Comments on: Living on an island and the honour system

By: Assemblage III « Moore Groups blog

Assemblage III « Moore Groups blog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:36:27 +0000

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By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:13:37 +0000

That sounds like a great idea Eileen – I guess it would work in a situation like that. Just this morning I flew in to Spar to get a quick cuppa and thought wouldn’t it be great if they had a box by the tea machine where you could just leave the money if you were in a hurry

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:58:14 +0000

There is a great little restaurant in London called ‘Just Around the Corner’ and there’s no prices, you decide how much the meal, wine, champagne whatever you’re having yourself comes to! They’ve been open for years and it’s working for them.

Honesty is the best policy after all!

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:05:00 +0000

I’d heard it was people were putting in extra once they had weighed the product which was hitting the bottom line with supermarkets.

I like to know how much my veg is going to cost before I get to the checkout + with the self service systems in Tesco it slows people down when they have to go looking for the product on the screen, can’t find it and then have to wait for the operator to come over etc.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:05:27 +0000

I always thought that the checkout weighing was to make it more convenient for the customer – no need to weigh things, no embarrassing moments where you forgot to weigh something and the cashier has to run off and weigh it. I suppose once the scales were cheap enough they were installed at every till. What’s the advantage of weighing fruit yourself?

Shame about the strawberry farm though.