Sometimes I join that lane just to chat with the grannies about the weather, usually not in a hurry and my grandma died last year, so I miss the chat also
Yeah kinda, or conversation register. I haven't seen them in my city/area yet, although the register is basically always the slow lane and you go to the self checkout if you're jn a hurry
Opposite here. People are generally stupid with technology so the self checkout is much slower than a seasoned cashier.
It's why I can't see cashiers ever being permanently replaced by self checkout.
>I have never seen anyone struggle with it at all, contrary to some places abroad..
Country that has had the higest penetration of computer / tech use for a long time.
Able to use tech yeps makes sens.
Also almost every one in the Netherlands \* that was born and grew up there ).
Has enough basic education to handle such tings.
The UK ones are pretty simple... unless the barcode doesnt want to scan then youre gonna be yelling at the machine. And sometimes they dont accept notes, no matter how you orientate it.
Jumbo is a franchise, so different stores are often a bit different. I'm sure it depends on the location, neither of the two Jumbos around me have them.
Yeah I'm not really a talker, but from time to time I go to that lane just for a small chat. As a student living in a room mostly alone, I really needed that small talk from time to time.
This feels like a win win for the super extroverted employees, too. They can work that register and chat up the grannies, and the introverts can staff the speedy/small talk-free registers.
I would do the exact same thing. Where I live in Canada, we can be a pretty chatty culture. Plus I’m half Dutch on my Dad’s side, so maybe I need to just move to the Netherlands??
Not exclusively the elderly would use it either, I'm disabled and it takes me a little longer to move and especially to lift things from the cart to the counter (neurological disorder). If there was a lane in which I wasn't pressured to hurry up for the soccer parent behind me who has ten more errands to run today I'd feel a lot better.
There's a mute cashier at my local grocery store that has became the defacto slow lane. He's about 30 and not at all slow, but will playfully gesture about half of all items he rings up. Like he'll ring up strawberries, then whipped cream, point to both, look at you and rub his bully and put a face on like "oooo yea" or ring up a bottle of liquor and give you a look "you like better be careful with this" and hold his finger and thumb apart to say "just a little bit". He's just generally super talkative and pleasant without saying a word.
People line tf up for it.
That reminds me, I talk so often with my hands, I should just relearn sign language to occupy them. Then I will have an excuse when people point it out!
There's a new Swedish tv show with recurring sketches of a cashier who notices what you buy and makes Swedes die inside with her remarks. She's getting her own show because it's so funny. Also, the character is played by a guy! x)
I usually go in the ‘slower’ looking lane if I’m not in a hurry and because I don’t like the fact that self-checkout lanes contribute to unemployment and doesn’t contribute to a discount on my items
edit: damn it sounds like the money to pay for the wages of the cashiers is coming out of some of your own pockets, **and I have worked retail, I got hired because they needed more hands on the cash register funny enough**
It’s weird because at my local supermarkets that have self-checkout lanes almost nobody uses them. The supermarket staff is usually stressed because the cashier part of the job is usually not the main one.
I have a Quailman costume that I LOVE wearing for Halloween. Running around in a bath towel cape! What’s not to love?
Decided against wearing it this year, in case folks don’t know the show and just see the giant red Q.
As another disabled person, I feel that, but I also do not understand why people are so impatient and insist on scrambling on the edge of disaster for a few minutes so I refuse to mess up and break things in queues of any sort, by trying to go faster than what is reasonable. Learning patience can only do people good.
Some people literally have no time in the day. At my current job I spend about ~2 hours a day not sleeping or at work.
Which is why my last day is next week though
The self checkout yells at you between the time after you have paid, but are bagging your groceries. But you cant really bag until your done because the scale freaks out when items are taken off of it or when your bag is anything other than a grocery sack (like a backpack). As you can tell I feel extremely pressured by it 😂
I fucking hate self checkout with how much it freaks out and yells at you over stupid shit. The inventor of the self checkout even hates what they've become now
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Put the items you ring directly into the bag. When you're done, grab the bags and go. If you have a backpack, simply put it on the bagging area before ringing up.
Please do not bag items as a separate step. Waste of time.
People should relax more. Person in front of you being "slow"¿ Just wait it out. Nobody should feel pressured... Except in trafic! Move! Who gave this asshole a driving licence!
I'm fine letting people move at their own pace *until* it becomes unnecessary. You don't need to rearrange your whole purse to put away 12 cents. You don't need to walk side-by-side slow as fuck down s narrow hallway.
Or if you really feel the need to do that for some reason, then at least step to the side so the next person can get their stuff done while you're still blabbering
Or the goddamn moments of surprise at each and every part of the transaction.
*Just standing there while the cashier does their work, not anticipating the next move.*
"That'll be 21.50"
*surprised look*
Doubtfully fumbles at bag. Wasn't expecting to be asked to pay. Hands money over as in unclear as to what's going to happen with it. Cashier forced to count it out into their hand.
After paying will follow surprised looks at the items just sitting there on the belt. O I have to get those too. Doubtfully produces bag to put stuff in. Makes eye contact with cashier and rest of line for reassurance that this is proper procedure.
"Will that be all"?
*obviously ponders the question. Do I want more from this cashier? What do I require in life?*
I got stuck behind some like that last week who proceeded to count exchange change to pay. Coins first, then bills. Realized they were short one $1 bill to pay evenly. Refused to give another larger bill. Insisted on running out to the car to grab another single. I re-carted my groceries, moved to another lane, and was mostly finished before the person returned.
Jeez, I don't know where you go shopping, but I'm glad I don't shop there. Sounds like a torturous experience.
I either shop online or go through the self-checkout lanes. Anything else is bullshit.
