Queen Elizabeth Used The Self-Checkout At A Grocery Store And Her Question Was Hilarious
Coming from someone who frequents the grocery store, I know the feeling of staring confusedly at the self-checkout machine as it angrily tells me to put an item in the bag that's already in the damn bag. So since I, food shopping professional, have these issues, I could only imagine the questions Queen Elizabeth had when experiencing self-checkout for the first time.
This week, when the Queen visited Sainsbury's pop-up experience in London's Covent Garden in celebration of the U.K. supermarket chain's 150th anniversary, she had many questions for employees...starting with whether or not shoppers could cheat the self-checkout system. Honestly, valid Q.
The response from Sainsbury's stores regional manager, Damien Corcoran? Try if you'd like, but you'll get caught, PEOPLE reported. "And you can't trick it?" she pressed. Corcoran had to explain the weighted bagging area ensures the only items in a customer's shopping bag are the ones they have scanned.
Naturally, though, since Queen Elizabeth has only been to a grocery store a handful of times in her life, it's only reasonable she asked about the reliability of the process. It doesn't exactly seem foolproof, when you think about it.
Anywho-I wish I could bump into the Queen while grocery shopping. Maybe next time.
