Martine van Os is always friendly on television, but at the self-checkout she turns into an angry and obnoxious old woman. “It really makes me very angry.”
Random checks are inextricably linked to the self-checkout. Logical, but some people start to sigh and groan when a cashier walks towards them. As if they can do anything about it. Martine van Os is also one of those: instead of smiling kindly at the cashier, she starts complaining a lot.
“Give me the cashiers!”
It seems to be mainly older people who cannot accept this. This is how news celebrity Gerri Eickhof fumes on X: “That check during the self-scan at the Heijn company is really starting to bother me. It happens more and more often and with more and more messages. Give me the cashiers again.”
And Time for MAX star Martine van Os now agrees. She says in the talk show Van Roosmalen & Groenteman: “I’ll tell you: I’m actually very happy that you brought this up, because what happened to me… Last Sunday I went to Albert Heijn, I wasn’t feeling well and I wanted to do some quick shopping.”
Quick scan cash register
Martine didn’t feel like queuing at the checkout. “So I thought: I’ll do that thing… The self-scan. I arrive at where I have to pay and then a boy comes up to me and says: ‘Just checking.’ Then all those messages had to go out again. And then I said to my husband: ‘Hey… Do you think you can do something quickly…’”
Another whining senior, thought the cashier. “And then that boy looked at me and said: ‘This is a self-checkout, not a quick-scan checkout.’”
‘Very angry!’
Well, Martine immediately turned green. Angry that she was. “Yes, it made me very angry,” said the MAX hulk.
Host Gijs Groenteman: “Yes? Why?”
Martine: “Yes. I’m actually very friendly, you know, and I suddenly looked at those boys and said: ‘I was talking to my husband.’ Well, that’s what you get!”