Ten Items or Less
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In Tescos the other day I was confronted by a large woman at the quick checkout. I had a basket rather than a trolley but I hadn’t counted the items in it. She took one look at it and hissed ‘Ten items or less’ with a glare fierce enough to strip paint. There was no queue. The other checkouts were busy while she sat on her backside doing nothing and repeating like a parrot ‘ten items or less, ten items or less squawk’. Rather than argue with her I said ‘Oh alright! Sorry for disturbing you, I’ll go over here and get in the queue’. When I finally got to the checkout my basket had 12 items in it and Ten Items or Less was still twiddling her thumbs.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for Tesco to consider training their staff to have some initiative with the rules or better still, just make the quick check out a check out for baskets. You can only get so much stuff into a basket after all.
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That’s sad that someone would be so nosy and police-like in a market! It had become so sad an experience to buy stuff at Wal-Mart here that I switched entirely to another store just a penny or two higher, simply because the checkout staff are nicer, actually talk to you, you know, as if you are a human being anticipating a rise above the mundane and commonplace.
I think the lighting is better too. Does that make sense? It’s somehow warmer. I’ve also found it addictive that they have these specials that rotate, so one has to keep going back rying to find the cycle to them. It’s like gambling or something, trying to find the day when the jackpot is ready to hit. Then, everything I purchase accrues to a gasoline discount of $.10 off per gallon if you get over $100.00 of food. Even the music on the pa system is better.
The thing I like best though is the self check out. If there are three aisles packed full and the express aisle is inactive, one can go to the self check out and take matters into one’s own hands!
so my disguise must really work
That explains the moustache.
Hi.. u had 12 items and the sign clearly said 10 or less….. just admit u were over the limit and apologise. I’m sick of people with baskets overflowing in the 10 or less section while I only want a few items…. does a six pack count as one.. or six… ???
There was no siGN !! That’s why they put parrot woman on the till.
to Oink Oink,
had 7 items in basket, 3 carrots,celery,lettuce,potatoes,mushrooms,onions,garlic and 2 bones for my dogs and 3 bottles of wine and the lady in checking me out made me move to the longer line
The man on the quick checkout at Secret Sainsburys at Holywood Exchange explained a few weeks ago that they only enforce the X items or less at an hour over lunchtime, and encouraged me to bring my trolley through as long there was no queue.
If it was me, I’d have left the basket on the ‘10 items or less’ counter, thanked them very much for their attention to detail, reminded them that the customer was always right. Commented that her hair looked particularly lovely today bathed in the glow from the checkout till …. and walked out.
I’m wondering, what were the 12 items? Could you have dumped 2 of them? Why shop in Tescos anyway, they’re trying to take over the planet.
Oink: I almost did that except it would have meant going to another shop to buy the stuff and I didn’t have time. I can take thick with the best of them.
Cybez: The 12 items were 3 leeks, 2 bags of organic carrots, garlic, grapes, salad in a bag, tomatoes, mushrooms, bag of spinach, dozen eggs. The leeks apparently counted as individual items… granted they were loose. I felt like dumping the eggs…
Where would you recommend? Secret Sainsburys isn’t normally on my way to anywhere. I don’t normally stop at any of the big supermarkets. Centra in Ballyhalbert does well out of me! Since there’s only one mouth in the house I can generally survive on a couple of bowls of gruel and the odd pack of pigs ears for the dog. Big trolley load means I end up throwing stuff in the bin.
I go to Asda to get a slap on the arse
I thought that sort of thing only went on at M&S.
M&S is that some dyselexic kinky sort of thing?
This isn’t just kink, it’s fresh, lucious, ripe, hand squeezed, tender, juicy, strawberries dripping in brutally whipped cream… this isn’t just dylsexic, it’s M&S dysexlic
It’s too early in the day to start thinking about….. that M&S advert for the chocolate bun thing with the chocolate oozing out…I’m ready to put the kettle on for a coffee… and I’m thinking about going to Bangor or N’ards M&S for a chocolate bun to go with it. You’re so cruel using words like those used by the M&S advertising agency;-)
It’s never too early to start thinking about it.