Hmmm…I tried that game with the full cart once…the girl started crying and ran away to the manager. 
I felt really guilty
[quote=“Elegua”]Hmmm…I tried that game with the full cart once…the girl started crying and ran away to the manager.
I felt really guilty[/quote]
That’s where the goofy apologetic smile comes in. Rule number one.
I tried, but I think I just came off as crazed. It can be hard to smile when the inner dialogue is this…
hmm. y u no work?
You just need to grow your kids up a bit more so you can send them back to get the label. Then when they forget where they’re going, forget the way back, and forget why they went in the first place, everyone can join in with you rolling your eyes.
I like your plan, simple and achievable.
anyway, I think the label thing started in Europe. At least back when I was a kid there was no stupid labels in Taiwan, and when I went to live in Hamburg, every place required that the customers walk to a label machine and type in codes to print out darn labels.
In the US the check out counter does everything.
Darn furrriners not getting labels. :no-no:
Sounds like a news story to me.
From what I can see (correct me if I’m wrong), many of the departments in Carrefour are subcontracted. The candy area, the bakery, fried dogs’ lungs and lark sputum department, etc. Hence, if the cost of the purchase is banged into the register without it being swiped through with a bar code, Carrefour reaps the dividends rather than the subcontractor. 
Which would most likely violate their contract, technically placing Carrefour in breach.
Which would most likely violate their contract, technically placing Carrefour in breach.[/quote]
Precisely. 
That’s no fun. How can we get into a massive anti-Taiwanese diatribe if you guys keep bringing reasonable explanations into the threads?
IMO the Taiwanese staff in these stores just don’t like foreigners. It’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it :raspberry:
I’m not done yet. It’s common for chain stores owned by multinational corporations to impose strict efficiency protocols, the violation of which results in warnings and eventually termination of employment. See for example McDonald’s training all employees to refuse to sell breakfast food items once lunch time has started, even when those breakfast foods are still available. It would cost McDonald’s a great deal of money to make exceptions, because the employees would need to check each time whether the requested food items are available. So, McDonald’s has a strict SOP that all employees are expected to follow.
My guess is that the same applies to Carrefour’s and the use of barcoded items. It would probably cost the corporation a lot of money, worldwide, to make exceptions to the use of barcodes. The risk in both cases is that these corporations may lose some outraged customers who don’t understand why the rules can’t be bent once in a while, but I’m sure they’ve figured out that the risk is minimal, and the projected loss is less than what they’d experience if they allowed their employees to make exceptions.
If that doesn’t good and kill this thread, I don’t know what will.
Can’t have your NT200 worth of muffins today? 
In exchange for removing a bit of your ignorance about living in a foreign country, and tamping down your pride a bit, I’d consider that a fair trade. 
These people pay NT600 for ESL teachers to spew “Old MacDonald had a farm…” for 45 minutes.
Sheesh…
What’s your beef, Whiner?
I thought this post was about sharing a Welcome To Forumosa (WTF) moment! 
My bad.
[quote=“TaiwanTeacher”]Can’t have your NT200 worth of muffins today?
In exchange for removing a bit of your ignorance about living in a foreign country, and tamping down your pride a bit, I’d consider that a fair trade.
These people pay NT600 for ESL teachers to spew “Old MacDonald had a farm…” for 45 minutes.
Sheesh…
What’s your beef, Whiner?[/quote]
:roflmao: I was thinking the same thing – but I hope teachers are doing more than spewing ‘‘Old MacDonald had a farm all day’’
[quote=“dasaint”]I thought this post was about sharing a Welcome To Forumosa (WTF) moment!
My bad.[/quote]
You’re right. It’s MY bad. Give it back, NOW!
Well yeah, when I was back in New Zealand last time, I also noticed that you have to put labels on the fresh produce, baked goods, bulk snacks etc. Not only that, you have to weight it and enter the codes yourself - no one to do it for you. In fact, they even have self-service checkouts these days. I thought those were pretty cool.
Over the years, I’ve gotten the impression that 914 is not unfamiliar with Taiwan. For example:
[quote]I went to Dominican School over in Da Zhr in the 80s.[/quote] [Forumosa - Taiwan's largest and most active Taiwan-oriented global online community in English … 66#p552766](Filipinos to Start Teaching English in Taiwan - #66 by 914
[quote]ICRT served me well during my years at Dominican. Back when no one spoke English, back when we only spoke English during school hours. . . .[/quote] [Forumosa - Taiwan's largest and most active Taiwan-oriented global online community in English … 63#p245363](ICRT (part 2) - #172 by 914
[quote]None of my friends’ dads ever had the time to take them fishing. Their amahs and drivers were their parents.[/quote] [Forumosa - Taiwan's largest and most active Taiwan-oriented global online community in English … 95#p782095](Fathers and Their Daughters - #8 by 914
I checked it out today for you. It’s worse here.
Finally. Someone who says it right.
Oh my! All this automated and DIY stuff!
Whatever am I going to do when I return to the USA from Taiwan’s cash society after 6 years’ absence, and discover that nobody there will take my greenbacks anymore because they can’t touchscreen them into their roaming salesclerks’ iPods??
“Dude! WTF is this? Is that MONEY? Don’t you know? You can’t use MONEY anymore. You have to PAY for a service that will HELP you spend what you earned! Think ‘technology tax’, you old-fashioned moron!”
“Hmmm… guess I’ll shop elsewhere. Thanks anyway, Geek Boy.”