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<blockquote data-quote="semiphonic" data-source="post: 651657" data-attributes="member: 97458"><p>Not quite on the same astral plane as Conrad, I've got a couple of nominations -</p><p></p><p>The first we've all seen probably almost daily, I hadn't given it much thought until the other day. I bought a packet of pastrami, it was in a see-through plastic packet and I could clearly see the delicious, succulent pastrami through it. On the front of the packet was a picture of a beautifully prepared French stick with perfectly symmetrical and beautifully folded pastrami, salad and what looked like mayonnaise. Below the picture was my nomination -</p><p>"Serving Suggestion". Excuse me?</p><p>Before this phrase was printed were there people in our society who opened the (see-through) packet and were disappointed that there was no French stick et al in there? Were these companies inundated with calls from people saying "I don't understand the picture on the front"? Patronising and unnecessary and on every bit of food packaging with a picture on the front, please put it in.</p><p></p><p>The second is, and I'm amazed this hasn't been nominated before (apologies if it has!), self-service checkouts, not in their entirety as they're actually quite useful but the "unexpected item" situation. Shopping for some dinner ingredients yesterday everything was going swimmingly until I scanned the finely chopped plum tomatoes. The screen kindly informed me that I had scanned finely chopped plum tomatoes, that the item weighed 400g and that it was 39p, I put it in the bag and then I'm told "unexpected item in the bagging area". Huh? You've just told me what it is, what were you expecting? The pimply faced, patronising checkout captain (maybe they should go in too) came over, and after trying several times himself, had to swipe his magic card to tell the self-checkout that all was ok and I wasn't trying to steal something. Surely in these days of advanced technology we can have a self-checkout that recognises what's just been scanned has been put in the bag?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="semiphonic, post: 651657, member: 97458"] Not quite on the same astral plane as Conrad, I've got a couple of nominations - The first we've all seen probably almost daily, I hadn't given it much thought until the other day. I bought a packet of pastrami, it was in a see-through plastic packet and I could clearly see the delicious, succulent pastrami through it. On the front of the packet was a picture of a beautifully prepared French stick with perfectly symmetrical and beautifully folded pastrami, salad and what looked like mayonnaise. Below the picture was my nomination - "Serving Suggestion". Excuse me? Before this phrase was printed were there people in our society who opened the (see-through) packet and were disappointed that there was no French stick et al in there? Were these companies inundated with calls from people saying "I don't understand the picture on the front"? Patronising and unnecessary and on every bit of food packaging with a picture on the front, please put it in. The second is, and I'm amazed this hasn't been nominated before (apologies if it has!), self-service checkouts, not in their entirety as they're actually quite useful but the "unexpected item" situation. Shopping for some dinner ingredients yesterday everything was going swimmingly until I scanned the finely chopped plum tomatoes. The screen kindly informed me that I had scanned finely chopped plum tomatoes, that the item weighed 400g and that it was 39p, I put it in the bag and then I'm told "unexpected item in the bagging area". Huh? You've just told me what it is, what were you expecting? The pimply faced, patronising checkout captain (maybe they should go in too) came over, and after trying several times himself, had to swipe his magic card to tell the self-checkout that all was ok and I wasn't trying to steal something. Surely in these days of advanced technology we can have a self-checkout that recognises what's just been scanned has been put in the bag? [/QUOTE]
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