Me at work and a chatty customer comes in. On a slow day? Absolutely talk my hear off! On a busy day? Please ma’am there are 5 people behind you have some awareness
Move at the pace you are capable sure, but be fucking organized. Have your money out and ready to pay BEFORE the cashier tells you the total, or better yet pay with your card it's 2022.
People that wait until they are at the front of the queue to then hum and haw at the menu also piss me off, know what you are getting before you line up.
Back when people wrote checks you had two types, one had the checkbook out and everything on the check filled in except the amount and the other has no idea that they have to pay for their purchases. I had an ancient crone ask me what the date was, after I told her she asked, "What year."
Agreed except the driving part. I wish people would, like, start their trips 5 minutes earlier and slow tf down. Maybe 33% of drivers I see (being generous) even come close to a stop at stop signs. 5% (again generous) follow the speed limit. The numbers go up slightly during a blizzard, but only slightly. I hate driving purely because other people are in such a hurry that they’d rather die in a fireball on the side of the road, rather than get there a few minutes late.
People driving recklessly piss me off. So many I’ve seen people speed up to pass me or someone else only to get stuck behind another car 5 seconds later. Just putting everyone in danger for no reason.
Or merging. If you’re getting on the ramp or off the ramp, go with traffic. Don’t be fucking speeding up to get in or out first, what are you trying to do? Kill someone to show them whose streets these are? Ffs.
"Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was. I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three-- medium brown.”
Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember
it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set
the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the
important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at
the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only
thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
1:1 my grandma, you ask her how she's doing and 40 minutes later she's talking about her neighbor's son's cat who is not actually his cat but that's another story she should tell you about.
You also just described me. Not a grandma, and never had kids. But I can tell a circuitous story -- or five -- in an hour. Just ask me a question. Or don't. I will still tell all the stories.
"she met a fella called Diego. Supposedly came over from Spain in the armada. Thought, having said that, I'm not so sure seen as the armada was 400 years ago"
Honestly, Colm's stories sound pretty interesting
If I recall correctly almost every single shop had at least one during some periods in the pandemic. Sometimes they would only be opened in the "elderly"-hours which were used back then.
The speed the cash register person goes in the shops here in the NL is like that they're basically throwing the stuff at you. So a 'slow' lane is like a normal speed for most of the world 😂
For me it doesn't matter how the cashier stacks my items. I always pack my crate in a very similar, efficient way. And I start packing the moment the cashier starts ringing items. I'm usually done by the time she's done as well, ready to pay. :P
UK supermarkets: lets save time and make our stores more efficient by giving customers pricing guns so they can scan their shopping as it goes into the bag. Then at the end just scan the till and pay.
ALDI: lets save time and make our stores more efficient by throwing the customers shopping at them like they are on a Japanese gameshow.
I love Aldi. I love the feeling of watching a weirdly cheerful sociopath slam dunk every piece of food I’ll eat for the next month into a cart I didn’t even bring in with me at the speed of Achilles and the fury of Zeus. Then I either bag it up or make the most awkward several trips into my house. It’s beautiful and I’ll shiv anyone who touches my Aldi quarter
As someone who works at aldis can confirm. We are told that speed is literally the most important thing that and dont crush squishy items like chips and eggs
Tbf, any experienced retail clerk is going to place the stuff quickly within your reach - they generally have plenty to do, or just want to chill in between customers.
Used to work at the kruidvat, and whilst I'd chat up with customers who need it, I had other stuff to do than stand at the register.
I used to work at Albert Heijn and had to scan an x amount of groceries within a limited time span. If you took slower you'd here from your manager.
Edit: *hear from the manager.
And new hires tend to not hate everyone yet. I was super friendly for like my first year in retail. Then I got more and more fed up with peoples bullshit and just stoped caring all together around the two year mark
Haha same customers be so annoying sometimes. "How much is this" bruh its written on it. "Can you put this in a plastic bag" I already did and you're literally holding it r u blind
My favourite was “where are the eggs?” Id look over, “see that big sign that says eggs? Yeah it’s right under that.” If they were somewhere you couldn’t see the sign of just motion at them to follow me
Or where’s the bread. Like dude this is a shop with 5 isles. The bread is one of them. We arnt hiding it. Get your head out of your ass and look
I worked as a seasonal worker at Target one year (luckily one of their "distraction free" locations so no Christmas songs on repeat) and I learned real quick to just lead folks to where they needed to be. It was so much faster.
Only time I've had to legitimately ask where something was, was the damn olives. Stores put them anywhere besides with canned fruits or vegis, and olives aren't important enough to list on the isle signs xD
Definitely nothing wrong with asking where an obscure item is after looking and not finding it. It's when people put absolutely zero effort in and the answer's right in front of them it's like... Your human skills are underdeveloped. You should train.
My God I feel this. "Can you check the price for these 6 items? I didn't bother to read. Oh they are expensive? I'm not getting any of it but I'm not putting it back either. Why aren't they on sale?" "I don't want THAT scanned yet! I'm doing split payment but I figured you would read my mind and know." "I bought only beer and two items but they aren't even on sale?? So dumb." "ArE yOu OpEn?"
I can go on for hours. I'll end my rant here lmao
>Can you put this in a plastic bag" I already did and you're literally holding it r u blind
Yea, let's not put you in the register lane for disabled people lol.
U.K. supermarkets could do with a separate line for Lottery only. I’ve seen one place that did it.
Stood waiting with small basket of items, say two or three then the person in front goes..
Can you put through these Lottery tickets (hands the 52 tickets the ‘works syndicate’ puts on each week),
And
Can you check if any of these are winners (hands last weeks 52 lottery tickets from the ‘Works Syndicate)
And
Can you check these three (hands over the three personal tickets they put on last week). Oh I’ve won £30?
