> wrote:

> Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>
> > ViLco is in Italy, it's the "European" way of getting produce weighed I
> > guess...
>
> > At the Treasure Island grocery chain here in Chicawgo you have to get
yer
> > produce weighed in the produce dept., I consider it a big PITA. I don't
> > like having to interact with store employees any more than is absolutely
> > necessary...half the time I have to run around finding someone to weigh
the
> > stuff, the weigher is rude, etc., etc. I mean it's 1970 already, they
have
> > these POS weigh systems at checkout so's ya can get produce weighed
there...
>
> The European system is self-serve. You go to the scale in the produce
> section, push the button for the particular item, the scale spits out
> a bar coded sticker with the weight and price. No need to look for
> anyone. The buttons have pictures of the produce, so you don't even
> have to speak the local language. It's probably cheaper to maintain
> 1 or 2 scales in the produce department than 5 or 10 at the checkout
> lanes. Why your Treasure Island place doesn't make it self-serve
> is the real question.


They're cheap, that's why. Actually, if a produce person is not around I
just do it myself, very simple. I guess they think that people will cheat
or something if it's self - weigh...

This is also the same place where they keep liquor in locked cabinets, you
have to hunt down someone to open the cabinet for you...kinda gives
"America's Most European Supermarket" (as they advertise themselves) that
old "ghetto" feel. They don't have modern anti-theft safeguards in
place...I guess by "America's Most European Supermarket" they mean Poland in
1958 or something.


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Best
Greg