Great idea but would never work in a place like Kuwait. Any DIY is simply not part of the culture here.
Well not everyone is going to self checkout, even in london you’ve got a line of people waiting to be checked out and another line of people who are self checking out
bad idea, so many jobless Cashier
We already have supermarkets with 20 checkout aisles having 3 cashiers
“Unexpected item in the bagging area” *impatient arab then begins to go crazy
Please, no. I already get annoyed enough by retards who take 10 minutes just to figure out which button to press at the ATM.
Hey! I only do that when it only offers Arabic :p
DUDE!, they’re gonna have that at Carrefour Avenues!. I saw them put a construction box and it’s the perfect size for a self-checkout counter! =D
No, if they did have a self check-out system, it would be at the Carrefour in Dubai first and it is not. What I think you are seeing installed is a points card system, where the registers are integrated to automatically provide discount coupons. This is revolutionary as far as the Kuwait market goes; the Sultan could upgrade to new registers that provide the same service with their points card. And further why is it that the most residents in Kuwait do not understand 10 items or less line??
they think 10 items you can hold at a time in your hand, from the cart/trolley.
the system is flawed anyway. Theoretically if you are a couple you can have 20 items, if you are a family of 5 you can have 50 items since its 10 items per person.
I don’t know about discount coupon points :/ it looks like it could be a self-checkout. Y’know what, If you’re at Avenues sometime, see if you could tell it looks like a self-checkout or not.
Also, In Europe they have supermarket self-checkout and there’s always an employee there to help out customers with the machines.
It would be great…
a) If people at least put their groceries in the bags by themselves.
b) If they themselves carried the groceries to their car.
Have noticed people won’t even flinch a muscle till the bagger gets back from a previous customer.
A lot of the time people do this so they can pay the bagger a tip btw
EXACTLY! Thank you for that! But seeing as I have to literally wrangle my shopping bags free from workers who want to carry it for me and am rewarded with a dirty look because they think I’m cheap and don’t want to pay them a tip when I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that I am deemed too spoiled to carry a little bag with only milk and toast, I don’t see how is that going to happen and if it does, you will not get rid of shop assistants breathing down your neck as you are trying to checkout on your own!
Heck even in the cinema I find a guy waiting to take my card and insert it into the ticket kiosk! Thank you very much I can retrieve my own booking!
hahahaha no way, thats hilarious (at the cinema guy thing)
The guy doesn’t think you’re spoiled he wants a tip lol
W
We have in AlDanoub Supermarkets in Riyadh.
First a self checkout needs to be powered by a High End software application ,followed by a Cash and Card payment Terminal and i don’t think its easy for sultan center:)
Second the customers need to have a patience while using the terminal like the Item barcode is not working,Banknote was Rejected from the Machine during Payment and other issue..
Its a Good Concept but again everything works good it is implemented In a Good way …
Why do it themselves when there are slaves to do it for them?
no wonders my posts are long!
lol yeah this is why your posts are considered long and yes my one liner post which I sent while waiting in line at Sultan Center gets more comments than your thoroughly researched and well written law posts. You owe me lunch.
LOL you realize you are about to sign a contract today right 😛
a wise man once said “number of comments on a post are not an indication of how good a post is”
yes I owe you lunch. please no more sushi though!
Time to shop at TSC 8mins
Time at the checkout 17mins
I like the self checkout idea — sometimes they don’t work even in the good ole USA — but would rather see Sultan figure out how to sell frozen products that were not previously thawed then refrozen and biscuits, crackers, etc that are not in micro pieces. I don’t mind Sultan’s inflated prices as much as I do the poor quality. Consequently we spend much less at Sultan than we used to and it’s the same for others I know.
Lulu’s pretty good (the one in Qurain)
Shamiya Coop is surprisingly good. Went there yesterday, they had a ton more stuff than sultan center. Finally found Almond milk!
