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Old 03-19-2018, 11:42 AM   #3161
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Early in my career I was a migrant nuclear worker and moved to a new area every year or so. Invariably someone would warn me to “be careful; nobody uses turn signals around here.”
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Old 03-19-2018, 11:53 AM   #3162
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BS had a story about microscopic pieces of plastic in bottled water:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/2...-water-tested/

The question they don't answer: Does the plastic just pass through you? Is it totally benign or not?

Another site says, "The consequences of these findings for human health are unknown." CBS should have said that.
I think it is because the consequences have not been studied. But then why report it?
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Invariably someone would warn me to “be careful; nobody uses turn signals around here.”
When my late wife & I first moved to Salt Spring Island in B.C., we were told, by someone who relocated to there about a year earlier, of following an older lifetime island resident who suddenly and without warning turned into a driveway..........when confronted, the islander replied "Well, everybody knows I live here".
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Went shopping for some stuff today. Spent over an hour loading up a half-full cart. Left cart and went to restroom (short few minutes) before getting ready to pay and leave. Upon returning, my cart was nowhere to be found. What? Can't even take a pee break now without the cart being taken away?

I ended up just buying a couple of things I intended to buy and no more. Either this was an odd incidence or a bad store policy.
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Exactly. So, nobody at CBS thought of that?

Okay, one other example: CBS had a story about microscopic pieces of plastic in bottled water:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/2...-water-tested/

The question they don't answer: Does the plastic just pass through you? Is it totally benign or not?

Another site says, "The consequences of these findings for human health are unknown." CBS should have said that.
Isn't that why we have a liver?
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Our local Kroger has started using hand-held scanners where you are supposed to scan everything as you go and pay for it at the self-serve checkout. I haven't tried it yet, but based on my experience with the self-scanners I'm not optimistic.

My peeve is that they also got rid of all the express lanes and put in additional self-service checkout lanes. Today, the lines at the regular checkouts were all too long so against my better judgment I used one of the self-service checkouts.

BAD idea! As usual, the dang thing locked up on me at least three times because it thought I had placed something in the bagging area when I hadn't. Each time, I get the "attendant called" message and I have to stand there while the poor guy's helping somebody else with the same problem. And I have to scan at a rate probably 1/10th that at which I see the cashiers doing, likely because it's weighing each item in the bagging area to make sure it doesn't think I'm stealing something.

Maybe next time I will give one of the hand-held scan-as-you-go doohickeys a try. But this whole thing is an attempt to push more of the customer service duties onto the customer.
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Our local Kroger has started using hand-held scanners where you are supposed to scan everything as you go and pay for it at the self-serve checkout. I haven't tried it yet, but based on my experience with the self-scanners I'm not optimistic.

My peeve is that they also got rid of all the express lanes and put in additional self-service checkout lanes. Today, the lines at the regular checkouts were all too long so against my better judgment I used one of the self-service checkouts.

BAD idea! As usual, the dang thing locked up on me at least three times because it thought I had placed something in the bagging area when I hadn't. Each time, I get the "attendant called" message and I have to stand there while the poor guy's helping somebody else with the same problem. And I have to scan at a rate probably 1/10th that at which I see the cashiers doing, likely because it's weighing each item in the bagging area to make sure it doesn't think I'm stealing something.

Maybe next time I will give one of the hand-held scan-as-you-go doohickeys a try. But this whole thing is an attempt to push more of the customer service duties onto the customer.
This frankly annoys me no end. I've decided I want nothing to do with it. There is no upside for me at all to do their work for them. It's quite enough that I too often have to bag my own groceries; doing my own cashiering or using the frimpin' hand-held (produce is a real pain) and bagging as I go is just too much aggravation. I may be retired, but if you want me to do something that takes my time and effort, you'll have to pay me.
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My sentiments exactly.
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I, too, see no advantage to a scan-as-I-go setup. And if I saw a huge line at checkout due to elimination of live cashier's and regular self-serve checkout, I'd abandon the cart right there and go somewhere else to shop. "Sorry, I can't stay here for this. The ice cream and steaks are at the bottom, sorry."
Methinks even the thickest innovation obsessed management will get the clue when they are spending more restocking items left by irate customers than they would have paid cashiers.
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Old 03-21-2018, 06:28 AM   #3171
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Oh, and on top of my scanning peeve, I have to continually dodge the workers picking internet grocery orders with their huge carts.
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Our local Kroger has started using hand-held scanners where you are supposed to scan everything as you go and pay for it at the self-serve checkout. I haven't tried it yet, but based on my experience with the self-scanners I'm not optimistic. .....
Scanning as you go doesn't appeal to me but I do like the way they do it at some checkouts at BJ's... you leave everything in the cart and just scan each item with a handheld scanner after scanning your membership card... that approach works really well in my experience.

Then I just walk the cart to the car an put the items in bags that I keep in the trunk.
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Went shopping for some stuff today. Spent over an hour loading up a half-full cart. Left cart and went to restroom (short few minutes) before getting ready to pay and leave. Upon returning, my cart was nowhere to be found. What? Can't even take a pee break now without the cart being taken away?
I was at Costco in the checkout and discovered that my membership had expired. Went to their desk and took 10 minutes to get two new ones (luckily DW was there to get her picture taken), and returned to find the cart intact at the end of the nearest isle.

I think the wide variety of self-checkout solutions indicates that no one has found an acceptable solution yet. In Walmart in Mexico, express checkout is a single line for 6 or 8 cashiers. Seems to work great.
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It was cold, wet, and windy here today. What the hell is up with that?!
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I received four text messages from four different campaigns telling me who to vote for in yesterday's primary. Gah. There's no escape from marketers.
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Were the texts in English or Russian?
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Were the texts in English or Russian?
Not picking up on Russian accents . Here's one of them: "This is Jessica with Team JB! The primary election is just around the corner-can we count on your vote for JB and Juliana?" Go away, textbots.
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I love scanners, they save me a lot of time.

I love food and I love "spur of the moment" inspirations. A lot of times I will go to the grocery to buy a lb of burger and a couple of rolls (or similar) and instead of waiting behind people with full carts I just breeze through the scanner. Don't even need a bag I have so little.
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I love scanners, they save me a lot of time.

I love food and I love "spur of the moment" inspirations. A lot of times I will go to the grocery to buy a lb of burger and a couple of rolls (or similar) and instead of waiting behind people with full carts I just breeze through the scanner. Don't even need a bag I have so little.
I'm the same way. I never buy more than I can easily carry to the car, so I never need a shopping cart, just a hand basket. And I always use the self-checkout lane. I visit the supermarket at least two or three times a week for these small loads.

Haven't seen the handheld scanners you carry around the store yet, but for the few things I buy at a time I don't think it would be a problem for me.
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not a pet peeve, but one that I found a solution to

We have been using Walmart grocery online to place orders. Convenient and I can find anything in the store, including non-grocery items, on the site. I place the order and pick a time when to pick it up. They text or e-mail me at the start of the hour time I picked. The store is a mile away and I just drive down to the designated area and they load the items (pre-bagged) in the back of the car.

Works great and no searching the store for items and using scanners, etc. I do the shopping since DW can't do it anymore.

There are times when I go get a few items in person and deal with the stores.
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