It's hard enough trying to buy something from one of those tills.....

[BrilloPad]

let alone nick something

Shoppers steal £3.2bn from self-service tills every year | Daily Mail Online

I hope the amount stolen is less than the amount saved in staff costs.

[greenlake]

It's hard enough trying to buy something from one of those tills.....

[vetran]

less than £200 its not like the Police are going to attend.

Its hardly surprising.

That may explain why the supermarkets seem to have 1 person attending to the self service tills now.

It used to be 0.25 of a person they seemed to be gathering the trolleys & cleaning the loos at the same time.

[BR14]

less than £200 its not like the Police are going to attend.

Its hardly surprising.

That may explain why the supermarkets seem to have 1 person attending to the self service tills now.

It used to be 0.25 of a person they seemed to be gathering the trolleys & cleaning the loos at the same time.

you may be right, i'll ask the housekeeper

[Hobosapien]

Expect to see one assistant for each self service till.

An example where technology threatens to make humans redundant and human nature fights back.

I never progressed beyond stealing penny chews at the corner shop as a kid. Like many, that guilt stopped me becoming the thieving scumbag that pervades society. [angel emoticon goes here ]

[FrontEnder]

You mean the "one for me, one for" aisle?

[reddog]

I live in Switzerland, in Switzerland you do not have the problem of 'in the bagging area', they just assume you will scan it and put it in whatever bag you want.

Also on Switzerland, you can delete stuff you have accidentally scanned, again saving on faffing around with staff.

The main reason they can do this is because they have faith that their customers aren't going to nick stuff at any opportunity.

Taking a portable scanner and self scanning the weekly shop as you go round is also big in Switzerland, again a none starter in Britain due to "shrinkage"

[Lance]

Taking a portable scanner and self scanning the weekly shop as you go round is also big in Switzerland, again a none starter in Britain due to "shrinkage"

We have these. But only in nice areas.

Surely France would have a bigger problem? Anything not firmly attached seems fair game over there.

[vetran]

you may be right, i'll ask the housekeeper

you pay her so poorly that she has to moonlight at Tesco?

INKSPE

[vetran]

Expect to see one assistant for each self service till.

An example where technology threatens to make humans redundant and human nature fights back.

I never progressed beyond stealing penny chews at the corner shop as a kid. Like many, that guilt stopped me becoming the thieving scumbag that pervades society. [angel emoticon goes here ]

no but one assistant per 8 tills would be handy!