Grocery store Check-out pet peeves...

[msdznyduck]

Where I come from that's a Ding Dong. (oooh that sounded vaguely dirty )

I think Drakes makes Ring Dings and Hostess makes Ding Dongs...........same thing, although I do like Ring Dings better

 

[ADisneygirl]

I always smile and say hello to the cashier and to the boy bagging groceries too. No big deal to acknowledge someone.

What I find annoying is being asked to donate every time I check out. I realize they are told to say it, but I have had enough of it. Just like every time I'm checking out at Target they ask about signing up for a Target card. I imagine it must get pretty old for the actual cashier to have to ask every customer to donate or apply, as it is for me who only has to hear it once as I check out. Managers ought to stop these practices.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Where I come from that's a Ding Dong. (oooh that sounded vaguely dirty )

Whatever and call it what you want, but I refuse to go back to urban dictionary and look anything up ever again. At least for this month until I forget again.

 

[Poohbear123]

My biggest pet peeve is when people cannot bag their own groceries. If there is know bagger I think people should help bag. It would make the line go much quicker. I also hate when people come up with small carry baskets and they can't empty them out. They wait for the cashier to do. I find that people are so lazy. People who work in the sevice industry with the public are not payed enough!!!

Oh, I have this happen too, and its mainly MEN who do this! I feel like saying: "Would you like me to Pay for these too, while I am at it?" A cashier got in trouble one time, because the customer complained that the Cashier didn't "empty it out". Oh, and NO I do not get paid enough, even after being there for 19 years.....

 

[maxiesmom]

As a cashier I know it is very annoying that we ask you: if you are using our store's card, if you want to open a card, do you know how much you can save by using our card, and if we can have your e-mail address. But the company I work for insists that I do. In fact, they send "secret shoppers" thru our lines to make sure we are. So if it bother you please complain to the managers or write to the company. Do not yell at me! I am just doing my job. This would also apply to anything else that bothers you in our store. I can only follow company policy, I can not change it, and your yelling just makes you look like a jerk.

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[cepmom]

As a cashier I know it is very annoying that we ask you: if you are using our store's card, if you want to open a card, do you know how much you can save by using our card, and if we can have your e-mail address. But the company I work for insists that I do. In fact, they send "secret shoppers" thru our lines to make sure we are. So if it bother you please complain to the managers or write to the company. Do not yell at me! I am just doing my job. This would also apply to anything else that bothers you in our store. I can only follow company policy, I can not change it, and your yelling just makes you look like a jerk.

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ITA...I do not like asking every question I am required to ask either...BRU uses mystery shoppers and I do not want to be the one the mystery shopper catches not asking every single question.

We are also required by corporate to sell buyer protection plans...and we can not simply ask, we need to "Sell" the plan...talk it up, tell them how good it is etc. I hate it, but they watch us and there is no way around it. I just want to do my job, not piss off customers. I wish more people would complain to corporate, not to me!

 

[jimmalru80]

Please wait 30 seconds until I set up the bags so I can pack things quickly.

 

[inaminute]

My pet peeves:

Being asked for donations at the grocery store door by the sport/school/scouting organization of the week

Being asked to donate to charity by the cashier. I know it's your job, but if the store wants to get credit for making a donation, why don't they just write a check?

Being expected to bag. Sorry. Not my job. Now, if I were to receive a discount or a paycheck for doing so, I'd be more than happy to help. If it's important to the store for the line to go more quickly, they should hire more baggers.

BEing asked again on the way out the door to donate to the sport/charity/scouting organization of the week.

 

[Poohbear123]

Oh yea, we have "Secret Shoppers" too, forgot about them.

 

[LindaG4458]

We shop at Publix here in Vero and usually enjoy the experience (as much as anyone can enjoy grocery shopping). My Pet Peeve is the baggers. During the week this particular Publix employs "challenged" people as baggers. That's great, but even bagging is beyond some of them. One in particular insists upon putting the milk on top of the bread, or the salad under the canned goods. He thinks that, as long as it is in a bag, it is ok and he has done his job. He also hates it when we request paper bags and just throws things into them. Then he finds an excuse to take off and not finish the bagging. Now I do my own bagging. He will never approach if someone else is doing it already; he might have to work. The cashiers all hate to have him working on their line because he's slower than doing it themselves.

 

[DisneyGirl2005]

I think Drakes makes Ring Dings and Hostess makes Ding Dongs...........same thing, although I do like Ring Dings better

Forget the Ring Dings and the Ding Dongs, give me a Funny Bone and I am a happy girl. They are the bomb!

 

[Nancy]

My biggest pet peeve is when people cannot bag their own groceries. If there is know bagger I think people should help bag. It would make the line go much quicker. I also hate when people come up with small carry baskets and they can't empty them out. They wait for the cashier to do. I find that people are so lazy. People who work in the sevice industry with the public are not payed enough!!!

If you come into my store you can bag your gorceries to your hearts content...we love when customers offer to bag their own stuff! Little blue baskets and me are not known to get along. If you leave your stuff in them you will be waiting a long time for me to empty it...I politely will tell you to "please unload your items". One time a gentleman ignored my request....so I did it..not in a way he appreciated either, I just flipped the basket upside down and emptied it. ...Now I normally would not do this, I normally am very well mannered and extremely polite (after all I am the store trainer, I have to set the example) but this guy was so rude and condensending that he just burned my butt.

I am loving all the complaints about charities at the registers. I work for a store that odes this...luckily only once a year for the foodbanks. BUT we also have to ask every customer and as a cashier I hate it. This year was even worse because we were also raising funds for the tsunami and the hurricanes. My store for some reason turns fund raising into a competition...we HAVE to raise more money than all our other stores...drives me nuts. PLease if you hate the charities call corporate and complain...maybe then they won't keep forcing us to do it!

