First world problems

[TightEnd]

a thread for things that people get worked up about, but wouldn't if they lived somewhere where they are less fortunate

today's papers...

[arbboy]

How can you need a quid that badly to make such a fool of yourself in public in broad daylight and stone cold sober as a lady in her mid 60s?

[DungBeetle]

How petty not to give her the quid back though.  The store have made a policy decision not to have any workers on the tills, so it's obviously a risk that someone would get the hump.

Idiots all round imo.

[Doobs]

How petty not to give her the quid back though.  The store have made a policy decision not to have any workers on the tills, so it's obviously a risk that someone would get the hump.

Idiots all round imo.

No cashiers at all seems a pretty bad decision.

Still wouldn't empty my tolley for a quid no matter how much I had drunk.  Wendy could have had a skinfull for all we know.  What odds on her asking politely too?

[baldock92]

Seems pretty pathetic on both sides imo.

[ripple11]

Obviously these self serve tills are being introduced to save on staff costs and increase profits.

But with no tills open, how much money/stock is lost with pilfering/mistakes....is it less than £8/hr for a shop worker?

And how much ongoing business/profit is lost with Wendy and her friends going elsewhere?

Needs to be a balance.

[tikay]

Poor soul, life in the UK is pretty tough, eh?

[MintTrav]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

[RED-DOG]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

When I was a lad in Sheffield, the shopkeeper would tot everything up on a paper bag, the customer would look at the total and say "Nah then Mr Scoggins, tha's been a bit ower eavy wit pencil"

[Tal]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

Our local butcher keeps a loaf of bread on the counter.

Proper old school, that.

[Junior Senior]

Asda is a joke supermarket, i went in the other day and they only had 4 varieties of quinoa. I had to go elsewhere with more choice.

[mikeymike]

i must be getting old - i remember the days when all our shopping was done on tick

[DaveShoelace]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

When I was a lad in Sheffield, the shopkeeper would tot everything up on a paper bag, the customer would look at the total and say "Nah then Mr Scoggins, tha's been a bit ower eavy wit pencil"

When and whereabouts in Sheffield did you live Tom? I can't believe I never asked you that before.

[RED-DOG]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

When I was a lad in Sheffield, the shopkeeper would tot everything up on a paper bag, the customer would look at the total and say "Nah then Mr Scoggins, tha's been a bit ower eavy wit pencil"

When and whereabouts in Sheffield did you live Tom? I can't believe I never asked you that before.

Well Obviously we used to come and go but we spent a lot of our time there between about 1960 and 1975.

Regular camps were High Hazels park in Darnall and across from Banners in Attercliffe.

[DaveShoelace]

I object to these shops and their cost-saving ideas nowadays. I especially object to these so-called "self-service" shops that expect me to walk around gathering my own purchases, like a warehouse worker filling a picking list, doing the shopman's work for him, instead of him collecting them together for me from behind the counter. He should cut my cheese with a piece of wire, get my biscuits from a big square box and separate a lb of butter for me with two flat wooden things with grooves. At least then I can see that I'm not being cheated. He should weigh it on a scales balanced against little metal weights and tot up my bill with a pencil from behind his ear, not using one of those so-called calculators. Everything went up when they started using those!

When I was a lad in Sheffield, the shopkeeper would tot everything up on a paper bag, the customer would look at the total and say "Nah then Mr Scoggins, tha's been a bit ower eavy wit pencil"

When and whereabouts in Sheffield did you live Tom? I can't believe I never asked you that before.

Well Obviously we used to come and go but we spent a lot of our time there between about 1960 and 1975.

Regular camps were High Hazels park in Darnall and across from Banners in Attercliffe.

Other than it has a Wilkos there now, I reckon Attercliffe is about the same today as when you left it.