tv: next week on My strange addiction.
 
Trixie a young mare who’s obsessed with peanut-butter

@neo4812  

 
I’m pretty sure Equestrian ponies can eat peanuts and butter, so…

DAMN YOU TESCO! xD

can horses eat peanut butter?

@ILoveMyoozik  

 
You mean degenerated.

@The magic 🅱oi  

 
At this step, there should be an option “I don’t have a clubcard” which when pressed will make the machine automatically spit out a clubcard for you.
 
And another option “Oh sorry I forgot it in my other coat” where it loudly tells you off for forgetting your clubcard in front of all the other customers aand then lets you enter like your house number and postcode, or telephone number or whatever, to have the points automatically added to your currently missing clubcard. xD

HAVE YOU SCANNED YOUR CLUB CARD!?

@Derpinator  
@Yet One More Idiot  
@Boulder318  
Most galling thing is, the CEOs who greenlight these things probably don’t even have to put up with them. :/ Unless the law is mandating them. In which case, it’s probably the politicians who don’t have to put up with them.

@Yet One More Idiot  
Same in Aussie shops, all of them, weight not correct, after a few seconds all grinds to a halt and need a staffer to keycard it to set it right again.

@Derpinator  

 
I think all automated checkouts here in Britain work that way - when you scan an item, the system gives you about 5 seconds to put it in the bagging area, if you don’t then a red light goes off signalling the supervising staff member that you need help (and because the system automatically locks out, on the assumption that you’re trying to pull a swifty somehow, and now the staff member needs to unlock it).
 
Of course, if you have a bag in the bagging area, it’s really easy to fumble getting it in the bag in under 5 seconds (how many bags flop closed when they’re just standing there, and you can’t open it and get the item in in time), so… cue lots of frustrated supermarket shoppers. xD

@Silver_lining  
My Walmart doesn’t do that, but a winndixie in my area does. You have to physically put the object in the bagging area before it lets you scan the next thing. Sounds like a small thing but it really slows shit down.

“Peanut butter, you say?”  

thAnk you for shopping aet vONs

Ugh, those things. What should be 10 minutes of grocery scanning turns into 30 minutes thanks to the needlessly complicated Walmart self-checkout computing system. Target’s system is vastly superior.

“A man chooses, a slave obeys! OBEY!”

@Dirty Bit  
Walmart’s are the worst. My credit card’s chip is faulty. Every other scanner gives me 3 tries, then lets me swipe it. In Walmart it keeps giving error messages until somebody comes to help, at which point it acts like it had already accepted it.
 
Everywhere else, I vastly prefer the self-checkout, because I don’t have to interact with anybody. I quit going to the store I’d used all my life when they removed the self-checkout and only had 3 cashiers, none in express lanes.

Poor Trixie. Yeah, those things suck. They’re the reason why there’s so little cashiers in Walmart, nevermind the huge lines.

@DiscipleOfAndrewRyan  

 
Ahhh, that explains…why it completely went over my head.
 
Never watched the show. xD

@British-Heavy-Metal-Dude
 
“DO I HAVE TO ORAORAORA A BETCH?”

as someone who is cursed by these wretched machines, i long for the day of the return when my local shops bring back something that says “Hi” and then “That will be “this” amount of money please” followed by my “There you go” and “Thanks! bye now!”
 
not “UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA.”  
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD IT MATTER?!!! YOU SCANNED IT YOU FUCKING DEGENERATE!!!!

@Yet One More Idiot  
I know. I was just making a King of the Hill reference. :v

@DiscipleOfAndrewRyan  

 
Computers don’t make errors of their own accord. When they do, it’s because they
 
A) Have been programmed wrongly,  
B) Are being operated incorrectly.
 
All they do is carry out the instructions they’ve been programmed with on the input they’ve received. Any problems are human error.
 
[/nerd]

@PonyPon  
computers don’t make errors. what they do, they do on purpose.

Let her Nut in peace, computer.