That can depend on how quick the chip and pin thingy is. If the cashier is paying attention, and it's a quick card reader it shouldn't really be much different to someone paying cash. Also, if the person is ready with their card out, it can be quicker than someone fishing around looking for change anyway.

I hear what you are saying, but saying that I've used my card before, just for a bottle of pop.

 

I insist on using my card to pay for two pints in my old pub, just so everyone who used to moan about slow service, gets servered even slower now

 

I deffo use my card ! - its slightly embarassing if tis a slow connection but otherwise its as fast as your ready wedge and you dont get lumped with a pocketful of shratnell

Pikey Landlords machine has been on the blink for weeks now - hes so lax i just pay short change when it doesnt work

 

Ah, now, see, I've got a problem with that.

































Which one first, and would I have performance anxiety???????

As for the personal space thing, I'm a rather stocky individual (upside down weeble), and I hate being crowded. I find a couple of cwt in size 9's landing on their delicate little tootsies gets me some breathing space, or I give them the full glare of my grumpy psycho stare

 

When I get that sort of treatment which is quite unnecessary, I just tell them that if they move back then I will be able to get my purchases together and put my wallet away more quickly, and that will actually save them some time. There is a finite amount of time between getting the purchases, bagging it and paying and I don't waste any time myself either. As ever these days there are so many who will display extremely bad manners!

Les

 

lol... i offer to pay it for them, just to get them out the frickin way!!!

 

Which shops do you usually use then?

Les

 

Ok.............been on the 'One Basket' till all bleedin' day, so a few to be going on with..........

Women who have one basket full (and I mean full.....) of stuff, then proceed to unload about a trolley load from all kinds of secret hidey-holes in the pushchair.

People who lick their fingers to get their money /card out then hand it to you soggy end first.

Standing with their arms folded while I struggle to pack their 2 bags in the tiny space available, but won't put one on the floor when I've packed it to give me more space.

As above, but they shove their money in your face while you're packing.

Having to tell customers who come in every bleedin' day! to put their card in the machine.......enter PIN........remove card........blah, blah, blah.......

As was mentioned earlier.........getting to the checkout, then running off to get something they've forgotten and coming back with half-a-dozen more items.

Saying........'I only came in for one thing' when they've got a basket full.

Saying.......'I've got loads of 'Bags For Life' but I've left them in the car'. If I had a pound for everytime someone says either of those two things........

Ummmmmmmmmmm................think I might just go and lie down in a dark room for a bit........with a LARGE drink!

 

Can I have a large drink too, Kim? I've been stuck in exams and interviews all day

 

I hate the retards that cannot use the self scan checkouts

 

I fackin' hate people!

Honestly........I have to go now........drink waiting........

 

I hate the torn faced old bags who serve you at the checkout, then grunt at you when you say goodbye, have a nice day. I assume they get wages docked for smiling or actually being pleasant to customers

 

You've been through my checkout then!

Actually....that's one I missed........people who completely blank you when you say 'Good Morning'. ........and I haven't got time now, but mobile phones...........

I'm always nice to people!

 

I always get a big grin and a wave from my favourite one in Tesco. One day, she was being so helpful, that even though she wasn't on duty she dived onto a till to get rid of the massive cue! That's going the extra mile!

She's got a cracking rack too!

 

Was she serving a giant Steve Davis?

Splicer I'm always nice to the checkout girls, especially the Kylie lookalike in Asda who looks like she could suck a bowling ball through a hosepipe

 

Tam, it often scares me how alike we are.

Glad it's not just me who pervs at the check-out girls

Paula is cracking. Fiona isn't bad.

Katie has an innocent face but I reckon she's really dirty

 

oldsplice and lisawrx, the whole 10 items or less thing! Why don't the checkout people say to the feckwits with blatantly more than 10 items "Sorry 10 items or less Sir/Madam you'll have to go to a regular checkout, thank you".

 

How about this for poor checkout behaviour

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...-surprise.html

 

At my work we don't have 10 items or less tills, but I'm a little torn on that issue. While I don't agree with people trying to go through them with loads more than 10 items, I myself even get frustrated to say the least when I've had a couple more items, and can't use that till, when all the other checkouts have several people with trolly fulls of shopping waiting to be served. I prefer basket only than 10 items or less.

 

And another example besides-


Women bouces up behind me and asks me ( im third in the queue ) to watch her basket while she nips off to the other side of the supermarket for something , and plonks the thing on the floor....

Well in case somebody nicks summat

What shes really saying is would i keep her place in the queue and even decamp her articles onto the conveyer belt if she isnt around.


Anyway its BUSY and im 2 away from being served and in the meantime somebody has landed their basket on stack and is entirley reasonably unpacking to the belt..whereupon the guy who was standing behind me(dithering between queues ) puts our absentees basket on the pile and said lady arrives back . The innocent lady whoose goods were on the counter then GIVES UP her place to our interloper..! who is now on her mobile to some relative or the other ...

Needless to say she wasnt quite as friendly now
- well i did *watch* her basket

 

I ahve actually done that to an old woman who was paying for some sugar and a paper with coppers, counting it all out on the till. She had a purse full of gold and silver, so why use the coppers cant you give tnem to the grandkids or something?

I offered her a quid so i could get my paper before i died of old age!

She wouldnt take it though, and proceeded to pi55 off a growing queue cos she was adamant she wanted to use coppers!

What is wrong with these people, ******* sort it out!

If i ever runa shop i will bar these fools, and they can spend their 87p in coppers somewhere else!

 

We don't have a '10 items or fewer', it's just 'one basket' . I had someone once with 31 items in a basket!!

A couple of weeks ago, I had a couple who came up to me and said 'we've got 2 baskets, but it's only one payment' wtf??? Which part of 'one basket' did they not get? All us girls would much rather it was a designated number of items.

Yesterday, I was calling out 'who's next?' about 3 times, looking directly at the next silly tart, who had her ipod stuffed in her ears. Finally the person behind gave her a nudge she then took half an hour to look for her money, put her purse away, etc etc. She nearly had her ipod stuffed somewhere else!



Tam..........glad to hear you're always nice to the checkout girls...........you never know when it could be me!

 

Here's a couple of pics of my favourite check-out girls

Paula:


Paula & Katie:

 

You wouldn't want to see a pic of me in my uniform!

 

They were off duty when those pics were taken.

I think.

But that's why I shop in Tesco!

What uniform are you taking about though?

 

I would get a shock if I walked across a cheap carpet too fast!

 

I shouldn't laugh as I got a shock off a door handle of a Land Rover today

 

I had to serve the pi$$y sisters today..................It's really hard trying to hold your breath for 5 minutes and talk at the same time.

 

One of the regulars in my old boozer smells of Deep Heat I have no idea why, though

 

Well, it's better than smelling of stale pi$$!