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Subject: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: MGM·Lion Date: 22 Jul 14 - 02:42 PM Tesco Supermarket shoppers constantly hear the tannoy announcement, "There is a caller at the back gate; please attend". It is, I gather, some sort of code to alert staff to something. Anybody know what? ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Musket Date: 22 Jul 14 - 03:08 PM It means they have noticed your presence. It means keep an eye on the Baileys and cooking sherry when you are wearing that big coat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: MGM·Lion Date: 22 Jul 14 - 03:23 PM Oh, bloody LoL, I s'pose! Anybody sane out there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Bill D Date: 22 Jul 14 - 04:03 PM At our craft show in November, "Crafter, please attend your booths" is a signal that actual or suspected shoplifters have been noted. Perhaps this is similar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link Date: 22 Jul 14 - 04:22 PM I assume the back gate is the delivery point for deliveries, so I suspect there is a delivery driver or a tradesperson seeking entry. there were times when I was an HGV driver that there would be a closed gate and bell or intercom to facilitate entry for authorised persons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Ed T Date: 22 Jul 14 - 04:37 PM This is kinda related: My daughter worked at Walmart (shoe dept.), as a teen ager. When visiting the location, I frequently heard an announcement, "security alert code ×××× in section ×××", over the public announcement speaker. Curiously, I asked my daughter what it meant, if, in fact, someone was caught stealing by store security. She told me the announcement was mostly used to deter shoplifting, to give shoppers a feeling that store security were closely monitoring shoppers , to root out shop-lifters (which they were not, in that case). Since then, every time I visit a Walmart and hear a similar announcement, I smile. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Doug Chadwick Date: 22 Jul 14 - 05:25 PM For a few months, between leaving school and starting college, I worked in a department store. The tannoy message "Mr Frost is required in the toy/menswear/etc. department" was an urgent call for staff to investigate a possible fire without panicking the customers. It was sounded once while I was there, for a small fire involving cardboard packaging, and was dealt with by a member of staff using a fire extinguisher without the need for an evacuation. DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Bill D Date: 22 Jul 14 - 05:36 PM "...to give shoppers a feeling that store security were closely monitoring shoppers ..." Well, it's an interesting concept, but there is some doubt how things like that work. It was tried on the I-495 Washington Beltway a few years ago, but it didn't work too well The signs are still there... and so are the "aggressive drivers". I doubt Pete's 'simple' explanation, as stores usually ask directly when someone needs to attend to some function. How many Tesco stores actually have a "back gate"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Musket Date: 22 Jul 14 - 05:36 PM Caller at the back gate sounds like a euphemism to me, all the same. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: GUEST, topsie Date: 22 Jul 14 - 06:05 PM I've never heard that when I've been in Tesco's. The most interesting announcement I've heard in a shop was presumably the result of the tannoy being left on when someone in the office welcomed a visitor with the words 'Ah, Mr Aubrey' - what people in the shop heard was a sudden disembodied voice announcing 'I'm a strawberry!' |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Noreen Date: 22 Jul 14 - 06:41 PM Using Occam's Razor, (which Tesco doesn't sell) I suspect that it means there is a caller at the back gate who needs attention... possibly a customer using "Click and Collect" wanting to collect their picked and packed shopping. Why is it more likely a code that means something else, pray tell? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Bill D Date: 22 Jul 14 - 06:53 PM Hmmm... if their "Click and Collect" is AT the back where Michael shops, it might well be a simple answer. Not all stores would have it there. My local supermarket chain has recently begun a similar service, but the pick-up points are right in front near the main shopping entrance. Now that the world is speculating, it would be interesting for someone to ask Tesco.... (if they DO get in a supply of Occam's Razors, I'll pop over) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: The Sandman Date: 22 Jul 14 - 07:02 PM caller at the back gate, could it be a sexual reference, a bit like a stroll in the hindu kush or a meander up the khyber pass, perhaps its the managers code to his secret lover assistant in the bakery department, a bit more subtle than can i put a bun in your oven |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Noreen Date: 22 Jul 14 - 07:11 PM Hi Bill :) It's not something I've ever heard in any Tesco where I have shopped. Perhaps Michael could look up whether the Click&Collect point at the store he mentions, is round the back?! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Richard Bridge Date: 22 Jul 14 - 07:46 PM "Constantly", MtheGM? Oh dear. Maybe it indicates buggery in the stockroom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 14 - 09:22 PM Hahahahahaa! Great posts. Great thread. My 2 cents ain't worth posting. Tho, I do suggest a committee enquiry be commissioned to investigate. I would be inclined to nominate the OP to chair but I fear funding for the lengthy investigation may not be supported by the majority of the house. If my view is not supported, I stand down with deference and reverence. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: The Sandman Date: 23 Jul 14 - 10:58 AM m the gm ,perhaps you should try shopping somewhere else |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: GUEST, topsie Date: 23 Jul 14 - 11:12 AM I was once told that if you're on a cross-channel ferry and there is a message saying the captain on the bridge needs a spanner (or maybe it was a screwdriver), it means "The ship's on fire. DON'T PANIC!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: MGM·Lion Date: 23 Jul 14 - 11:22 AM Why, Dick? Doesn't bother me. Just curious, thassall! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Musket Date: 23 Jul 14 - 11:29 AM So are the store detectives... |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: GUEST,Anonymouse Date: 15 Aug 15 - 11:45 AM Is this Loudwater by any chance? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: GUEST,CS Date: 15 Aug 15 - 12:31 PM I had a chugger (charity pest) go round the back of my house and knock on my back door upon not receiving an answer on the front door, in the pitch dark, in the evening, several months ago back in the winter. Himself answered it, but I wish I'd got his personal info so I could complain about the invasiveness of his persistence. There are a lot of elderly people who live alone around my way. He could have been banging on the back door of some little old lady. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Mr Red Date: 16 Aug 15 - 04:11 AM possibly a customer using "Click and Collect" I guess that is groceries. For single small items in my experience click and collect is dealt with via the "Customer Information" desk in Argos and Waitrose/John Lewis. Not that I use Tesco out of principle. Or buy groceries on-line. Have you noticed that E-Bay provide a service to collect at Argos? Presumably there is a cost to it, because not all vendors use it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Aug 15 - 05:36 AM What point of 'principle' is involved in refusing to shop at Tesco? Or to buy online? & where is it OK for one so fastidious to shop? & why? Just asking... ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: gnu Date: 16 Aug 15 - 08:10 AM "He could have been banging on the back door of some little old lady." Ahhh... no, I shant. Tempting though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 'Caller at back gate' From: Megan L Date: 16 Aug 15 - 09:16 AM GNU S*K*E*L*P |
