# Gah! Is this a thing now with all grocery stores or just Kroger? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514 "2013-06-20T22:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/21 "2013-06-21T10:08:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Would you like to sign up for an extended warranty on your purchase today? You offer a warranty on strawberries? Sign me up. I’ll pass on the toilet paper warranty, though. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/22 "2013-06-21T11:17:37Z")
I may be an ignorant ass, but I just pretend they aren’t there and hey haven’t interrupted me. Works for me, and I don’t get all upset. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/23 "2013-06-21T11:35:44Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Yes. You. Did. > > Didn’t you see the link I posted? It was to a Pit thread where I was ranting about the same exact horseshit the OP is mad about. Post #3 in this thread was a sarcastic dig not at the OP but to the mucus mouths who gave me guff for complaining about this crap. > > From the guy who accosts you at the door to the cashier who tries to sign you up for a card, get you to buy candy bars, or donate to some charity, it’s relentless and makes shopping even more miserable than it already is. You’re correct, and I apologize. I didn’t click your link. No offense to **Shakes** , but I assumed that link was to a previous pit of him. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/24 "2013-06-21T13:56:18Z")
On Saturday I asked ma why she didn’t purchase an extended warranty for the $.99 bag of hose washers. The clerk didn’t ask her, but I had to before she paid. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/25 "2013-06-21T14:05:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Yeah! and goddamit, its fifteen items or fewer, not fifteen items or _less_! Damn! Hitler’s sitting at his desk getting reports from his advisors. “Sir, reports indicate that we’re mining far more precious metals than we need.” “So mine less.” A grammar Nazi bursts into the room. “Mine FEWER!” Hitler looks up. “Yes?” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/26 "2013-06-21T14:31:41Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Hitler’s sitting at his desk getting reports from his advisors. > > “Sir, reports indicate that we’re mining far more precious metals than we need.” > “So mine less.” > A grammar Nazi bursts into the room. “Mine FEWER!” > Hitler looks up. “Yes?” If I could throw a pie through the Internet, you’d have custard on your face right now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/27 "2013-06-21T14:48:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Ahem](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/less?s=t): > > & Where do you stand on the booger/snot distinction? I always figure if you can count them, they’re boogers, if you have to weigh it, it’s snot. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/28 "2013-06-21T17:48:15Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > If I could throw a pie through the Internet, you’d have custard on your face right now. 😉 Yum, Custard! (I prefer to preserve my custards by making a kind of “custard leather” out of them; as you know, custards last tanned.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/29 "2013-06-21T18:31:53Z")
Never mind dragging him outside, just shoot him on the spot. To encourage the others, you understand. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/30 "2013-06-21T20:12:41Z")
OP, are the solicitors free-roaming in the store, or is it the cashiers who are trying to sell you? You mention that you think the manager may have okay’d the practice, or I’d think you were talking about the folks who set up tables just outside the entrance. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/31 "2013-06-21T20:18:55Z")
They don’t bother you? Lucky you. ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/32 "2013-06-21T20:21:49Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Those people are just doing their job as ordered by their employer. What an [asshole](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=687179) you are to complain about this. Just for anyone else reading the thread who might be misled by **pkbites** ’ whining, he got shit on in that thread for calling people retards and bitches. I would invite you to observe the difference between how that thread went, and how this one is going to go, to see just how much better your point is made when you don’t talk like a twelve year old. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/33 "2013-06-21T23:57:23Z")
> [@drew870mitchell](#): > > I would invite you to observe the difference between how that thread went, and how this one is going to go, to see just how much better your point is made when you don’t talk like a twelve year old. Yes, because the objective of the **PIT** is to air grievances in a calm, civilized manner and not go off in a way that would be unfit in modern society. Heaven forbid someone completely unload here and get it all out than to do so in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/34 "2013-06-22T02:57:36Z")
Poor you: when you act like an asshole in the pit, you get called an asshole in the pit. seriously, what do you expect to happen? there elm with your unloading is that you show yourself to be an asshole in the process. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514/35 "2013-06-22T03:44:54Z")
I rarely have to interact with a human in any store, especially Kroger. The rare exception is when the self checkout observer has to check ID, and have the time they just look over from across the store and approve it on their device without checking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-is-this-a-thing-now-with-all-grocery-stores-or-just-kroger/661514.md?page=1)