Asda shopper shares trick to skipping long queues in store with mobile app
SUPERMARKET queues are no fun - but there's a trick you can use to avoid waiting around at Asda's tills.
According to one shopper, it's as simple as downloading an app and it's been staring people right in the face.
There are posters for around the supermarket's stores, but few people are using it, .
With the app, you can skip the usual queues at the checkout - something many people want to do as the coronavirus crisis continues.
Using the app is one of the ways Asda says you can stay safe when shopping in stores at the moment, along with wearing a face mask and social distancing.
The savvy Asda shopper Tom Haynes said: "Scan & Go is hard to miss, since there are adverts for it everywhere, and yet every time I go to Asda no one is using it."
At the end of your shop instead of queueing at the tills as usual, you can go to Asda's special Scan & Go checkouts.
These should be flagged near the checkouts but you can always ask someone where they are if you're not sure.
You'll be asked to scan a QR code on the screen using your smartphone or the handset, and then just follow the instructions to pay.
Be aware that you can only pay using a card - if you want to use cash you unfortunately can't use Scan & Go.
One thing to watch out for is your phone battery: you'll need enough to last the shop and if it runs out halfway through, you'll need to checkout as normal.
Some shoppers using Scan & Go may have to go through a quality check, where Asda staff check items have scanned correctly, and you may have to checkout as normal if any issue is spotted.
Scan & Go now works at every one of Asda's 581 stores. The queue-skipping service has been available for a while but Asda expanded it to all its locations in the wake of the pandemic.
Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S and Waitrose also offer the queue-skipping technology and Co-op is trialling it in some stores.