Bear with me here...
I was in the local Tesco Cathedral to Consumerism the other day, queueing at a manned checkout watching people using the Self Service jobbys........that got me thinking,,, it hurt....need a glass o red, but I digress...
Nowthen, for the sake of this bullshit lets assume a checkout operator is on £5 an hour and that the supermarket has 10 self service checkouts, then it keeps the maths easy......
10 unmanned checkouts a £5 and hour means a saving of £50 an hour for the Supermarket, open 10 hours a day, thats £500 a day the Supermarket saves, by allowing you to do the work.....canny that......do they offer you a discount for doing the work....er, no!
Assuming 10 hours a day, 52 weeks a year thats £26,000 they save! In one store!
OK so there is a bored employee overseeing things, that costs, but unmanned checkouts don't call in sick, take annual leave, contribute to a pension, take maternity/paternity leave, pop out for a fag break....you get the idea...the Supermarkets are raking it in and you are doing the work......
Every little helps!......
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I often buy a newspaper at my local Sainsbury's metro/express/local/buzzword-of-the-week and the self-service tills regulalrly fail to register the weight of the newspaper when placed in the "bagging area". As ever, the idea is okay, it's the implementation of it that's rubbish.
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