From: Man@the.keyboard
On 11 Dec 2025 01:51:23 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:32:08 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:
>
>> Hate them!! Hate them! Hate them. I'll stand in line at a staffed
>> Check-Out (if there is one) rather than use those Auto-mated Check-Outs.
>>
>> The way I figure it, the Supermarket has already added the 'Staffing
>> Costs' into the price of the things I buy, so I might as well make use
>> of the Staff that I'm paying for.
>
>The markets have reduced the number of manned lanes and have done away
>with the 'express' lanes. I'm not keen on standing in line behind someone
>who was shopping for a family of nine to get my six items rung up. Even
>worse is discovering you're behind someone with a EBT card that finds
>their credit card declined for the stuff the EBT didn't cover.
I know that I'm a softy-touchy and that it is a scam the Crumblies
play on the supermarkets, hoping that some sympathetic little girl
manager will authorise their "purchases" (actually thefts but the
Crumblies would scream and holler and jump out of their motorised
chairs to wallop you if you said this, :) ) even when they are
"unexpectedly" under-funded, but I have, on extremely rare occasions,
simply paid the difference.
I even, on the first day of our local Christmas Market, paid for the
goodies a motorised Crinklie tried to buy when she said "I don't have
a card" and there were fucking HUGE "card payment only" signs
everywhere. After all, we can't expect the vulnerable and elderly to
be able to read the language of the country they've lived in for
eighty-odd years, can we?
I know I'm being scammed by the evil scunners looking for a freebie
but it's funny and I can afford it so long as I don't do it too often.
Also, that creepy, little, "I got away with it", smirk is ever-so
cute on them.
Let them have their victory. It makes their day and harms me ever so
very little. :)
J.
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