OT-ish B&Q automated checkout

[John Rumm]

try a cash and carry and buy a crate ;-)

DAMHIK

[djc]

I agree. I gave up on B&Q shortly after they introduced the automated check-out. I don't miss them. I am in central London and the nearest B&Q is at Park Royal, if I can be bothered to go that far its only another quarter mile to Wickes, and I have three branches of Leyland SDM within walking distance.

The local Waitrose has introduced some automated checkouts, last time I was invited to use one I told them, if I wanted that sort of service I would be shopping at Tesco.

[Andrew Gabriel]

All of B&Q in Ireland (6 stores, IIRC) is in serious trouble, but it's a separate company.

I've been to Athlone many times (I have a customer there), but I hadn't noticed there was a B&Q there.

[polygonum]

I think it would sound better if you said "Asda", provided it doesn't stick in your throat. :-)

[Dave Liquorice]

Isn't the first question it asks "Are you using your own bags?"

I don't like the automated checkouts either so don't use 'em muchbut fairly sure that is what the Tesco ones ask. Works for me but then I'm not usinga 1.5 kg rucsack...

[Mike Barnes]

djc :

My response was similar when they started asking me whether I wanted one of their "loyalty" cards.

[Dave Liquorice]

Or Morrisons.

[SteveW]

I can do far better than that -

B&Q: "Self Tapping Screw AVF-860119 Pack Of 25 (W)3.5mm x (L)12mm" £5.68

Local hardware shop 32 of the same screws, 23 pence!

SteveW

[Brian Gaff]

Don't know about that, not noticed there being nobody on ours, though its usually a young Asian who has no reall interest in doing the job. I wonder if they will be automating their security so that robot guards come and grab you if you try to leave without paying?

Brian

[The Medway Handyman]

B&Q mortice latch £5.47, Toolsatan £0.70!

[The Medway Handyman]

IMHO Morrisons are much better than poncy, over priced, nancy boy Waitrose.

Waitrose is full of Malcolm & Cressida Wright-Prat types.

[Chris J Dixon]

You scan with the hand-held device, and it tells you to leave it on the trolley.

Chris

[polygonum]

Morrisons seem to have gone on a roller coaster since the arrived here (taking over the Safeway). Better in lots of ways - followed by deterioration. Repeat.

Most recently they have changed all the fruit and veg section and have fancy misting systems, etc. Trouble is, their stock management seems to have been entirely missed and simply fail to have what I want!

Waitrose is a mixed bag - some things good, some no better than anywhere else, and often (but not always) more expensive than anywhere else when the item is not sold by Tesco!

[Dave Liquorice]

True enough but Morrisons is full doddery old biddies treating the place as a Darby & Joan Club chatting just next to those stupid promotional baskets the store insists on placing down the middle of the aisles.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Just had yet another 'WTF do they do this' moment at the local Sainsburys. They've put cardboard adverts round all the card readers/keyboards so you can't steady the always loose one with one hand. Add that to the fact that they seem to be positioned for persons of restricted growth makes me want to use cash again. And just why to they have to be so small? ATMs seem to find the space for sensible sized keys and screen.

[Nightjar]

On 13/04/2013 11:41, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: ...

I like small keyboards on card machines. They allow me to simultaneously cover the keyboard and enter the PIN all with one hand. Large keyboards need you to move your hand around, potentially giving away the PIN.

Colin Bignell

[alan]

I like the no nonsense approach of Lidl and Aldi.

[alan]

In the 4 stores local to me all the staff seem to be the hard working native English.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Big gripe here is upward-only rent reviews, and recently some of the larger players have been saying 'no'. The small man with a small unit doesn't have the financial muscle to tell the landlord to get stuffed.

[The Natural Philosopher]

its their no quality approach that leaves me cold.