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Feeling like a fossil

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Aveline Sun 02-Oct-22 09:44:37

I feel about a hundred. Modern shops with their self service checkouts and click and collects seem to have edited out pleasant human interactions.
Years ago I worked in the china department of a large posh department store. I loved it. We had plenty of time for our customers and got to know them over time. Lots of staff too. It felt like a family. I feel so sorry for modern shop assistants these days. Relegated to shelf filling and no chatting to customers (with noble exceptions -the human urge to communicate breaks through at times!)
Ah well. I'm just a fossil.

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RichmondPark1 Sun 02-Oct-22 10:04:18

I feel the same Aveline. Our local supermarket only has three checkouts with humans on now and about twenty self service tills. I thought the other day that customers now do all the scanning and packing and prices haven't gone down. It's a chore and lonely. Back in the dark ages I was a Saturday girl on the bread counter at Woolworths, it was a lovely job, all chatter and helping people. There can't be any of that satisfaction now.

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Boz Sun 02-Oct-22 10:10:30

I chat with the girls at the farm shop and the pick-up point at Sainsbury's who both use my name but concede it is easy to avoid human interaction in the retail sector.

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