sen8or:

 

jpoc:

 

Rikkitic:

 

Never use them. Why should I do someone else's job for free?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because if I am buying, say, twenty items including ten cans of beer from Pak'nSave in Wairau Road, I can go to the self scan checkout and scan my items and I will always be charged for ten cans plus the other stuff. Always.

 

If I go to the normal checkout the bill will include a charge for either 10 or 11 cans. Never 9. Never ever 9. This is consistent and it seems to me that I must be very unlucky or it is deliberate.

 

Also, if I shop on a day with a big petrol discount, about half of the time, the checkout operator does not give me the petrol voucher and I must ask for it.

 

This suggests to me that there is dishonesty there. The self scan checkouts do at least seem to be honest.

 

It is not just Pak'nSave they are all at it. At least they do not have a loyalty card. If I shop in Countdown or New World, I note that, if I do not swipe a loyalty card, the checkout operator will swipe her mate's card. They even do that if I specifically ask them not to. I do not want to be part of their fraud on their employer so, at that point I just walk out leaving them to return the goods to the shelves and explain to the boss what is going on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find Pak n Save (Hornby) pricing far more prone to errors than quantities. I would estimate that around 1/3 the time that my wife shops there, an item is either scanned wrong (E.G charged for apples when they were onions or weighing to products at once) or the shelf price (on special) or special price (stickers on the packaging reflecting a discount) are not charged correctly resulting in an overcgharge. She is vigilant with the grocery docket and continuously gets the amount refunded, but it happens far too frequently for it to be "operator error".

 

 

 

Good profit in overcharging the masses if only a minority pick up on it.....

 

Another oddity of our local P&S is that, unlike almost all supermarkets, they place the prices for the items ABOVE them, not below them.

Habit makes you look at the price in front of the item on the shelf front which often shows a cheap price - because it refers to the item below the one you are looking at. Been caught by that a few times.