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Post by Sharon on Aug 1, 2014 21:26:48 GMT -5
I threw a hissy fit and walked out of a store one time when they tried to make me use the self check out line. There was a good store coupon on cheese so I stopped just to get my 2lb block of cheese. This store has a person that directs traffic to the various check out lines so try and get people out quickly. I was standing in line at the checker patiently just reading the covers of the tabloids no problems. She tried to direct me to the self check out and I told her no Thank you that I was fine. Then she tried to take the cheese out of my hand and says come on I will help you. I told her that I was fine where I was and if self check out was the only way I could get my cheese then forget it and walked out of the store. She probably thought I was the psycho bitch from hell but whatever. If I say no Thank you I am fine then leave me alone. It wasn't like they were trying to shut down that checker's line for break or anything.
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Post by 973beachbum on Aug 1, 2014 22:47:34 GMT -5
I don't understand what this "bags under the register" is all about. The bags at our store are at the end of the check out counter. Lone there are bags at the end of the check out counter. The problems come about because the customer either wants paper which are either under the cashiers feet so to speak or at the end of the register or they want to set up the bags in their cart so the items can be bagged super quickly. In order to get to them they have to actually wait in line. Is anyone else sensing a theme? When they get to the point where I would ring up their items they can ask me for paper bags or use the ones at the end. The problem is they want the bags before I start ringing their items up. Since the person in front of them won't magically disappear so they can have the whole place to themselves, people have started to resorting to "helping themselves". And what I mean by healing themselves is going to another register and looking around for the supplies they can't wait one minute to get from the cashier who is going to ring them up. So all of a sudden I have seen a person I have never seen before at the register in front of me. and when I would say excuse me can I help you they get all mad because of course it is normal for a customer to jump behind a register and root around for things.
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Post by zibazinski on Aug 2, 2014 6:24:41 GMT -5
Good grief, where do you people shop and work? I have never seen anything like this. Thankfully.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Aug 2, 2014 7:53:51 GMT -5
...:::"Around here, you just consider yourself lucky if the half dead person in front of you only talks to the cashier about the weather, their grandchildren and their 14 year old poodle for 10 minutes instead of 15.":::...
How much does it add when the old men open their shirts to show off scars from various procedures?
There's no excuse for throwing the sign at the cashier, but sometimes stores are deceptive and place the "sale" price near the version of the item that ISN'T on sale. Best Buy used to be notorious for doing this.
I loathe check writers whose check books are in a small purse within a larger purse.
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Post by plugginaway22 on Aug 2, 2014 8:27:47 GMT -5
Or the whites hairs with orange sized change purses counting out the nickels dimes and pennies. Please God don't let me become one of them.
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Post by swamp on Aug 2, 2014 9:34:11 GMT -5
At least the bad behavior in your store seems to be based on people trying to get their transaction done quickly and then get the heck out of the store. Around here, half the people are retirees who go to the grocery store as a social outing - wandering aimlessly through the aisles, happily chatting to strangers and asking the whippersnappers what their hurry is when said whippersnappers try to circumnavigate the human road blocks before their ice cream melts. The other half the people are tourists who would desperately like to figure out where the snack food is and escape the retirees who are alternatively chatting to them and blocking all possible means of exit.
It almost (but not quite) makes me long for shoppers that are alert and interested enough to reach through a cashier's legs to get to some bags. Around here, you just consider yourself lucky if the half dead person in front of you only talks to the cashier about the weather, their grandchildren and their 14 year old poodle for 10 minutes instead of 15.
Do you shop with me in FL? You have perfectly described my experiences. The Publix on Anna Maria Island gets a special award for bring swarmed with half dead people. And the cashiers are half dead too and want to chat.
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Post by milee on Aug 2, 2014 9:41:32 GMT -5
At least the bad behavior in your store seems to be based on people trying to get their transaction done quickly and then get the heck out of the store. Around here, half the people are retirees who go to the grocery store as a social outing - wandering aimlessly through the aisles, happily chatting to strangers and asking the whippersnappers what their hurry is when said whippersnappers try to circumnavigate the human road blocks before their ice cream melts. The other half the people are tourists who would desperately like to figure out where the snack food is and escape the retirees who are alternatively chatting to them and blocking all possible means of exit.
It almost (but not quite) makes me long for shoppers that are alert and interested enough to reach through a cashier's legs to get to some bags. Around here, you just consider yourself lucky if the half dead person in front of you only talks to the cashier about the weather, their grandchildren and their 14 year old poodle for 10 minutes instead of 15.
Do you shop with me in FL? You have perfectly described my experiences. The Publix on Anna Maria Island gets a special award for bring swarmed with half dead people. And the cashiers are half dead too and want to chat. I love Anna Maria, but do not shop there. The closest Publix to me is the one serving the key a few keys to the south, so almost the exact same shopping experience as on Anna Maria.
