Marks and Spencers new Point-of-Sale card readers

[Flosshilde]

Well, thank you also for the helpful reply. Having seen the difficulty that elderly people have in reading these new devices, I had hoped that forum members might also have had a view - if they could leave the usual carping aside for the moment - which might then have added some weight behind trying to influence M&S into a rethink.

Clearly, my impression of a caring community on Platform 3 is a bit short of the mark.

I think that the elderly members of the Board who shop regularly at M&S will constitute too small a group to lend much weight to a campaign.

if they could leave the usual carping aside for the moment

Too busy sniping at Cameron

I haven't noticed much sniping at Cameron recently - unless he's taken over Breakfast.

[MrGongGong]

Clearly, my impression of a caring community on Platform 3 is a bit short of the mark. Too busy sniping at Cameron.

"Sniping" ?
I thought one had to try and be concealed to "snipe" ?

why not go to another shop ? (surely thats one of the great freedoms that we enjoy !)

[teamsaint]

If a store is both introducing customer unfriendly technology AND supporting exploitive working practices in the developing world, I would think about boycotting them, until they sort it out.

[Flosshilde]

And they've dropped Twiggy as a Face.

[teamsaint]

perhaps they have moved her to IT/customer interphase.
They can't sack the over 65's now !!

[kernelbogey]

Has anyone else noticed how difficult to read these are?

By this, RM, do you mean the self-service checkouts?

Never use 'em.

[teamsaint]

well done KB.
never use automated , if I can possibly avoid it, if a human alternative is available.
Not even in shops !!
Lets keep folks in jobs.

[kernelbogey]

well done KB.
never use automated , if I can possibly avoid it, if a human alternative is available.
Not even in shops !!
Lets keep folks in jobs.

Their only virtue is to remind me of the Member whose girlfriend used to say at crucial moments 'Unidentified object in the bagging area'.

[VodkaDilc]

well done KB.
never use automated , if I can possibly avoid it, if a human alternative is available.
Not even in shops !!
Lets keep folks in jobs.

I never use the self-service tills - and always make a point of telling the staff why - workers' solidarity, etc.

The Oxford M&S is currently being re-vamped and I was dreading more of these things appearing. I consulted a manager who was idling around and he assured me that there would be no increase, since surveys show that 'our customers prefer the personal contact'. (However, I recall a similar protest when petrol stations abandoned staff attendants several decades ago - and when was the last time a member of staff offered to fill a car with petrol?)

[teamsaint]

Their only virtue is to remind me of the Member whose girlfriend used to say at crucial moments 'Unidentified object in the bagging area'.

Its before the watershed, KB, especially for what RM has quite rightly identified as schoolboy humour . Naughty .

[kernelbogey]

Its before the watershed, KB, especially for what RM has quite rightly identified as schoolboy humour . Naughty .

Sir, it was somebody else said it first...

[teamsaint]

As the inflatable headmaster of the inflatable school said to the inflatable naughty boy who had run wild with a pin...you've let me down, you've let yourself down, you've let the school down......

[Resurrection Man]

By this, RM, do you mean the self-service checkouts?

Never use 'em.

No, I never use them either. It's at the normal checkout.

[MrGongGong]

well done KB.
never use automated , if I can possibly avoid it, if a human alternative is available.
Not even in shops !!
Lets keep folks in jobs.

For people like my son (who has Aspergers) , the automated checkouts are brilliant, it means that he is able to buy things without stress , same is true for someone I know with CP who is often tired of people asking him to constantly repeat what he says

[vinteuil]

... sorry - kess-ke-say this "Point of sale card reader"?? I know no such animal. Praps someone might help with an explanation??