{"id":38,"date":"2012-09-24T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-09-24T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:42:35","slug":"if-i-go-into-a-shop-i-dont-expect-to-serve-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2012\/09\/if-i-go-into-a-shop-i-dont-expect-to-serve-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Go Into a Shop I Don&#8217;t Expect to Serve Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been asked yet again in Sainsbury&#8217;s if I want to do my own check-out.  I&#8217;d rather stick pins in my eyes.<br \/>\nI tried to use the self-service check out once before in Tesco and it was the most stressful, embarassing ten minutes of my entire life.  Ten minutes to buy \u00a36 worth of groceries!  I kid you not!<br \/>\nThe woman in the machine kept on shouting out that there was an unscanned item in the bagging area.  There wasn&#8217;t but what do you do?  Everyone thought I was shoplifting.  I ended up screaming at her &#8220;No there isn&#8217;t!&#8221; and thus drawing even more attention to myself, not to mention feeling absolutely stupid for shouting at a machine.<br \/>\nI know this is a way of reducing staff and tthat the day will come when there are no checkout assistants in Tesco&#8217;s or Sainsbury&#8217;s or Asda or Waitrose and that will be a great shame.  Not least of all, because if I have to check it out myself I will surely starve to death.  Or have a nervos breakdown and be carted out of the supermarket by the men in white coats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been asked yet again in Sainsbury&#8217;s if I want to do my own check-out. I&#8217;d rather stick pins in my eyes. I tried to use the self-service check out once before in Tesco and it was the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2012\/09\/if-i-go-into-a-shop-i-dont-expect-to-serve-myself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,24,21,23],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-saoinsburys","tag-self-service-checkout","tag-tesco","tag-waitrose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}