks, I thought it was a new thing

[ummmm]

Safeways used to do it years ago. It's easy....especially good if someone is on a tight budget.

[Tilly2]

You need it in Waitrose so you can keep tabs on what you're spending!

[sddsddean]

Our Tesco has had it for a couple of years...wouldn't do it any other way. No unpacking on to the belt then packing back in the trolley. You get checked about every 10 shops you do, but its not a real inconveinence. I don't know why everyone doesn't do it!

[Jackdaw33]

Like self-service checkouts, these devices are putting people out of work. One supervisor can easily manage 8 such tills. For this reason a friend of mine refuses to use his ATM card and draws cash over the counter. When asked why, he told the cashier, "So you can keep your job".

[Tilly2]

When we were newly married we used to take a calculator with us when we went shopping.

When we reached £10.00 we stopped shopping! We bought the alcohol first.......then added the food. :-)

[Prudie]

I've never understood the point of it but as some of you have now explained I still couldn't be faffed.

[Jackdaw33]

I take the view that it is not my job to do someone else's.

[Tilly2]

I only ever use it in Waitrose, Prudie. It does help to know how much you've spent.

[ummmm]

I take the view that if it makes shopping quicker and easier I'll use it.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd happily use that method, I don't do much shopping in store now.

But I do get to scan my shopping at home for market research and get rewarded for it - just have to hide the scanner from the children.

[gingejbee]

Tesco do a check about every tenth shop? Really? Obviously don't trust their customers.
I've not been checked ("re-scanned") for well over 18 months in Waitrose.

[ummmm]

My local Tesco asked someone to leave because she looked suspicious. Obviously she went to the local paper...

[Bazile]

What would happen if you got checked and an item was found not to have been scanned ?.

Afterall , it's easy to pick an item up and drop it in your trolley , without remembering to scan it , especially if your mind is occupied with other matters .

[ummmm]

Baz - In Safeways any offers were not deducted until checkout so the scanner was hardly ever right anyway.

[Cloverjo]

I used to use it Safeway, which doesn't exist now. I usually go to Tesco nowadays and they don't have it.
I don't think my local Waitrose does. It would be useful to keep track of spending, as Tilly says. I am always shocked by how big the bill is when I've only gone in for a bit of meat.

[murraymints]

I do not use self service on principal...peoples jobs matter..machines don't !

[diddlydo]

It's brilliant - you only have to put stuff in bags in your trolley and then lift them out into the car. No messing about in checkout queues behind a slow person and no moving goods from trolley to belt to bags to trolley. I use it in Waitrose all the time even if I only go in for a couple of things.

[Old_Geezer]

Not used it and I suspect it is fine if you need to keep tabs on how much you are spending. But otherwise I see it as a nudge to doing your own totting up thus relieving the store of providing that service since you are prepared to do it for them. Personally I'd prefer folk to keep their jobs and tot up the damage at the till. That's part of the store's side of the deal. I already agree to fetch the products for them, the very least they can do is work out the bill.