Makes you wonder that if self- checkouts are easy to fool, why don’t they revert to fully manned tills/checkouts. Sutely unless the checkout operator is complicit it has to be a far more reliable system to prevent theft/fraudulent transactions?
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In Germany Aldi and Lidl are at (price) war. Not in England?
Yep. We had an abusive customer kicking off after close one night. I was with the security guys and physically pushed him out of the door. Security told me I shouldn’t do that as I could be open to an assault charge.
Our security is also instructed to let thieves go if they manage to exit the threshold of the store. It’s nuts.
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Our son Ben has been working on a piece of music for Billy-Lloyd Webber over the past month. The label accepted it, and then everything escalated, they wanted varied mixes for short, extended, standard and promotional plays, which he provided. After that it was promotional videos of him in the studio, to go with each, he was horrified, he doesn’t want to be seen, totally understandable.
Picked up Sarah from the stroke rehab unit and stopped off at Ben’s on the way home. He said the music had been released to coincide with the film release of 28 Years Later.
Sarah checked Instagram a while ago, and it came straight up, Boots by benjisaidso. Really weird, he is on all social media sites, but there is a delay with Spotify.
I’m not on any social media, so Sarah showed me on her phone, I just hope it leads somewhere better.
To us he said Techno it’s not his style, and he was back writing with a young Irish guy today doing folk based music.
Perhaps @Dan_M could enlighten us if it is any good or not.
I still don’t understand the link to the film.
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Proper staffed checkouts are slower. And need more staff.
It’s that simple. People (in our store, especially the office mob on lunchbreaks) just don’t want to wait: get in, get out.
Plus, people are effing useless at human interaction! The number of customers who, knowing they’re going to be called by name, sit there with their headphones on looking at their ever-present phones!!! It drives me crazy. Then they moan because they didn’t hear their name called!
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Tricky that. My daughter had to do a bit of work experience for college application purposes. She’d come home each work day and tell of people just grabbing and walking out of the store with dozens of items of clothing.
Don’t think I’d expect any non- trained staff security wisr to step in and take a risk.
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Self-checkout is quick and easy for a small number of items but falls flat for larger purchases.
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Yes, my comments are about food items from our (Waitrose) food hall. I’m in the larger (John Lewis) store. We don’t have self-serve checkouts in the JL store.
But… they’ll come, maybe. THAT should be fun.
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I think in the UK they actually complement each other as both have some items which you can’t get in the other.
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It’s the safest option. Back when my dad was driving buses in the 70s to the 90s the driver had a bag of cash - the rule was you gave them the money.
You’d be amazed how many times my dad got abuse while working and the male passengers did nothing.
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I was beaten up in caff nr Shaftesbury Avenue once by two drunks who had just seen The Sweeney movie (they didn’t like my (very) long hair). Caff was full of guys, who just sat there…
(It was plain that these two had singled me out. I’m proud to say I fought back. Got a scar to prove it).
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Tried and failed to move from Sky (contract up) to BT/EE for my TV & streaming package. What a saga, involving incorrect advice and mind-boggling inflexibility in giving BT/EE a big step-up in revenues (IMHO). Bottom line, as I already have BT broadband which expires in January coming, BT/EE insisted on extending this alongside a 2Y TV deal (fair enough), but as I’m on an expensive legacy BB deal (big CPI increase), I asked this be reworked on ‘mutually acceptable’ market-facing terms. Oh no. They wanted £40+ pm for 2 years, when the market is down at ~£25.
Raised a complaint about the whole sorry saga and why I was mislead - now advised this is ‘closed’, with no apology.
The current operating environment just gives criminals the green light. The result is inevitable.
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Blimey, when I was near the big HMV store in Oxford Street, security would chase people down the street. It was almost entertaining to see.
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This is why I don’t have 'packages '. Broadband and the various streaming services we have are all separate.
We’ve not had a recording box for years now.
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I’m going to have to think how I want access to content now, as Sky’s prices are too punchy IMHO (relative to EE), and ‘packages’ appear the best way to go for choice and convenience. And I don’t want to pay for football I have no interest in. I like a ‘recording box’ for convenience.
Good tune. Like it. Congrats to Ben.
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I have considered a VHS VCR but the missus said, “no”.
There’s an old well in our “orchard”, capped with two reinforced concrete slabs, one of which was broken, disintegrating and in need of replacement.
It was through that broken slab that Zhukov had deposited many toys. You can spot one lodged in the corbelling to the top left.
Decided the easiest fix was a couple of landscaping sleepers, cut to length and fitted with stops to prevent sideways movement.
Finished job.
Rather hot and humid out there. I’ve earned a cool beer. Possibly two.
Willy.
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