I carry out ‘random checks’ on self-checkout customers at Tesco – there’s a habit we hate

A TESCO worker has revealed the customer habit he hates when manning the self-checkouts.

In a post on Reddit, they explained that there is nothing worse than when someone comes to the checkout with a child in the back of the trolley.

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On one occasion they had been monitoring the checkouts at Tesco when someone arrived with a ‘large trolley load’ of groceries, for which they had used the portable barcode scanner.

But it was the addition of a child among all the products that made it difficult when the employee went to do a random check on the cart.

“I was at the self-checkout and a customer came in with a large cart load and in the cart was a little girl dressed in shorts and a t-shirt,” they wrote in the Reddit after.

“Not only was she sitting there, but they had buried her up to her waist in groceries.”

The employee then asked the parents to remove their child from the trolley because they “didn’t want to accidentally touch her while she was picking up things and be accused of things.”

However, when the parents refused to take the child away, the employee “politely insisted that I would not check the trolley until she got off, which they eventually did”.

“Am I crazy or is this a sensible precaution?” the Redditer concluded.

The employee then added in the Reddit post that “if you get a child in a cart, they either stand or squat in the cart, or the kids are in one half of the cart and the groceries are in the other half completely are separated from each other”.

“She sat there with her legs spread, buried up to her waist and over her legs while shopping, as if they had been buried up to her waist in the sand on the beach,” they continued.

People were quick to respond to the post, with many claiming that they also hate it when children sit in trolleys.

“That’s one of my biggest hates, along with the fact that frozen food isn’t put back in its proper place,” one person wrote.

“That’s why I never use carts, but hand baskets to do my shopping when off duty,” said another.

“For large stores, I scan while you shop with my own shopper bags.”

“You are not supposed to put children in the shopping area anyway (I vaguely remember my grandmother saying to my grandmother 35 years ago: ‘No, you sit on the chair if you want to go in the cart’), and my grandma enjoyed it. hell out of the grandkids),” wrote another.

“Why do supermarkets allow children to sit in the shopping cart?” a third wondered.

“My food goes there!”

“I would be met with abuse and indifference if I asked them to take their children out,” someone else raged.

“I am not being paid £12.02 an hour to be abused for what is a reasonable request for hygienic reasons.”

While others agreed with the supermarket worker that they had done the right thing as the customers could have tried to smuggle some items away without paying.

“I agree with this 100%,” one person wrote.

“You can’t be too careful. Really believe less than 1% of people do these things, but you still can’t be too careful,” someone else said.

As a third commented: “100% correct, a thief is not above using a child to escalate the situation and try to get out of the service check.

“Even if it’s not a thief, some customers are mentally ill and will view anything as disrespectful, then try to get you in trouble because of some crazy power struggle they build up in their heads.”

“A fair request,” agreed another.

“You have removed the risk of being accused of touching the girl. Besides, they shouldn’t be in the cart anyway.’

“100% did the right thing,” someone else said.

“I would have done the same thing in that situation.”