Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Let’s shop retailers for self-service
IF you don’t pay me, I ain’t working. Just recently I was in a supermarket – a rare enough occurrence, believe me – when I saw a lady urging people to use the self-checkout.
I didn’t see this myself on this particular day but I am told on quite a few occasions there is a lady then checking receipts at the exit, frequently stopping shoppers and inspecting their goods.
One woman on social media clearly had this experience when she said she heard a person calling: “Madam. Madam” as she exited the store.
But she kept walking as she raised her receipt above her head.
Clearly annoyed this lady said the big supermarkets couldn’t have it both ways: “You [the supermarkets] can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
“You want me to be a cashier with no training then that’s your problem. And as you don’t pay me to scan my own shopping don’t audit me for a position you refuse to employ someone for.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
ONE of the broadsheet papers last week revealed that DUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots, while railing in public about the Protocol was more than anxious that the subsidies provided by the EU for farmers here be maintained.
Mixed messaging or what? The headline in the Financial Times actually read
“Unionist politician tried to dilute UK Bill aimed at Northern Ireland Protocol.”
Oops. Meanwhile in the House of Commons, Andrew Griffith, a Tory MP, when asked to name a single Brexit benefit by the SNP’S Peter Grant totally dodged the question by replying there was “not enough time” to list them all.
Yeah, right.