There is Almond Milk (unsweetened) and Coconut Milk (unsweetened) at the Sultan Center in Souk Sharq, but it flies off the shelves. I am off dairy and can only drink this milk. For many years, I have been frustrated with the Kuwait market in general, because they don’t understand ‘supply and demand’. I have had many discussions with the Sultan. If you see that a product is moving, order accordingly, that is your business, ‘to sell food’. I especially get frustrated with the produce department. I think there may be alot of people in Kuwait that are allergic to milk and the market should understand that factor. All these stores with no inventory – get with the program!
Do you know where I can find coconut water?
Tender Fresh Coconuts are available at most of the Coops
Shaab/Dasman have it
or if tinned – Gulfmart / Lulu / TSC / Carrefour / Geant
even the local bakala stocks it.
Yeah I’m really not interested in cracking a coconut every time I want to make a protein shake. I just want coconut water in a bottle 🙂
there are some in Bakkalas, but Dean and Deluca has the fancy stuff.
Yes, sorry to inform you, Spinneys in Dubai. I will request Sultan to bring it to Kuwait this week-end.
And there Checkouts are Really fast because of there cash machines
dougmacho: coconut water or coconut milk cuz I’ve only found canned coconut milk at bakalas.
I’ve seen coconut water in tall cans, though it has sugar added to it, also has coconut bits inside, a lot of smaller bakkalas usually have it in theit cold section. And Dean and Deluca has vita coconut water, which I think has just a little sugar added……..though it’s pricey.
I buy tinned coconut milk from Sultan Centre in Salmiyah – they even had reduced fat coconut milk last week. Took me ages to find it though!
oh man, SC has got nothing on spinney’s dubai,If they ever lunch here i’ll happily dump with no second thought.
2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003
51 replies on “Dear Sultan Center,”
Before self service can we start with a consistent stocking of produce! What’s available one week disappears the next! Bad merchandisers!!
+1 that to
On a slightly related note, does anyone know where I can buy beeswax?
Shaab Co-op branch of shaab albahri ( behind starbucks- next to golden chopsticks) carries beeswax in their honey isle
You can find it at any of the Mujezat Al Shifa stores as well. there is one in Salmiya on Mughera Street….
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll have a look
thats what i hate most about sultan center, they are never consistent in their stockings
it would be great treat to thief’s !
They have them all over London and i’m pretty sure there are a lot more thieves there than there are here…
lol read the example !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_checkout#Disadvantages
Great idea but would never work in a place like Kuwait. Any DIY is simply not part of the culture here.
Well not everyone is going to self checkout, even in london you’ve got a line of people waiting to be checked out and another line of people who are self checking out
bad idea, so many jobless Cashier
We already have supermarkets with 20 checkout aisles having 3 cashiers
“Unexpected item in the bagging area” *impatient arab then begins to go crazy
Please, no. I already get annoyed enough by retards who take 10 minutes just to figure out which button to press at the ATM.
Hey! I only do that when it only offers Arabic :p
DUDE!, they’re gonna have that at Carrefour Avenues!. I saw them put a construction box and it’s the perfect size for a self-checkout counter! =D
No, if they did have a self check-out system, it would be at the Carrefour in Dubai first and it is not. What I think you are seeing installed is a points card system, where the registers are integrated to automatically provide discount coupons. This is revolutionary as far as the Kuwait market goes; the Sultan could upgrade to new registers that provide the same service with their points card. And further why is it that the most residents in Kuwait do not understand 10 items or less line??
they think 10 items you can hold at a time in your hand, from the cart/trolley.
the system is flawed anyway. Theoretically if you are a couple you can have 20 items, if you are a family of 5 you can have 50 items since its 10 items per person.
I don’t know about discount coupon points :/ it looks like it could be a self-checkout. Y’know what, If you’re at Avenues sometime, see if you could tell it looks like a self-checkout or not.
Also, In Europe they have supermarket self-checkout and there’s always an employee there to help out customers with the machines.
It would be great…
a) If people at least put their groceries in the bags by themselves.
b) If they themselves carried the groceries to their car.
