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Is there a word for an "update" which actually fixes absolutely nothing and all it does is put a fancy new skin on everything but is still formatted as an update meaning that if the update didn't apply it would near brick the systems it wasn't applied on necessitating an engineer coming out to manually update the systems with this fancy new skin over everything?
Cause uh...
Yeah. That's our self scans.
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@Nine eugh gosh
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@LottieVixen
Exactly my response. All the exact same issues, nothing is fixed or improved. In fact they are actually harder to read for the customers, and there's this massive central chunk of wasted space used to just show what the last scanned item is (in text only). The help needed button is TINY now and right next to an equally tiny button to set everything to Welsh. Just like... Why even bother??
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@Nine heck that really sounds terrible..... im sorry
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@LottieVixen
Eeeehhhh it's just one more thing that this company has buggered up. There's a list of them at this point, but I'm sure none of it will get fixed because the CEOs are too busy patting themselves on the back with huge wads of cash they've earned themselves by doing a merger.
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@Nine corp lyfe....I smirked as i typed this but fuck it's sad.
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@LottieVixen
Super hoping to see the end of capitalism in my lifetime tbh.
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@Nine me too
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@Nine lol...so great and helpful!!! >.>
@Nine in my state (Queensland, AU) the government recently banned plastic disposable bags. Are other places doing it too?
@dean
In England we only just introduced a mandatory 5p charge for them on 5th October 2015, and companies are only just now "phasing out" disposable plastic bags voluntarily, my company being one of them. We do everything ridiculously slowly and largely begrudgingly
@Nine ah, our plastic bags have been free forever but the government is sick of the litter and completely banned them now. Grocery stores now sell reusable bags or biodegradable bags instead.
I've always used the reusable bags, and would only use the plastic ones if I forgot to bring them.
Good to see that the companies sorta care about the environment, though.
@dean
Tbh I wish England had just outright banned them entirely rather than this half measure thing because my shop has had to put up with people just refusing to pay for them and stealing them instead or putting through the reusable bags which are only a couple pence more through as the disposable ones. :/
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Oh I tell a lie it did do one functional thing, which was to remove the ability for customers to auto pay for 5p disposable bags because we're not doing them any more soon.