I should probably clarify that I'm incredibly grateful to get to live full time in such a fantastic place that people want to vacation here. And I also am not as intolerant of older or infirm people as my posts sound. Most of the time, I'm patient, smile and respond to small talk and understand that it takes some people a little longer and that's OK. But sometimes I just need to get in and out quickly - ice cream is melting, have to pick up a kid in 5 minutes, have customers waiting back at work - and it can get frustrating to have what should be a ten minute trip to the store turn into a thirty minute ordeal.
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Post by swamp on Aug 2, 2014 11:19:21 GMT -5
I am intolerant. ETA: that store is so bad that even my elderly parents who are part of the half dead snowbirds who clog up the stores get annoyed with it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 13:23:12 GMT -5
...:::"Around here, you just consider yourself lucky if the half dead person in front of you only talks to the cashier about the weather, their grandchildren and their 14 year old poodle for 10 minutes instead of 15.":::... How much does it add when the old men open their shirts to show off scars from various procedures? There's no excuse for throwing the sign at the cashier, but sometimes stores are deceptive and place the "sale" price near the version of the item that ISN'T on sale. Best Buy used to be notorious for doing this. I loathe check writers whose check books are in a small purse within a larger purse. This particular store gave cashiers the latitude to trust the customer if they said the price was wrong, if the difference was within a certain amount. If a customer said "that rang up for $12, it's suppose to be $11" the cashier could change it and keep things moving. There were copies of the current sales ad at all the registers. If a customer had an item that didn't ring up with a price for some reason, the cashier could ask the customer what the price was. If what the customer said sounded reasonable, they could ring it up for that amount. I guess the company would rather risk losing a few dollars than upset their customers over minor things and have their lines backed up unnecessarily. I still shop there today, and I think their policies are the same. I'm not sure though, I haven't had anything ring up incorrectly that I can remember. The man that threw the sign was just a big jackass. When I worked in a grocery store, if an item rang up for more than it was suppose to be, you could get another of the same item for free. They didn't advertise it though, and all the customers didn't know about it. When they started having to give an item away because it was priced incorrectly, you best believe they'd hurry and get it corrected lol. I wonder if they still have that policy.
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Post by zibazinski on Aug 2, 2014 13:51:36 GMT -5
Go to customer service if you have just a few items and long lines. Publix is especially good with this.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 2, 2014 14:30:53 GMT -5
Today I was at the supermarket, the elderly guy behind me was talking to himself VERY LOUDLY, commenting on everything he did buy and everything he considered buying but didn't, and everything he may have forgotten to buy. His breath could have killed a dead moose. (Having breath like that is rude too, frankly, if you're going out in public.) I initially felt sorry for him and thought I really should respond to him, because if he's acting that way it's because he has nobody to talk to. But I was fighting nausea / trying not to retch even turning away from him. There was no way I could turn to him and converse with him having breath like that. OMG....hilarious, at least from this distance. From where you were standing, probably not so much. I would have stuck a six-pack of breath mints in his cart with a note that said, "It's probably too late for these, but give 'em a shot, OK, buddy? Otherwise, I'm calling the EPA and having your mouth declared a toxic waste ."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 14:42:55 GMT -5
OMG Nancy that's brilliant! Even better, I should have stuck them in MY cart, and given them to him as a gift LOL. (Not sure I would have had the nerve for that though.)
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Post by DagnyT on Aug 2, 2014 14:54:57 GMT -5
I threw a hissy fit and walked out of a store one time when they tried to make me use the self check out line. There was a good store coupon on cheese so I stopped just to get my 2lb block of cheese. This store has a person that directs traffic to the various check out lines so try and get people out quickly. I was standing in line at the checker patiently just reading the covers of the tabloids no problems. She tried to direct me to the self check out and I told her no Thank you that I was fine. Then she tried to take the cheese out of my hand and says come on I will help you. I told her that I was fine where I was and if self check out was the only way I could get my cheese then forget it and walked out of the store. She probably thought I was the psycho bitch from hell but whatever. If I say no Thank you I am fine then leave me alone. It wasn't like they were trying to shut down that checker's line for break or anything. I'm with you, Sharon. I can't stand it when they do that, and I was a cashier when I was in college. I just don't like the self checkout.
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Post by Jaguar on Aug 2, 2014 16:02:57 GMT -5
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Post by zibazinski on Aug 3, 2014 7:48:29 GMT -5
I love self checkout. My prices, if wrong,are caught immediately and I don't have to go stand in another line to get refunded. My groceries are bagged exactly the way I want them bagged. No apples on top of bakery items. I'm in and out in record time.
