Loneliness

@moonbus said
Whatever happened to teenagers loading the bags for customers? It was a great part-time job for youths and so helpful, especially for elderly customers.

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

@moonbus said
Lemme get this straight: the staff are there only to stock the shelves and take inventory (although Elon Musk is probably working on an AI replacement for that too), while customers do the work at checkout and pay the same price for smaller packages ("shrinkflation" -- my nomination for word of the year 2024). So, this is what Insainsbury's has become? Only because customers ...[text shortened]... e Tesco is no better.

As shav would almost say, there's something retarded going on there.

@drewnogal said
I only go there because of their good organic veg range. When the store was being built I’d expected lots of opportunities for a short term job for my son and couldn’t understand why there weren’t any?
What the store has done is reduce the crowds in Tesco & Aldi at the weekends and also created an increased water drainage flow into our local river increasing the potential for flooding and removing part of a wildlife area.

@moonbus said
Lemme get this straight: the staff are there only to stock the shelves and take inventory (although Elon Musk is probably working on an AI replacement for that too), while customers do the work at checkout and pay the same price for smaller packages ("shrinkflation" -- my nomination for word of the year 2024). So, this is what Insainsbury's has become? Only because customers ...[text shortened]... e Tesco is no better.

As shav would almost say, there's something retarded going on there.

@the-gravedigger said
Petrol stations have been making customers do the work for decades.

@drewnogal said
I find that hard to believe, I bet you could talk the hind legs off a donkey.

@the-gravedigger said
Petrol stations have been making customers do the work for decades.

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

@drewnogal said
Not true! Discovered today they have 4 assisted checkouts tucked in the far corner.

Did this Thread take a turn? I thought it was a thread about "Loneliness"?


-VR

@very-rusty said
Did this Thread take a turn? I thought it was a thread about "Loneliness"?


-VR

@david-burton said
Loneliness & Wine sounds like the perfect combination.

@david-burton said
Loneliness & Wine sounds like the perfect combination.