Just another little shrinkflation report. I noticed Tesco have got the chocolate sweets tubs out for Father's Day. Quite clever really as I think this is the first time I've bought a tub of Quality Street outside Christmas.

Anyway, they've changed them so the purple one (that was moulded to look ...

After a seemingly endless "closing down" sale, the former Homebase near me has become The Range.co.uk with Garden Centre by Homebase. I don't think the store actually closed at all during the transition.

Never really warmed to WH Smith on the High Street after they took over John Menzies.

And yet all these years later, both will have finally found their respective niches - working side by side at airports, albeit doing different things.

As for the self-checkouts, turns out they are rolling out updates after announcing a new deal with NCR Voyix last year.

The overhead camera in the pole/flag keeps an eye on what's happening in the scanning area, and also allows for produce recognition, called Pick List Assist:

https://youtu.be ...

WillPS wrote: Tue 25 Mar, 2025 23.55Which rotisseries are closing? I can only see Market Kitchens, which are a different thing.

Ah, my apologies. I thought Market Kitchen was another name for the hot food counter. The changes are perhaps less sweeping than I initially thought. Good.

Looking forward to the new jingle:

🎶 Fewer reasons to shop at Morrisons 🎶

Seriously though, the fish and hot food counters are/were the main reason I'll occasionally take a trip to a Morrisons. Seems nobody wants to sell me a hot rotisserie chicken any more.

Never really understand why people kick off at supermarkets for bringing in anti-theft measures (see also scanning receipts to exit). Are they supposed to just… accept loss?
Not against the exit gates - just the ones at my local store don't work well. I thought I just didn't have the hang of ...

I don't think the till "saw" any barcode/QR code. There was no beep from the scanner at all.

I was in a bit of a rush and quickly flung my bread past the front of the till but was probably too far away. Not hearing a beep, I was about to try again anyway but the screen had already switched to this ...

Was using a self checkout at Sainsbury's earlier and the barcode scanner didn't catch my loaf of bread on my first attempt and as I had already leaned over a bit far (like I was about to put it in the bag), a new message popped up on the screen saying "It looks like that last item didn't scan ...

I've had an email from them to that effect, but when I try to add my card (the basic Avios one), get a "this card can't be set up for contactless payments" error.
That's a shame. Seems they don't support Google Pay/Wallet for their Mastercard cards, according to their Twitter.

I have a ...

Pleased to see that Barclaycards can finally be used with Google Pay/Google Wallet. It's been a long wait...