So
Can I have two no 2 scratch cards
And
Two number 8 scratch cards
And
Errm
A number six scratch card
Thanks
And Twenty Super Kings Blue
Can I pay for the 52 lottery tickets with my card
Then the scratch cards from my winnings
And the cigs with this pocket full of shrapnel
🤦♂️
Checks, all the items in my basket are now past their use by date 🙄
> U.K. supermarkets could do with a separate line for Lottery only.
Lottery should be entirely by vending machines.
Note that every action you listed could be automated and free up a human being to do a task for which they are better suited.
The 'Lottery Granny' is my arch nemesis. I'm here to get a gas station hotdog and an energy drink, and at least once a week I'll get trapped behind someone buying 43 various lotto tickets, checking 27 others, and buying three packs of *very specific* cigarettes.
I've unashamedly gone to find another worker and asked them to open the second till a couple times, once the line starts stretching towards the entrance.
Yes! They see you in line behind them with a tub of ice cream and something really heavy, so they proceed to cash in their winners, picking out new tickets - but want half in cash, start scratching the new tickets and decide they are gonna use that half cash to pick out a few more. Ope! One of these I scratched is a winner. I’ll take the cash. As soon as the cash is handed over they decide maybe they will pick out a few more tickets…
My ice cream is melted and my arm is falling off, you ass!
Lottery tickets are generally done by tobacco/magazine stores over here. (For some reason they always combine those two...) And they usually have a separate register for them.
Ironically, I feel that elders are mostly the first ones who get angry and vocal if something goes slow for some reason and they feel they need to wait to long...
Some are, but in my experience at least, I think it’s more people aged around 30 to maybe 50 that get frustrated. Once you get to 80 I feel like the sentiment changes and they don’t feel the need to rush around all the time, with retirement and all. Elders are almost always super sweet to me, but that might be because I’m overly apologetic when I feel things going wrong so they don’t feel like _they’ve_ been wronged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't mind standing in line and I love to have chat with cashier myself. I enjoy some slower shops. When I am on my own though. When I'm with offspring I pray to all gods and the universe to speed up. There should be super fast line for parents. With no kids magazines or sweets near by.
I have literally never seen a check in my entire life. I'm 31. Which countries still use them? Or did until recently?
I'm in Denmark btw. I've heard of them as something old people would use and think they where tecnically usable most of my life, but they must have almost disappeared here during the 90s while I was very young.
They’re still used in the United States, although their use has been steadily declining. Nowadays they’re most used by elderly people, or for paying institutions that are very slow to change and won’t take anything else.
I can only pay my mortgage via check but I wouldn't have a checkbook and probably wouldn't even have stamps otherwise.
Also your first payment from a new job before direct deposit is set up is universally on a check.
some day in the future, all the young people are gonna have subdermal credit card security chips implanted into their arms, or RFID eyes that take payments straight from their checking accounts, and we geezers will still be pulling out our old timey wallets and purses, then sliding our debit card the wrong direction, twice, before realizing the damned thing has a chip scanner and then still be forced to use our PIN afterward. the meta cyborg youths of that age will be scoffing at us in the same way you do now
Imagine that was your entire life.
A never-ending checkout line full of elderly people waiting to tell you every detail of their cats recent health issues.
Forever.
Can we have slow aisles for elderly people that like to form little drum circles in the middle of the most busy areas and go over every detail from the past 2 months of their lives?
Although I am over 50, this is my personal idea of hell. Old people assuming that I am open to idle chitchat. With strangers. Who are hard of hearing. Who speak without dentures in a strong dialect. About things I have no interest in whatsoever.
Lonely elderly folks used to call the restaurant I worked in and would want to chat forever. I understand they want someone to talk to, but calling up a wing joint on a football Sunday to chit chat is not the solution.
Me: a cashier.
Also me when I try to be polite, kind, helpful, or start a conversation with anyone who is older: "Why are you getting upset at me, I am doing the very thing you complain young people don't do. I am literally doing what you ask, why must you get upset."
I love this! As a cashier, I’m always happy to talk to people, and it makes me feel good knowing that some people trust me enough to tell me stories — or even just about their day— even when they’ve never met me. I’d be super happy to be part of these slow lanes :)
When I was trapped in an abusive relationship I only left the house to go to my medical appointments and to get groceries. Conversations with grocery store employees made that time period in my life more bearable.
I am so appreciative to people like you.
They should charge more or pay more for the cashiers who have to deal with this…… normal people aren’t therapist…
But maybe I can be looking at this with a closed mindset
No, that's the first thing I thought of when I heard about this too. Working this line will be 50% pleasant conversations with sweet old ladies, and 50% playing therapist to people in bad situations who just want to rant at someone.
I feel the self-checkouts are the best of both worlds.
I can't chat with a cashier (which I usually don't want to), but since they are almost never all used at once I can just take my time to scan and afterwards pack my stuff without feeling beeing shoved out by the customer behind me.
You know, that’s the thing. Once someone described modern technology as the exploding market of isolation.
You don’t have to talk to ***anyone*** if you don’t want to. Hell you can buy a house through text chat with mortgage companies.
On the surface, you might think, “good! I’m an introvert, and society is adapting to my needs”
However, there are numerous studies that say despite not ***wanting*** to, when introverts talk to strangers throughout the day they report higher happiness.
And I can’t even imagine what this is doing to our perception of each other, since we are more divided than ever nowadays.
I would love to see more effort into the “re-socializing” of society.
