Grocery Store Pet Peeves

[tvguy]

I didn't realize that the non-WalMart stores in Carmichael, CA had slower debit machines than everywhere else. Mea culpa.

I suspect that Walmart has their own satellite network for electronic transactions.

 

[tvguy]

Ah Grocery Store Pet Peeves

1. People who take 50+ items to a self checkout
2. People who take 50+ items to an express lane
3. People who pay with check. Seriously, it's 2012
4. When the grocery lines are full and a new checkout opens, take the next customer in line, not the person who get there 2 seconds ago and ran to the open lane.

I hate people who stare at my basket in the 20 items or less line.......thinking I have more......and our grocery story prints how many items you bought on the receipt.....and I always turn to my wife in those instances and read out...."holy crow, $50 and only 16 items?!?!"

 

[mhsjax]

I hate people that use the store to chat, unless they aren't taking up any space by the items I need. Other than that no real pet peeves. Oh, and sometimes I do write a check, GET OVER IT. I am quick and have everything done before the total so all I have to do is fill that in.

As far as taking the next person in line, as so many have said. If you have 4 people in line, and the next on it has 2 people with full buggies behind them, exactly how does that person get over to the newly opened cash register? When this happens at my store, they new cashier will grab the last person in line and take them, otherwise everyone has to back out.

 

[TifffanyD]

I hate people who stare at my basket in the 20 items or less line.......thinking I have more......and our grocery story prints how many items you bought on the receipt.....and I always turn to my wife in those instances and read out...."holy crow, $50 and only 16 items?!?!"

Oh this reminds me of one!!! I hate it when stores have a "20 items or less" or "10 items or less" line. It's "fewer"... please!!!

Publix actually gets it right

 

[Princess Dolly]

Oh this reminds me of one!!! I hate it when stores have a "20 items or less" or "10 items or less" line. It's "fewer"... please!!!

Publix actually gets it right

Yep! That's another thing I love about Publix.

 

[rgf207]

I hate people that use the store to chat, unless they aren't taking up any space by the items I need. Other than that no real pet peeves. Oh, and sometimes I do write a check, GET OVER IT. I am quick and have everything done before the total so all I have to do is fill that in.

As far as taking the next person in line, as so many have said. If you have 4 people in line, and the next on it has 2 people with full buggies behind them, exactly how does that person get over to the newly opened cash register? When this happens at my store, they new cashier will grab the last person in line and take them, otherwise everyone has to back out.

My pet peeve is the opposite of yours. That's the beauty of it. We are allowed to have our own pet peeves

 

[iheartdisney]

The amount of plastic bags used. People should bring reusable canvas bags. Sometimes only 3-4 items are put in a plastic bag, for a week's worth of groceries, just think how many plastic bags are used, especially when doubled up.

Also, people who leave shopping carts in the parking lot instead of walking them back to the store or to the provided corrals.

Studies have found that canvas bags come with a great risk of cross contamination, since most people don't wash them after every use. So the bag that held your steaks this week is now holding your produce.

I prefer lots of plastic bags, because i am too cheap to buy trash bags.

My biggest pet peeve is Walmart in general. lol. Our area just got its first Super Walmart 2 years ago. I'd rather pay more at Vons and the commissary than ever go in there again. My peace of mind is worth the extra $$.

 

[mhsjax]

My pet peeve is the opposite of yours. That's the beauty of it. We are allowed to have our own pet peeves

Exactly, I have tons of pet peeves, most of them just don't revolve around a grocery store.

 

[MIGrandma]

I assume that she was bagging using one of those 'lazy susan' things that have four to six bags hanging from it. If so, I am on her side and I'll explain why.

Most will agree that there are a few important skills to use when bagging groceries. Chief among these is to try to keep wet stuff away from boxed stuff and chemicals away from food. When a separate bagger is used, this is accomodated either with a bagging station that allows him to bag multiple bags at the same time or he will allow the groceries to 'stack up' after being scanned so he can pick and choose items that belong in the same bag (or more accurately, he can not choose items that don't belong with other items).

