Random Irritations

[RichA]

I did the weekly shop at Tesco yesterday using Scan & Shop.
It doesn't happen often, but I got one of the checks where the yoof at the checkout area has to scan a certain number of items to make sure you aren't stealing anything.
I noticed at the time that he scanned a big box of teabags twice, but I didn't think anything of it.
I paid and went home.

Some time later MrsA asked me how much a particular item had cost, so I dug the receipt out of the recycling to check. Only then did I realise that I'd paid for 2 boxes of teabags (it was a big box - £7 each).

It had not occurred to me that this could happen. I guess they're supposed to remove the items from your shopping bag as they check them to prevent this happening, but I've never seen them bother.

 

[KenL]

I did the weekly shop at Tesco yesterday using Scan & Shop.
It doesn't happen often, but I got one of the checks where the yoof at the checkout area has to scan a certain number of items to make sure you aren't stealing anything.
I noticed at the time that he scanned a big box of teabags twice, but I didn't think anything of it.
I paid and went home.

Some time later MrsA asked me how much a particular item had cost, so I dug the receipt out of the recycling to check. Only then did I realise that I'd paid for 2 boxes of teabags (it was a big box - £7 each).

It had not occurred to me that this could happen. I guess they're supposed to remove the items from your shopping bag as they check them to prevent this happening, but I've never seen them bother.

I would not use this method for this reason and for the fact that, in the future, they won’t need any humans in shops if we use this service.

 

[RichA]

I would not use this method for this reason and for the fact that, in the future, they won’t need any humans in shops if we use this service.

I didn't know this until I just looked it up...
Tesco has 340,000 employees.
25 years ago they had 288,000. Stuff like scan & shop doesn't appear to be adversely affecting employment.

 

[chellie]

I didn't know this until I just looked it up...
Tesco has 340,000 employees.
25 years ago they had 288,000. Stuff like scan & shop doesn't appear to be adversely affecting employment.

They will now have loads on zero hours contract though....

 

[Pin-seeker]

I didn't know this until I just looked it up...
Tesco has 340,000 employees.
25 years ago they had 288,000. Stuff like scan & shop doesn't appear to be adversely affecting employment.

I don’t usually shop at Tesco,but called in a few weeks ago & the number of staff picking orders for home delivery was crazy.

I’m not a fan of self service checkout tho.

 

[KenL]

They will now have loads on zero hours contract though....

Is that still a thing?

 

[RichA]

They will now have loads on zero hours contract though....

I didn't think they did.

 

[Hobbit]

Tesco stopped zero hours a good while back, and guarantee a minimum 16 hours on all contracts. Mrs H used to work for them and still stays in touch with ex-colleagues.

 

[jim8flog]

Boiler is off, no power, no lights, nothing. Plumber is due tomorrow and based on my description and pictures it sounds like the PCB has died. Hopefully he can fix it tomorrow or Tuesday. No fun being without hot water.

When I renovated my kitchen I went 4 months without a boiler I found it amazing how much I could do with just a kettle to supply hot water

cheating compared to you though, I have electric showers in the bathrooms.

 

[KenL]

They will now have loads on zero hours contract though....

Were you talking nonsense?

 

[jim8flog]

Central heating in Sept …

Had similar thoughts this weekend. I reckon it is the earliest time of year I have ever put it on. 2 nights ago I realised it was time for the summer weight TOG quilt to go.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I didn't know this until I just looked it up...
Tesco has 340,000 employees.
25 years ago they had 288,000. Stuff like scan & shop doesn't appear to be adversely affecting employment.

That’s a very narrow view

How many more stores do Tesco have then to now?

They have opened new regional distribution centres, lost checkout staff, gained pickers to deal with the online deliveries and gained loads of drivers to accomplish said deliveries.

To look at staff numbers and say it’s down to scan n shop is very, very simplistic indeed

 

[KenL]

Had similar thoughts this weekend. I reckon it is the earliest time of year I have ever put it on. 2 nights ago I realised it was time for the summer weight TOG quilt to go.

Global warming for you.

 

[KenL]

That’s a very narrow view

How many more stores do Tesco have then to now?

They have opened new regional distribution centres, lost checkout staff, gained pickers to deal with the online deliveries and gained loads of drivers to accomplish said deliveries.

To look at staff numbers and say it’s down to scan n shop is very, very simplistic indeed

What’s your not so simplistic view then please?

 

[RichA]

That’s a very narrow view

How many more stores do Tesco have then to now?

They have opened new regional distribution centres, lost checkout staff, gained pickers to deal with the online deliveries and gained loads of drivers to accomplish said deliveries.

To look at staff numbers and say it’s down to scan n shop is very, very simplistic indeed

I didn't.
I was inferring that there's no evidence that scan & shop has reduced their human employment.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

The many people that used to man the tills are now doing the shopping around the stores for the dot com shoppers

Local Tesco superstore has employed 10 more people to be the ones doing the shopping for either the ones that pick up the shopping or deliveries

 

[RichA]

Lots of people reading imaginary subtexts into simple posts today.

 

[KenL]

The many people that used to man the tills are now doing the shopping around the stores for the dot com shoppers

Local Tesco superstore has employed 10 more people to be the ones doing the shopping for either the ones that pick up the shopping or deliveries

Interested how you know their staff has been increased by 10.

 

[Tashyboy]

That’s a very narrow view

How many more stores do Tesco have then to now?

They have opened new regional distribution centres, lost checkout staff, gained pickers to deal with the online deliveries and gained loads of drivers to accomplish said deliveries.

To look at staff numbers and say it’s down to scan n shop is very, very simplistic indeed

The old Tesco in Mansfield is Rammel. It is falling down literally. It was on a 99 year lease.Mansfield district council took over the lease and Tesco built two brand new stores in and around Mansfield.
The old one looks like a concrete monstrosity, with a multi storey carpark above it. Coz it looks pig ugly MDC SPENT 2 million quid putting some decorative steel cladding on the outside a couple of years ago.
However part of the top floor has now collapsed onto the floor below. Suffice to say the whole carpark and old Tesco now has to be demolished.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Interested how you know their staff has been increased by 10.

Because I play golf with one of the managers