I might be crabby today, but....(store rant)

[mantysk8coach]

There is a Saturday Night Live skit that makes fun of this very situation! The cashier is way over the top, and comments on everything the people are buying. I think that it takes place at Target too. She picks up a certain item, and goes "Do we have anymore of these?" and then goes running from her register to go get herself one with the customer standing right there.

I agree though...a little conversation is better than being ignored, but to comment on every item does nothing but slow down the whole check-out process for everyone.

 

[goodeats]

I would be annoyed if somebody commented on the prices I pay. That's never happened to me. Sometimes I'll be 'different' produce (like rhubarbs) and the cashier will ask what I do with them. That doesn't bother me, though.

 

[Hannathy]

I'll take friendly and talkative over surly any day! Give her a break jeeze I feel sorry for people who work with the public they can't win. As long as she didn't say" whoa you shouldn't be buying brownies as fat as you are" just smile and nod if you don't feel like talking.

 

[Disney Ella]

I don't mind if they ask how I like a product, how you cook it, etc., but I'm really uncomfortable with the people who tell me personal things. There is one clerk at Rite-Aid that I really try to avoid. She tells me all her problems about her boyfriend and their various children, their landlord, etc. as soon as she starts checking me out. I can't imagine just blurting this kind of information out to strangers and it's the kind of stuff I really don't need to know when I'm buying a bottle of Motrin.

 

[thelittlemermaid]

I have a funny story that has to deal with a male cashier.

Right after DH and I were married we went to the store to stock up on groceries. Since we just got married we had nothing in the house.

While shopping, I noticed that the personal product that I use was on sale, so went ahead and bought some so I wouldn't have to worry about it for awhile. At that time I was not on the pill yet, so DH picked up a box of condoms.

Went up to the cashier and he starts grabbing and ringing stuff up. The male cashier gets around to my personal items and I swear it took him 5 minutes just to pick them up to scan them. What did he think they would do, bite him? Then he comes to the box of condoms, it didn't take him no time what so ever to pick them up and scan them. While scanning them looks at DH and smiles. I swear if he could have the male cashier would have held them up to show everyone that at least one guy was going to be getting lucky. It must be a male thing. When he was finally done scanning everything and I paid, we were walking away when the cashier gave us a sly grin and told us to have a very good night.

Never in my life will I ever forget that. Since that time I have never had a cashier comment about a purchase. Usually if DD is with me they will start talking to her or ask me how old she is, and that she's so cute, but that's about it.

 

[AllyandJack]

I got to listen to a young cashier talk to the young bagger about her sex life at my grocery store. I was ready to tell them to grow up and get some respect for themselves.

I'm 28. I've done it all (twice ) and her "experience" wasn't impressing me.

I love that commercial with the guy doing self checkout and buying the wart remover and the voice keeps repeating what he's buying - wart remover, wart remover, wart remover.....

 

[UrsulasShadow]

There is a Saturday Night Live skit that makes fun of this very situation! The cashier is way over the top, and comments on everything the people are buying. I think that it takes place at Target too. She picks up a certain item, and goes "Do we have anymore of these?" and then goes running from her register to go get herself one with the customer standing right there.

I agree though...a little conversation is better than being ignored, but to comment on every item does nothing but slow down the whole check-out process for everyone.

I was just going to say the same thing! I saw that episode, and thought it was funny, but had no personal experience like that; that would have made it funnier.
Thank goodness that's never happened at the Target in my neck of the woods. I would have told them to mind their own business. I'm one of the strange few who really welcomes the self-checkout aisles.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I got to listen to a young cashier talk to the young bagger about her sex life at my grocery store. I was ready to tell them to grow up and get some respect for themselves.

I'm 28. I've done it all (twice ) and her "experience" wasn't impressing me.

I love that commercial with the guy doing self checkout and buying the wart remover and the voice keeps repeating what he's buying - wart remover, wart remover, wart remover.....

Wart...
Wart...
Wart...

 

[Tigger&Belle]

TOO funny! Your poor sister.

It's so something that I would have done (or my other sister) and just been another one of those, "open mouth, insert foot" moments that we do, but this particular sister is really not the type to do that, which made it all the funnier and probably traumatized her for life, the poor prudish thing!

 

[disneynutt1225]

There's a NY lotto commercial in which the cashier is ringing up the customer's purchases at the supermarket and as she's scanning she's saying things like "Overpriced, overpriced, .99 across the street, expired, expired, expired". I think it's hysterical!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

One time I was at CVS Drugstore and the cashier, who was the store manager, was reading off the coupons that were spit out for me after the purchase. He was reading rather loudly and one of the coupons was for tampons. I finally told him that he should probably just announce it to everyone over the loudspeaker and then then got the idea that he was talking a little loudly and we both got a good laugh out of it. I'm sure if I had of been younger and more easily embarrassed I would have been very red-faced, but I just laughed it off. Thankfully I didn't have one of my kids with me--they would have been very embarrassed by that, but then again most everything embarrasses them!

 

[KimR]

DH had a cashier ask him how many cats he had when he was buying cat food and he told her that he didn't have any. He explained he had recently gotten married, was on a budget and this was all he could afford to eat. The casier got a rather stunned look on her fact and replied 'uhhhh....can I buy that for you?" DH was quick to assure her he was only kidding. That'll teach him to be smart-***.

I can understand cashiers trying to be friendly but some of them really cross the line. One time I was buying a pregnancy test at the drug store and the cashier actually had the nerve to ask me if I was hoping for a positive or negative result? I just stared at her in shock....I couldn't imagine what made her think that that was any of her business?