Tesco's self serve checkouts & Karma

Danny

So yesterday morning I used the new self serve checkout at our Tesco's, after almost 10 minutes of utter chaos I got to my last two items 1 regular croissant & 1 chocolate croissant, with these not having a barcodes you have to go through a list of items to select them, the regular croissant I found fine but I couldn't find the chocolate one, not wanting to call the attended for a 3rd time (1st to allow a bottle of red wine, & 2nd to remove a security tag from a pack of 98p batteries) I decided that well I’d just put the chocolate croissant through as a regular one (meaning I was robbing Tesco's of 19p) on the way home I did feel a little bad, but hey it was it was only a few pence.

So i sit down with a cup of coffee the morning paper and my chocolate croissant only to discover...............there was no chocolate inside.............karma a funny thing!

David

Tesco's are such cowboys. They'd have happily let you pay a 19p premium for a fake chocolate croissant. It's business based on the Ikea way of doing things. Make the purchasing so painful, they'll never come back to return it.

andy

My tesco story, from yesterday: Three bottles of Magners for four quid (not for me, I hasten to add) Everything else goes through the till. She looks at the Magners. She gets up and disappears, for 10 minutes. She comes back "I can't sell these to you" "Why not?" "They haven't got barcodes" "What?" "I can't put them through the till" "They are 3 for £4. It says" "But I can't put it through" "How did something arrive in a Tesco's without a barcode?" "I don't know" "You do know that's mental. Why do you keep things in the fridge, for sale, if you won't sell them to people" "Whatever. Do you want the Bulmers?" And so I had to buy the Bulmers. Meanwhile, a fridge full of fucking magners, totally unsellable, sat in the fridge by the door. Try and buy one tonight, see if you can. I'm just going to steal them via the self service next time.

andy

**they'd have happily let you pay a 19p premium for a fake chocolate croissant.** True. 19p for a dirty smear of imaginary nutella hardly seems like a bargain.

David

Is it enough to make you appreciate the goodness that is Waffle On?

Liz

There's a simple answer to all of this: just don't go to Tesco. That Tesco Metro is so grim that we ought to start boycotting it.