Why can't people wait for their turn at store check-outs?

[TiggersPal]

The biggest pet peeve to me is dis-respect. period. Whether you are in line, waiting, or trying to hurry... if someone isn't respecting your time, your space, your turn. Some funny stories... I enjoyed them! But with grocery stores, it's the cashier who talks non stop instead of checking people out to the best of their ability... stop gabbing, - on the other hand, I rather prefer friendlyness to non-existant personality... I'm fickle I guess !!!! LOL

 

[Nancy]

Ok I have one story out of many that i want to share. First of all I am a trainer in a grocery store and all that is said here is so true...I've seen it all many times over in 13 yrs.

My gripe is the people who take all the bags out of the cart close to the exit or by the registers and leave the cart there. They walk out the main exit and the cart corrals are right there in front of them (inside the store) it's not even out of their way to drop them off there. I have seen people carry 5-6 bags in each hand and these are not light bags...but they leave the cart in the store.

So one day I was rounding up the carts to take to the entrance way. Our store's entrance is right into the produce section so it is always a trick to get in and out without getting in a traffic jam. I was pushing 5 carts (another trick because whenever you stop they all seperate and go their own ways) a customer from behind actually pushed her full cart right into me...I was moving a little slow but I was trying not to hit any customers....I thought it was an accident until I realized the pressure was increasing and constant. I turned around and looked at her...she was smiling...so I said "excuse me am I in your way?" she actually said yes you are I was trying to get you to move it a little faster!"
She then proceeded to smile and walk around me....I was floored...she was trying to get me to move faster with 5 carts and customers to avoid...some people just don't get it.

 

[julie_yet]

My younger brother was in line at the grocery store one time and the woman behind him kept bumping him with her cart. The first couple of times he politely told her to stop and she backed off a few inches. But she wasn't paying attention and a minute later her cart was leaning on him. Not just a bump this time, she was almost pushing him. By now he was pissed so he whipped around, pushed her cart back about three feet and told her that if she moved it from that spot he would knock it over. She glared at him but didn't move an inch until he left.

 

[Margie J]

on the other hand, I hate it when I have an arm full of stuff (like ice cream) and I would like to put it down, but the person in front won't move up six inches so I can do so. It just seems like everyone is in their own little "ONLY ME" world, and have no clue that there are others out there too.

I've had this happen several times in grocery stores. Of course it's when I have a hand held basket and would love to put the stuff on the belt. That's when I'll have a family in front of me with the teens or DH standing and/or leaning at the very end of the belt, blocking me. Then they usually wait until ALL their groceries are packed up and off they go. Sometimes I want to ask "are you renting this space out?"

As for me, I try to move along quickly and to be courteous to the cashier and people around me (unless they are rude to me). I go so far as to group items together in grocery lines so the cashiers can scan in multiples, saving time. My money or CC is ready to make things even swifter. So when I get the "slow line" comment I want to say hey give both me and the cashier a break.

 

[Patty3]

Have you noticed that when you receive your change it is just handed to you with your receipt? I will take the time to separate my receipt and to count out my bills and change and I don't care who likes it. In my area 9 out of 10 times, the cashier just hands you the change and bills altogether with your receipt. I want them to count out the money when it is handed to me. I have been shortchanged in the past at not only grocery stores but dept stores and I was even $100 short from the bank drive in window.

 

[Nancy]

Cashiers are trained in our store to hand back the change the following way...coins in the hand first, bills then receipt. I have trained over 200 cashiers this way and do they all do it? NO! Just ticks me off to no end too! I spend actual time teaching them to do this and then they get out of training and just do their own thing. I hate getting a "here ya go" and all my change, bills and receipt are shoved at me.

And yet if I walk up to cashier that is doing that and ask "How are you supposed to hand back change?" They all answer with the way they were taught...yet they still don't do it.

 

[jipsy]

My biggest pet peeve is when people walk up and down the aisles of the grocery store like they are the only ones shopping. They leave their cart in the middle of the aisle and walk 5 feet away from it to look at something. Or the ones who round the corner of one aisle and meet someone they know so they all stand at the end of the two aisles, blocking both, just to talk.

Move out of the way for other people to get by! If you need to stop and compare pricing, push your cart up against one of the displays so other people can get around you.

 

[cheyita]

These stories are great. I'm amazed at how much I can tolerate if I enter a store in a good mood. But sometimes my "store rage" can almost match my "road rage." People are so ignorant.

But I have a question for you guys - I seem to remember on another thread somebody mentioning being annoyed at people (usually women, I'm sure) taking the time to count out the exact cash for a purchase. I do that. If my coin section is pretty full, I pull out the exact change. Am I being inconsiderate and holding people up? I don't want to keep collecting more and more change!

 

[BostonTigger]

This is why I gave up working retail, I use to work at The Disney Store. I got tired of people acting like idiots. Although I do have a favorite story, if you guys will allow me, it's not long. I use to work at the TDS #334, Faneuil Hall Boston. Faneuil Hall Market is an open style mall, it's a cool place, and both TDS and Warner Bros. were on the same side of the mall, north side. Well, this lady comes in one day and had that look like she was looking for something specific. So I walked up to her and asked her if there was anything I could help her find. Well, she said, "I'm looking for a Tweety Bird Beany" (those little beany baby things). I kindly told her that she could find that at the Warner Bros store down at the end of the row. Get this, she said, "No, it's right here, I know it is. I was in here last week and there were Tweety Bird things, now where are they?" Again I told her that Tweety Bird is Warner Bros and that store is at the end of the row. But no, she was insistant that Tweety was at my store, so much so that she was getting upset that I wasn't helping her find it. So I eventually told her that we were out and to come back in a couple of weeks. I couldn't believe it, I was dumbfounded. I'll tell you though, I did have a good laugh afterwards.


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