Guy lost his credit card!

[Aragarthiel]

Hubs and I were at the grocery store earlier picking up a few necessities, and decided to use the SCO. Just as we were finishing up, the guy at the SCO behind us called over to the attendant, "Um, ma'am, I lost my card!"

She goes over to find out what he means, did he drop it on the floor somewhere? Turns out, he set it on the little turntable thing the bagging area is on, and it fell between the turntable and the base for it, a gap MUCH too small for fingers!

We couldn't stick around to see if they managed to get the turntable up so he could get his card, but I really hope he did!

[MoonCat]

This is why mine never leaves my hand when I shop. I take it out, swipe it, immediately put it back into my wallet.

[Dreamstalker]

Ditto. I guessed once that there's enough loose change (at least) caught under the SCO belts to pay for coffee for the entire closing crew and night crew. There could very well be cash under the rollers at the end of the belt too. I've seen people put everything down there; one day the dork who was covering my break dropped the attendant card--not my card thankfully--between the rollers (and you put it down there why exactly?).

I constantly tell people to not put cash/cards on the register belts, but they do anyway...yes, there is a small drawer on the cashier side that slides out, but that generally only catches change. Anything larger gets caught at the roller where we can't get to it without closing the lane down and calling a tech.

[taxguykarl]

We couldn't stick around to see if they managed to get the turntable up so he could get his card, but I really hope he did!

Was that before or after he paid for the purchase?

[Aragarthiel]

I think it was after, since his groceries were all in bags already. I suspect he set the card down to pick up the bags and one of the bags knocked it down there.

[dawnfire]

I constantly tell people to not put cash/cards on the register belts, but they do anyway...yes, there is a small drawer on the cashier side that slides out, but that generally only catches change. Anything larger gets caught at the roller where we can't get to it without closing the lane down and calling a tech.

What's this tech person? I had to reach into a hole underneath the rollers. it usually meant contorting your wrist in awkward angles and risking cuts and splinters (it was unfinished on the inside).

[Dreamstalker]

The sloped rubber bits at the end of the belt aren't all easy to pull up. Cards I can sometimes get with a bit of fiddling and a paperclip provided they haven't gone too deep, coupons and/or bills not so much (too light to fall into the tray so they usually get sucked into the roller immediately and fly into the big dusty space under the belt).

Officially we don't really need a tech for that, but do have to shut the lane down (and anyone brave enough to get underneath needs a dustmask). SCs tend to listen if I tell them "if you put that there we need to call someone in to get it out".

[bhskittykatt]

Don't work in retail so never had this experience but....

...at the motel, someone let their kids play with an expensive iPhone. They slid it through the A/C vents, and it fell down deep within the unit. Had to tear it completely apart and still we were only able to *just* reach it.