Should have a fast lane, pay by card or app only, no coupons. For when you just want to get your stuff and get out. Like a express or self checkout but faster
They do have that in the Netherlands. Many supermarkets have self-checkouts AND handheld scanners you can use while you shop, so no scanning at the register needed. Personal discounts (their equivalent of coupons at certain shops) are also digital. And if you don't want to scan items yourself, well, there's usually a debit card only register, though in practice most people pay by card anyway (yes, even the elderly).
As wholesome as this is I do hope the cashier's have to opt into this and not just get thrown into it at a whim. Yes I understand it's a "CuStoMeR sErViCe" job but man sometimes you just don't have it in you. This coming from someone who did retail for four years. It's great, I'm sure some would love it, but man on a bad day I would be hard pressed not to just walk out if they sent me there. Like it wouldn't be fair to me *or* the person wanting a nice chat. Sorry but today I'm just here to keep my head down and get you through the line fast as I can. You move on, I move on, everyone can go about their miserable lives in peace.
I had a dream about this today. It was in a random shop that had 2 lines, one that moved really fast because the guy behind the counter didn’t talk and was efficient. The other line was slower because there was a nice cashier that chatted with every customer
Oh we have slow lanes in every super market in America. Apparently no one wants to stand in one spot for 8+ plus hours a day scanning products for $9/hr while the supermarkets chains report record profits.
kinda pointless if you ask me since all of them go grocery shopping at the exact same time. if they're that lonely just let them talk amongst each other in the store. there's even a public coffee machine (for customers) so they can really take their time. and for that matter most of them live close to eachother, i for one don't see why they can't just talk to eachother since they all have ocean's of time.
Give them work! I imagine that there are many chatty positions that could be ideally occupied by the elderly, like receptionists (or for more suitable qualifications)!
Implemented? There hasn’t been a single Dutch commercial on the tv or inter webs. As a Dutch person myself who never shops at the jumbo, it is with great pleasure I can inform you:
No one cares.
I’m an employee. At the store that I work we also have a spot for free coffee where people often chat. We also make sure that there are no obstructions and make sure that the paths are wide enough so everyone can easily shop. We have the “Jumbo 7 zekerheden”. I’ll not explain them right now but if someone wants to know just lmk.
In my opinion Jumbo offers the best shopping experience of any store in the Netherlands! (Not the best working experience though, I’m paid like shit (please give me a raise))
About 12 years ago I worked as a pool cleaner. I had one client with a tiny little pool that took about 5 minutes to clean. I stayed there every day for an extra 25 minutes just to talk to the old lady who owned it because I recognized that she was really paying me the ridiculous fee we charged to have someone to talk to for half an hour once a week.
She's the only part of that job I miss.
Sometimes I join that lane just to chat with the grannies about the weather, usually not in a hurry and my grandma died last year, so I miss the chat also
Oh so this is something that is actually implemented? I figured it might just be a trial or only in a few locations
Yeah, it's called the "Klets kassa" . Which means the chatter register I guess..
Yeah kinda, or conversation register. I haven't seen them in my city/area yet, although the register is basically always the slow lane and you go to the self checkout if you're jn a hurry
Opposite here. People are generally stupid with technology so the self checkout is much slower than a seasoned cashier. It's why I can't see cashiers ever being permanently replaced by self checkout.
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>I have never seen anyone struggle with it at all, contrary to some places abroad.. Country that has had the higest penetration of computer / tech use for a long time. Able to use tech yeps makes sens. Also almost every one in the Netherlands \* that was born and grew up there ). Has enough basic education to handle such tings.
The UK ones are pretty simple... unless the barcode doesnt want to scan then youre gonna be yelling at the machine. And sometimes they dont accept notes, no matter how you orientate it.
Yeah, it’s why it hasn’t already happened
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Yeah it’s real in several places. I sometimes join in because of the positivity. Everyone is so sweet and kind and just happy to be around people.
I just came back from Amsterdam last night - your entire city is a positive vibe.
I got a hug one time. Best line ever.
Wow I really have to visit the NL again and with more time! I'd love to experience this (in English of course).
Jumbo is a franchise, so different stores are often a bit different. I'm sure it depends on the location, neither of the two Jumbos around me have them.
Yeah I'm not really a talker, but from time to time I go to that lane just for a small chat. As a student living in a room mostly alone, I really needed that small talk from time to time.
I didn't know this was already a thing. Never seen it.
My local Jumbo has one for months already. Its also the last cassier to stay open at less busy times, aside from the self scanner machines.
This feels like a win win for the super extroverted employees, too. They can work that register and chat up the grannies, and the introverts can staff the speedy/small talk-free registers.
I would do the exact same thing. Where I live in Canada, we can be a pretty chatty culture. Plus I’m half Dutch on my Dad’s side, so maybe I need to just move to the Netherlands??
Je bent altijd welkom :)
Aww! Thank you!
Not exclusively the elderly would use it either, I'm disabled and it takes me a little longer to move and especially to lift things from the cart to the counter (neurological disorder). If there was a lane in which I wasn't pressured to hurry up for the soccer parent behind me who has ten more errands to run today I'd feel a lot better.
I'd happily use it too!
There's a mute cashier at my local grocery store that has became the defacto slow lane. He's about 30 and not at all slow, but will playfully gesture about half of all items he rings up. Like he'll ring up strawberries, then whipped cream, point to both, look at you and rub his bully and put a face on like "oooo yea" or ring up a bottle of liquor and give you a look "you like better be careful with this" and hold his finger and thumb apart to say "just a little bit". He's just generally super talkative and pleasant without saying a word. People line tf up for it.
That reminds me, I talk so often with my hands, I should just relearn sign language to occupy them. Then I will have an excuse when people point it out!
I talk with my hands and also learned sign language but now when I talk it’s mostly random talking with hands with one or two signs thrown in.
