Self-Scan
I always use the self-scan facility when I shop in Tesco; it’s quicker and easier than going through the tills. Sometimes, when you get to the checkout, you find that you’ve been selected for a random check. I found that I had been selected for a random check this morning. Among my shopping was a pack of two electric toothbrush brush heads, which had a little security tag attached. When the assistant came to check my shopping, I mentioned the tag, as I needed her to remove it. Because of that, the brushes were the first thing she checked, which got things off to a bad start because they got flagged up as not having been scanned by me. This, she told me, required her to do a complete scan of all my shopping.
I don’t know if she thought I had deliberately neglected to scan the brushes. She didn’t show any sign of thinking that, but one can’t help but wonder. If I had intentionally avoided scanning them I would, of course, have picked up a five pack, rather than a two. Anyway, she emptied all my bags, rescanned all my shopping and then repacked it considerably more neatly than I had done, which seemed some consolation for the delay.