Grrr! Argentine Supermarkets

[Ceviche]

Not sure if I understand.

No. The topic of Brazil came up and I could not help commenting. I am overawed by their helpful and friendly nature. The most friendly race on earth without a doubt!

But I dont want to live there as its always been very expensive there plus I never liked Portuguese as a language.

 

[camberiu]

No. The topic of Brazil came up and I could not help commenting. I am overawed by their helpful and friendly nature. The most friendly race on earth without a doubt!

But I dont want to live there as its always been very expensive there plus I never liked Portuguese as a language.

Got it. Yes, Brazilians in general are very friendly. The drive to be liked is part of the general collective subconscious in Brazil. Visiting foreigners tend to become enamored with that. However, once they stay long enough, they realize that friendships in Brazil are abundant but rather shallow. Everybody is your friend, but the friendship is skin deep. Hit a rough spot in your life, and your "friends" will disperse and disappear as quickly as they appeared.

 

[johnw100]

I bet that was taken in her first week, after she saw her pay packet she now just sits there txting while passing the occasional product through the scanner

Meanwhile, a little up north......



The fastest time to scan and bag 50 shopping items is 1 min 53 sec and was achieved by Rosilda Ferreira (Brazil) at Prezunic Supermarket in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 6 February 2009. 50 different items must be scanned and the last item scanned must be a Guinness World Records edition.
http://www.guinnessw...-shopping-items

You can see her in action here: https://youtu.be/OV0mHIxXhvU?t=1m16s

 

[johnw100]

Got it. Yes, Brazilians in general are very friendly. The drive to be liked is part of the general collective subconscious in Brazil. Visiting foreigners tend to become enamored with that. However, once they stay long enough, they realize that friendships in Brazil are abundant but rather shallow. Everybody is your friend, but the friendship is skin deep. Hit a rough spot in your life, and your "friends" will disperse and disappear as quickly as they appeared.

Until they get behind the wheel of a car, and then they are total maniacs.

 

[RodalfoWalsh]

there's self chck out in supermarkets in Argentina? How can they possibly pull that off?

Not very well.

You scan all your items and it prints you a ticket which you then take it to the register that is in the middle of all the self checkout machines. The cashier matches the items on the ticket to the ones in your bag and then scans the ticket and you pay.
Of course then if someone pays with a credit card the whole thing falls apart as if it were a normal line.

 

[johnw100]

I visited my home country Sweden three years ago and went shopping with my mother. She got a barcode scanner before walking in, propped up her cloth bags in the shopping cart and proceeded to scan all her stuff as she put it in her bag. When she was done she docked the scanner in a machine, put her bank card in, payed and walked out.

How very civilised.

I was in total awe and chock.

I`m sure the personal scanners, will come to Argentina one day. Then you`ll just have to first find a scanner that still works. Have it chained to your person in case you steal it.
Go around the products scanning it, if they have barcodes, hopefully the scanner battery keeps going throughtout the duration of your shop otherwise you need to start all over again. Then you`ll get to where you pay ,a security guard takes all your shopping out of the trolley, inspects the items one by one to compare with the receipt. Checks your id, personal bags and then unchains the scanner and lets you leave.

 

[Girino]

....Then you`ll get to where you pay ,a security guard takes all your shopping out of the trolley, inspects the items one by one to compare with the receipt. Checks your id, personal bags and then unchains the scanner and lets you leave.

It is already this way. A user reported this recently. Which doesn't surprise me at all.

 

[johnw100]

It is already this way. A user reported this recently. Which doesn't surprise me at all.

Guilty until proven innocent i`m afraid.
I was asked the other day to put my backpack on a hanger at the front of the shop next to the doors. I said that it contained 2 tablets,a camera and our passports, i`d rather keep it with me than leave it for someone to take. They said no, i`d have to keep the bag with security. So I said then we`ll leave, your loss.

 

[Ceviche]

Got it. Yes, Brazilians in general are very friendly. The drive to be liked is part of the general collective subconscious in Brazil. Visiting foreigners tend to become enamored with that. However, once they stay long enough, they realize that friendships in Brazil are abundant but rather shallow. Everybody is your friend, but the friendship is skin deep. Hit a rough spot in your life, and your "friends" will disperse and disappear as quickly as they appeared.

Coming from a Brazilian, I guess I would accept it. I have never had a profound friendship with a Brazilian. But I come across them in aeroplanes and when I travel to Brazil. They ( the passers by) seem to be so helpful.

The Brazilian women seem to have no qualms in passing their whatsapp or facebook. Unlike other places.

 

[Matt84]

Guilty until proven innocent i`m afraid.
I was asked the other day to put my backpack on a hanger at the front of the shop next to the doors. I said that it contained 2 tablets,a camera and our passports, i`d rather keep it with me than leave it for someone to take. They said no, i`d have to keep the bag with security. So I said then we`ll leave, your loss.

They don't care! and there's nobody who cares a mile away!

The Brazilian women seem to have no qualms in passing their whatsapp or facebook. Unlike other places.

How very friendly of them.