Argos in town moving into Sainsbury's.

Tumble weed

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On the subject of Argos, I hope it survives, as I use it a fair bit still. Although, I did noticed they've recently sacrificed their whole Irish business.
 

staffordjas

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On the subject of Argos, I hope it survives, as I use it a fair bit still. Although, I did noticed they've recently sacrificed their whole Irish business.
I used to use Argos a lot for years when The Hough store was there . Stopped using it once that went as I HATED going into Stafford Sainsburys for the odd few things I could only get from there.

Started using Argos a lot again since moving to Worcester and we have an excellent big Argos store in a nearby retail park. Just hoping the curse of StaffordJasdoesn't strike that ....
 

Gramaisc

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I did noticed they've recently sacrificed their whole Irish business.
When they first opened the stores in the Republic, they sold a product which looked odd enough when offered in the UK, but truly bizarre in the outside world.

A Union Flag doormat.

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Weirdly, The Range still sells them. https://www.therange.co.uk/household/door-mats/union-jack-flag-latex-backed-coir-door-mat/#6609137

I used the Port Laoise store on a few occasions, but never remember to ask if they had ever sold one.
 

Mudgie

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Yesterday lunchtime there was only one assistant behind the tills in Sainsburys and I queued for ten minutes.
Might I do better in one of the other 'supermarkets'?
 

YorkshirePud

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How long would you have had to wait at one of the self-service tills?

I'm definitely not having a go at @littleme , but all the assistant does, sitting down, is pass the barcode of each item over a scanner, and then tells you the total price off a screen. Couldn't you do that, standing up?
 

Mudgie

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How long would you have had to wait at one of the self-service tills?

I'm definitely not having a go at @littleme , but all the assistant does, sitting down, is pass the barcode of each item over a scanner, and then tells you the total price off a screen. Couldn't you do that, standing up?
On leaving the Acute Stroke Unit at New Cross I was told to take things easy for the rest of my life which is what I've been trying to do.
"and then tells you the total price off a screen" - but what about paying ?
 

littleme

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How long would you have had to wait at one of the self-service tills?

I'm definitely not having a go at @littleme , but all the assistant does, sitting down, is pass the barcode of each item over a scanner, and then tells you the total price off a screen. Couldn't you do that, standing up?
Thank you @YorkshirePud .

For anyone interested, if you wander to the nearest self scan assistant or customer service desk, & ask politely, they will either scan your shopping for you, or find a member of shop floor staff that are till trained to serve you on a till.

For anyone else that's interested.... Supermarkets are allocated staff daily based on sales, by management...we have no choice over how many people are working on our checkout department, we have to try to cope with what's allocated, & call from other departments as required. Shouting at us over the lack of staff isn't helpful.....emailing/writing in/or asking to speak to management is the best thing to highlight any issues & complaints you have. We are all trying our best in a very difficult situation.
 
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littleme

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On leaving the Acute Stroke Unit at New Cross I was told to take things easy for the rest of my life which is what I've been trying to do.
"and then tells you the total price off a screen" - but what about paying ?
You pay in exactly the same way as you would at a till. There's always an assistant, probably 2, at self scan that will help you, or do it for you. If your really lucky you will get me, as when I'm not doing other random things, that's where I work.
 

proactive

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You pay in exactly the same way as you would at a till. There's always an assistant, probably 2, at self scan that will help you, or do it for you. If your really lucky you will get me, as when I'm not doing other random things, that's where I work.
Can you pay with cash?
 

Mudgie

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Thank you @YorkshirePud .

For anyone interested, if you wander to the nearest self scan assistant or customer service desk, & ask politely, they will either scan your shopping for you, or find a member of shop floor staff that are till trained to serve you on a till.

For anyone else that's interested.... Supermarkets are allocated staff daily based on sales, by management...we have no choice over how many people are working on our checkout department, we have to try to cope with what's allocated, & call from other departments as required. Shouting at us over the lack of staff isn't helpful.....emailing/writing in/or asking to speak to management is the best thing to highlight any issues & complaints you have. We are all trying our best in a very difficult situation.
"Shouting at us over the lack of staff isn't helpful".
I would never have considered that.
I mean never considered shouting at staff, not never considered that shouting at staff wouldn't be helpful.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
"Shouting at us over the lack of staff isn't helpful".
I would never have considered that.
I mean never considered shouting at staff, not never considered that shouting at staff wouldn't be helpful.
Nobody said you would.
 

Mudgie

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You pay in exactly the same way as you would at a till. There's always an assistant, probably 2, at self scan that will help you, or do it for you. If your really lucky you will get me, as when I'm not doing other random things, that's where I work.
So I can hand the basket to an assistant there and then hand over a £10 or £20 note ?
 
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