People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Self check in at Gatwick for hold luggage with all major airlines now.
Still queues of people apprehensively (quite rightly) weighing their own luggage and nervously attaching the bar code sticker thing whilst reading the screen instructions.
Difficult to believe it’s more efficient for once a year holiday makers and need for staff to assist (it seems) more often than not.
I thought it was accepted that travelling (especially as a group) is stressful until your luggage is deposited.
Self check in at Gatwick for hold luggage with all major airlines now.
Still queues of people apprehensively (quite rightly) weighing their own luggage and nervously attaching the bar code sticker thing whilst reading the screen instructions.
Difficult to believe it’s more efficient for once a year holiday makers and need for staff to assist (it seems) more often than not.
I thought it was accepted that travelling (especially as a group) is stressful until your luggage is deposited.
With all of this stuff its the pace of change and the lack of foresight for the human element, like you say, once a year travellers.
Self checkouts are a good example, I'm a veteran of them but still rarely get to pay for shopping without issue and there are never enough humans around to tap their card and type a number in
I've used them a few times and as long as there is nobody doing as you say, understandably taking their time and apprehensively going through the steps, in front of me. Great. Senior people, people in charge of shit like trains, airports, shops will realise too late what taking human jobs away will do to society. Uber will do it next with self driving cars because nothing could go wrong with that could it. And as terrible as most uber drivers are, I'd rather one of them than the thing driving itself
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
Think that prospect would annoy me enough in its own right!!
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
They don't still use cheques do they?
They were 2 years ago
Still do today! I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I opened my French bank account and was sent a cheque book and à paying in book! However, due to uncovered cheques there’s a lot places that no longer take them and I think they’re slowly being phased out, although the over 65s (I’m not there yet) don’t seem to want to give them up!
On the same theme, people who push their shopping trolleys into your back while queuing for the checkout. No need for that at all. I like to take my revenge by unloading at snail's pace and pretending to look for vouchers in my wallet, knowing full well I don't have any.
I did this once, completely by accident. The bloke I nudged pushed back and I and my trolley took a step backwards. Got in a hell of a row with the arsehole as I had politely apologised immediately but he was having none of it.
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
They don't still use cheques do they?
They were 2 years ago
Still do today! I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I opened my French bank account and was sent a cheque book and à paying in book! However, due to uncovered cheques there’s a lot places that no longer take them and I think they’re slowly being phased out, although the over 65s (I’m not there yet) don’t seem to want to give them up!
There was a time you'd get Gendarme turn up on your door step for bouncing a cheque.
People who take ages to pack their shopping and then spend ages looking for their purse/wallet/phone to pay, whilst I'm waiting in the queue behind them. It's for this reason that I always use scan as you shop if available.
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
They don't still use cheques do they?
They were 2 years ago
Still do today! I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I opened my French bank account and was sent a cheque book and à paying in book! However, due to uncovered cheques there’s a lot places that no longer take them and I think they’re slowly being phased out, although the over 65s (I’m not there yet) don’t seem to want to give them up!
There was a time you'd get Gendarme turn up on your door step for bouncing a cheque.
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Self checkouts are a good example, I'm a veteran of them but still rarely get to pay for shopping without issue and there are never enough humans around to tap their card and type a number in
I've used them a few times and as long as there is nobody doing as you say, understandably taking their time and apprehensively going through the steps, in front of me. Great. Senior people, people in charge of shit like trains, airports, shops will realise too late what taking human jobs away will do to society. Uber will do it next with self driving cars because nothing could go wrong with that could it. And as terrible as most uber drivers are, I'd rather one of them than the thing driving itself
Don't ever move to France. This is the default way of doing it. Then they insist on writing a cheque and then insist on hand writing it, as opposed to letting the till print it
I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I opened my French bank account and was sent a cheque book and à paying in book!
However, due to uncovered cheques there’s a lot places that no longer take them and I think they’re slowly being phased out, although the over 65s (I’m not there yet) don’t seem to want to give them up!
The bloke I nudged pushed back and I and my trolley took a step backwards.
Got in a hell of a row with the arsehole as I had politely apologised immediately but he was having none of it.