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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not here, people at the self check-outs go fast because they usually have less stuff and slower boomers are afraid of them anyway so they'll be out of your way.

I'll take that chance to not have to stand there and guess what species of banana I'm trying to buy, though.

Here you weight your vegetables, fruits, candies in the shop before you go to the checkout. Apart from Lidl which has either the cashier weighting them for you at the register or you'll weight them at the checkout. But it's the odd one out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember we weighed our own vegetables in Norway in the 90s. It stopped when they got the fancy registers which scanned barcodes and had a built-in scale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope they don't change it here. I like weighing my own stuff. Nicer to check how much I got and no need to remember what sort of tomatoes I got since the number is in the price tag. And no way for the cashier to fuck me over by weighing them as a pricier thing.

Spanish tomatoes for the price of Finnish ones? Get the fuck out of here! What do I look like, fucking Croesus??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You've presumably had registers with barcodes for several decades now, so I'm guessing your way of weighing produce is pretty safe.