Loneliness

@moonbus said
Whatever happened to teenagers loading the bags for customers? It was a great part-time job for youths and so helpful, especially for elderly customers.

There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

Bloody swines!

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

Lemme get this straight: the staff are there only to stock the shelves and take inventory (although Elon Musk is probably working on an AI replacement for that too), while customers do the work at checkout and pay the same price for smaller packages ("shrinkflation" -- my nomination for word of the year 2024). So, this is what Insainsbury's has become? Only because customers put up with it and don't demand service by taking their custom somewhere else. I suppose Tesco is no better.

As shav would almost say, there's something retarded going on there.

@moonbus said
Lemme get this straight: the staff are there only to stock the shelves and take inventory (although Elon Musk is probably working on an AI replacement for that too), while customers do the work at checkout and pay the same price for smaller packages ("shrinkflation" -- my nomination for word of the year 2024). So, this is what Insainsbury's has become? Only because customers ...[text shortened]... e Tesco is no better.

As shav would almost say, there's something retarded going on there.

I only go there because of their good organic veg range. When the store was being built I’d expected lots of opportunities for a short term job for my son and couldn’t understand why there weren’t any?
What the store has done is reduce the crowds in Tesco & Aldi at the weekends and also created an increased water drainage flow into our local river increasing the potential for flooding and removing part of a wildlife area.

@drewnogal said
I only go there because of their good organic veg range. When the store was being built I’d expected lots of opportunities for a short term job for my son and couldn’t understand why there weren’t any?
What the store has done is reduce the crowds in Tesco & Aldi at the weekends and also created an increased water drainage flow into our local river increasing the potential for flooding and removing part of a wildlife area.

What ever happened to little corner shops as in "Open All Hours" ? <sigh>

@moonbus said
Lemme get this straight: the staff are there only to stock the shelves and take inventory (although Elon Musk is probably working on an AI replacement for that too), while customers do the work at checkout and pay the same price for smaller packages ("shrinkflation" -- my nomination for word of the year 2024). So, this is what Insainsbury's has become? Only because customers ...[text shortened]... e Tesco is no better.

As shav would almost say, there's something retarded going on there.

Petrol stations have been making customers do the work for decades.

@the-gravedigger said
Petrol stations have been making customers do the work for decades.

That surely can’t be fair when I buy my self drive car 😖

@drewnogal said
I find that hard to believe, I bet you could talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Well as it happens that’s why I am, now, an introvert. The SPCA found out that I, accidentally, did that and well, as they say, the rest is history.😢

@the-gravedigger said
Petrol stations have been making customers do the work for decades.

Well, that’s only to be expected from oil barons.

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

Not true! Discovered today they have 4 assisted checkouts tucked in the far corner.

@drewnogal said
Not true! Discovered today they have 4 assisted checkouts tucked in the far corner.

You will be able to buy your wine without getting bleeped at. 😀

Did this Thread take a turn? I thought it was a thread about "Loneliness"?


-VR

@very-rusty said
Did this Thread take a turn? I thought it was a thread about "Loneliness"?


-VR

Loneliness & Wine sounds like the perfect combination.

@david-burton said
Loneliness & Wine sounds like the perfect combination.

Fully agree with you there.

@david-burton said
Loneliness & Wine sounds like the perfect combination.

I guess what ever floats your boat as the expression goes. I don't think Wine is going to help your loneliness except maybe temporally.

-VR