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18 Mar 2011, 7:06 pm

i'm going to start with the self service checkout great invention :)



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18 Mar 2011, 7:08 pm

Well, I think its anything that lets you read a book on it like phones and kindles that display ebooks. If I read a real book in a boring social situation, everyone is offended at the rudeness, but with e-reader, everyone thinks it is serious work business on your phone.



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18 Mar 2011, 7:08 pm

The internet. Game - Set - Match.


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18 Mar 2011, 7:12 pm

Ordering online for most take out places! This has been a godsend to me!


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18 Mar 2011, 7:30 pm

TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
i'm going to start with the self service checkout great invention :)


I won't use those; ironically, because I don't want to put someone out of a job and also because I do not want to be spoken down to by a machine. Doesn't mean I especially like talking to people though.



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18 Mar 2011, 7:39 pm

Tequila wrote:
TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
i'm going to start with the self service checkout great invention :)


I won't use those; ironically, because I don't want to put someone out of a job and also because I do not want to be spoken down to by a machine. Doesn't mean I especially like talking to people though.

They don't put people out of jobs, they just don't get an opportunity to get one. I don't know about in the UK, but all the stores I've seen here add the self-checkouts in addition to the regular cash registers, not replacing them and firing people.



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18 Mar 2011, 7:44 pm

All i see are frantic people with cards to reset the things because they freeze up and beep realy loudly when you put something in the wrong place.



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18 Mar 2011, 8:07 pm

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I don't know about in the UK, but all the stores I've seen here add the self-checkouts in addition to the regular cash registers, not replacing them and firing people.


I think it's probably a bit of both. In fact they usually end up having to help people anyway because they keep beeping. Wouldn't it be easier just to have a manned till in the first place rather than someone standing there? Bonkers.



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18 Mar 2011, 9:09 pm

Roofies and Duct Tape! :D



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18 Mar 2011, 9:42 pm

The ATM. Pay at the pump. The mp3 player and portable video players.


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18 Mar 2011, 9:49 pm

Grocery delivery.


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18 Mar 2011, 9:53 pm

Grisha wrote:
Roofies and Duct Tape! :D


you are either the life of the party or a serial killer... I haven't decided which yet!



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18 Mar 2011, 9:55 pm

Tequila wrote:
dunbots wrote:
I don't know about in the UK, but all the stores I've seen here add the self-checkouts in addition to the regular cash registers, not replacing them and firing people.


I think it's probably a bit of both. In fact they usually end up having to help people anyway because they keep beeping. Wouldn't it be easier just to have a manned till in the first place rather than someone standing there? Bonkers.


I agree. I tried them when they first came out and I just got frustrated.

Whenever I'm in a store with them now, I walk right on past them to a register with a person.


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18 Mar 2011, 9:59 pm

I like to use them, it's fun scanning my own things. :D



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18 Mar 2011, 10:03 pm

I was a cashier for 2 years at Toys R Us. I'd rather someone else do it for me.


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18 Mar 2011, 10:32 pm

Texting and the internet, makes communicating so much easier for me.