Let's scrap Supermarket self serve tills. I'm a proud Boomer!
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Self serve supermarket tills need scrapping. They promote isolation, protect shoplifters and raise prices. No one likes them.
Shops need to put more emphasis on community rather than just the ruthless pursuit of profit and we as customers should demand this.
When I said this on social media I had over 3 million impressions. Many agreed but significant members of Generation Z violently disagreed with me.
They are part of a wider problem in the modern world. Too many of them are self obsessed narcissists valuing their over priced coffees more than our society.
I was called a Boomer as an insult. However it is Boomers who rebuilt society, went to the moon, promoted equal rights for women and gays and created a society where these over pampered, self centred woke jokers can indulge their selfish desires.
Listen and tell me if I'm right or wrong!
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| 0:13.0 | Hi, good afternoon. Welcome to the John Gaunt Podcast. Today is Thursday. On Tuesday I put up a little tweet about supermarkets getting rid of self-served tills. And you know sometimes I sit here thinking, |
| 0:15.0 | what should I talk about in my podcast? |
| 0:18.0 | What won't get me sent to jail by Kere Starmers Stormtroopers. |
| 0:23.4 | Well, sometimes things just happen. |
| 0:26.1 | So I just want to talk about that today, |
| 0:28.2 | about what happened after Tuesday. |
| 0:30.5 | I put up what I thought was a fairly innocuous tweet which said this |
| 0:35.0 | self checkouts need to be scrapped. Nobody wants them. They're impersonal |
| 0:42.3 | impersonal and not much quicker. Good to see at |
| 0:46.3 | Morrison's realizing this. I've never met anyone who prefers them and I've worked |
| 0:51.1 | in supermarkets. What's your view? So it ended on a question. |
| 0:55.0 | This was because Morrison's, along with Azder and I think another smaller supermarket chain called |
| 1:00.3 | Brooks, which is a posh one like Waitros up north, they've decided to |
| 1:05.1 | cut down on the number of self-served tills. Now I hate those tills and I have worked as you know I think it was November right through to |
| 1:16.2 | January time in a supermarket I've worked on those scanners I've worked actually on the. I like talking to the people when they came |
| 1:25.5 | in there and I think I might be going a bit far here. By the way I had three |
| 1:31.2 | million impressions. |
| 1:33.4 | That's how many times that particular tweet has been seen, |
| 1:37.0 | and it's still growing on Twitter. |
| 1:39.0 | So I obviously hit a nerve, |
| 1:40.8 | and I see all the other radio stations and the TV stations took it up on |
| 1:45.2 | Wednesday and it was in the papers etc etc. It's one of those the politics of |
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