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Post by sheilaincali on Aug 4, 2014 10:45:56 GMT -5
This makes me want to go hug the cashiers at my grocery store! We switched stores because the one we used to go to was in the middle of some major road construction and we wanted to avoid it. The new store is AWESOME!
except- one of the cashiers is a lady that previously worked at my bank like 3 years ago. So she recognized me one day and came zooming over to tell my cashier that he could go on his break and that she'd help me. Fine we exchanged pleasantries but now anytime I'm at the store when she is working she expects me to chose her aisle so we can "visit". I don't really know this lady aside from she used to be a teller at the bank we use for work. For a year she called me "Tammy" because she thought we had the same name that's how well we know each other.
Now she is all about the small talk while I'm trying to get my groceries rang up. Lady I don't want to talk about the weather while you are holding my husband's hemorrhoid cream.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 4, 2014 10:57:26 GMT -5
As long as she doesn't squeeze it. That's one cleanup I don't need to see.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Aug 4, 2014 13:01:07 GMT -5
I used to be a grocery store cashier in high school. I also bagged & did cart return. My favorite was people who parked maybe 5 spaces away from the cart return area that would leave their cart in a parking space. I also enjoyed people who didn't bother to put their dripping meat in a deli bag before putting it on the grocery belt, so there's a trail of blood/chicken ooze on the belt. My hands-down favorite memory is ringing up an old guy's Sunday paper - it was $1.35. He emptied his change bag full of pennies onto the belt and proceeded to ask me to help him count out 135 pennies. ....and paying for anything other than doctor co-pays or bills with checks needs to be a purge-worthy offense.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 4, 2014 13:05:18 GMT -5
I don't mind checks if the person has the checkbook out and is starting to fill it as the purchases are being rung up. All they need to do then is fill out the total.
I hate it when you get stuck behind someone who stands there until everything is bagged then has to out her giant purse, rummage thru the carnage to find her checkbook, flip thru it to find an unused check, find a pen, fill out the check and then proceeds to stand there and balance her checkbook while everyone else waits.
I almost killed that lady. You don't need to reconcile your bank balance with your checkbook in line! Take the receipt and balance your checkbook with it when you get home! If you're in a hurry do it in the car before you pull out of the lot. But don't make others stand there and wait.
I would have moved to another lane but her cart pinned me in the front and then an ahole behind me had his cart pressed into the small of my back b/c somehow running me over was going to make the lady leave faster.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Aug 4, 2014 13:16:01 GMT -5
I want to smack people who can't count to 12. See that sign that says in VERY BIG LETTERS "12 items or less"? Yes, Miss EntitledAndTooImportantToWaitEvenThoughIHave50Items. That means you, too.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Aug 4, 2014 13:24:57 GMT -5
I also want to smack those people who hit you in your Achilles with their carts if they think you aren't moving fast enough. I had an older lady do that to me 3 times in one aisle. The first two times, I thought it must be an accident, but by the 3rd time, I was getting annoyed. I didn't say anything, tho, because I love old people. I just suffered in silence. Sometimes it takes me awhile to decide which cookies I want, dammit!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 4, 2014 13:28:15 GMT -5
Whenever someone tries to run me over in line thinking it'll make things go faster I like to stick my butt out which results in their cart coming back to hit them in the gut.
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Post by jkapp on Aug 4, 2014 13:54:10 GMT -5
After spending 4 wonderful years in Central Florida, I was very happy to leave behind grocery stores filled with retirees who have all day to shop, yet choose to shop during "afterwork" hours when those of us that are not yet close to retirement have to shop. Yes, I understand there are more us to talk to/block from aisles/ram carts into, etc, but really, can you not do your shopping at a time that does not interfere with mine?!?! And the amount of cars parked in the fire lane, so that traffic cannot get by. Because really, they don't park IN the fire lane, they park next to it and take up the driving lane. So, now that I'm in Chicago i thought, hey, this is going to be better! NOPE. Now I have tourists who act like shopping in Target here is different somehow from shopping at Target at home. Target here expects you to pay/checks ID/does not want your kids playing on/in/with shopping carts, just like Target at home. And no, we are not Las Vegas, you cannot take your open beer/open bottle of wine in with you. To be fair, I hate grocery shopping with every fiber of my being. So I don't think it matters where I am, I will always find other shoppers annoying. However, I continue to contend, that if they were less annoying, I'd hate grocery shopping less Yep, that's why I do my grocery shopping in early morning (usually 6AM on a Saturday). It is usually better, except for those few days a year when everyone gets up early for some reason and goes to the grocery store. I've have yet to be able to figure out what days those are so I can avoid them
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 13:59:11 GMT -5
After spending 4 wonderful years in Central Florida, I was very happy to leave behind grocery stores filled with retirees who have all day to shop, yet choose to shop during "afterwork" hours when those of us that are not yet close to retirement have to shop. Yes, I understand there are more us to talk to/block from aisles/ram carts into, etc, but really, can you not do your shopping at a time that does not interfere with mine?!?! And the amount of cars parked in the fire lane, so that traffic cannot get by. Because really, they don't park IN the fire lane, they park next to it and take up the driving lane. So, now that I'm in Chicago i thought, hey, this is going to be better! NOPE. Now I have tourists who act like shopping in Target here is different somehow from shopping at Target at home. Target here expects you to pay/checks ID/does not want your kids playing on/in/with shopping carts, just like Target at home. And no, we are not Las Vegas, you cannot take your open beer/open bottle of wine in with you. To be fair, I hate grocery shopping with every fiber of my being. So I don't think it matters where I am, I will always find other shoppers annoying. However, I continue to contend, that if they were less annoying, I'd hate grocery shopping less Yep, that's why I do my grocery shopping in early morning (usually 6AM on a Saturday). It is usually better, except for those few days a year when everyone gets up early for some reason and goes to the grocery store. I've have yet to be able to figure out what days those are so I can avoid them I usually shop on saturday or sunday afternoon and don't find it all that horrible. the only time I want to see 6 am on a saturday is if I'm coming home from being out somewhere.
