Nancy Young wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
> > ViLco wrote:
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Exactly so.
> >
> > In the supermarkets around where I live, there are scales near the
> > produce but only to check for yourself. The items are put onto a
> > flat scale in front of the till at the checkout and the prices added
> > to your bill.
>
> That's how it is in the stores where I shop. Whole Foods is the
> exception in that you weigh your own bulk items.
>
> I'm happy with letting the cashier weigh the produce. I know 'they'
> would be happy if you'd just learn everyone's job and they could
> get by with one employee. By the time you weigh your own
> produce, self-checkout, pump your own gas, why bother hiring
> anyone. Let the customer do it.
See, you should get a little discount for all that self-serve jazz, I know
for gas self-serve is usually cheaper (but IIRC you don't have self-serve
gas in NJ).
Considering the "skill" of many grocery baggers I'd just as soon do that
myself, that's the way it's done at Aldi and in some places abroad, Germany
IIRC...
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Best
Greg