I was at a well known food store in Spryfield the other day. Found everything I was looking for (no thanks to the lifeless staff) and headed towards the 10 items or less check out. Should have gone to another check out as the fat biker ahead of me had at least 17 items. I almost said something but a little voice inside my head said, “You keep still, when he tries to do this in a Fairview store, he shall be struck down.”
We don’t accept that type of rudeness in Fairview. I just wish people would be more forgiving. —You Wasted Five Minutes Of My Life
This article appears in May 23-29, 2013.
Well, was he struck down?
And, is your plea for more forgiveness caused by, or in spite of, Fairviews intolerance of rudeness?
Things here just don’t seem to add up.
And if it happened in Fairview, you’d still keep your mouth shut.
If it was me, he/she wouldn’t be the first person I would have shamed, loudly enough for the cashier and the people behind me would have heard with little effort.
Ooooohhhh….tough ass Fairviewer….gonna think nasty thoughts of people…*shakes in me boots*
One can purchase food in Spryfield? Learn something from the b!tch board every day!
Who’s going to refuse a fat biker? If it was myself and it was a member of a notorious biker gang, I would probably take the path of least resistance ergo another checkout 🙁
“when he tries to do this in a Fairview store, he shall be struck down.”
In my View, that doesn’t seem Fair.
So why aren’t you forgiving the fat biker?
Why’s it matter that he’s fat?
You mean to tell me thin people don’t pull this shit? (which, they do — I used to be a cashier and trust me, all body types fuck with the 1-10 line).
You had me up until you mentioned the fat in a disparaging manner.
Also: what do you mean “Found everything I was looking for (no thanks to the lifeless staff)”? You can’t find grocery items in a grocery store without assistance? You must be a special kind of stupid.
And you kind of sound like an asshole. Your complaint about the line up is legit, but your other comments negate that complaint out of sheer assholery.
Yet another +1 for the auto-stop scanning at the 10 item limit and request payment system.
I’d be hoping the cashier scans the ice cream early so that it melts as they wait in line for round 2.
I’m vindictive like that.
I’m not a fan of the brain dead mucus swilling dumb fucks who cannot figure out how the self scan system works, an IQ’ometer should be devised that says loud and clear “you’re too fucking stunned to use this move along”
The Captain’s faster than any Cashier on the self-scan at the grocery store. It’s slightly reminiscent of The Flash
Impossible. The self scan check outs are designed to be slower just by their general design and limitations. And to fuck with those of us who are picky with bagging. I’ve used both self scan and I’ve done the regular check out gig and the self scan is ridiculously slower. Ask the cashiers. It frustrates all of us former and current cashiers alike, Captain 😉
“hey mister, i wont fault you for having more than 12 items, but how about you show enough decency to get to the back of the line?”
“The self scan check outs are designed to be slower just by their general design and limitations.” – How so? It seems simple… you scan, drop in bag, repeat until cart is empty, then pay… Where along the line do the limitations come into play?
They just recently added self-checkout to the SS near me. I have yet to attempt to use it.
My post wasn’t to do with the speed, it was to do with the lack of IQ exhibited by some folks when it comes to understanding the features. It’s like getting behind some twat who has yet to master the cash machine, even though they’ve been around since fuck knows when.
My rant was on the 30th, which meant that the old gimmers had their pension checks and were let loose on the rest of us, there should be restrictions when the partially senile are allowed out.
Oh EP…. it’s hilarious to see people struggle to figure out how to use the self scan, since they’re dumbed down so much from the real thing.
