Shrug. Some stores even here have scales at the check-out and not on the hevi counters. Could be the foreign tourists aren’t THAT stupid (you excepted, of course) if they have that practice back home and assume it’s going to be the same here. Personally I prefer the scales where the produce is – that way you can always tell if that 500g bunch of asparagus is really only 435 grams. Except there will always be some old biddy saying “Oh, but you don’t have to weigh those, dear, it’s a price per bunch”. Sure, lady, but who wants to buy an underweight bunch, when it’s already costing an arm and a leg?

Think about it. The system doesn’t really make sense.

They spend, what, 30,000 euros a year per security guard per shop in order to curb shoplifting but still allow any schmuck to go in and weigh 3kg of finnish (4.89e/kg) tomatoes and put the spanish (1.79e/kg) on the bag… who’s the wiser?

I wonder why the produce section is being so ignored by shop security?

I have shoplifted once in my life, when I was 12. So why do I feel like a criminal when I go grocery shopping with those gestappo-clad securitas flunkies give me the eye??

During my numerous vacation trips to Suomi,every time I passed by a KKK supermarket,I would laugh out loud and point at the KKK signs
that would conjure up vivid mental images of racist men in
ameriKKKa,that wear pointy headed white sheets to disguise themselves!

:O So nice and delicate said! haha
Olé the finnish way of customer service!

You rather be told what to do, or then have me behind you in the queue telling you off when the cashier runs off to weigh? I can come up with quite elaborate namings in several languages of stupid peoples, even the ones on portugese or suahili are somewhat ruder than my usual – you “dumbarse are too stupid to even come shopping, have you come here to deliver us to multiculturalism?”

Why not just have the scales built into the checkout/register and allow the chashier to weigh and process them for you as they do in many other countries? I never understood why the fruit and veg was so expensive in Finland considering you have to weigh the stuff yourself too

Because if you have no scales available, you do not know how much veggies or fruits you have until you get to cashier.

AND you have no idea how much it costs. Sure, LIDL managed to educate itself on proper way of doing things, at least halfway there, by adding scales to their veggie section so people could check weight and cost… But even that was done half arsed way.

You have to type in the bloody number from somewhere and then it shows the result.

Yay! Compare this idiocy to simplicity of pressing one button and getting the weight and cost. If it is too much or too low, put the sticker on provided surface specifically reserved for the purpose.

If other countries want to do such pathetic system where you have no grasp of what you are buying and for how much, it is not OUR fault.

This is like the case with Sampo-bank where Danes “improved” the system of Finnish bank. By DOWNGRADE. Finnish software specialists responsible for bank security were weeping tears seeing what kind of half-arsed system they had to integrate to.

If it’s done that way elsewhere, does not mean it is better way.

Hank, you’re gonna have to get a whole lot better at English before any utterance you make of “stupid peoples” has any real effect on anyone but you.

Perhaps you should post one of these “rants” under “Trying to be funny, but clearly am not.”

They don’t know that also abroad there are the scales (finnish invention?) in the supermarkets? Too much alcohol in their eyes.

Apparently you foreigners have not figured out concept of “weight it yourself” instead presuming that someone else does it for you.

Which is quite inconvenient as whole queue grinds into stop because one idiot forgot to weight their fruits and now cashier has to rush to do this very simple task for the idiot.

As for idea that stores would suffer horrible losses from shoplifting…

Apparently they do not think so since it is Lidl which gets closer to Finnish system instead of Finnish stores switching to cashier scales.

Clearly possible losses from fruit and veggie section are not going to undermine success of the store.

“I wonder why the produce section is being so ignored by shop security?”

Smile, you are on candid camera every time you slip an extra artichoke in the bag after weighing, and after you have claimed those tomatoes are Spanish. CCTV is a lot cheaper than Securitas.

I heard food in Finland is really expensive – even fish.

Well, food IS expensive. What else you expect when stuff is brought to arse end of nowhere to satisfy fickle desires of 5 million people spread out to area bigger than Great Britain…

Our warm, cozy weather does not suit for more than one crops a year, and most of our exotic fruits like pineapples and bananas fail to produce even that.

Prussian Blue’s link is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things I have read in the history of the internets.

LOLZ all around, Prussian. What are you, a halfwit? You seem to be able to navigate the internet and even do your share of spam.

Jesus. Get him outta here, Phil.

Sure the sign is in English, but at Äkäslompolo it’s really intended for the Swedish customers…

Finland is not the only country with this system. They have it in Netherlands as well, which caused much confusion among other exchange students.

Oh, now I get it

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