When the cashier is bagging as she is scanning, this is more difficult as her station only gives her easy access to one bag at a time and she doesn't have the space to let alot of scanned items go unbagged. Using the 'lazy susan', she is able have multiple bags in process to keep your meat with your meat, your frozen foods with your frozen foods, your dry goods together and your chemicals together.

Therefore, be patient. She's trying to give you superior service.

I don't agree that she was trying to give me superior service. No other cashier I've ever dealt with has done it like she did. They always "pick and choose" what item to scan to go WITH other like items in the bag they are filling AT THE MOMENT. They never tell you NOT to take your bags as they swing around. I think she was being lazy, as she was just taking each item from the belt as it came, wasn't even looking ahead to see what should go with what. Most cashiers want you to start taking your bags right away so they can keep the "lazy susan thing" moving along efficiently.

Speaking of not returning the cart, how about the ones checking out in front of you, who have their cart behind them, then leave the cart at the check-out belt when they're done. If you have your cart in front of you, it's hard to get these abandoned carts out of the way. These people are the very definition of self-absorbed blockheads.

Oh heck no, if someone ahead of me starts to walk away and leave their cart I say "hey, please take your cart with you!" I've only encountered this a couple of times thankfully but I'm not going to try dealing with their cart, my bags of groceries and my own cart too. They can take care of their own cart.

 

[bethbuchall]

Oh this reminds me of one!!! I hate it when stores have a "20 items or less" or "10 items or less" line. It's "fewer"... please!!!

Publix actually gets it right

I've seen a lot of complaints about this, but I don't think I've ever seen a store where it was wrong.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I've seen a lot of complaints about this, but I don't think I've ever seen a store where it was wrong.

It's only wrong if you are a "Conan the Grammerian"

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Oh, I forgot one. I hate the people behind me in line who feel the need to get as close as possible to me. I will be standing there waiting for the person in front of me to finish up and the person behind me is practically pressing the front of his cart into my behind! I will be trying to pay and every inch I move, the cart moves closer to me. I want to scream "JUst wait your turn! Pushing your cart into me will NOT make the process move faster!"

I had this happen to me one time. I was standing in line at Wegmans (first time ever shopping there) and there was a man in front of me with half the belt filled with his items. So I put the bar down and started putting my items on the belt. The woman behind me says really loudly "Excuse me, can you move forward?" And she had a serious attitude. I actually thought she was kidding because I was actively putting my items on the belt and the guy in front of me wasn't even done yet. So I asked her where she wanted me to go. She instructed me that I was to move forward so that she could load her groceries onto the belt. I showed her that I wasn't done yet and that I still needed the belt. She told that I was to stack all my items on top of the others so that she could use the belt too. I told her to wait her damn turn and that she wasn't getting out of there any quicker by using her method. I then took my time (not much because the guy in front of me was done by this point). The cashier starts ringing up my groceries and this woman puts her stuff on the belt. Then she makes this big to do about putting her arm around the back of the items on the belt and smashing them all into the bar at the front of her order. She turns to the woman behind her and says "At least some of us are considerate to the others in line!" Okay. Even the cashier was looking at her like she was crazy. She still wasn't getting out of there any quicker.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I had this happen to me one time. I was standing in line at Wegmans (first time ever shopping there) and there was a man in front of me with half the belt filled with his items. So I put the bar down and started putting my items on the belt. The woman behind me says really loudly "Excuse me, can you move forward?" And she had a serious attitude. I actually thought she was kidding because I was actively putting my items on the belt and the guy in front of me wasn't even done yet. So I asked her where she wanted me to go. She instructed me that I was to move forward so that she could load her groceries onto the belt. I showed her that I wasn't done yet and that I still needed the belt. She told that I was to stack all my items on top of the others so that she could use the belt too. I told her to wait her damn turn and that she wasn't getting out of there any quicker by using her method. I then took my time (not much because the guy in front of me was done by this point). The cashier starts ringing up my groceries and this woman puts her stuff on the belt. Then she makes this big to do about putting her arm around the back of the items on the belt and smashing them all into the bar at the front of her order. She turns to the woman behind her and says "At least some of us are considerate to the others in line!" Okay. Even the cashier was looking at her like she was crazy. She still wasn't getting out of there any quicker.

I would have been tempted to slip the cashier a ten spot to go on a break after I was done check out!

