Thread: The dying days of the ATM

Originally Posted by scarry

You will be waiting a while..

think about it.
ive just interrupted their revenue stream.
whats cheaper for them?
them calling a tow truck or them pumping the fuel for me.

Probably cheaper to ring the police

They will soon move you on

Originally Posted by scarry

Probably cheaper to ring the police

They will soon move you on

demanding an attendant isnt a crime
soon being 2-3 hours to turn up

Originally Posted by Eevo

demanding an attendant isnt a crime
soon being 2-3 hours to turn up

Parked on the site,in the way of other customers,demanding something they can't produce, may be breaking some sort of law.

If not they will rock up and invent one

Originally Posted by scarry

Parked on the site,in the way of other customers,demanding something they can't produce, may be breaking some sort of law.

If not they will rock up and invent one

im sure there is a civil law for it... which police dont do (they do criminal law)



otherwise, when the police rock you, you can always claim to be broken down and ask for a push and you been trying to explain that th whole time to the attendant.

Once they tell you to move on and you don't, that would be trespass?

Originally Posted by AndyG

Once they tell you to move on and you don't, that would be trespass?

do you think they are that smart?
hard to move if your broken down.
lots of possibilities.

Originally Posted by Disco-tastic

I use them. If i want one or two things and theres two people with full trolleys at each checkout it takes AGES. I can use the self serve checkout and be done in a minute.

But if i have a trolley full of stuff or its not busy ill go through the assisted checkout.
Anyways i hate atm fees.

Cheers

Dan

That's exactly what they want you to do and will always guarantee that self serve checkouts will exist. I only shop at Coles and Woolies when I can't get to an independent when away from home. I use my local Foodworks for 90% of my shopping - if there's more than 1 person in a queue at a checkout, they open another one. I get my fruit and veg from the fruit shop around the corner and my bread from the local Bakery. I'll always try and keep my money in town.

Originally Posted by AndyG

Do you pump your own fuel or demand an attendant

Pump my own, only because there's no option not to in my town - but there are plenty of options not to in the food world, but a generally lazy and apathetic society is making sure those avenues get closed off slowly.

Everyone complains that the 2 majors have a duopoly on the market but they're all the same ones that keep going back week in week out to make sure they are. They are being duped as the Australian content becomes less and less - again, almost my entire grocery shop is Australian produce - it's out there, you just need to stop going to the big 2 to find it - they have no problems pushing Australian content off their shelves in favour of the home branded stuff made OS to fatten their profit line.

I don't know why so many seem to fall for this to be honest - most people want to do the right thing, but when it means changing their habits, it all becomes too hard.