Cashless Stafford.

[Gramaisc]

And even knowing prices without barcodes.

Some will remember the early days of Aldi in the UK, when the individual product items didn't even have price stickers on - the till girls were just expected to (and did) remember the price of every item in the shop.

One of the pubs I attend in Ireland has no means for accepting a card payment, the other does, but it can be quite entertaining watching 'people from the future' being dealt with on the odd occasion that it happens. The product range in those establishments is a bit narrower and more stable than is common in UK pubs - none of this "fifteen different guest ales, changing every week" thing, so it's much easier for staff to use their on-board systems to calculate price totals.

 

[Mudgie]

Some will remember the early days of Aldi in the UK, when the individual product items didn't even have price stickers on - the till girls were just expected to (and did) remember the price of every item in the shop.

One of the pubs I attend in Ireland has no means for accepting a card payment, the other does, but it can be quite entertaining watching 'people from the future' being dealt with on the odd occasion that it happens. The product range in those establishments is a bit narrower and more stable than is common in UK pubs - none of this "fifteen different guest ales, changing every week" thing, so it's much easier for staff to use their on-board systems to calculate price totals.

Yes, the individual product items didn't have price stickers on at KwikSave on Wildwood and I don't remember having to use their brains doing the tiller girls there any harm.
Sid Tomlinson never had a till at the Pheasant and there's still pubs like that, one being the Circus Tavern in central Manchester.

 

[Mudgie]

I think it will be considerably longer because staff will have to manually add your bill up.

I don't believe many of them will have retained such skills if they ever had them.

I can see a lot of phones being used as calculators until the power returns or the phone runs out of power.

Then it will be down to pen and paper or fingers and toes.

That's what's wrong with schools nowadays, not teaching mental arithmetic.

 

[littleme]

I think it will be considerably longer because staff will have to manually add your bill up.

I don't believe many of them will have retained such skills if they ever had them.

I can see a lot of phones being used as calculators until the power returns or the phone runs out of power.

Then it will be down to pen and paper or fingers and toes.

There's an emergency system for if there's a power cut, it's happened twice in the last 6years. Luckily we've not had to use the emergency system which can be very complicated as there are back up generators for tills and self scans. One thing I'm led to believe can happen (never seen it done though) is to just guess at the value of their shopping 🛍

It would cause absolute havoc though as all stock ordered depends on what is scanned through tills and if we can't scan anything through a till it can't be reordered.

 

[Thehooperman]

That's what's wrong with schools nowadays, not teaching mental arithmetic.

That was the point I was making.

I doubt there are many that can add up without some form of electrical device.

Sad really isn't it?

 

[Thehooperman]

There's an emergency system for if there's a power cut, it's happened twice in the last 6years. Luckily we've not had to use the emergency system which can be very complicated as there are back up generators for tills and self scans. One thing I'm led to believe can happen (never seen it done though) is to just guess at the value of their shopping 🛍

It would cause absolute havoc though as all stock ordered depends on what is scanned through tills and if we can't scan anything through a till it can't be reordered.

Sooooooo if we pre-arrange a power cut when you're working can we all go through your till and you miraculously underestimate the value of the shopping?

 

[Lucy]

Of course, back in the good old days, when there weren't electronic tills, shops carried far, far fewer lines.

 

[littleme]

Sooooooo if we pre-arrange a power cut when you're working can we all go through your till and you miraculously underestimate the value of the shopping?

Unfortunatly, I dont actually work on the tills...unless requested

 

[Mudgie]

Of course, back in the good old days, when there weren't electronic tills, shops carried far, far fewer lines.

Yes, and so there was more chance of everything being fresh.

 

[Lucy]

I for one am glad I don't live in the 70s but each to their own.

 

[Thehooperman]

Yes, and so there was more chance of everything being fresh.

And very, very seasonal!

 

[littleme]

And very, very seasonal!

Very

 

[Mudgie]

And very, very seasonal!

But now it's just the same food all year long.

 

[Thehooperman]

But now it's just the same food all year long.

And more choices, all year long.

 

[BobClay]

I miss the old days: rickets, 60 hour working weeks, the threat of nuclear annihilation on a daily basis, Doxon of Dick Green.

Kids today: bunch of woofters !!!

 

[basil]

I for one am glad I don't live in the 70s but each to their own.

Ahh the 70s, looking back I now understand I was living in a post-war country...

 

[Mudgie]

And more choices, all year long.

Mire difficult decisions all year long.

 

[proactive]

Mire difficult decisions all year long.

Life's so hard, isn't it...

 

[Mudgie]

Life's so hard, isn't it...

Yes, the older I am the worse it gets.

 

[Thehooperman]

I miss the old days: rickets, 60 hour working weeks, the threat of nuclear annihilation on a daily basis, Doxon of Dick Green......

You forgot about double diamond, barley wine, snowballs, cherry B, cholera, the black death, Raleigh choppers, leather casies, jumpers for goalposts, playing out all day til your mum called you in for supper and sprouts were just for Christmas not life back then