I wouldn't call scan and go particularly efficient if you are constantly having to move things around in your bag to avoid putting heavy items on top of delicates. Unless you like squashed tomatoes or strawberries, or only buy them tinned.
Do the expresses and locals provide free wifi (I've never checked)?
I shall repeat my comment from Friday:
I get that - what I don't get is that a part time minimum wage possible student staff member at Sainsburys, or other supermarket for that matter, is able to deal with the matter satisfactorily. Most customers won't be presenting fake vouchers. Actually, I suspect it's a Sainsburys only problem with Nectar card vouchers, in view of some of the information shared by other contributors on this forum. I can only say it's Sainsburys' own fault for withdrawing their very own answer to Tesco's Clubcard, called iirc Reward, and joining with other retailers in Nectar. The Reward card used to offer astounding deals, such that I was prepared to make a near 50 mile round trip to what was then my nearest Sainsbury.
You’re going to have to trust what I say on this, as I can’t divulge any further information on a public forum.
I don't particularly like the whole switch to Nectar. It turned something that felt like a loyalty card into some weird wallet thing that seemed to share data with any number of seedy participants I had very little control over. The scheme is owned by Sainsbury's, but it doesn't carry any of the positive sentiment across for me.
It is now, but for years it wasn't. Reward Card prices used to be displayed on selected individual items in stores, well before Tesco and then Sainsbury replicated the practice. In addition, in the late 1990s as an incentive to spend more, if your bill was £50 say, one week you'd be given a £20 off £70 voucher, even the occasional £30 off £90 one, which we readily accepted and stocked up on booze, which was covered in those days. Happy days
I used to use that in Asda using the app on the phone until one time I got to the self-scan checkout and the app bombed. No way back. And the same thing happened again the next time, new phone, new install of the app, same bomb. Not used it since. For the hand scanners - tried it once, Asda presented me with a screen wanting my mobile number and email and password (iirc, I'd give up by then but my password are all complex and not easy to type on a screen with lots of people about!). Sainsbury's did it different - get the hand scanner, scan your Nectar card, go and shop. Much nicer IMO. As to the tech, having been in IT since the late 1970's I simply don't trust any of it that I didn't make myself!
Having to get a staff member to come over and process the coupon may just be a deterrent to many people who would consider using a fake coupon, doesn’t matter what the staff member does, the fact a human is intervening is enough to put off the opportunist fraudsters.
Tried them for the first time in Tesco, as I had a voucher with a £20 discount off a minimum spend of £80, and I wanted a no-fuss way of keeping a tally as I put things in the basket (including the single malt on offer that week!). It was a breeze. It actually wasn't a time saver compared to just slinging the things I want straight in the basket, and using the self-checkout, which I prefer (I can whiz my shop through very quickly, and I get on well with the staff). With scan-as-you-go you have to remember that with non-barcoded items (e.g. single red or green peppers) you have to locate and scan a barcode on the shelf front, and weighed items have to be put on a machine nearby and a label printed for you to scan. But it made a change, and I'd cheerfully do it again. They do a check periodically (I had 27 items and they checked 9 as it was my first time) but it's no sweat.
It was a thing about 25 years ago, not sure if it is now.
It depends on how you do your shopping.
It could be doing it using geographical location, in which case it will depend on the ability to get a confident fix on location, and possibly on whether there are other stores close by.
When I scan as I shop I don't load my own bag as I go, I put the items in a standard trolley, and after it has been paid for, it all goes into my stylish black Rolser 'pull-along' trolley (£50 at John Lewis and well worth the extra over cheap ones) which has been accompanying me. Heavy things at the bottom, fragile stuff at the top, tubs of yoghurt in a plastic bag after one split and leaked! I work from a list created in Excel with a tick box for each item to be bought, that I print out every 4 weeks (4 weekly columns fit on an A4 page). If something isn't on the list it generally doesn't get bought, although I have some blank rows at the bottom for ad-hoc items. There are 65 standard items that could be bought, although not every one is bought each week.
I have to say that is impressively organised!
Do you largely always make the same meals then? My shopping list consists of the ingredients to make that weeks meals, plus other basics we run out of.
My list is written in the order that I use things up, so shopping in that order would be pretty chaotic.
I picked it up at work (Civil Service finance & governance) and now I'm retired I can't seem to stop! I have spreadsheets for bank accounts, a diary, gas & electricity meter readings, my breath Peak Flow readings (i have asthma). Those I keep up to date electronically. I also use Excel as a way of producing neat printed tables and that's how the shopping list works. I print it and use a pen to tick what I want to buy in consultation with her inside the doors and fold it up in a plastic wallet to go shopping with. Reading this, I am seized with the oddest feeling... that I need to get out more...
Not the same meals absolutely every day without fail, but certainly curry on Monday evenings, pasta on Tuesdays. Roast on Sunday. Soup and toast for lunches maybe. The rest of the week make it up as we go along, but certain things are staples - bread, potatoes, rice, other veg, milk, Digestive biscuits, toilet & kitchen rolls, beer, wine, fruit, tea, coffee, pickle, sauces, cheese, eggs, milk, hummus, tinned things, batteries, rubber gloves, washing-up liquid, light bulbs, aspirins, plasters, peanuts, pistachios, M&S Cheese Tasters, it all appears as a potential purchase.
My father used a similar system, with a pre printed shopping list, although he didn't go as far as printed tick boxes! As they ran low on something, he would just highlight the relevant item on the list hanging up in the kitchen. The list was ordered according to where things were in the supermarket - he would get quite cross if they moved things so he had to reorder his list! The disadvantage from my point of view is that it did seem to tramel his thinking into just getting those items he had highlighted. Whereas if I see that they have a special offer on something useful to me, I will make a bulk purchase even if I don't need it that week.
My bank lets me download a CSV (Excel) file of transactions. I am ashamed (?) to say that I have been doing it since 2005, so I have a spreadsheet of everything since then, and boy can I do analysis!! Mostly pointless, but heigh-ho. At least I can see how much I'm spending each month and where. Very handy to know when I bought the telly, or when we went to Perpignan in 2008, that sort of thing.
Sounds like reverse-alphabetical would be better
How do you know that they are all genuine? By keeping my own record as I make the transactions, I know how much I owe before the bill comes in, and it allows me to investigate if there is an unexplained transaction.
I look at them and see if I remember them. If not, I do some checking. I've got my bank's phone app and it buzzes every time money enters or leaves my current account, with a notification of the amount, and I can open the app and get a list of transactions, which I can compare with the downloaded CSV. Plus I get statements monthly. I know pretty much to within £10 how much I spend each week.
I access the app on both iPad and iPhone and never had to re-enter a login. What are you using?
Happens to me a lot. I took a screenshot of the Clubcard and scan that now as the 'add to Apple Wallet' option never seems to work.
