Metropol

WillPS wrote:Okay, but aside from being something which may be chosen, what does it mean?? It's not healthy stuff, nor stuff of supposed superior quality... I don't really understand the point over just ASDA-own brand...

I guess that's just it - just like Tesco's faux mid-cheap brands, it means absolutely bugger all, but it's a way of distinguishing it from other similar items to make you buy it. People will see something like that and go "Mmm... try that tonight".

Alexia wrote:

WillPS wrote:Okay, but aside from being something which may be chosen, what does it mean?? It's not healthy stuff, nor stuff of supposed superior quality... I don't really understand the point over just ASDA-own brand...

I guess that's just it - just like Tesco's faux mid-cheap brands, it means absolutely bugger all, but it's a way of distinguishing it from other similar items to make you buy it. People will see something like that and go "Mmm... try that tonight".

The Discount Brands thingy serve a market though - namely customers sensitive to the 'stigma' of budget/own brands...

Just seen an Asda Chosen By You advert. Apparently it's all just a result of some targeted market research.

Nick Harvey wrote:Pedant of Wiltshire here!

So while it's still sitting on the shelf and you haven't yet chosen it, could you report them for the name being a lie?

They could say the new range was chosen by a team called 'you'.

Does every Asda have somebody marching up and down the checkout aisles with a big pointer on a long stick pointing at an available checkout ?

At least it stops everyone else marching up and down instead. I have to say I like there self-scan checkout far more than tescos, which i think are piece of crap ( even a member of staff at tesco agreed! )

barcode wrote:At least it stops everyone else marching up and down instead. I have to say I like there self-scan checkout far more than tescos, which i think are piece of crap ( even a member of staff at tesco agreed! )

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

Regardless of where you go, these all run on the same software don't they ? The difference tends to be the amount of space they give you for the items.

Tesco and Asda quite generous, Sainsbury and Morrisons not so.

Square Eyes wrote:

barcode wrote:At least it stops everyone else marching up and down instead. I have to say I like there self-scan checkout far more than tescos, which i think are piece of crap ( even a member of staff at tesco agreed! )

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

Regardless of where you go, these all run on the same software don't they ? The difference tends to be the amount of space they give you for the items.

Tesco and Asda quite generous, Sainsbury and Morrisons not so.

The tesco ones are much worse for that, saying that im sure there not all the same company...

Square Eyes wrote:

barcode wrote:At least it stops everyone else marching up and down instead. I have to say I like there self-scan checkout far more than tescos, which i think are piece of crap ( even a member of staff at tesco agreed! )

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

Regardless of where you go, these all run on the same software don't they ? The difference tends to be the amount of space they give you for the items.

Tesco and Asda quite generous, Sainsbury and Morrisons not so.

Try the ones in B&Q. There's nowhere to put a curtain track and a pack of hooks wont register.

Waste of time.

Tesco, Sainburys and Asda all run variants of NCR Fastlane. Tesco seem to have managed to get it working the best over the years through blatant trial and error (did anyone else have to suffer the ones with the belts? *shudder*)

The ones in Morrisons and B&Q however are a poorer version from Wincor Nixdorf which are much fussier about things.

Either way though its up to the store about how they program the system (Asda's CARD PAYMENT REFUSED bellowed by the North Korean News announcer is particularly humiliating but perhaps understandable with their clientele) but they have notably improved as the software has matured. Certainly in the early days the Tesco ones tended to get confused if you went to fast meaning you got a few items free.

As for the B&Q ones Gav, there is actually a bulky item bit with a plastic shield however its not obvious.

I suspect the B&Q ones are purposely done to be fussy as there is a rather major shoplifting problem there and making customers faf about might result in more items being caught. (and by problem I don't mean the odd pack of screws, I mean the habit of hiding £200 mirrors inbetween loft insulation of the flatbed trolleys)

Pete wrote:Certainly in the early days the Tesco ones tended to get confused if you went to fast meaning you got a few items free.

Never did I think the day would come where I read of Metropol members shoplifting.