It can do harm, because some chancer can step into the gap to queue-jump, and the person responsible for the gap in the first place might not even notice if they are engrossed in their phone or whatever. I have myself taken my place in such a gap inadvertently once or twice (in front of a person who I took to be browsing the adjacent shelves), but I was corrected and I apologised; it is best if the issue is avoided entirely. There is also the matter of the tail of the queue creating a greater obstuction than it needs to, especially at supermarket checkouts where the tail typically extends into the main internal cross gangway.
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dangie
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Computer home printers.
Don't use it for a week. Switch it on takes an hour (ok not quite but seems like it) to start up. God knows what its doing. Have tried leaving it on but it still goes through the same long winded start-up malarkey.
Begins printing.... I think.
Error 'Insert Paper'. No.... there's paper in it.
Remove paper tray, take paper out and put it back in. Press Resume Printing.
Error then comes up 'paper jam'. No it isn't bloody jammed, the paper hasn't moved.
Remove paper tray, take paper out and put it back in. Press Resume Printing.
Printer kicks into action.
Ink Cartridge [insert colour] low warning. What...!!! I only changed it last week and haven't used it since.
Override error. Finally prints..... Hooray.....
Why are they so bl**dy frustrating...!!??!!
Don't use it for a week. Switch it on takes an hour (ok not quite but seems like it) to start up. God knows what its doing. Have tried leaving it on but it still goes through the same long winded start-up malarkey.
Begins printing.... I think.
Error 'Insert Paper'. No.... there's paper in it.
Remove paper tray, take paper out and put it back in. Press Resume Printing.
Error then comes up 'paper jam'. No it isn't bloody jammed, the paper hasn't moved.
Remove paper tray, take paper out and put it back in. Press Resume Printing.
Printer kicks into action.
Ink Cartridge [insert colour] low warning. What...!!! I only changed it last week and haven't used it since.
Override error. Finally prints..... Hooray.....
Why are they so bl**dy frustrating...!!??!!
birchesgreen
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Yes home printers are rubbish (office ones arn't that much better).
I've got a small Brother laser printer at home which seems to always work without (much) trouble when i need to use it (though these days not that often), i hope it lasts forever!
PeterY
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Reading this, I realise that it does indeed increase the possibility of a confrontation between people; which as you say, might be polite or might be, or become, otherwise. Also, didn't think of the "tail-back" element. My dislike would seem to make more sense, than I'd thought !
Gloster
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Self-service tills that pay out small change when they don’t have to. Put in a load of change to bring the total payment down to a round £4, put in a £5 note and got the £1 change in a larger number of assorted value coins than I had put in.
jon81uk
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Many of those machines only carry smaller coins, or are reliant in £1 coins being put in to be given out again. With fewer and fewer people paying with cash they probably haven't received enough one pound coins to make it work.
Gloster
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I got 50p., 20p., 2x10p., 5p., 2x2p. and 1p. Was that all it had?
jon81uk
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was that low on change then.
Busaholic
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Untrue - cash use in retailers formed 19% of sales last year, up from 15% the year before.
Self Service tills that accept cash. Slows it down for everyone else. Make them all card only.
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Strat-tastic
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People from thinking life is a race 
I'd go one further than that: self service tills shared between self scan and scan as you go customers. Most shoppers, where the goods have been scanned as they go into a basket/trolley, irrespective of the quantity of goods can be cleared through payment in about 30 seconds, whereas they same shop where the customer scans each item at the till just blocks the till out for ages, - maybe 5 minutes or more. The manned tills have much higher throughput as the cashier doesn faff around, unpacking, trying to scan and then repack whilst blocking the till from others customers. I suspect that the recent decision by Booths to reinstate manned tills was in part influenced by that.
jon81uk
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Yes the pandemic resulted in less cash use and it has gone back up slightly, but its still dropped from around 60% of transactions being cash a decade earlier. In 2017 debit cards overtook cash as the most popular way to pay for things. The pandemic meant fewer people using cash and some of those switched back, but overall the trend of less cash being used than ten years ago still holds.
In London that is the way things have already gone. Vast majority of self-service tills don't have cash slots anymore.
gg1
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My local Tesco has a separate set of tills purely for self scan but in the 3 years or so I've been shopping there I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen them open. I think they only open them when the store is extremely busy, the rest of the time self scan and self service shoppers have to share the same tills.
Waitrose, (my corner shop) has four self service tills all of which could do either 'quick check', which is scan whist shopping, and 'self scan', which is manually scanning each item at the till. During the pandemic they made on of the four quick check only as those who used it are much quicker at the till. However, at busy times, the three dual purpose ones still get bunged up by those who have a trolley of 30+ items and aren't very good at using the scanner on the till!
Drive past? more like they don't allow riff-raff in the store, I hear they'll allow anyone in Sainsbury's these days! Not like that is an issue if anything it's a great thing that there is somewhere better for the lower classes to shop whilst keeping them away from Waitrose.Ah. I don‘t go to Waitrose - rip off! I drive past it to go to Sainsbury’s
Richard Scott
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What a ridiculous response. Perhaps try going, I shop wherever they have what I want at prices I'm happy to pay and Waitrose have some good offers on things I want as do other supermarkets. Like other supermarkets there are a cross section of society, I'll conceded Waitrose does have a higher proportion of those with money and these can be very entitled and annoying.
it was a joke! Most of my shopping is either Lidl or Tesco
Richard Scott
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Unfortunately didn't quite come across like that, there are people in the world who would say that in all seriousness!
dangie
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I thought it pretty accurate
DelW
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Have you never come across the well known quote from the much-missed Alan Coren, who famously said "I love Sainsbury's, it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose"? I doubt it was ever intended as seriously as you're taking it.
Strat-tastic
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I think a little winky could've helped here
Richard Scott
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Can't say I have, unfortunately with the written word it's not always taken as intended; at least when spoken there are other clues as to the intention.
My post was a genuine response to a discussion on self service tills. @Bald Rick was just passing an opinion. Living less than three minutes walk from the store makes it an obvious choice to shop at, defiantly no need to start the car and park it elsewere. Big shop.? - take the trolley home.
Expensive?, not really when comparing products by quality - their 'Essential' range is way above Tesco's 'Value' line or Sainsbury's 'Basics' products and generally comparable with those stores' similarly priced mid-range products. And for me, there's the welcome free cup of decent coffee and a daily newspaper. Hardly a rip off!
That's not to say that I never go to Sainsbury, Tesco or even Aldi.
Expensive?, not really when comparing products by quality - their 'Essential' range is way above Tesco's 'Value' line or Sainsbury's 'Basics' products and generally comparable with those stores' similarly priced mid-range products. And for me, there's the welcome free cup of decent coffee and a daily newspaper. Hardly a rip off!
That's not to say that I never go to Sainsbury, Tesco or even Aldi.
61653 HTAFC
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People who nick shopping trollies and leave them lying around/in bushes/in the canal...
Ted633
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People who use self checkout with a huge juggernaut of shopping and massively overflow the 'basket' area. It must take them so much longer to do it that way and it clogs up a till for ages.
(Aware some supermarkets have large areas designed for trollies, but my local Lidl is basket size only)
(Aware some supermarkets have large areas designed for trollies, but my local Lidl is basket size only)
dangie
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Agree of course, plus those who leave them in the middle of the shop car park as they’re too bone idle to return them.