The following is part of a discussion from Facebook on the subject of self checkout tills in supermarkets, as you can see the first comment related to the difficulty of the self checkout machine to recognise the coupons and my suggestion in italics as to how to solve the problem.
Following my suggestion as to how to solve the problem, another participant interjected with the comment, ‘how do you know,’ which I can only assume related to my suggestion to use the till where they get things right. I may be getting the wrong end of the stick but I just had to ask, why would anyone question how I knew the manned till was a better option, one would have thought it was self explanatory.
Facebook conversation.
My issue is that the self check never gets the coupons right, and prices often don’t match the sale prices on the aisle. So I have to call an employee over anyway, which is a waste of my time and very frustrating.
You could always use the till where they get these things right!
How do you know.
At my advancing age I have had occasion to visit a supermarket on quite a number of times, generally with my wife and during these visits we take our coupons with us, the validity of which we have checked prior to our arrival at the checkout till where the assistant also checks them and enters them on our bill. The coupons are therefore checked twice before leaving the supermarket and should we wish to be particularly pedantic we can check our till receipt once again when we arrive home. This is just one of the advantages of using the manned checkout tills which some of us find most useful.
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Luckily we still have the choice in Switzerland, do it yourself or go to the cashier at the till. I still do it the old fashioned way. I have human contact with the store, and living in a small village I know most of the people. I was in London a few years ago and noticed how the self cashing was making progress, to the extent that I believe today there is no great choice. I just hope it does not invade our Swiss stores.
I avoid the self checkout till like the plague mostly because they put people out of work and as I can see the prices remain the same or increase, I assume the supermarket keep the increased profit. I have walked out on some occasions when I find all the manned tills are closed and left my trolley at the checkout.
I don’t mind the self checkout if there are enough assistants around to prove I am an adult. I don’t have any paper coupons because my money off offers are barcodes on the Apps. I’ve found I can download Apps for a selection of supermarkets and if I don’t visit for a while, I’m offered money off. Recently, I was given £18 off at Sainsbury’s if I spent £40 and £15 off at Asda if I spent £35.
What I find quite annoying and it happens very frequently when I’m in a supermarket is vast numbers of members of the public working for the supermarket for nothing by serving themselves and even queueing to do so, together with those queueing for the small number of manned tills and three or four members of staff standing about doing nothing but talking to themselves. Presumably, they are discussing where on earth they could get some extra staff to man the tills in an effort to get the queues down!
The Diary of a Country Bumpkin 
Luckily we still have the choice in Switzerland, do it yourself or go to the cashier at the till. I still do it the old fashioned way. I have human contact with the store, and living in a small village I know most of the people. I was in London a few years ago and noticed how the self cashing was making progress, to the extent that I believe today there is no great choice. I just hope it does not invade our Swiss stores.
I avoid the self checkout till like the plague mostly because they put people out of work and as I can see the prices remain the same or increase, I assume the supermarket keep the increased profit. I have walked out on some occasions when I find all the manned tills are closed and left my trolley at the checkout.
I don’t mind the self checkout if there are enough assistants around to prove I am an adult. I don’t have any paper coupons because my money off offers are barcodes on the Apps. I’ve found I can download Apps for a selection of supermarkets and if I don’t visit for a while, I’m offered money off. Recently, I was given £18 off at Sainsbury’s if I spent £40 and £15 off at Asda if I spent £35.
What I find quite annoying and it happens very frequently when I’m in a supermarket is vast numbers of members of the public working for the supermarket for nothing by serving themselves and even queueing to do so, together with those queueing for the small number of manned tills and three or four members of staff standing about doing nothing but talking to themselves. Presumably, they are discussing where on earth they could get some extra staff to man the tills in an effort to get the queues down!