Irritations While Out Shopping Yesterday

[Bluestars]

Yes, the poor cashier was so caught up in doing her job, she didn't notice the lady behind me loading the counter up with her goods. When the woman behind me said she was trying to speed me up, the cashier looked mortified. She was probably just praying that a scene would not develop in her line.

If the lady had told me that she was trying to speed me up, I would have been tempted to look at her and say, "That's funny. It's only making me slow down."

 

[ols386]

Wow, I can't believe this thread is still going!

So many seem to think I purposely shoved the woman's cart into her. I did not do that. I would never take a cart by the handle and shove it into someone. I was unloading my groceries as best as I could with her cart in the way, and in doing so it bumped her slightly. She was not still unloading her groceries. I never said she was too slow. I am not a huffing and puffing type person who gets upset when someone in line ahead of me is slow. In fact I am just the opposite. People behind me may be huffing and puffing but I just laugh at them (inwardly, of course) like that is really going to speed things up. But to be completely finished unloading your groceries and then not bother to move your cart out of the way is rude to the person behind you.

And at first I had left a large gap between the woman's groceries when I started putting my own on the belt. I couldn't reach the plastic bar that you put between customer's items. But then the cashier pushed the button to move the belt up, so that is when her cart bumped her. I was trying to keep up with the moving belt. So really, it's all the cashier's fault!

Carry on, folks!

I didn't read this whole thread, but I didn't think you bumped that person on purpose.

 

[ols386]

By why care enough to come to vent about it to strangers? Just seems extreme and a little petty.

My daughters are cashiers and I am horrified what they come home and tell me. People get upset over the mildest things. It is ridiculous. My older daughter now works ins the courtesy booth and hears all the complaints. The managers laugh at some of the complaints and never even confront the cashiers, baggers, or who ever is the the culprit. DOes food shopping have to be so stressful?

There have been vents about much smaller things than this.

 

[Ceila]

2. After you have your groceries loaded onto the belt, move out of the way and pull your cart forward so the person behind you can start putting their things on the belt too. And if you refuse to do that, don't give me a dirty look when I'm putting my things on the belt and push your cart a bit so it bumps you.

To "push" a cart signifies an intentional action, so your posts reads as if you hit the person in front of you on purpose. That is how I read your post, and it seems like most others here did the same.

Even if it was an accident, though, asking the person in front of you to please move their cart forward would have been far more polite than trying to load so quickly that you bumped into someone. I'd have been annoyed, too, if you bumped into me when you could have simply been more patient or nicely asked me to move.

 

[kaytieeldr]

If I have a slow poke in front of me, I just pick up a magazine and read it while I'm waiting..

You WHAT? You read a magazine with no intention of buying it, simply to entertain yourself while waiting in line? Where do you think you are - a library??? It's people like you who cause me to pull the magazines I'm BUYING from the MIDDLE of the display. I don't want to risk buying a magazine someone else's eyes have already seen!!! You should leave a dollar inside the magazine to subsidize us actualy magazine purchasers! Harumph!

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[kaytieeldr]

Two things that annoy me

1) Someone leaves their cart in a checkout line to hold their place in the checkout line, while they continue to do more shopping.

That one's easy, but it takes tacit agreement among the other shoppers in line and can be handled one of two ways:
1) Move around the cart, one shopper at a time.
2) Move the cart to the end of the line as soon as the shopper leaves it, and continue to do so until they return.

Both suggestions assume, of course, that they left the cart out in the open where it CAN be moved or navigated around; if it's closer to the belt but the shopper hasn't yet started removing items, just move the whole danged thing out of the way.

 

[C.Ann]

You WHAT? You read a magazine with no intention of buying it, simply to entertain yourself while waiting in line? Where do you think you are - a library??? It's people like you who cause me to pull the magazines I'm BUYING from the MIDDLE of the display. I don't want to risk buying a magazine someone else's eyes have already seen!!! You should leave a dollar inside the magazine to subsidize us actualy magazine purchasers! Harumph!

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For glancing through a "rag sheet"??? Surely you don't buy THOSE!!

They should give ME a dollar for wasting my time looking at it..

 

[kaytieeldr]

Oh, those. Okay, that's different. No, I stopped reading the Star when they changed the format in a lame attempt to be more magazine-like. You're excused

 

[bumbershoot]

Wow, I can't believe this thread is still going!

So many seem to think I purposely shoved the woman's cart into her. I did not do that. I would never take a cart by the handle and shove it into someone. I was unloading my groceries as best as I could with her cart in the way, and in doing so it bumped her slightly.

I kinda thought there was a chance you didn't mean it.

"And if you refuse to do that, don't give me a dirty look when I'm putting my things on the belt and push your cart a bit so it bumps you."

The wording of that does sound like it was on purpose, though.

Perhaps "and accidentally push your cart a bit and then it bumps you" would have been more accurate.

My daughters are cashiers and I am horrified what they come home and tell me. People get upset over the mildest things.

Any customer service job lets you see that.

I worked amazon customer service when one of the harry potter books came out, and people were so freaked out over $20 books!

Then I moved to the electronics/tools customers...got to help contractors awaiting shipment of their $5000 table saws that would take 2 weeks by truck to arrive, and they were paying $100 for delivery...they were extremely relaxed about it all.

They asked me back to the regular side when the NEXT HP book came out. This time they did the same day shipping, if you met certain qualifications (all spelled out in plain English), and we were bombarded by calls from livid, outraged, over the top people because it was 9am and they didn't have their book and they could have gone to the store to get it (doubtful)...and usually it was b/c they had a PO Box, they weren't in the right area, hadn't ordered the right way, etc etc etc. Or just plain old needed to relax b/c the delivery guy was on the way!