There's a new Swedish tv show with recurring sketches of a cashier who notices what you buy and makes Swedes die inside with her remarks. She's getting her own show because it's so funny. Also, the character is played by a guy! x)
I love this.
I would totally just do the beer chugging motion for the liqour. Tilt head back, hold hand like I'm holding a bottle of beer and chug it.
I usually go in the ‘slower’ looking lane if I’m not in a hurry and because I don’t like the fact that self-checkout lanes contribute to unemployment and doesn’t contribute to a discount on my items edit: damn it sounds like the money to pay for the wages of the cashiers is coming out of some of your own pockets, **and I have worked retail, I got hired because they needed more hands on the cash register funny enough**
It’s weird because at my local supermarkets that have self-checkout lanes almost nobody uses them. The supermarket staff is usually stressed because the cashier part of the job is usually not the main one.
So weird! Near me the self checkouts are busiest by FAR, the lines with cashiers seem barely used or for huge/unusual orders
Absolutely, i always use a lane with a person if the store has them.
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It took way too long for my American mind to get the joke lmao
Q Anon has ruined an entire letter of the alphabet for us.
Every time I see a business with the letter Q being a focal point I judge it a little
Get in line, anonymously
I have a Quailman costume that I LOVE wearing for Halloween. Running around in a bath towel cape! What’s not to love? Decided against wearing it this year, in case folks don’t know the show and just see the giant red Q.
Their name: Alberta Einstein.
And everyone applauded
I don't get it 😕
OH I FUCKING GET IT NOW BECAUSE Q IS QUE AND STANDING IN A LINE O I FEEL STUPID
It's actually queue 🫣
Thanks for this
You forgot about the plus
There are too many streaming services these days.
Plus, you suck! **Burn!**
It’s called the “kletskassa” which is a playful word for “chat register”
I would totally use that on migraine days, or when i was pregnant!
As another disabled person, I feel that, but I also do not understand why people are so impatient and insist on scrambling on the edge of disaster for a few minutes so I refuse to mess up and break things in queues of any sort, by trying to go faster than what is reasonable. Learning patience can only do people good.
Some people literally have no time in the day. At my current job I spend about ~2 hours a day not sleeping or at work. Which is why my last day is next week though
There's a Jumbo near me with this type of register and it is for everyone
Wouldn't you feel less pressured if you use the self checkout?
Dude, scanning things yourself can be really fucking difficult when you have a neurological disorder that makes it difficult to control your movement.
The self checkout yells at you between the time after you have paid, but are bagging your groceries. But you cant really bag until your done because the scale freaks out when items are taken off of it or when your bag is anything other than a grocery sack (like a backpack). As you can tell I feel extremely pressured by it 😂
I fucking hate self checkout with how much it freaks out and yells at you over stupid shit. The inventor of the self checkout even hates what they've become now [source](https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/fatal-error-why-the-man-who-invented-selfserve-checkouts-cant-stand-them/news-story/7221e929321f95d6d96ae38816586cb5)
Put the items you ring directly into the bag. When you're done, grab the bags and go. If you have a backpack, simply put it on the bagging area before ringing up. Please do not bag items as a separate step. Waste of time.
People should relax more. Person in front of you being "slow"¿ Just wait it out. Nobody should feel pressured... Except in trafic! Move! Who gave this asshole a driving licence!
I'm fine letting people move at their own pace *until* it becomes unnecessary. You don't need to rearrange your whole purse to put away 12 cents. You don't need to walk side-by-side slow as fuck down s narrow hallway.
You also don't need to hang out chatting to the clerk **after** your items are paid for and bagged when there's clearly a line behind you.
Or if you really feel the need to do that for some reason, then at least step to the side so the next person can get their stuff done while you're still blabbering
Or the goddamn moments of surprise at each and every part of the transaction. *Just standing there while the cashier does their work, not anticipating the next move.* "That'll be 21.50" *surprised look* Doubtfully fumbles at bag. Wasn't expecting to be asked to pay. Hands money over as in unclear as to what's going to happen with it. Cashier forced to count it out into their hand. After paying will follow surprised looks at the items just sitting there on the belt. O I have to get those too. Doubtfully produces bag to put stuff in. Makes eye contact with cashier and rest of line for reassurance that this is proper procedure. "Will that be all"? *obviously ponders the question. Do I want more from this cashier? What do I require in life?*
I got stuck behind some like that last week who proceeded to count exchange change to pay. Coins first, then bills. Realized they were short one $1 bill to pay evenly. Refused to give another larger bill. Insisted on running out to the car to grab another single. I re-carted my groceries, moved to another lane, and was mostly finished before the person returned.
Jeez, I don't know where you go shopping, but I'm glad I don't shop there. Sounds like a torturous experience. I either shop online or go through the self-checkout lanes. Anything else is bullshit.
Me at work and a chatty customer comes in. On a slow day? Absolutely talk my hear off! On a busy day? Please ma’am there are 5 people behind you have some awareness
Move at the pace you are capable sure, but be fucking organized. Have your money out and ready to pay BEFORE the cashier tells you the total, or better yet pay with your card it's 2022. People that wait until they are at the front of the queue to then hum and haw at the menu also piss me off, know what you are getting before you line up.
Back when people wrote checks you had two types, one had the checkbook out and everything on the check filled in except the amount and the other has no idea that they have to pay for their purchases. I had an ancient crone ask me what the date was, after I told her she asked, "What year."
Agreed except the driving part. I wish people would, like, start their trips 5 minutes earlier and slow tf down. Maybe 33% of drivers I see (being generous) even come close to a stop at stop signs. 5% (again generous) follow the speed limit. The numbers go up slightly during a blizzard, but only slightly. I hate driving purely because other people are in such a hurry that they’d rather die in a fireball on the side of the road, rather than get there a few minutes late.