 

[DeniseinNS]

Ah Grocery Store Pet Peeves

1. People who take 50+ items to a self checkout

I don't see what the problem with that is if there's no item limit to a self checkout??? I always use the self checkout for my full grocery order because I prefer to pack my own bags and make sure everything comes up right when it rings through. There are self checkouts in my store for under 10 items and also regular ones so I don't see what's wrong with having 50+ items at the regular self checkout.

 

[msjprincess]

I don't see what the problem with that is if there's no item limit to a self checkout??? I always use the self checkout for my full grocery order because I prefer to pack my own bags and make sure everything comes up right when it rings through. There are self checkouts in my store for under 10 items and also regular ones so I don't see what's wrong with having 50+ items at the regular self checkout.

MTE
At my usual supermarket around half of the self checkout lanes or express lanes. I usually use self checkout even if I have a full cart. The lines with cashiers are always at least half as long as the self checkout lanes.

 

[scrapquitler]

Other people have touched on bagging your own groceries vs. people being paid to do it. For me, I have no problem allowing a bagger to bag my groceries. However, if they are all busy helping other guests, I'm not going to sit there and wait for the checker to ring up my stuff and then start bagging everything. I'm going to help him/her out and start bagging. More times that not, someone else comes and asks me if I would like him/her to finish up for me and I take him/her up on that offer. However, if no one does, I've at least saved the checker some work and the people in line behind me some time.

And there it is...one of my pet peeves. If I am shopping in the store, I am a CUSTOMER. I am definitely NOT a GUEST. Were I guest, I wouldn't be paying.

 

[marmalade]

For those that bag their own groceries, how does that even come about without you specifying that you want to bag them yourself? Any grocery store I have ever been to the cashier scans the item and then puts it directly in a bag. There is no way for me to bag them myself unless I specify that I want to bag them myself.

I am confused as to why you would be standing there with your groceries not in a bag and why you would feel obligated to bag them yourself?

 

[scrapquitler]

Ah Grocery Store Pet Peeves

1. People who take 50+ items to a self checkout
2. People who take 50+ items to an express lane
3. People who pay with check. Seriously, it's 2012
4. When the grocery lines are full and a new checkout opens, take the next customer in line, not the person who get there 2 seconds ago and ran to the open lane.

I can scan 50 items in a self checkout than most of the people around me with 5 (I worked as a cashier during high school)

And I go in the express lane with my heaping full, already bagged cart all the time because my store has the hand held scanners, and all my items are already scanned...the cashier only has to scan the 'finish order' barcode and I swipe my card and I'm done (it's fun to watch people complain about this)

At my store, you don't have to write a check. YOu hand it to the cashier who shoves it int he printer then hands it back to you. Just as fast as a credit/debit, and still faster than cash.

 

[shoney]

For those that bag their own groceries, how does that even come about without you specifying that you want to bag them yourself? Any grocery store I have ever been to the cashier scans the item and then puts it directly in a bag. There is no way for me to bag them myself unless I specify that I want to bag them myself.

I am confused as to why you would be standing there with your groceries not in a bag and why you would feel obligated to bag them yourself?

At the stores I shop, the cashier may only put things straight into the bags if you have a few items. Large orders are scanned and moved along to the end of the counter.

My pet peeve comes in...when people just stand there and let the cashier scan everything and then bag everything. I think you should start bagging your own stuff while they are scanning your order. It just seems like the polite thing to do!

 

[Princess Dolly]

For those that bag their own groceries, how does that even come about without you specifying that you want to bag them yourself? Any grocery store I have ever been to the cashier scans the item and then puts it directly in a bag. There is no way for me to bag them myself unless I specify that I want to bag them myself.

I am confused as to why you would be standing there with your groceries not in a bag and why you would feel obligated to bag them yourself?

That's not how it works here (except for Wal-Mart, and I don't grocery shop there). At Publix (my go-to grocery store), the cashier scans and a bagger bags. Sometimes a bagger is not available, so I'll start bagging myself (I worked as a cashier in high school and during college breaks). Usually though if a manager seems me bagging my own stuff he or she will come over and do it for me until a bagger shows up. Love Publix.