rander3128@gmail.com wrote:

> I hate these f------ people. They think buying things entitles them to be
> treated like royalty, to be fawned over by some poor check-out person. Or
> they are too F------- STUPID to use even the most basic technology

I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
problems out.

--
Let's go Brandon!

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> rander3128@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I hate these f------ people. They think buying things entitles them to be
>> treated like royalty, to be fawned over by some poor check-out person. Or
>> they are too F------- STUPID to use even the most basic technology
>
> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
> problems out.

Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
nobody knows how to spell it.

>
>
> --
> Let's go Brandon!
>
>

--
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On 11/17/2023 6:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> rander3128@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I hate these f------ people. They think buying things entitles them to be
>>> treated like royalty, to be fawned over by some poor check-out person. Or
>>> they are too F------- STUPID to use even the most basic technology
>>
>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>> problems out.
>
> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
> nobody knows how to spell it.
>
>
No pictures on your screens?

suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2023 6:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> rander3128@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hate these f------ people. They think buying things entitles them to be
>>>> treated like royalty, to be fawned over by some poor check-out person. Or
>>>> they are too F------- STUPID to use even the most basic technology
>>>
>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>> problems out.
>>
>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>
>>
> No pictures on your screens?
>

Even if there were, avocados, come in several different sizes and
varieties. How do you display that in a picture?

--
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On 11/17/2023 1:13 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>> On 11/17/2023 6:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> rander3128@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I hate these f------ people. They think buying things entitles them to be
>>>>> treated like royalty, to be fawned over by some poor check-out person. Or
>>>>> they are too F------- STUPID to use even the most basic technology
>>>>
>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>> problems out.
>>>
>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>
>>>
>> No pictures on your screens?
>>
>
> Even if there were, avocados, come in several different sizes and
> varieties. How do you display that in a picture?
>
The stores around here have tiny bar code stickers on the individual
pieces that you can scan. Works great, no look up. We can't be that far
ahead of AZ are we? Though your state seems to do everything in an ass
backward way if they can.

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>> problems out.
>
>Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>nobody knows how to spell it.

Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?

--
Let's go Brandon!

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>> problems out.
>>
>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>
> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>

They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
less different sizes?

> --
> Let's go Brandon!
>
>
>

--
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On 11/20/2023 7:26 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>> problems out.
>>>
>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>
>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>
>
> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
> less different sizes?
>
>
Ours don't have you spell anything unless you want to. They have
alphabetical pictues that you scroll to and all different varieties are
pictured. And barcodes on individual fruit.

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>> knows how to spell it.
>>
>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>
>They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>less different sizes?

An "Add $2" button? :-)

Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.

--
Let's go Brandon!

On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>> problems out.
>>>
>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>
>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>
>
>They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>less different sizes?

You can buy booze via an automated checkout?

Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
(which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
the legal age.

(Of course then you get people like me who once while my lady was in
the restroom, slipped $5 to a waiter asking him to ask my wife for ID
- she was in her early 50s at the time. It was her birthday and our
waiter and I both had our money's worth from her reaction)

On 11/20/2023 10:55 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>> problems out.
>>>>
>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>
>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>
>>
>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>> less different sizes?
>
> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>
> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
> the legal age.
>
> (Of course then you get people like me who once while my lady was in
> the restroom, slipped $5 to a waiter asking him to ask my wife for ID
> - she was in her early 50s at the time. It was her birthday and our
> waiter and I both had our money's worth from her reaction)
>
Each state is different. In my state only beer and wine is sold at
grocery stores and yes the self checkout allows you to scan it, then
signals the checker to verify that you're legal.

suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2023 7:26 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>> problems out.
>>>>
>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>
>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>
>>
>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>> less different sizes?
>>
>>
> Ours don't have you spell anything unless you want to. They have
> alphabetical pictues that you scroll to and all different varieties are
> pictured. And barcodes on individual fruit.
>

Oh, yeah, and ours scream.
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA
As like every second item goes through.

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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>> problems out.
>>>>
>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>
>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>
>>
>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>> less different sizes?
>
> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?

Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
delivery person ID.

>
> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
> the legal age.

Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
store…

>
> (Of course then you get people like me who once while my lady was in
> the restroom, slipped $5 to a waiter asking him to ask my wife for ID
> - she was in her early 50s at the time. It was her birthday and our
> waiter and I both had our money's worth from her reaction)
>

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>
>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>>> knows how to spell it.
>>>
>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>
>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>> less different sizes?
>
> An "Add $2" button? :-)
>
> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
>

You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as well.

Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
there was no discernible difference between the product.

Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
told him not to buy it in the first place.

That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.