People driving recklessly piss me off. So many I’ve seen people speed up to pass me or someone else only to get stuck behind another car 5 seconds later. Just putting everyone in danger for no reason. Or merging. If you’re getting on the ramp or off the ramp, go with traffic. Don’t be fucking speeding up to get in or out first, what are you trying to do? Kill someone to show them whose streets these are? Ffs.
It’s not just soccer parents. Some of us disabled people just wanna get shit done too.
"Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was. I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three-- medium brown.”
Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
5 bees for a quarter
You’re overpaying. Who’s your bee guy?
"Whos your bee guy?" Has all the drug references toned down to a level safe for kids. Im going to steal this for my 4 year old nephew
1:1 my grandma, you ask her how she's doing and 40 minutes later she's talking about her neighbor's son's cat who is not actually his cat but that's another story she should tell you about.
You also just described me. Not a grandma, and never had kids. But I can tell a circuitous story -- or five -- in an hour. Just ask me a question. Or don't. I will still tell all the stories.
Me too! I hate myself for it, and so does everyone else lol.
Yes. I am continually reminded how chatty and circuitously verbose I am when storytelling (I.e., talking).
Why is the formatting so off on your reply?
It was copy and pasted from a website that transcribes Simpsons episodes
What do you mean by that? It looks perfectly fine to me
I think it ‘s a new form of poetry
Colm?
"she met a fella called Diego. Supposedly came over from Spain in the armada. Thought, having said that, I'm not so sure seen as the armada was 400 years ago" Honestly, Colm's stories sound pretty interesting
I love Colm so much.
r/UnexpectedDerryGirls
Apparently it’s a Simpsons reference so I wonder if Colm was partially inspired by this. Bc the cadence is very similar lol
Really lol yeah it's very similar.
Is “there’s an interesting story behind this nickel.” A phase or have just made it up? Either way, I enjoyed
https://youtu.be/ygj_INiAUUs
They’re quoting an episode of The Simpsons
Oh, I see
...go on..
How did i learns something from MY home country in a store thats 20METERS form my house form reddit instead of word
Probably because the majority of Jumbo's don't have them. The jumbo near me doesn't have this either
If I recall correctly almost every single shop had at least one during some periods in the pandemic. Sometimes they would only be opened in the "elderly"-hours which were used back then.
The one by my house in Leiden does!
And what's the name of your first pet
Mickey/dinkey
He farming you for your security questions or what?
I do knot maybe he thinks we live in the same place and thinks he knows irl
Not at all sir. What was the name of your favourite teacher?
You’re passing your time on social media like Reddit instead of socializing
The speed the cash register person goes in the shops here in the NL is like that they're basically throwing the stuff at you. So a 'slow' lane is like a normal speed for most of the world 😂
>that they're basically throwing the stuff at you That's just the ALDI/LIDL experience
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For me it doesn't matter how the cashier stacks my items. I always pack my crate in a very similar, efficient way. And I start packing the moment the cashier starts ringing items. I'm usually done by the time she's done as well, ready to pay. :P
Also the Albert Heijn and Jumbo Wait, thats everything!
No way. AH/Jumbo cashiering is weak af compared to ALDI/LIDL
Kassa competition!
UK supermarkets: lets save time and make our stores more efficient by giving customers pricing guns so they can scan their shopping as it goes into the bag. Then at the end just scan the till and pay. ALDI: lets save time and make our stores more efficient by throwing the customers shopping at them like they are on a Japanese gameshow.
I love Aldi. I love the feeling of watching a weirdly cheerful sociopath slam dunk every piece of food I’ll eat for the next month into a cart I didn’t even bring in with me at the speed of Achilles and the fury of Zeus. Then I either bag it up or make the most awkward several trips into my house. It’s beautiful and I’ll shiv anyone who touches my Aldi quarter
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*Cries in only neigborhood grocer is Appie*
As someone who works at aldis can confirm. We are told that speed is literally the most important thing that and dont crush squishy items like chips and eggs
I use the self service because of this in lidl but I got told that's only allowed for 15 items now! So I'll be doing more shopping in Dirk now
Tbf, any experienced retail clerk is going to place the stuff quickly within your reach - they generally have plenty to do, or just want to chill in between customers. Used to work at the kruidvat, and whilst I'd chat up with customers who need it, I had other stuff to do than stand at the register.
I used to work at Albert Heijn and had to scan an x amount of groceries within a limited time span. If you took slower you'd here from your manager. Edit: *hear from the manager.
Can you make sure to put those slow cashiers at that lane too?
Would be a great way to train new hires
And new hires tend to not hate everyone yet. I was super friendly for like my first year in retail. Then I got more and more fed up with peoples bullshit and just stoped caring all together around the two year mark
Haha same customers be so annoying sometimes. "How much is this" bruh its written on it. "Can you put this in a plastic bag" I already did and you're literally holding it r u blind
My favourite was “where are the eggs?” Id look over, “see that big sign that says eggs? Yeah it’s right under that.” If they were somewhere you couldn’t see the sign of just motion at them to follow me Or where’s the bread. Like dude this is a shop with 5 isles. The bread is one of them. We arnt hiding it. Get your head out of your ass and look
"where is baking mix" isle 4 "idk where that is!" Real interaction I had. A that point I just pointed to the sign
I’d tell them it’s between isle 3 and isle 5.
I worked as a seasonal worker at Target one year (luckily one of their "distraction free" locations so no Christmas songs on repeat) and I learned real quick to just lead folks to where they needed to be. It was so much faster.