Have noticed people won’t even flinch a muscle till the bagger gets back from a previous customer.
A lot of the time people do this so they can pay the bagger a tip btw
EXACTLY! Thank you for that! But seeing as I have to literally wrangle my shopping bags free from workers who want to carry it for me and am rewarded with a dirty look because they think I’m cheap and don’t want to pay them a tip when I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that I am deemed too spoiled to carry a little bag with only milk and toast, I don’t see how is that going to happen and if it does, you will not get rid of shop assistants breathing down your neck as you are trying to checkout on your own!
Heck even in the cinema I find a guy waiting to take my card and insert it into the ticket kiosk! Thank you very much I can retrieve my own booking!
hahahaha no way, thats hilarious (at the cinema guy thing)
The guy doesn’t think you’re spoiled he wants a tip lol
W
We have in AlDanoub Supermarkets in Riyadh.
First a self checkout needs to be powered by a High End software application ,followed by a Cash and Card payment Terminal and i don’t think its easy for sultan center:)
Second the customers need to have a patience while using the terminal like the Item barcode is not working,Banknote was Rejected from the Machine during Payment and other issue..
Its a Good Concept but again everything works good it is implemented In a Good way …
Why do it themselves when there are slaves to do it for them?
no wonders my posts are long!
lol yeah this is why your posts are considered long and yes my one liner post which I sent while waiting in line at Sultan Center gets more comments than your thoroughly researched and well written law posts. You owe me lunch.
LOL you realize you are about to sign a contract today right 😛
a wise man once said “number of comments on a post are not an indication of how good a post is”
yes I owe you lunch. please no more sushi though!
Time to shop at TSC 8mins
Time at the checkout 17mins
I like the self checkout idea — sometimes they don’t work even in the good ole USA — but would rather see Sultan figure out how to sell frozen products that were not previously thawed then refrozen and biscuits, crackers, etc that are not in micro pieces. I don’t mind Sultan’s inflated prices as much as I do the poor quality. Consequently we spend much less at Sultan than we used to and it’s the same for others I know.
Lulu’s pretty good (the one in Qurain)
Shamiya Coop is surprisingly good. Went there yesterday, they had a ton more stuff than sultan center. Finally found Almond milk!
There is Almond Milk (unsweetened) and Coconut Milk (unsweetened) at the Sultan Center in Souk Sharq, but it flies off the shelves. I am off dairy and can only drink this milk. For many years, I have been frustrated with the Kuwait market in general, because they don’t understand ‘supply and demand’. I have had many discussions with the Sultan. If you see that a product is moving, order accordingly, that is your business, ‘to sell food’. I especially get frustrated with the produce department. I think there may be alot of people in Kuwait that are allergic to milk and the market should understand that factor. All these stores with no inventory – get with the program!
Do you know where I can find coconut water?
Tender Fresh Coconuts are available at most of the Coops
Shaab/Dasman have it
or if tinned – Gulfmart / Lulu / TSC / Carrefour / Geant
even the local bakala stocks it.
Yeah I’m really not interested in cracking a coconut every time I want to make a protein shake. I just want coconut water in a bottle 🙂
there are some in Bakkalas, but Dean and Deluca has the fancy stuff.
Yes, sorry to inform you, Spinneys in Dubai. I will request Sultan to bring it to Kuwait this week-end.
And there Checkouts are Really fast because of there cash machines
dougmacho: coconut water or coconut milk cuz I’ve only found canned coconut milk at bakalas.
I’ve seen coconut water in tall cans, though it has sugar added to it, also has coconut bits inside, a lot of smaller bakkalas usually have it in theit cold section. And Dean and Deluca has vita coconut water, which I think has just a little sugar added……..though it’s pricey.
I buy tinned coconut milk from Sultan Centre in Salmiyah – they even had reduced fat coconut milk last week. Took me ages to find it though!
oh man, SC has got nothing on spinney’s dubai,If they ever lunch here i’ll happily dump with no second thought.
great idea !