Captain — self scan machines have scanners that aren’t as sensitive. I can whip through groceries on a regular machine, but I can’t on the self scans. Most of my cashier posse, when I was a cashier some 5 years or so ago (those were dark times, lol) would complain of the same things. The way the interface is set up, you have to complete extra steps to punch in a code (for produce or bulk items), and you HAVE to put everything in the bag after scanning. As any cashier worth their salt (I used to get compliments at customer service about my bagging and speed) knows, you don’t pack certain things together and it is so annoying not to be able to put something aside to bag with something that’s not being scanned right away. I understand why this is done, though, because you have to combat theft, etc…. but it’s annoying because I’m particular in what goes with what. Plus, not having a belt with groceries at your fingertips to scan is time consuming as well because instead of just waving everything through the more sensitive scanner, you have to pick it out through your cart. And if you have coupons, or the machine frigs up and doesn’t weigh something properly, you have to wait for assistance. If you go through the cash and you’ve, say, had a bottle of water or juice/pop while you shopped and paid for it with your order, you’re going to have to get someone to override it on the self scan because the weights will be off. If you go through the regular cash, the cashier will just scan it through and put it in the recycling for you. And, back to bagging, when you do it 8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week (or more), you end up getting speedier at it.
I will say, though, Sobeys has a MUCH better system than Superstore. I’ve never had any major issues with their machines and you can put your bags in your cart before your order is finished. Superstore’s are always flashing ‘wait for assistance’ and I’m pretty sure the help buttons are broken because any time I”ve needed someone to override something, I’ve had to flag them down because pressing ‘help’ multiple times doesn’t seem to grab their attention.
In sum, while the extra steps here or there aren’t a HUGE time waster, but as a former cashier, I know it does take longer to go through the self scan rather than the regular check outs. Some of that may be due to people not having experience doing it, but if you know how to use a regular cash, the self scan is going to be slower for you. You can’t put untrained people on a machine and not provide a few user friendly steps that do add a bit of time.
And by the way: my IPMs were some of the highest in the store I worked at (items scanned per minute), so you betta check yo’ self befo’ you wreck yo’ self, Mr Captain, with yo’ “I’m faster than any cashier!” grand statements. 😛
How can he fit 17 items on a bike.
So what is 10 items, the philosopher in me wants to know. Nah, not really, just want to stir up shit. Would 10 cans of peas, 10 bags of chips, 10 jugs of milk, 10 chocolate bars, 10 packages of shit paper, 10 ears of corn, 10 jars of peanut butter, 10 loaves of bread, 10 tubes of ass cream, and 10 Frank Magazines (all items being the same brand, size, and cost) be considered 10 items or 100 items?
Sounds like snack time at bro tim’s.
SOCIAL FRICTION IN THE HALIFAX UNDERCLASS
“We don’t accept that type of rudeness in Fairview.” You Wasted Five Minutes of My Life
What is the issue here? “Wasted”, who ordinarily shops in Fairview, was delayed five minutes in the 10 item checkout in Spryfield by a fat biker. At the most general level, but also at its most superficial, the issue relates to the deportment of fat bikers, a quality which might be extended to the current general lack of consideration for others, but it seems that something more is going on here. What would that be?
My hypothesis is that the issue has nothing to do with fat bikers – as one commenter perceptively noted, such behaviour is commonplace among thin shoppers as well, whether or not, one supposes, they happen to be bikers s well – nor, for that matter, with the widespread decline in common manners. No, what we are dealing with here is a fine-grained sociological distinction between the inhabitants of two Halifax communities which, as everyone knows, belong to the Halifax Underclass.
The question then becomes whether or not “Wasted” can support that distinction. Can she bring grounds to demonstrate the claim that, as she puts it, “We don’t accept that rudeness in Fairview”? In the absence of any first-hand knowledge of the behavioural traits of the inhabitants of either Fairwiew or Spryfield – I am not, and never will be, a member of the Halifax Underclass – how am I to determine the validity of her claim?
To assess the validity of her claim “Wasted” must do more than simply give her impressionistic account of the distinction between Spryfield and Fairview. Not to discount the value of first-hand intuitive insight of course, but more is needed to ground that insight in the firm foundation of empirical data. Is there, for example, some income deviation between the two communities? Is there a greater incidence of crime in one rather than the other? Do the inhabitants of Spryfield as opposed to Fairview engage more frequently in debilitating self-abuse?
These questions, and more, must be addressed before a reasoned assessment of the distinction between Spryfield and Fairview might be ventured. I wish “Wasted” every success in her research.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!