No change for me.
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6737)
United Kingdom
April 24, 2023 5:09am CST
Yesterday I went shopping in my normal supermarket. The person serving me was being very friendly and polite, but she was so busy chatting that she forgot to give me my change. When I asked her about my change, she had to get her manager to get a code so that she could open the till. Then they had problems with that and the whole thing took about ten minutes to open.
I can remember years ago when I worked in a shop , all I had to do was press a button and I could open the till straight away. So much for new technology saving us time.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
24 Apr 23
When I worked with a cash register, there was a button on the bottom of the drawer that would open the till.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
That was like the one I used. It was much easier then, but this was back in the 1990`s, so I suppose lots of things have changed since then. Nowadays modern tills look more like computers than the old style cash registers.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
24 Apr 23
@lazydaizee Yes, that's true. Even the Walmart stores here have the new computer registers now. We noticed that a couple of months ago.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
@DaddyEvil I suppose they use these because it is easier for the cashiers to scan a bar code rather than doing it the old way . That is until something goes wrong with the bar code then they have to type all those numbers in by hand which takes even longer.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
It does seem to go wrong rather a lot these days. To make things worse, I went into another shop afterwards and they could not get their equipment working at all. It was just one of those days.
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@m_audrey6788 (58482)
• Germany
24 Apr 23
New technology supposed to be user friendly but I think they have considered some control there. In order to prevent the cashier to simply have unrecorded punch or punch out 
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
The lady on the till said it would be better if they wrote the code down somewhere so that she could see it. But I suppose this would be difficult because of security and they have to keep the code hidden.
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@m_audrey6788 (58482)
• Germany
24 Apr 23
@lazydaizee Yes and she must memorize the code 
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
@m_audrey6788 That would be a better idea, training the staff to memorize the codes. Unless she was forgetful, like me, I am always forgetting things like passwords and other codes.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16554)
• China
24 Apr 23
It is beyond me why she couldn't open the till without getting a code from her manager.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16554)
• China
25 Apr 23
@lazydaizee Maybe that is the case.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 23
Perhaps they do not allow staff to have the code for some reason.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
26 Apr 23
@changjiangzhibin89 Perhaps it is different in other shops where there is a smaller staff and the managers can keep an eye on things more.
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@LadyDuck (460148)
• Switzerland
24 Apr 23
@lazydaizee The first time something like that happened I also waited 10 minutes for the manager. When it happened again, I bought something to avoid waiting.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 23
@LadyDuck You learned the hard way, like I did.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
You are a very helpful customer, I did not think of doing that but I will if I have that trouble again.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
There was not anybody in the queue behind me and the shop was not busy, so that may have taken even longer.
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 23
That is what I was thinking. Perhaps they have had trouble with staff in the past.
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@RebeccasFarm (86961)
• United States
26 Apr 23
Gosh how much nonsense is that and she should keep her mind on her job.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49249)
• United States
1 May 23
Sometimes new technology is a pain in the butt.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
24 Apr 23
That's what I see nowadays in the supermarket there is one person who has the password of the code to every till . I think it's about curbing theft
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@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 23
Maybe this shop has had problems with theft in the past.
@lazydaizee (6737)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 23
Yes, I often wonder what things are coming to.
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