> --
> Let's go Brandon!
>
>
>

--
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>
>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>
>>>
>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>> less different sizes?
>>
>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>
>Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>delivery person ID.
>
>
>>
>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>> the legal age.
>
>Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>store…

So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
my groceries.

On 11/20/2023 4:32 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>> less different sizes?
>>>
>>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>>
>> Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>> services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>> at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>> delivery person ID.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>>> the legal age.
>>
>> Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>> now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>> you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>> really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>> store…
>
> So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
> the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
> pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
> my groceries.
>
Yeah, here too. And if you have just a few things that don't require a
scale, you can check out there too and avoid a wait in line.

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>> less different sizes?
>>>
>>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>>
>> Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>> services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>> at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>> delivery person ID.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>>> the legal age.
>>
>> Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>> now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>> you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>> really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>> store…
>
> So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
> the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
> pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
> my groceries.
>

Yeah, that’s how it’s always been here. Oh, you have to pay at Starbucks
separately as well. And the Chinese food counter. So that’s, what, five
different places inside the store I have to use my card separately.

--
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On 11/20/2023 8:11 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>>> less different sizes?
>>>>
>>>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>>>
>>> Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>>> services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>>> at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>>> delivery person ID.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>>>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>>>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>>>> the legal age.
>>>
>>> Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>>> now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>>> you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>>> really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>>> store…
>>
>> So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
>> the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
>> pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
>> my groceries.
>>
>
> Yeah, that’s how it’s always been here. Oh, you have to pay at Starbucks
> separately as well. And the Chinese food counter. So that’s, what, five
> different places inside the store I have to use my card separately.
>
I'm pretty sure the Starbucks kiosks are some kind of leased space
within the store so ya, they would have to have separate registers as
they are a separate business.

--
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dirty old man.

On 11/20/2023 3:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>
>>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>>>> knows how to spell it.
>>>>
>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>
>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>> less different sizes?
>>
>> An "Add $2" button? :-)
>>
>> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
>>
>
> You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
> assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
> write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as well.
>
> Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
> supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
> and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
> each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
> side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
> put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
> there was no discernible difference between the product.
>
> Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
> fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
> told him not to buy it in the first place.
>
> That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
> looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
> poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.
>
My "favorite" adventure in a health food store was being dragged in by
my SO at the time and see the bin of "All Vegetable Bacon Bits". Not
"Bacon Flavored Bits" but actual bacon made from vegetables....

--
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dirty old man.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:11:27 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>>> less different sizes?
>>>>
>>>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>>>
>>> Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>>> services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>>> at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>>> delivery person ID.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>>>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>>>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>>>> the legal age.
>>>
>>> Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>>> now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>>> you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>>> really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>>> store…
>>
>> So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
>> the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
>> pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
>> my groceries.
>>
>
>Yeah, that’s how it’s always been here. Oh, you have to pay at Starbucks
>separately as well. And the Chinese food counter. So that’s, what, five
>different places inside the store I have to use my card separately.

Here we have the pharmacy as the only separate place to play. Then at
the local international store there's a coffee place inside where you
have to pay and there's a Korean food place in the back where you have
to pay plus the normal checkout up front for three places to pay.

In article <ujhc0a$mrli$4@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

> On 11/20/2023 3:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> > Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> >> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> >>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> >>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
> >>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
> >>>>> knows how to spell it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
> >>>
> >>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
> >>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
> >>> less different sizes?
> >>
> >> An "Add $2" button? :-)
> >>
> >> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
> >>
> >
> > You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
> > assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
> > write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as well.
> >
> > Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
> > supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
> > and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
> > each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
> > side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
> > put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
> > there was no discernible difference between the product.
> >
> > Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
> > fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
> > told him not to buy it in the first place.
> >
> > That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
> > looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
> > poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.
> >
> My "favorite" adventure in a health food store was being dragged in by
> my SO at the time and see the bin of "All Vegetable Bacon Bits". Not
> "Bacon Flavored Bits" but actual bacon made from vegetables....

It's not actual bacon if it's made from anything other than pigs.

