Things that annoy you more than they should

[Niigata Jack]

Surely a till prints a receipt regardless if you want one or not, personally I'm in, a receipt every time, no doubt security would stop me and ask to see it as I walked out of the shop, or is that how it used to be..........

It won't print receipts if you don't press button to receive one, If you haven't paid the barcodes on the items will trigger the security bars on way out, I rarely take a receipt

 

[jack123]

J123 I don't know how you can drink that stuff let alone out of a can, Peroni are 3, 500ml bottles for 6 quid in Tesco lovely stuff,
I always buy bottles these days but no more than 3 or 4, usually less if any in the house, I usually buy a large selection of beers for Christmas, Mrs got me a half a dozen bottles of beer for over christmas and NY, prefer wine these days, less volume.

Very rare I drink Madri, it tends to give me a hangover, these days I look for beer which isn’t very strong.

I was just using the price as an example.

From what I’ve read, things could get a bit hairy from around April 2026, sneaky feeling Wales will increase the MPPU to 65p a unit. So if you’re a Stella Artois drinker, 18 cans is over 23 quid, where as in England, they currently get it for under £10 quid.

 

[jack123]

It won't print receipts if you don't press button to receive one, If you haven't paid the barcodes on the items will trigger the security bars on way out, I rarely take a receipt

I bet the shoplifters must have fun now, if they are challenged for having a couple of bottles of whiskey up their jumper, ‘ wheres your receipt’ ? I haven’t got one, saving the planet innit.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I had an experience in Tesco the other day that made me think of receiptgate. I’d bought a few things but the gammon joint was about £25 and the label said it was security protected. At the self scan till they had to approve my alcohol purchases so I mentioned the security tag on the gammon. “Oh don’t worry about it” she says. “Just get a receipt in case it triggers the alarm on the way out”. Makes sense, I thought but…TWIST. The till said “unable to print receipt”. All the staff were busy and at this point I just wanted to get out of dodge so I reason with myself for all of 30 seconds and thought about worse case scenario, which was setting off the alarm, getting pulled by security and locating the staff member with whom I’d literally just discussed my security tagged chunk of cured dead pig.

So I decided that I wasn’t going to lose my entire life and reputation over not having a piece of paper proving I’d actually paid for my Boxing Day salty meat treat so I steeled myself, pushed the trolley containing the suddenly potentially illicit joint of gammon towards the heavily alarmed exit and then….


…literally nothing happened and I drove home feeling like the King of No Recipts.

 

[JackSomething]

I had an experience in Tesco the other day that made me think of receiptgate. I’d bought a few things but the gammon joint was about £25 and the label said it was security protected. At the self scan till they had to approve my alcohol purchases so I mentioned the security tag on the gammon. “Oh don’t worry about it” she says. “Just get a receipt in case it triggers the alarm on the way out”. Makes sense, I thought but…TWIST. The till said “unable to print receipt”. All the staff were busy and at this point I just wanted to get out of dodge so I reason with myself for all of 30 seconds and thought about worse case scenario, which was setting off the alarm, getting pulled by security and locating the staff member with whom I’d literally just discussed my security tagged chunk of cured dead pig.

So I decided that I wasn’t going to lose my entire life and reputation over not having a piece of paper proving I’d actually paid for my Boxing Day salty meat treat so I steeled myself, pushed the trolley containing the suddenly potentially illicit joint of gammon towards the heavily alarmed exit and then….


…literally nothing happened and I drove home feeling like the King of No Recipts.

Brace yourselves for more thrilling adventures in tomorrow's edition of 'The Life of a Middle-Class White Man'...

 

[Niigata Jack]

Very rare I drink Madri, it tends to give me a hangover, these days I look for beer which isn’t very strong.

I was just using the price as an example.

From what I’ve read, things could get a bit hairy from around April 2026, sneaky feeling Wales will increase the MPPU to 65p a unit. So if you’re a Stella Artois drinker, 18 cans is over 23 quid, where as in England, they currently get it for under £10 quid.

I'll have the odd pint of it a pub and its ok, but Peroni or Moretti is my go to or Guinness if not having food, love a Guinness

 

[Niigata Jack]

Very rare I drink Madri, it tends to give me a hangover, these days I look for beer which isn’t very strong.

I was just using the price as an example.

From what I’ve read, things could get a bit hairy from around April 2026, sneaky feeling Wales will increase the MPPU to 65p a unit. So if you’re a Stella Artois drinker, 18 cans is over 23 quid, where as in England, they currently get it for under £10 quid.

Welsh Labour will try and put polices in that they know won't be popular knowing that they'll be out on their arses come May, let's hope Plaid are to, otherwise we'll have the same old Labour polices.

 

[Niigata Jack]

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Middle class, bloody I'm surprised that he shops in Tesco, should be at least Sainsbury's, pity there's no Waitrose in Swansea

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Brace yourselves for more thrilling adventures in tomorrow's edition of 'The Life of a Middle-Class White Man'...

Middle class? How rude.

 

[J_B]

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Lower middle class.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Lower middle class.

Better

 

[Darran]

I had an experience in Tesco the other day that made me think of receiptgate. I’d bought a few things but the gammon joint was about £25 and the label said it was security protected. At the self scan till they had to approve my alcohol purchases so I mentioned the security tag on the gammon. “Oh don’t worry about it” she says. “Just get a receipt in case it triggers the alarm on the way out”. Makes sense, I thought but…TWIST. The till said “unable to print receipt”. All the staff were busy and at this point I just wanted to get out of dodge so I reason with myself for all of 30 seconds and thought about worse case scenario, which was setting off the alarm, getting pulled by security and locating the staff member with whom I’d literally just discussed my security tagged chunk of cured dead pig.

So I decided that I wasn’t going to lose my entire life and reputation over not having a piece of paper proving I’d actually paid for my Boxing Day salty meat treat so I steeled myself, pushed the trolley containing the suddenly potentially illicit joint of gammon towards the heavily alarmed exit and then….


…literally nothing happened and I drove home feeling like the King of No Recipts.

Fuck me what a boring story.

 

[Squarebear]

When my boy worked at Waitrose he informed me that although they security-tagged items there was no actual sensor to detect the stuff being taken outside the store.

 

[Cooperman]

When my boy worked at Waitrose he informed me that although they security-tagged items there was no actual sensor to detect the stuff being taken outside the store.

Not the case in Tesco, the half salmon, legs of lamb, pork joints were all pinging.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

When my boy worked at Waitrose he informed me that although they security-tagged items there was no actual sensor to detect the stuff being taken outside the store.

This would not surprise me. Lots of security measures are mostly useless but designed to plant the thought in people’s minds that they might get caught. Works too.