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.

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.

nancy

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...


--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> 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).

Here some fuel brands offer a little discount to self-service users, others
don't.
--
Vilco
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> 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).

And last I heard, cheaper gas than most places, too.

> 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...

I do my own bagging too ... sometimes they have baggers, most
of the time they don't. I'd rather do my own, if nothing else I
don't wind up with 20 bags for 20 items.

And sometimes I actually remember to bring my own bags,
that's always nice. I bet where Blinky is, he always remembers
to bring his bags now.

nancy

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:11:35 -0400, 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.
>
> nancy

Never heard the cashier ask: "What is this ? " ...

--
Groet, salut, Wim.

Wim van Bemmel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:11:35 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

>> 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.

> Never heard the cashier ask: "What is this ? " ...

A couple of times. For the most part it's no trouble.

nancy

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Wim van Bemmel wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:11:35 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>> Never heard the cashier ask: "What is this ? " ...
>
> A couple of times. For the most part it's no trouble.
>
> nancy

I can't remember the last time the check-out asked what kinda produce...
these days it's either in marked plastic bags, tied with wires/elastics with
the code printed, and all those miserable stickers what take the skin off
with them... don't need to know what it is, most everything has the code
number tattooed. Even grapes, cherries, berries and such are already in a
marked container that just needs weighing at check out. Very, very few
produce products are not already marked and those that aren't any five year
old knows what it is, like ears of corn, heads of cabbage, loose
onions/potatoes, and garlic. Small hot peppers are not marked, but they
know they're hot peppers and stupidmarkets don't have more than a couple
three kinds.

brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> I can't remember the last time the check-out asked what kinda produce...
> these days it's either in marked plastic bags, tied with wires/elastics with
> the code printed, and all those miserable stickers what take the skin off
> with them... don't need to know what it is, most everything has the code
> number tattooed. Even grapes, cherries, berries and such are already in a
> marked container that just needs weighing at check out. Very, very few
> produce products are not already marked and those that aren't any five year
> old knows what it is, like ears of corn, heads of cabbage, loose
> onions/potatoes, and garlic. Small hot peppers are not marked, but they
> know they're hot peppers and stupidmarkets don't have more than a couple
> three kinds.

Within a few years, there will be RFID tags on everything,
and items won't have to be individually scanned. They'll
be able to scan your whole cart without even taking anything
out of it.

I've been wondering about how this will change shopping.
I expect the markets will simultaneously attempt to eliminate
bagging, by having the customer put purchases in a bag while
shopping. You'll pay by swiping a card or maybe using your
cellphone. Instead of express lines, there will be slow lines
for people using cash. And Safeway will still pay out 25 cents
change as two dimes and a nickel instead of a quarter, those
*******s!

Sheldon wrote:

> I can't remember the last time the check-out asked what kinda produce...
> these days it's either in marked plastic bags, tied with wires/elastics
> with the code printed, and all those miserable stickers what take the skin
> off with them... don't need to know what it is, most everything has the
> code number tattooed. Even grapes, cherries, berries and such are already
> in a marked container that just needs weighing at check out. Very, very
> few produce products are not already marked and those that aren't any five
> year old knows what it is, like ears of corn, heads of cabbage, loose
> onions/potatoes, and garlic. Small hot peppers are not marked, but they
> know they're hot peppers and stupidmarkets don't have more than a couple
> three kinds.

Sounds like you shop at a supermarket with a shitty produce department. My
local Safeway has bins with at least half-a-dozen different kinds of
chilies, tamarind pods, yuca roots, malanga roots, and horseradish roots,
none of which bear labels. There are usually at least five different kinds
of cabbage and three different kinds of bok choy. Only about half the
produce has tags or labels; the person working the cash register is expected
to recognize the produce when it shows up at his or her station.

You wouldn't last ten minutes without asking, "What is this?"

- You couldn't tell the difference between a cantaloupe and an ambrosia
melon.

- You couldn't tell the difference between Thai basil and spearmint.

- You couldn't tell the difference between a bitter melon and an Armenian
cucumber.

- You couldn't tell the difference between edamame and baby fava beans.

- You have no idea what perilla is. You'd probably ring it up as mint.


Bob

On Mar 26, 10:06*pm, "Bob Terwilliger" >
wrote:

> Sounds like you shop at a supermarket with a shitty produce department. My
> local Safeway has bins with at least half-a-dozen different kinds of
> chilies, tamarind pods, yuca roots, malanga roots, and horseradish roots,
> none of which bear labels. There are usually at least five different kinds
> of cabbage and three different kinds of bok choy. Only about half the
> produce has tags or labels; the person working the cash register is expected
> to recognize the produce when it shows up at his or her station.

Shoot, I shop at an upscale grocery and we have hardly any of that
stuff.
About 4 kinds of chiles, horseradish, two or three kinds of cabbage
(white,
red, savoy). One kind of bok choy and celery cabbage.

That's the Midwest for you (Ann Arbor, MI).

> You wouldn't last ten minutes without asking, "What is this?"
>
> - You couldn't tell the difference between a cantaloupe and an ambrosia
> melon.

We only get cantaloupe.

> - You couldn't tell the difference between Thai basil and spearmint.

No Thai basil hereabouts.

