XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-10 04:26, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/9/25 21:38, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-09 16:56, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>> On 12/9/25 06:10, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-12-08 14:55, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:37:25 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The consumer groups suggested that it might be because people were   
   >>>>> more   
   >>>>> likely to use a cart if they knew on their way in that they were   
   >>>>> buying   
   >>>>> more than would fit in a handbasket.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This days, I shop with the reusable bag that they told us to use   
   >>   
   >> These days. oops.   
   >>   
   >>>> instead of one use plastic bags. That way, I know how heavy my bag   
   >>>> is getting, so that I can walk back home.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>      Here shopping into your own bag is widely discouraged.   
   >>   
   >> Fortunately, they can say nothing about it. Even more, my usual bag   
   >> has another bag inside, one of those insulated for frozen or cold   
   >> foods, and inside, I put a small bottle (⅓litre) with frozen salted   
   >> water, so that the guard at the entrance can see I enter with a bag   
   >> that already has some weight in it.   
   >>   
   >> After depositing everything on the rubber belt at the cashier, I make   
   >> a show of looking the bag is empty, or show it to the employee.   
   >>   
   >> They charge for each plastic bag you get on the exit cashier, and they   
   >> encourage people to buy reusable bags. Thus, we have to enter the shop   
   >> with empty reusable bags. It is their doing, not ours. Well,   
   >> government regulation, actually. Pushed by the EU.   
   >   
   >   
   >    If you use a 'permanent' bag, esp from THAT store,   
   >    they'll claim you STOLE it from them ....   
      
   Nope. They stamp them when they sell them :-)   
      
   Besides, it is easy to differentiate a much used bag from a new one.   
      
   >   
   >    And if you really want to get arrested, use "automated   
   >    self-checkout"  :-)   
      
   Wow. I do use them, no problems here. They have staff constantly   
   watching and helping.   
      
   At one of the big supermarkets I use, Carrefour, the automated section   
   is for bags or baskets, not carts.   
      
   At a very small number of Carrefours, there is another automated   
   mechanism: you pick a handheld scanner on entry to the place, and then   
   scan each item you put on the cart. At exit, you put the device on a   
   receptacle, and you get asked to pay the total. No need to handle   
   anything on the cart. So out to your car to put everything in the boot.   
   Randomly, they pick one cart to check manually.   
      
   I don't know how they handle an error, but I have not heard of arrests.   
      
   ...   
      
   >> Sometimes I use a backpack, and some times my own trolley. When I buy   
   >> milk, for instance.   
   >>   
   >> https://share.google/NreDLQi7p1sjP1KPY   
   >>   
   >> Otherwise, I drive.   
   >   
   >    What a drag it is getting old .......   
   >   
   >    Hey, joints don't hold up forever - and the more   
   >    you abused them in yer youth ........   
      
   Heard on the radio, a doctor investigator, maybe yesterday, that during   
   a Marathon race the... I think he said the glio cells in the cerebrum   
   get damaged (20%?) and need a recovery of about two or three weeks.   
   Those runners that participate in many races get a constant damage. Not   
   clear what impact that has.   
      
      
   >   
   >    Yikes ! Small RAT just scurried past in my house.   
   >    Never had one inside before. Just ordered the   
   >    highest-rated rat poison. Basically nothing for   
   >    him to eat here, so he'll love the poison block.   
   >   
   >    They move too quick to try a BB gun ... don't   
   >    think I have any that work anymore anyway.   
      
   Yiks.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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