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It's where I grocery shop in Texas.
Topic Started: Sep 5 2017, 12:29 PM (195 Views)
Jolly
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Jolly
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As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Riley
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Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Never seen anything like that here, so not commonplace around here either.

Would it speed up checkout times? Why else would they spend the money on it?
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Copper
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At the supermarket here there is a scale at each checkout. So that might be 15-20 scales to maintain. If you weighed in the produce section there would probably be fewer scales to be maintained.

Also less training at the checkout.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Rainman
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Yeah, they have that here, it works out great.

I lift up hard on the scale while weighting in the produce section, then at checkout they refund the amount which must be due.

Ends up free groceries, plus a refund.
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Horace
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Don't forget to steal the scale, Rainman.
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Horace
Sep 5 2017, 08:03 PM
Don't forget to steal the scale, Rainman.
Horace, please!!

It's not stealing. It's just implementing basic math skills.

Common Core Skills = no cash left behind.

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jon-nyc
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Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Just saw that in Amsterdam, I think for the first time.

Trader Joe's model is interesting, no scales, everything priced by the piece.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Here, it's a combination of both. The store presents an option: the customer can generate his own stick-on label while he's on the floor, and if he chooses not to, it's done for him at checkout.

I've learned a lot in recent times about the intelligence of the average bear. I'm assuming the store decided against forcing the customers to label their own stuff -- management recognizes that for a non-starter -- and instead is trying to slowly and gently get shoppers used to doing it, without trauma and with plenty of assistance.
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Riley
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jon-nyc
Sep 6 2017, 12:26 AM
Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Just saw that in Amsterdam, I think for the first time.

Trader Joe's model is interesting, no scales, everything priced by the piece.
Do they not have bulk peanuts and things then?

"How many peanuts in the bag sir?"

"One-thousand four-hundred twenty-two"
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Jolly
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Riley
Sep 6 2017, 04:14 AM
jon-nyc
Sep 6 2017, 12:26 AM
Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Just saw that in Amsterdam, I think for the first time.

Trader Joe's model is interesting, no scales, everything priced by the piece.
Do they not have bulk peanuts and things then?

"How many peanuts in the bag sir?"

"One-thousand four-hundred twenty-two"
Sold by weight. Bag them, put them in their bag, place them on the scale and out prints your ticket. Sure, they have even bigger amounts, pre-bagged and priced.

It's a neat concept, once you get used to it.
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jon-nyc
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Riley
Sep 6 2017, 04:14 AM
jon-nyc
Sep 6 2017, 12:26 AM
Jolly
Sep 5 2017, 04:13 PM
As an aside, one thing they do I'm not used to that may be commonplace elsewhere...When buying produce, you weigh your own on a scale in the produce department which spits out a bar-coded label to put on your bag.

The checker doesn't have to think, just scan...
Just saw that in Amsterdam, I think for the first time.

Trader Joe's model is interesting, no scales, everything priced by the piece.
Do they not have bulk peanuts and things then?

"How many peanuts in the bag sir?"

"One-thousand four-hundred twenty-two"
Nope, just sold by the bag. Same with potatoes and a few other things.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
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Oops, Jolly had already answered.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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From Bill Bryson's I'm A Stranger Here Myself, his essay entitled "Rules For Living":

Rule 14. Supermarkets henceforth are required to put everything where a middle-aged man who doesn't shop much can find it.

(Bonus: Rule 3. If in the course of parking your car you are not able to maneuver the vehicle into a space in less time than it takes to undergo and recover from open heart surgery, it is not permitted to park in that space.)
Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions. Chocolate understands.
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Rainman
Sep 5 2017, 08:35 PM
Horace
Sep 5 2017, 08:03 PM
Don't forget to steal the scale, Rainman.
Horace, please!!

It's not stealing. It's just implementing basic math skills.

Common Core Skills = no cash left behind.

:hat:
:lol2: POTD
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Jolly
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Catseye3
Sep 6 2017, 09:53 AM
From Bill Bryson's I'm A Stranger Here Myself, his essay entitled "Rules For Living":

Rule 14. Supermarkets henceforth are required to put everything where a middle-aged man who doesn't shop much can find it.

(Bonus: Rule 3. If in the course of parking your car you are not able to maneuver the vehicle into a space in less time than it takes to undergo and recover from open heart surgery, it is not permitted to park in that space.)
I do all the grocery shopping at my house.

Thank you for alluding to me being middle-aged. :whome:
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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