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they put a checkout divider after their items. Bonus points when they do it without anyone waiting behind them in line.
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That's how people are raised in the UK... It's almost inconceivable to be in a supermarket checkout line and someone does not put the divider down! You'd know they were foreign. Or European which is much worse. 
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I will not forget that, should I ever feel the need to spend time on an island with bad weather.
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[edit]In the US, this a checkout divider. 
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Frack that. You can put it in front of yours if you want it there.
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In Aus I do that (most other people too) without even thinking about it.
In Singapore few places have them (many don't even have the moving belt), regardless [in typical local custom] divider or no the person behind will start loading their items on the checkout even before you've finished anyway. (Let's not start about jamming themselves in between other people even if disabled/injured to try to get on the bus first, and the same later when they want to get off the bus.)
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Lopatir wrote: In Singapore few places have them
That's because they so many specials and extra bits stacked into the area there is no room for more than one SMALL shopping load.
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I do - partly to stop the belt once my goods are through, and partly to make it easier for the next guy / gal (otherwise (s)he has to reach round me to get it placed).
But it's getting a lot harder to use those checkouts at all - all the UK supermarkets are getting heavily into the self-checkout option and not manning many of the "proper" tills. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: getting heavily into the self-checkout
The one here just introduced scanners you carry around the store with you -- select an item, scan it, put it in a bag in your cart, repeat. Then at the exit, everything is already scanned and bagged. I have no intention of trying it, but my wife has.
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Our local Tesco switched to them about a month ago - and they were being trialed at the big store in Swansea a year or two ago.
They are a good idea if you do a big shop, but for a little one I'd be juggling baskets, bags, phone-with-shopping-list, and scanner which is a PITA - but I'm betting the theft rate will go up ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm betting the theft rate will go up
Yeah.
This one is the first in the area, possibly the first in the chain.
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So what's to keep you from putting an item in the cart without scanning it?
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Ah, you see the flaw in the system.
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think you weigh it at the end like the self service - but a switched on person can still swap something cheap for something expensive.
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Oz has introduced self checkouts, take your loaded trolley and pass each item past a scanner and you have done the work of the check out operator for them.
People naturally missed a couple of items or changed the scanner codes on some so they had to have 1 person overseeing the auto checkouts for theft.
When interviewed the shoplifters claimed it was a tax for doing their work for them. I'm ambivalent, theft is wrong but it feels wrong for supermarkets to eliminate jobs simply for profit.
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I refuse to use them. If they are the only option I bitch at the senior person on duty to open a register, even if I only have few items.
Few enough jobs as there is, so faarrrkkkked if I'll help take more away. Christ, employ kids if you want to be cheap.
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I think that is a fairly common attitude, where the hell are kids going to get any experience if they keep eliminating the jobs. Both my kids worked in the supermarkets when they were teenagers, it didn't take them long to find better jobs but checkout/mcdonalds was almost a right of passage.
Going further back, I worked as a bowser boy, pumping petrol, another kids job that has disappeared.
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OriginalGriff wrote: otherwise (s)he has to reach round me to get it placed
I know the feeling...
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Show me a supermarket that have any of these dividers and I will prove you how well I have been raised...
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It's not very super if they don't have dividers.
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I always do it... when there are available dividers. More often than not they had been lost ages ago and never replaced.
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In the US we are raised with (and expected to have) sufficient wit to know when it's appropriate and necessary and when it's not.
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