Does anyone else feel like supermarket employees are on a bit of a power trip?
The patrolling of the self serve thing really gives me metro ticket inspector vibes. I'm constantly having them look over my shoulder as though I'm going to steal.
Admittedly I live in a shitty area and am a minority so maybe I get singled out but it really gets on my nerves.
I make enough that I don't need to steal food. Fuck right off.
Not where I live. They're super nice and stand around because they're constantly needed to fix up code things or help with double scans, pick up hand baskets, things like that.
Tangential, but our local bunnings has gone...weird.
On the way out they check you have everything on your receipt, not that you have your receipt to prove you bought shit. Like, i literally just take my bike in with massive pannis and a basket full of crap and they go through the receipt and ask me to show each item on it to confirm i have it but don't check to see if there's anything i have that's NOT on the receipt. Wat.
I'd call it a newbie training but multiple staff have been doing it for three weeks....
Probably instructions from management, maybe certain stores have higher losses? They ones at my locals mostly just stand to the side unless they are fixing the endless self scan problems.
I feel like the new cameras are bad enough. I was putting something down and it slipped right off onto the floor I picked it up and put it back on and I had to get the attendant. It replayed the footage from an overhead view. It was so creepy and made me feel like a criminal.
I have noticed once I've scanned my fruit and vegetables and not scanned them as carrots they tend to leave me alone but they could be just anticipating something going wrong with the scanner itself.