Yes, you are over reacting. As a customer, if I pay cash, I like to have my bills in my wallet and my change in my pocket. If there isn’t a long line, I’ll toss the change in my pocket, then set the bills in. If I pay cash, I just crumple up the receipt and either toss it or put it in my pocket. If I pay with a credit card, I don’t want my receipt in the bag, because then it will get lost and I’ll forget to mark it down. Same thing goes if I write a check. Some people like to keep track of those things. Also, if there is a line, I just put it in my pocket and organize it later. You can’t tell me you don’t have thirty seconds in your day to pull a wad of bills out of your pocket and put it in your wallet.
As a cashier, my biggest pet peeve…customers. When you approach the counter, you’re already in a bad mood I can assume, which means the second the cashier sees you coming, they already don’t like you. Personally, when I did work as a cashier, I would hand people coinage seperately, then bills with the receipt on top, because that’s easiest for me. If you get pissed at the fact I’m giving you your receipt, I don’t give a shit so long as you get the right change, you leave my register, and I can go home soon.
In the future, calm the fuck down before going to the grocery store, and have a bit of compasion for the “rotten, evil mother pussing, shit stabbing, burg turdling, snot faced, testicle pokers” at the store…they have to deal with stupid shits like you 8 hours a day, so get over yourself.
It’s not really easier, though! Laying the coins on top of stacked bills and receipt is not easier than giving the coins first. Do what Medea’s Child does, put the coins in the hand, THEN the bills and receipt.
If you want easy, just throw the money at the person, then it’ll be out of your hands that much quicker!
I miss the days when they would hand you the change first, then count back the bills, then hand you the receipt, and then tell you to have a nice day. It gave one the time to sort all of the incoming stuff.
Hell no you’re not over-reacting!
I think you should hide in the parking lot and wait till she gets off work. Watch her get to her car and memorize it. Come back the next day and slash her tires and smash her windshield.
That’ll teach her!
Um, “fickety”? What the hell is “fickety”?
Oh and grocery stores suck.
I work retail and most of the time I throw the receipt in the bag, or in the book, if they request no bag. But about half the time, I get the angry customer who wants the receipt handed to them, so they can put it in their wallet. They also wait until I’v put the receipt in the bag to make it known they want the receipt themselves.
[hijack] And what on God’s Green Earth is a ‘gift receipt?’ A lot of people come to my (fairly lagre) store looking for these, and no we don’t have them. Furthermore I’ve never heard of or seen one. [/hijack]
Morelin
A gift receipt is a receipt copy that does not have the price attached. It’s nice to put inside the package so the recepient doesn’t know how much you spent unless they actually return the gift. Lots of stores print them out automatically now…
“Oh and grocery stores suck.”
Faced with the prospect of having to arm myself and head out into the boonies to kill food for my family, start a huge garden so I can put away a good supply of winter vegetables, and get a cow to supply my daughter’s 3 bottle a day milk habit, I would have to say I appreciate the convenient all in one food shopping experience.
However, having all my change put back into my hand with the receipt does annoy me.
El Elvis Rojo - does the word “whooshed” mean anything to you?
Hunter gatherer life sucks worse.
particlewill, where at in Nodak?
Now you know why I hate people.
I’m trying to figure out why you can’t use one hand to take the bills and reciept and put those in your wallet when dump your change down where ever you store it.
Personally I just cram everything down my shirt pocket.
I’m still waiting for the day when someone tries to mug me because of that.
Just got back from the fairly busy supermarket. I’m guessing at least 100 customers in store. Did the You-Scan thing at checkout and paid with plastic. Works everytime. Wish my cart hadn’t of disappeared about 3/4s of the way through my rounds though. Vanished!
I can, as long as the change isn’t teetering on top of all the bills!
See, I’ve got one hand with bills and change in a very awkward position. Then I’ve got my wallet in the other hand. I have no third hand with which to grab the bills and separate them from the change.
This business of putting the change on top of the bills is what really trips my trigger. As long as the receipt is somewhere, I can find it later. But putting the bills in my hand, and then tossing change on the top of what is now a flat surface - well, I didn’t learn how to do that kind of catch in trained seal school. I didn’t give change that way when I worked retail either.
I hate that when they tell you to have a nice day. It’s so phony and meaningless. They really couldn’t care less about what kind of day you’re having. It’ s as meaningless as saying “bless you” when someone sneezes. Saying these things is a knee-jerk reaction without any kind of thought behind it whatsoever. When I lived in the South, I got this “have a nice day” business all the time. My usual response: “Well, I wasn’t planning on it, but if you insist.”
Next week is going to be a major pain in the ass around here. But Have A Nice Weekend, everyone, anyway. I know I wil. 
I have these You-Scan dealies at my supermarket and I can’t tell you much I love that thing! I pretty much refuse to use anything else. I scan my own shit, bag it the way I like it (no more “let’s put every single can in one bag and not double bag it”, no more “let’s put the two-liter bottles on their sides, two to a bag” 
, no more “putting the bread underneath something heavy”, no more “putting meat in with anything else”*), pay, get my change and receipt in any order I want. And, as an added bonus: I don’t have to make stupid small talk with anyone!!!
Believe me, anything that cuts down on the amount of interacting I have to do with the general public is a gift from the gods!
*Ok, bagging issues really should be a separate rant, but I couldn’t help myself).
Thanks for the advice, King. Next time I’m in the store I’ll pick up a little extra Sense of Humor for you. Hell, I’ll get you two.
How do you manage to barcode it?
And would a shoplifter be a turd-burglar?