self service checkouts at asda ect.

[wendilla]

When you use the self service checkouts how is it known if you do not put through an item and don't say try it and see as I have no intention of doing that.Thanks.

[fo3nix]

It doesn't, but there's always a guy there watching the self-service tills, who should notice.

[Mattk]

in the next couple of years with rfid tags this will become the norm.checkout girls wil be a thing of the past.

[chazza]

In tesco you can't put the item in the bagging area without scanning it as the bagging area weighs everything. You could of course just set it beside the bagging area but there is usually a member of staff watching these checkouts all the time, as they are always going wrong and need to be reset

[gasman]

I once tried one of these checkouts and when i had scanned my shopping paid and finnished I then put my daughters milk bottle into one of the bags and all hell broke loose as lights flashed and alarms whaled. staff appeared from nowhere, emptied the bags and checked the contents against the reciept it was off corse all correct but the machine had recorded the baby bottle as an additional weight that had not been processed and therefore thought it was some unpaid shopping item. I was advised in the future not to add anything else to the bags prior to leaving the supermarket.

[knobbynonuts]

I would assume that if an item has not been scaned then it will trigger the alarm as you walk out then you will have to run lie crazy..........

[wendilla]

Thank you all for your replies.

[suna]

there is a guy at a till himself whating what you do on his machine

[wendilla]

Hi Suna not always as this is why I put th question up.My daughter and I sat and watched from the cafe in asda and no one was near the self service ones and there is 4 of them.

[Toleman]

general items in supermarkets won't set off the alarm, only the ones with the big tags on like clothes or the white strips on other expensive stuff