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• Greg Tingey commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  The ONLY store I have to drive ( or Wiley-e-bicycle ) to as a BIG Sainsbury's, because only that store stocks a really nice, whey butter. For the rest I can walk to or bicycle to: "Nisa" ( Co-Op under another name ), "Eat17", Aldi , Asda, Sainsbury's with zero difficulty ... The 15-minute city has its advantages. { Time, on foot, to local station for rapid transit to the centres of one of the largest cities in Europe.. between 7 & 8 minutes }...
• David L commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  The 15-minute city has its advantages. I suspect you've heard this is a liberal plot to keep us all in our assigned "enclave" so we can be better tracked and controlled. At times I have to wonder just how many of those grey cells some people have behind their eyes....
• Moz commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I'm firmly in the category of I could walk there. I bought new walking boots a while ago so obviously I walked home in them. About 15km. Good news: they work! Equally obviously normally I'd ride a bike or train there, but walking home meant I knew the same day whether the boots worked. The 15 minutes city thing is indeed a trap... for people who can't leave home without a car. It means they might have to pay more of the cost of their driving problem, and that's just not fair{tm}. My neighbours drive their SUV to the railway...
• Moz commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  For larger orders, I prefer human checkers Here the self-checkouts require to to individually scan every item. Buying 24 cartons of rice milk. Sacn one. Place on exit scale. Scan next one. Place on exit scale. {repeat ad infinitum). With a proper checkout you scan one, type "24" and that's it. I often buy multiples of stuff like pasta, sauce, long-life (rice) milk, anything non-perishable. Those shops I will queue for 10 minutes rather than fight to stack eveything on the stupid little shelf in the self-checkout (and sometimes I do, because there's only one human checkout open). OTOH our...
• Damian commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Thank you for reminding me to update the expired credit card in my @hardware_chain account! It's never convenient to do it in the store, even when there's an annoying queue and that's usually the only time I think of it. FWIW the local branch of @supermarket_chain is "trialing" a similar arrangement, and when you scan an item in the app, you can specify how many. Helpful for loading direct to your own bags in the shopping trolley. You occasionally get stopped "randomly"* at the exit gate and have to wait while a staff person scans 5 items in your bags...