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 11/20/2023 8:11 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:42:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:26:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I cannot say I've had a lot of trouble with them, unless I'm buying booze.
>>>>>>>>> I used to have problems with coupons but they seem to have ironed those
>>>>>>>>> problems out.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hours scream for human intervention with about every second or item,
>>>>>>>> somebody scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and
>>>>>>>> nobody knows how to spell it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>>>> less different sizes?
>>>>>
>>>>> You can buy booze via an automated checkout?
>>>>
>>>> Hell, the liquor store is here will deliver via the grocery delivery
>>>> services. You just can’t get the contactless delivery where they leave it
>>>> at your door. I’ve never done it, but the app says you have to show the
>>>> delivery person ID.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Around here they have signs saying you can buy anything EXCEPT booze
>>>>> (which isn't true since their pharmacy has their own cashier) and the
>>>>> regular cashiers WILL ask for ID for anyone obviously not well over
>>>>> the legal age.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, the pharmacy inside the grocery store has their own cash register but
>>>> now, so does the hot food section. At least they have signs for it that say
>>>> you have to pay there but they aren’t actually enforcing it yet. It will be
>>>> really annoying when I have to pay in 17 different sections of the grocery
>>>> store…
>>>
>>> So they are treating each as a separate business. Luckily that isn't
>>> the case here so if I want something from the hot food section I can
>>> pick it up and then pay at the regular grocery line with the rest of
>>> my groceries.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, that’s how it’s always been here. Oh, you have to pay at Starbucks
>> separately as well. And the Chinese food counter. So that’s, what, five
>> different places inside the store I have to use my card separately.
>>
> I'm pretty sure the Starbucks kiosks are some kind of leased space
> within the store so ya, they would have to have separate registers as
> they are a separate business.
>

You can buy store items at Starbucks, but I don’t think you can buy
Starbucks items at a store register. Oh, and the store discount cards work
there too.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 11/20/2023 3:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>>>>> knows how to spell it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>
>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>> less different sizes?
>>>
>>> An "Add $2" button? :-)
>>>
>>> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
>>>
>>
>> You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
>> assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
>> write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as well.
>>
>> Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
>> supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
>> and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
>> each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
>> side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
>> put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
>> there was no discernible difference between the product.
>>
>> Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
>> fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
>> told him not to buy it in the first place.
>>
>> That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
>> looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
>> poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.
>>
> My "favorite" adventure in a health food store was being dragged in by
> my SO at the time and see the bin of "All Vegetable Bacon Bits". Not
> "Bacon Flavored Bits" but actual bacon made from vegetables....
>

Ewwwww

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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> In article <ujhc0a$mrli$4@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/2023 3:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>>>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>>>>>> knows how to spell it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>
>>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>>> less different sizes?
>>>>
>>>> An "Add $2" button? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
>>> assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
>>> write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as well.
>>>
>>> Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
>>> supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
>>> and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
>>> each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
>>> side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
>>> put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
>>> there was no discernible difference between the product.
>>>
>>> Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
>>> fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
>>> told him not to buy it in the first place.
>>>
>>> That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
>>> looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
>>> poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.
>>>
>> My "favorite" adventure in a health food store was being dragged in by
>> my SO at the time and see the bin of "All Vegetable Bacon Bits". Not
>> "Bacon Flavored Bits" but actual bacon made from vegetables....
>
> It's not actual bacon if it's made from anything other than pigs.
>

Or Canadians.

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On 11/21/23 12:48 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <ujhc0a$mrli$4@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/2023 3:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> Ours scream for human intervention with about every second item somebody
>>>>>>> scans. Huge problems is avocados. You have to type that in and nobody
>>>>>>> knows how to spell it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours don't have predictive text nor icons with pictures/photos?
>>>>>
>>>>> They have pictures once you manage to spell avocado correctly, but what
>>>>> picture do you put up to distinguish organic from inorganic avocados? Much
>>>>> less different sizes?
>>>>
>>>> An "Add $2" button? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Use two pictures, label one as "organic", and hope the customer is honest.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You seem to be assuming the customer can read. I think that’s a really bad
>>> assumption. Of course the system is already assuming the customer can
>>> write. I think that’s a really bad assumption as w
>>>
>>> Many years ago (as you’ll be able to tell from the price) I was at the
>>> supposedly healthful foods store. My dad liked, which was just dreadful,
>>> and they had dumped a whole load of avocados into two bins that adjoined
>>> each other so it was just one big pile. The left side said $.30 the right
>>> side said organic avocados three dollars. There were marked paper bags to
>>> put them in and depending on which one you took that’s what you paid but
>>> there was no discernible difference between the product.
>>>
>>> Dad was forever buying the expensive steaks from there that smelled like
>>> fish And I threw them out and he was always furious with me but I always
>>> told him not to buy it in the first place.
>>>
>>> That was one of those health food stores where everybody who worked in it
>>> looked like they were in the late stages of radiation poisoning, emaciated,
>>> poorly groomed, people Sucking on their loose teeth.
>>>
>> My "favorite" adventure in a health food store was being dragged in by
>> my SO at the time and see the bin of "All Vegetable Bacon Bits". Not
>> "Bacon Flavored Bits" but actual bacon made from vegetables....
>
> It's not actual bacon if it's made from anything other than pigs.

Sure, the argument against "plant based milk" fell on its face too. Do
you identify as a Luddite then? You're clearly scared shitless of
progress. Eventually all the guns will be gone too. And you'll be
pissing your pants over that as well.