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#3482066 19-Apr-2026 10:50

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A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when you say scanned, do you mean actually scanned with a scanner or they just pass a glance over the receipt to ensure the items taken and the items purchased match? Someone on the way out usually glances over the receipt, but I'd assume to discourage shoplifting.

Bunnings and Kmart use an actual scanner. Costco they check the receipt manually at the exit.

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#3482069 19-Apr-2026 11:12

eracode:

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

Today I asked the staff member on the door why they do it? She said “All our shops do it”. That’s not an answer so I asked again. “It’s so that Head Office in Sydney can see what’s been sold and know what needs to be re-ordered”.

“Wouldn’t data from the checkout tills be a better source for that?”

She said “Yeah I suppose so. I’d rather be back at my normal position in Paint”.

I don’t understand why they bother. If some people don’t stop to be scanned, the data collected is useless re turnover and inventory.

It has been said that it’s to do with customers returning stuff for credit. That’s not true either - there’s never any problem returning stuff where the original receipt was not scanned.

It will pop up on the thing some things to check for, and also if the receipt is old or has already exited the store so you cant double dip with the same receipt. Also that the receipt is genuine. They are not going to tell some random walking out some of the methods of stealing from right under their noses. Do you think that people nicking a ladder are sticking it down their pants?

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#3482070 19-Apr-2026 11:14

networkn:

Perhaps have a look in the windows store for the 'files' app. It had a bit of a rough start despite having good intentions, and the first load up is a bit slow, but once it's started for the first time, lots of people seem to think pretty highly of it.

I haven't found explorer a problem to use enough to seriously consider a third party app, but I like to play with third party alternatives.

There was an Ztree Gold Windows edition which was pretty cool.

I find modern Explorer a cluttered incomprehensible mess. Microsoft keeps trying to cram every possible function it can think of into big applications like Explorer, making it convoluted and unintuitive and nearly impossible to use in practice. There seems to be no distinction between the few genuinely useful functions that are frequently used, and the many, many esoteric ones that might be needed once in a year or a lifetime. No doubt I could figure it all out with some dedicated study but I can't be bothered. Power Desk, which must be about 30 years old or more, actually does what I need and it does it very well. What amazes me is that it still works through all the brain damaged Windows versions. Pay once, use forever. How is that for a revolutionary idea, Microsoft?

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#3482089 19-Apr-2026 13:24

Attempting to park at Wellington Hospital only to discover a sign stating that the payment machine is out of order and the only way to pay is to download some third party iPhone app. I am not tech savvy enough to be able to figure out how to install and use it in the time I had available, so had to find parking on the street nearby.

It must be awful for an elderly person to have the stress of visiting someone in hospital, and then realise that the only way to pay for parking is use technology that they may not have access to.

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#3482093 19-Apr-2026 13:33

The worst thing in Explorer is the date grouping. I just want files sorted by date. Groupings into buckets is not helpful or what I asked for. And it’s slightly obscure how to disable it.

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#3482140 19-Apr-2026 13:44

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The worst thing in Explorer is the date grouping. I just want files sorted by date. Groupings into buckets is not helpful or what I asked for. And it’s slightly obscure how to disable it.

I find the worst thing is that it will hang on file moves or copies leaving the dialog there, doing nothing, sitting with thumbs.db open and some of the files acting all stupid when you try to do the move a second time that the file is in use. Only solution is to end explorer and with it all the other file moves that are in progress.

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#3482142 19-Apr-2026 14:03

alasta:

Attempting to park at Wellington Hospital only to discover a sign stating that the payment machine is out of order and the only way to pay is to download some third party iPhone app. I am not tech savvy enough to be able to figure out how to install and use it in the time I had available, so had to find parking on the street nearby.

It must be awful for an elderly person to have the stress of visiting someone in hospital, and then realise that the only way to pay for parking is use technology that they may not have access to.

I think this is disgusting. If their machine is broken it is their problem. They have no business trying to make it every one else's. They should have put up a sign saying free parking until the problem is fixed. Such dickheads have no business working in a hospital.

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#3482145 19-Apr-2026 14:30

Hospital parking is usually sublet to Wilson or the like. Actually a similar situation happened to me when I raced to the hospital carrying nothing except the car keys, no shoes, and a bleeding passenger. I wasn't going to obey the signs in that situation. Anyway at the end of the night I talked to them on the intercom they were really good and let me out without taking me up on my offer to return next day and pay for it. It's not all bad.

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#3482146 19-Apr-2026 14:33

networkn:

eracode:

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when you say scanned, do you mean actually scanned with a scanner or they just pass a glance over the receipt to ensure the items taken and the items purchased match? Someone on the way out usually glances over the receipt, but I'd assume to discourage shoplifting.

They want you to show them the receipt and they scan it with a barcode reader.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3482200 19-Apr-2026 16:15

eracode:

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

It's mostly to check if the receipt is old and being used to steal stuff, i.e. buy stuff or pickup up a used receipt and go in the store, grab the same stuff and just try to walk out with it.

It was mentioned in an interview with their CEO, i think it was.

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#3482227 19-Apr-2026 17:57

networkn:

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when you say scanned, do you mean actually scanned with a scanner or they just pass a glance over the receipt to ensure the items taken and the items purchased match? Someone on the way out usually glances over the receipt, but I'd assume to discourage shoplifting.

Yeah I don't think I've ever seen them scan them at my local one, just glance if they feel like it. Kmart scans them though.

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#3482303 19-Apr-2026 21:20

I needed to return a car to Sydney airport, and the return area is supposed to be "P7 Car Park" for international.

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Directions to that put me such that I came down this ramp (this is looking backwards), but you'll see that I'd need to change over the solid white line to get to the P7 park:

So somehow, I'd need to switch over to here:

Three problems: 1: Upon coming down that ramp, google updated its directions and had me keep left. 2: My understanding of Aussie road rules is that you cannot cross solid white lines. 3: There was actually a road works ute or similar parked across those two lanes coming from under the ramps and from there all the way to that right hand side were road cones.

Following that updated route on google maps had me drive through the airport drop off which despite having three lanes of traffic, taxis were fighting amongst themself bringing the whole area to a standstill.

As I'm driving through there, google flips back again and has me retry the same failed path - that's fine as time is limited and I've got a flight to catch. 2nd time around there's a queue of crawling cars all honking at the guy from the ute who's now got a traffic torch and waving everyone through. He sees me approaching from along that red line and waves me through also.

Where was I supposed to have gone? IIRC I came from the M8

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#3482307 19-Apr-2026 21:39

I can't seem to get google maps to give me a realistic route there:

Suggested illegal move:

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3482324 19-Apr-2026 22:24

Do you happen to have Apple Maps to try?

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#3482336 20-Apr-2026 03:35

Jase2985:

eracode:

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

It's mostly to check if the receipt is old and being used to steal stuff, i.e. buy stuff or pickup up a used receipt and go in the store, grab the same stuff and just try to walk out with it.

It was mentioned in an interview with their CEO, i think it was.

Even now knowing that - and maybe acknowledging that it’s for the greater good - doesn’t make it any less irritating and doesn’t make me more inclined to comply.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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