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bbcnewsfix wrote:Popped into M&S Food in Woodley Berkshire. The store opened about under a year ago, and they already have changed the signage inside to the new black logo from a few weeks ago however the outside logo remains the old one.

nodnirG kraM wrote:No, but it depends who it's aimed at. A gondola of bakery cookies or hot cross buns is often placed at the entrance of my local Sainsbury's, or at random intervals around the store. An easy 50p extra from the bakery manager.

Getting each customer to guy just one more impulse item can be achieved by most members of staff: a shelf stacker showing a customer where a product is, then perhaps recommending a benefit of a multibuy - there's 50p; a fresh food counter worker asking the critical "anything else I can get for you" or perhaps "have you tried this cheese with this one?" - that'll be 50p.

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Critique wrote:Are Sainsbury's fitting coin slots onto the self-service machines which ordinarily have the dump tray? They recently installed some self-service checkouts in a Local here and they had the coin slots which the older machines have, but the plastic around the coin slot wobbled a bit when I pushed it, as if it wasn't always there and thus wasn't flush with everything else.

They're being modified, allegedly because the coin sorters couldn't keep up with people dumping a whole load of coins in, which would then cause them to jam up.

jonathan wrote:Re the Sainsbury's poster; what are their staff expected to do to encourage customers to spend an extra 50p?

Most customers in a supermarket will have little or no contact with staff until they get to the checkout and Sainsbury's don't follow WH Smith's practice of trying to sell sweets at the checkout.