08 September 2023 , 09:19
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Supermarket self-service tills are one of the great inventions of the modern age, as they allow you to grab a few items and pay for them swiftly, without facing the huge queues at the tills. One downside of them is that it can sometimes be quite a faff if you want to pay cash.
While at a normal till you could hand the shop assistant a big pile of coins, at the self-service tills you instead have to insert each coin individually through a tiny slot. It can be painstakingly slow, and sometimes it ends up spitting them back out anyway. There's nothing more embarrassing than scrambling to pick up that 50p from the floor that the machine keeps rejecting.
Luckily, you no longer have to worry about this, as one woman has discovered a hidden function that lets you drop all the coins in at the same time, which helps you pay faster. Revealing the simple hack, @bethanyjade_st posted a video of her paying at an Asda self-service check out with coins. Instead of pushing the coins through the slot, she lifts the black plastic surrounding and inserts her coins into the larger funnel beneath.
This makes it much easier and quicker to pay and the machine still counts all the coins, she said: "I was today years old when I found out this life hack. Just lift the flap and let it count your money! I love this hack and need to share it."
It's unknown if this helpful trick is universal to all supermarkets but the video appears to show the green of an Asda machine. Some comments were thrilled with the sneaky insight, one said: "Oh my goodness - I never knew" while another added: "Your level of quality work is excellent."
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Others were less convinced, concerned about breaking the machine - a comment read: "This can literally break the machine. Don't do it." Bethany replied to this, saying: "Recently found this out, and apparently it's how the people that work there fill it up with coins too."
The commenter hit back, adding: "It's really not trust me, I did Sainsbury's for nearly 6 years. Doing this jams them." Since the machine needs to count the coins so as long as you don't tip them all in at the same time this should be fine, it just prevents the fiddly nature of the coin slot.
One commenter gave their own hack and wrote: "If you tip in a load of 1s and 2s (has to be less than the value of your shopping) then press "cancel payment" it gives you it back in paper/silver." A few people simply told Bethany to use contactless as it was "much better hack" and that "cash is so old school now."