 

[msdznyduck]

Forget the Ring Dings and the Ding Dongs, give me a Funny Bone and I am a happy girl. They are the bomb!

Mmmmmmmm Funny Bones are the best......even though they are smaller, and not as filled with peanut butter stuff as they used to be when I was a kid.
Plus, no one else in the house liked them.....they were ALL MINE

 

[Talking Hands]

We shop at Publix here in Vero and usually enjoy the experience (as much as anyone can enjoy grocery shopping). My Pet Peeve is the baggers. During the week this particular Publix employs "challenged" people as baggers. That's great, but even bagging is beyond some of them. One in particular insists upon putting the milk on top of the bread, or the salad under the canned goods. He thinks that, as long as it is in a bag, it is ok and he has done his job. He also hates it when we request paper bags and just throws things into them. Then he finds an excuse to take off and not finish the bagging. Now I do my own bagging. He will never approach if someone else is doing it already; he might have to work. The cashiers all hate to have him working on their line because he's slower than doing it themselves.

We have some very good challenged baggers at one Publix we use. It is a joy to see these people living a normal life.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

My pet peeves:

Being asked for donations at the grocery store door by the sport/school/scouting organization of the week

BEing asked again on the way out the door to donate to
the sport/charity/scouting organization of the week.

Tee hee, I did a whole thread on this topic a few weeks ago. Drives me nuts too.

My pet peeve has to do with self-check-outs. I go to Wal-Mart only for things like detergent, contact stuff, you get the idea. I usually have 3 things in my hand. It peeves me when I just want to zip through the self-check-out and they are all completely backed up with people that have overflowing carts. The big thing is that they don't have a clue what they are doing. When they have produce and are having to weigh it then find the code, etc. For goodness sake, it takes the employees 2 seconds to do this. Just go to their line and don't back up the self-check-outs doing this!

 

[Chattyaholic]

I guess I don't understand why some of you cashiers get angry if a customer doesn't "empty out" their little basket. I mean, the cashier has to pick up each item to scan so what difference does it make if it's IN the little basket, or if it's ON the counter??? I've left my few items in the basket many times and I've never had a cashier look upset about it. I guess I just don't see what the big deal is about that...

We have "mentally challenged" baggers too and I do everything I can to avoid their lane, but occasionally they will hop over to a different one and I get stuck with them anyway. One girl will constantly tell me what she's putting into which bag, like "I'm putting your eggs in this bag", or "I'm putting your grapes in this bag, just in case you get hungry on your way home", etc. I'm trying to watch the scanner to make sure there are no mistakes, and then I'm trying to write out my check and I just wish she'd be quiet!!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I guess I don't understand why some of you cashiers get angry if a customer doesn't "empty out" their little basket. I mean, the cashier has to pick up each item to scan so what difference does it make if it's IN the little basket, or if it's ON the counter??? I've left my few items in the basket many times and I've never had a cashier look upset about it. I guess I just don't see what the big deal is about that...

We have "mentally challenged" baggers too and I do everything I can to avoid their lane, but occasionally they will hop over to a different one and I get stuck with them anyway. One girl will constantly tell me what she's putting into which bag, like "I'm putting your eggs in this bag", or "I'm putting your grapes in this bag, just in case you get hungry on your way home", etc. I'm trying to watch the scanner to make sure there are no mistakes, and then I'm trying to write out my check and I just wish she'd be quiet!!

First let me say that I agree with you and would be peeved too, but get ready for some from others.

 

[In a hurry]

My pet peeve is people who wait until they are asked about coupons/cards or whatever, and then start digging for them! Think two minutes ahead, people!!!

If the lines are long, and the help is short, I will happily bag my stuff. I figure it gets me out of there faster, and that is my primary goal!

Thinking out loud about unloading a basket, it is more work to pick up and scan then it is to slide the items. I would think it could be bothersome, in a repetitive motion kind of way.

 

[Marseeya]

I guess I don't understand why some of you cashiers get angry if a customer doesn't "empty out" their little basket. I mean, the cashier has to pick up each item to scan so what difference does it make if it's IN the little basket, or if it's ON the counter??? I've left my few items in the basket many times and I've never had a cashier look upset about it. I guess I just don't see what the big deal is about that...

Same here.

I worked retail years ago and NEVER gave it a second thought if someone handed me a basket full of items. Also, I never once thought it was a customer's job to bag their own items! What on earth is the cashier being paid to DO if not ring the customer up and bag his things?

If I happen to be in a store where the register is backed up and there's no bagger, I will help, but I certainly don't do it all myself. For one thing, it's because of what I said above. For another, the two stores in my town are extremely expensive to shop at, as opposed to Walmart in the other town. If I'm paying higher prices to shop at your store, you better darn well do me the courtesy of bagging my groceries, otherwise I can do SO much better at Walmart where they bag them and don't complain.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My DH does the majority of the shopping and he HAS TO bag his own groceries. Don't touch his food!! All the cashiers love it when he comes through their lines. We don't have baggers in our stores so its up to the cashiers.
DH has it down so fast that they don't even need to turn on the belt to bring the stuff to the end. He places his groceries on the belt they way he wants to bag them - all chips together - all fruit together- pastas, etc. Anyway, cashier rings it, pushes it to him and he bags it right there. We have bags on our side of the register so I guess they encourage it. He is usually done bagging and has his stuff in the cart by the time the cashier is ringing up the bonus card. I guess everyone has their own pet peeves.