> - You couldn't tell the difference between a bitter melon and an Armenian
> cucumber.

Neither of those.

> - You couldn't tell the difference between edamame and baby fava beans.

We never see either of those fresh.

> - You have no idea what perilla is. You'd probably ring it up as mint.

And, no perilla here, either.

The checkers usually have to ask me whether it's cilantro or parsley,
because cilantro sometimes has the roots left on and sometimes
doesn't.

It appears that not everywhere is like where you are.

Cindy Hamilton

"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
...
> Sheldon wrote:
>
>> I can't remember the last time the check-out asked what kinda produce...
>> these days it's either in marked plastic bags, tied with wires/elastics
>> with the code printed, and all those miserable stickers what take the
>> skin
>> off with them... don't need to know what it is, most everything has the
>> code number tattooed. Even grapes, cherries, berries and such are
>> already
>> in a marked container that just needs weighing at check out. Very, very
>> few produce products are not already marked and those that aren't any
>> five
>> year old knows what it is, like ears of corn, heads of cabbage, loose
>> onions/potatoes, and garlic. Small hot peppers are not marked, but they
>> know they're hot peppers and stupidmarkets don't have more than a couple
>> three kinds.
>
> Sounds like you shop at a supermarket with a shitty produce department. My
> local Safeway has bins with at least half-a-dozen different kinds of
> chilies, tamarind pods, yuca roots, malanga roots, and horseradish roots,
> none of which bear labels. There are usually at least five different kinds
> of cabbage and three different kinds of bok choy. Only about half the
> produce has tags or labels; the person working the cash register is
> expected
> to recognize the produce when it shows up at his or her station.
>
> You wouldn't last ten minutes without asking, "What is this?"
>
> - You couldn't tell the difference between a cantaloupe and an ambrosia
> melon.
>
> - You couldn't tell the difference between Thai basil and spearmint.
>
> - You couldn't tell the difference between a bitter melon and an Armenian
> cucumber.
>
> - You couldn't tell the difference between edamame and baby fava beans.
>
> - You have no idea what perilla is. You'd probably ring it up as mint.
>
>
>

Perilla IS a type of mint... I detest mint, I'd never buy it... I have three
types of mint growing here by the ton, I mow it. Maybe you don't know but I
spent a good portion of my life living in a very ethinic neighborhood, I've
seen things in ethnic markets I have no idea what I'd do with them, but so
what, there are also many common foods I don't ever eat, I hate lamb... but
there are plenty of ethnic foods I love that would make most folks in this
group gag. There are many ethnic markets where I live now but I don't go to
any, to be perfectly honest I don't eat that shit.

You're the one who lives in a retarded/backwards area... the produce items
you mention are sold here, and more... and most all are marked... all the
oriental cabbages are elongated so have a printed wire thingie, only the
regular head cabbage isn't marked but all anyone needs to know is green,
red, and savoy. All the small items are in marked containers, only need
weighing at check out. Melons have stickers. Herbs are tied with those
printed wire twistums... or are in sealed plastic zip-loc packages which are
marked. Even oddball tropical produce is marked with printed wire,
stickums, or is displayed in marked containers, the cheap cardboard type
like used for egg cartons, or are in those thin plastic clamshell containers
like are used for grape tomatoes and 'shrooms. Twilly, you need to get out
of your banana plantation more often, there are far more affluent
neighborhoods than yours. The checkers here know the few unmarked produce
items, didja ever think folks hereabouts might have higher IQs. Twilly, you
sure are a bitter dude, always amoanin' and abitchin' that everyone's done
you wrong and think everyone feels miserable like you, NOT! And I don't
mind one bit if the checker asks what's the difference between Florence
anis, bulb anis and fanuck, or the difference between cubanel peppers and
dago frying peppers... I'm always happy to help out. And with a couple
checkers I wish they didn't label the melons. LOL I enjoy grocery shopping,
I'm never in a hurry... just don't ask me to shop the maul.

> 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.

That's a very poor system, it encourages stealing... what's to stop someone
from adding more product after weighing... leave it to the guineas.

brooklyn1 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.
>
> That's a very poor system, it encourages stealing... what's to stop
someone
> from adding more product after weighing... leave it to the guineas.
>


Q: Why does the new Italian Navy use glass-bottomed boats?

A: So they can steer clear of the old Italian Navy...


--
Best
Greg

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:24:19 +0000, brooklyn1 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.
>
> That's a very poor system, it encourages stealing... what's to stop
> someone from adding more product after weighing... leave it to the
> guineas.

Or fill with ginger, and label potatoes.

--
Groet, salut, Wim.

brooklyn1 wrote:

>>> Exactly so.

> That's a very poor system, it encourages stealing... what's to stop
> someone from adding more product after weighing... leave it to the
> guineas.

This clearly shows that you, having been raised in a depressed suburban
area, think as a thief more than italians do.
--
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:54:03 GMT, ViLco wrote:

> brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>>> Exactly so.
>
>> That's a very poor system, it encourages stealing... what's to stop
>> someone from adding more product after weighing... leave it to the
>> guineas.
>
> This clearly shows that you, having been raised in a depressed suburban
> area, think as a thief more than italians do.

it's pretty funny, really. sheldon assumes everyone is as dishonest as he
is.

your pal,
blake