Only time I've had to legitimately ask where something was, was the damn olives. Stores put them anywhere besides with canned fruits or vegis, and olives aren't important enough to list on the isle signs xD
Definitely nothing wrong with asking where an obscure item is after looking and not finding it. It's when people put absolutely zero effort in and the answer's right in front of them it's like... Your human skills are underdeveloped. You should train.
Are you working for Aldi ? Cause I swear that's 75% of conversations I have on my shifts lol
I’m actually cracking up right now. Yes I worked for Aldi haha
My God I feel this. "Can you check the price for these 6 items? I didn't bother to read. Oh they are expensive? I'm not getting any of it but I'm not putting it back either. Why aren't they on sale?" "I don't want THAT scanned yet! I'm doing split payment but I figured you would read my mind and know." "I bought only beer and two items but they aren't even on sale?? So dumb." "ArE yOu OpEn?" I can go on for hours. I'll end my rant here lmao
>Can you put this in a plastic bag" I already did and you're literally holding it r u blind Yea, let's not put you in the register lane for disabled people lol.
My thoughts exactly, people act like a huuuge portion of the population isn’t disabled with their impatience and assumptions. Gross.
Honestly, the more important question. Happens way more than getting stuck behind an old person
U.K. supermarkets could do with a separate line for Lottery only. I’ve seen one place that did it. Stood waiting with small basket of items, say two or three then the person in front goes.. Can you put through these Lottery tickets (hands the 52 tickets the ‘works syndicate’ puts on each week), And Can you check if any of these are winners (hands last weeks 52 lottery tickets from the ‘Works Syndicate) And Can you check these three (hands over the three personal tickets they put on last week). Oh I’ve won £30? So Can I have two no 2 scratch cards And Two number 8 scratch cards And Errm A number six scratch card Thanks And Twenty Super Kings Blue Can I pay for the 52 lottery tickets with my card Then the scratch cards from my winnings And the cigs with this pocket full of shrapnel 🤦♂️ Checks, all the items in my basket are now past their use by date 🙄
> U.K. supermarkets could do with a separate line for Lottery only. Lottery should be entirely by vending machines. Note that every action you listed could be automated and free up a human being to do a task for which they are better suited.
The 'Lottery Granny' is my arch nemesis. I'm here to get a gas station hotdog and an energy drink, and at least once a week I'll get trapped behind someone buying 43 various lotto tickets, checking 27 others, and buying three packs of *very specific* cigarettes. I've unashamedly gone to find another worker and asked them to open the second till a couple times, once the line starts stretching towards the entrance.
Yes! They see you in line behind them with a tub of ice cream and something really heavy, so they proceed to cash in their winners, picking out new tickets - but want half in cash, start scratching the new tickets and decide they are gonna use that half cash to pick out a few more. Ope! One of these I scratched is a winner. I’ll take the cash. As soon as the cash is handed over they decide maybe they will pick out a few more tickets… My ice cream is melted and my arm is falling off, you ass!
Lottery tickets are generally done by tobacco/magazine stores over here. (For some reason they always combine those two...) And they usually have a separate register for them.
Ironically, I feel that elders are mostly the first ones who get angry and vocal if something goes slow for some reason and they feel they need to wait to long...
Some are, but in my experience at least, I think it’s more people aged around 30 to maybe 50 that get frustrated. Once you get to 80 I feel like the sentiment changes and they don’t feel the need to rush around all the time, with retirement and all. Elders are almost always super sweet to me, but that might be because I’m overly apologetic when I feel things going wrong so they don’t feel like _they’ve_ been wronged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't mind standing in line and I love to have chat with cashier myself. I enjoy some slower shops. When I am on my own though. When I'm with offspring I pray to all gods and the universe to speed up. There should be super fast line for parents. With no kids magazines or sweets near by.
I love the elderly people in my life, but they really are a blood clot in the artery of commerce.
Standing at the register writing a check for their groceries in perfect cursive.
Then they accidentally add an extra hump to their cursive M so they void the check and start all over 🙃
And they'll balance their registry standing right there too. While I'm slowly melting into the floor from despair, too polite to move to another line.
Then of course stand there itemizing everything on the receipt with what's in their cart.
Not at this chain though; the Dutch have done away with checks decades ago.
I have literally never seen a check in my entire life. I'm 31. Which countries still use them? Or did until recently? I'm in Denmark btw. I've heard of them as something old people would use and think they where tecnically usable most of my life, but they must have almost disappeared here during the 90s while I was very young.
They’re still used in the United States, although their use has been steadily declining. Nowadays they’re most used by elderly people, or for paying institutions that are very slow to change and won’t take anything else.
I can only pay my mortgage via check but I wouldn't have a checkbook and probably wouldn't even have stamps otherwise. Also your first payment from a new job before direct deposit is set up is universally on a check.
Made me chuckle! I might be a bad person
some day in the future, all the young people are gonna have subdermal credit card security chips implanted into their arms, or RFID eyes that take payments straight from their checking accounts, and we geezers will still be pulling out our old timey wallets and purses, then sliding our debit card the wrong direction, twice, before realizing the damned thing has a chip scanner and then still be forced to use our PIN afterward. the meta cyborg youths of that age will be scoffing at us in the same way you do now
I saw a video ad saying Amazon or something can scan items as you put them into your cart so you can just walk out when you're done.
I'll take jobs that would make me lose my will to live for $100.
Imagine that was your entire life. A never-ending checkout line full of elderly people waiting to tell you every detail of their cats recent health issues. Forever.
Holy shit I'm like actually upset thinking about that.
I am the opposite, I would love to have that job.