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Post by Opti on Aug 4, 2014 14:04:27 GMT -5
I want to smack people who can't count to 12. See that sign that says in VERY BIG LETTERS "12 items or less"? Yes, Miss EntitledAndTooImportantToWaitEvenThoughIHave50Items. That means you, too. I really hate checkers that let them stay too.
The other day I was at a 12 or less line and missed getting there before someone with a shopping cart did. I had one item.
Apparently it was college or some type of shopping and it was way over 12 items and confusing to me as well. I think an Asian dad and his daughter. At least 4 of those bathroom rugs with cutouts to go around the toilet, I think three were in the same color. Some towels and rugs as well, but far below what someone would use to stock three or more bathrooms. At least 24 items when it was finally over and a total around $700, I think.
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Post by jkapp on Aug 4, 2014 14:17:11 GMT -5
Yep, that's why I do my grocery shopping in early morning (usually 6AM on a Saturday). It is usually better, except for those few days a year when everyone gets up early for some reason and goes to the grocery store. I've have yet to be able to figure out what days those are so I can avoid them I usually shop on saturday or sunday afternoon and don't find it all that horrible. the only time I want to see 6 am on a saturday is if I'm coming home from being out somewhere. Oh, weekend afternoons are the worst in my area...packed full with people of all ages. I actually went to the store one time on a Saturday afternoon (I was baking something for work and I forgot the chocolate chips!   . I couldn't even find a parking space! And they actually had over half the checkout lines open (they don't have self-checkout at this particular store)...I've never seen that many lines open in my life
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Aug 4, 2014 14:37:21 GMT -5
I want to smack people who can't count to 12. See that sign that says in VERY BIG LETTERS "12 items or less"? Yes, Miss EntitledAndTooImportantToWaitEvenThoughIHave50Items. That means you, too. I really hate checkers that let them stay too.
The other day I was at a 12 or less line and missed getting there before someone with a shopping cart did. I had one item.
Apparently it was college or some type of shopping and it was way over 12 items and confusing to me as well. I think an Asian dad and his daughter. At least 4 of those bathroom rugs with cutouts to go around the toilet, I think three were in the same color. Some towels and rugs as well, but far below what someone would use to stock three or more bathrooms. At least 24 items when it was finally over and a total around $700, I think.
I was told by a cashier at Wal Mart that they are not allowed to say anything if people come through the line with 9000 items. I guess that's good customer service for some and absolute CRAP for others. One of my friends told me she goes through that aisle with a bunch of items because she knows she can't be turned away. I have no idea why we are friends, seeing as how she is so self-centered and inconsiderate. That's it! I'm dumping her!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 14:53:07 GMT -5
When I was a cashier, I did my part to keep things moving but I didn't really care if my customers were slow as molasses. Taking forever to find their checkbook, counting out a bunch of change, whatever. I got off work at the same time, regardless. Sometimes when they would apologize for holding up my line I'd want to tell them "you're not bothering me. The people behind you are the ones rolling their eyes and huffing and puffing". No point in ME getting agitated, it wasn't like I could leave when THEY finally did.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 4, 2014 14:53:53 GMT -5
I love the women who put their open purses in the seat of the grocery cart, and proceed to shop and talk on the phone, completely oblivious to the fact that I could take their wallet or their entire bag and they would never know it. I've seen a bag or two that tempted me. I could have grabbed the bag and their crab legs and been out of there.
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