So yeah, people get very angry over the strangest things, while others are relaxed about things you would think were a big deal.

 

[C.Ann]

Oh, those. Okay, that's different. No, I stopped reading the Star when they changed the format in a lame attempt to be more magazine-like. You're excused

You know, I was wondering if that was the same "Star" rag sheet.. Sneaky devils.. Now I think they should give me TWO dollars!!

 

[PattnFmly]

Two things :
1) Hard to nicely ask people to advance a little when they don't speak English. I had someone last week just look at me blankly when I asked them to move a little in an aisle so I could get something off the shelf they were blocking. I tried to reach around her, but she gave me the dirtiest look. Then she asked, probably her grandson, what I wanted and I said just to move up a little!
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2) Everyone should have as fun a place as this to vent among friends!

 

[mefordis]

2. After you have your groceries loaded onto the belt, move out of the way and pull your cart forward so the person behind you can start putting their things on the belt too. And if you refuse to do that, don't give me a dirty look when I'm putting my things on the belt and push your cart a bit so it bumps you.

There was a third irritation, but I have forgotten it now. I know it was about some idiot's driving but that's all I remember. I must be getting old.

I actually was in MI when shopping at Meier and the guy ahead of me had 2 things in a basket, and was looking at magazines and the belt in front of him was completely clear and the customer ahead of him was way up there at the register paying. I asked him if I could put my stuff on the belt, I was juggling a baby and a couple of things myself and he must have been having a bad day because he goes, "No. You can wait your turn! It won't go any faster!" I was sooo suprised because growing up in MI (I live on the east coast now) I always prided us midwesterners on being so friendly. However, that trip home was met with a lot of rudeness. My brother who still lives in MI blamed it on the depressed economy and how people out there are so stressed out. I don't know but that really changed my preconception of friendly midwesterners. I never once had anything like that happen out here.

 

[kaytieeldr]

1) Hard to nicely ask people to advance a little when they don't speak English. I had someone last week just look at me blankly when I asked them to move a little in an aisle so I could get something off the shelf they were blocking. I tried to reach around her, but she gave me the dirtiest look. Then she asked, probably her grandson, what I wanted and I said just to move up a little!

Funny thing. I know a few words in various languages - in this case, "scusi" and "pardonez-moi" should work, right? Except - very few Italian-only or French-only speakers in my area. What I really NEED is to learn to say it in Spanish and Portuguese!

 

[kaytieeldr]

I actually was in MI when shopping at Meier and the guy ahead of me had 2 things in a basket, and was looking at magazines and the belt in front of him was completely clear and the customer ahead of him was way up there at the register paying. I asked him if I could put my stuff on the belt, I was juggling a baby and a couple of things myself and he must have been having a bad day because he goes, "No. You can wait your turn! It won't go any faster!"

I was in a supermarket last week (no, really, I don't usually go food shopping that much!) with a few items, but went to a regular line because there was no staffed express line open. The cashier had to get me something (okay, fine, cigarettes - no flames, please, and no pun intended!) and I noticed the belt behind me was empty, the customer behind me was holding two items, and the customer behind her had stacked some of her items on the non-moving end of the counter. I asked customer # 2 if she wanted to put her things down (I'd already put up the divider, automatically) but "No, I just have this Coinstar receipt and a couple of things". The cashier came back, so I didn't have a chance to point out the items stacked up on the end of the counter behind her...

eta: You should have just put something on the counter - either your purchases or, if it was safe, the baby . He'd have put his stuff down fast enough!

 

[ols386]

I actually was in MI when shopping at Meier and the guy ahead of me had 2 things in a basket, and was looking at magazines and the belt in front of him was completely clear and the customer ahead of him was way up there at the register paying. I asked him if I could put my stuff on the belt, I was juggling a baby and a couple of things myself and he must have been having a bad day because he goes, "No. You can wait your turn! It won't go any faster!" I was sooo suprised because growing up in MI (I live on the east coast now) I always prided us midwesterners on being so friendly. However, that trip home was met with a lot of rudeness. My brother who still lives in MI blamed it on the depressed economy and how people out there are so stressed out. I don't know but that really changed my preconception of friendly midwesterners. I never once had anything like that happen out here.

Rudeness can happen anywhere.

 

[locolala]

One thing I hate is when people go down the aisle the wrong way at the commisary. Yes, the aisles there are one way (at least in some commisaries), and you'll get lots of nasty stares if you don't go the right way! I also hate when people blatantly ignore the 20 items or less signs. If you have a couple over, fine no problem, but when you have a FULL cart.. that's just not ok.

 

[mefordis]

I would have probably done that but I couldn't get around him. The magazines were right in front of the belt and he was blocking the belt. Just really almost antagonistic, as if he wasn't really going to buy anything, just look at the magazines but of course he had items to buy in his basket.

I was in a supermarket last week (no, really, I don't usually go food shopping that much!) with a few items, but went to a regular line because there was no staffed express line open. The cashier had to get me something (okay, fine, cigarettes - no flames, please, and no pun intended!) and I noticed the belt behind me was empty, the customer behind me was holding two items, and the customer behind her had stacked some of her items on the non-moving end of the counter. I asked customer # 2 if she wanted to put her things down (I'd already put up the divider, automatically) but "No, I just have this Coinstar receipt and a couple of things". The cashier came back, so I didn't have a chance to point out the items stacked up on the end of the counter behind her...

eta: You should have just put something on the counter - either your purchases or, if it was safe, the baby . He'd have put his stuff down fast enough!