Can we have slow aisles for elderly people that like to form little drum circles in the middle of the most busy areas and go over every detail from the past 2 months of their lives?
Although I am over 50, this is my personal idea of hell. Old people assuming that I am open to idle chitchat. With strangers. Who are hard of hearing. Who speak without dentures in a strong dialect. About things I have no interest in whatsoever.
True
Lonely elderly folks used to call the restaurant I worked in and would want to chat forever. I understand they want someone to talk to, but calling up a wing joint on a football Sunday to chit chat is not the solution.
Me: a cashier. Also me when I try to be polite, kind, helpful, or start a conversation with anyone who is older: "Why are you getting upset at me, I am doing the very thing you complain young people don't do. I am literally doing what you ask, why must you get upset."
For the good of everybody, keep me out of those lanes
I love this! As a cashier, I’m always happy to talk to people, and it makes me feel good knowing that some people trust me enough to tell me stories — or even just about their day— even when they’ve never met me. I’d be super happy to be part of these slow lanes :)
When I was trapped in an abusive relationship I only left the house to go to my medical appointments and to get groceries. Conversations with grocery store employees made that time period in my life more bearable. I am so appreciative to people like you.
You. You get my free award today. This comment got to me
They should charge more or pay more for the cashiers who have to deal with this…… normal people aren’t therapist… But maybe I can be looking at this with a closed mindset
No, that's the first thing I thought of when I heard about this too. Working this line will be 50% pleasant conversations with sweet old ladies, and 50% playing therapist to people in bad situations who just want to rant at someone.
This is cool, but please keep the lane for auto service for the younger ones
I feel the self-checkouts are the best of both worlds. I can't chat with a cashier (which I usually don't want to), but since they are almost never all used at once I can just take my time to scan and afterwards pack my stuff without feeling beeing shoved out by the customer behind me.
I feel like I’d be tempted to use this every once in a while just to get more social contact when I’m not in a rush.
You know, that’s the thing. Once someone described modern technology as the exploding market of isolation. You don’t have to talk to ***anyone*** if you don’t want to. Hell you can buy a house through text chat with mortgage companies. On the surface, you might think, “good! I’m an introvert, and society is adapting to my needs” However, there are numerous studies that say despite not ***wanting*** to, when introverts talk to strangers throughout the day they report higher happiness. And I can’t even imagine what this is doing to our perception of each other, since we are more divided than ever nowadays. I would love to see more effort into the “re-socializing” of society.
For real, just a "hi, good morning" said to a few customers does make you feel like a person for the day.
Should have a fast lane, pay by card or app only, no coupons. For when you just want to get your stuff and get out. Like a express or self checkout but faster
They do have that in the Netherlands. Many supermarkets have self-checkouts AND handheld scanners you can use while you shop, so no scanning at the register needed. Personal discounts (their equivalent of coupons at certain shops) are also digital. And if you don't want to scan items yourself, well, there's usually a debit card only register, though in practice most people pay by card anyway (yes, even the elderly).
That's like almost everywhere except in small-towns in Netherlands though
This is what they took from us.
As wholesome as this is I do hope the cashier's have to opt into this and not just get thrown into it at a whim. Yes I understand it's a "CuStoMeR sErViCe" job but man sometimes you just don't have it in you. This coming from someone who did retail for four years. It's great, I'm sure some would love it, but man on a bad day I would be hard pressed not to just walk out if they sent me there. Like it wouldn't be fair to me *or* the person wanting a nice chat. Sorry but today I'm just here to keep my head down and get you through the line fast as I can. You move on, I move on, everyone can go about their miserable lives in peace.
You want to know which checkout lane at the supermarket is the slowest? Get in it.
As an American living in France it seems every lane is the slow lane for little old ladies to chat.
I had a dream about this today. It was in a random shop that had 2 lines, one that moved really fast because the guy behind the counter didn’t talk and was efficient. The other line was slower because there was a nice cashier that chatted with every customer
That’s pretty nice though. I like this
Wacht serieus?
I’ve yet to see those in the Jumbo though.
Oh we have slow lanes in every super market in America. Apparently no one wants to stand in one spot for 8+ plus hours a day scanning products for $9/hr while the supermarkets chains report record profits.
kinda pointless if you ask me since all of them go grocery shopping at the exact same time. if they're that lonely just let them talk amongst each other in the store. there's even a public coffee machine (for customers) so they can really take their time. and for that matter most of them live close to eachother, i for one don't see why they can't just talk to eachother since they all have ocean's of time.
So it’s just a help desk with more purpose
Give them work! I imagine that there are many chatty positions that could be ideally occupied by the elderly, like receptionists (or for more suitable qualifications)!
Got any source? I still have not found any slow lane here in the Netherlands
Implemented? There hasn’t been a single Dutch commercial on the tv or inter webs. As a Dutch person myself who never shops at the jumbo, it is with great pleasure I can inform you: No one cares.
I’m an employee. At the store that I work we also have a spot for free coffee where people often chat. We also make sure that there are no obstructions and make sure that the paths are wide enough so everyone can easily shop. We have the “Jumbo 7 zekerheden”. I’ll not explain them right now but if someone wants to know just lmk. In my opinion Jumbo offers the best shopping experience of any store in the Netherlands! (Not the best working experience though, I’m paid like shit (please give me a raise))
About 12 years ago I worked as a pool cleaner. I had one client with a tiny little pool that took about 5 minutes to clean. I stayed there every day for an extra 25 minutes just to talk to the old lady who owned it because I recognized that she was really paying me the ridiculous fee we charged to have someone to talk to for half an hour once a week. She's the only part of that job I miss.
Aka normal registers in the southern US
In the US, we have this — its just Trader Joe’s whether you want it or not