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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 12, 2017 13:16:38 GMT 2
I'm nosey. I pick up other people's discarded shopping lists. I try to work out what the list tells me about the person. Here is the list I picked up this morning:
capers saffron black olives Maldon salt star anise [interesting person, I thought. Then it switched briefly to (bad) French] papiere de toillette [hmm, ashamed to write lavatory paper in English?] tea bags night time tea cheese mop head olive oil bacon stuff
I wonder about stuff. I think it means stuff I can't remember. There isn't actually a great deal of food. I wonder if she (mophead makes me think it is a woman} went on to the butcher and greengrocer in the High Street...
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Post by OnlyMark on Oct 12, 2017 16:05:57 GMT 2
One of the slightly strange things here is/are concerning multi-packs. For example, today I stocked up on Cola Zero. There are, as expected, individual bottles, but there is a multi-pack of 12 that are have no discount but are plastic wrapped together and easier to carry. At a supermarket in Europe they would scan one and input the number 12 to the till. In my case I bought 3 packs of 12, so scan one and input 36. Not here though.
They have to remove one from the packaging, then pass the bottle across the scanner 36 times. Invariably after three or four it fails to blip, so they have to keep trying, give up, get another bottle and resume, hoping they've remembered the count correctly. I did ask a supervisor about this. He said that only people at his level and above can do it with putting the total number in the till. The normal cashiers are not allowed to and not trusted. Who doesn't trust them, I asked. The bosses in South Africa was the reply.
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 13, 2017 5:41:11 GMT 2
Mark, we buy catfood cans, 10 at a time of each flavour. This week the cashier told me the same thing. They are not allowed to scan one and type in "10", they have to scan each can. I really don't understand.
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 13, 2017 6:51:08 GMT 2
here they can scan either way... and packs of soft drinks have a bar code for the entire lot...
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 13, 2017 10:05:00 GMT 2
yes, when there is a pack, there should be a code for the pack. it doesn't make sense this unwrap and scan individually. what's the point of the packing in the first place? " it could be stuff that "she" knows exactly what "she" means by that term, Baz. stuff that you don't want to write down for nosey Fazers to find after you misplaced the ticket in the shopping basket ;-)
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 13, 2017 10:26:38 GMT 2
Obviously she was tempting me with things like saffron and star anise, then slapping my wrist with stuff. Humf. Not playing fair.
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Post by OnlyMark on Oct 13, 2017 12:05:34 GMT 2
"...when there is a pack, there should be a code for the pack.." Yes there should. But there commonly isn't.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2017 20:58:46 GMT 2
In Paris it seems to depend on the supermarket. Some of them will scan the pack code and others will rip the plastic if they have to, to get to an individual can or bottle and then enter x6 or x12.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 14, 2017 13:39:48 GMT 2
Not a shopping list but today at the supermarket I saw a trolley with TWELVE pumpkins. If I had seen the shopping list I guess it would have had Halloween masks, ice cream, cakes, Coca-Cola, chocolate bars, potato crisps and other fattening stuff for a kids' party.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 14, 2017 13:54:25 GMT 2
ha! I used to purchase my pumpkins AFTER the 1st November.
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Post by mockchoc on Jun 17, 2018 12:06:24 GMT 2
I need to play this but I'm tired. I have great shopping lists. I make anything and everything really so it's always changing.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 19, 2018 19:19:06 GMT 2
This is not a shopping list but a bill. Yesterday I had a hurried shop at Waitrose when we arrived back from Greece. At least it was meant to be hurried. But I checked my receipt (I always do) and saw: Swiss Chocolate 80p. I had bought no chocolate, Swiss or otherwise. So I went to the reception counter. I emptied my bags to show there was no chocolate. But the man couldn't just give me 80p. He had to put the code into the computer. He disappeared back into the shop and after 5 minutes returned mystified. There was no Swiss Chocolate for 80p so he brought something else that cost 80p. He still couldn't give me 80p in cash. He entered lots of stuff into his computer. I had to give him my loyalty card. Then I had to put my debit card in. 80p would be credited to my bank. Then he printed a receipt. I had to sign the receipt. Then he had to compare my signature on the receipt with my signature on the card. He said he could think of no explanation for why my bill showed I was charged for a non-existent item. I think the whole business took 15 minutes. Was it worth it?
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