Yeah, I don’t think I could pull it off either, but I’m glad she does. I would support legislation that allowed the state to take away kids from parents who let them scream in public, then we could use the kids to test cosmetics; what has a bunny rabbit ever done to me?
And there are a lot of people out their with failing hearts and livers and kidneys. You might even consider it to be another form of shopping – become too annoying and you are sold as meat.
It’s not just at at supermarkets people do that. I used to work at a certain big box home improvement store. Customers would on a regular basis come in before closing, somehow not hear the closing anouncments that started a half hour before closing, not notice half the lights shutting off & the muzak going off, and evade all the sweeps by managers.
The last week (or maybe the 2nd-to-last) I was working there I was closing the paint dept so I was schedualed to be there half an hour after closing anyway. Twenty-five minutes after the store closed, this little old lady popped up out of nowhere with a card full of stuff wanting me to mix paint for her. She wanted something like 5 gallons of paint, all in diffent colors (& hadn’t settled on al the colors either). :eek: She didn’t want to hear that we were closed, I had to page the closing manager to explain it to her & she didn’t want to here it from him either.
He’d just got back from locking all of the tills in the vault. :smack: There was no way to check her out even if he wanted to. He told her we could set the card aside for her to come back in tommorrow. That satisfied her because she said she could send her son in, but she wanted to pay by check, and didn’t understand why we couldn’t just tell her how much everything was so she could write the check out and could cash it tommorrow. :rolleyes: Then she wanted me to dispense her paint for her so her so n could pick it all up the the way to work. Fortunantly the manager told her I couldn’t do that because the machines were powered down for the night (a blatant lie, not that she knew any better). I never did find out if she or her son picked up her stuff the next day.
Oh, than this one time I was doing nightstocking and around 2am some idiot managed to sneak in through one of the back loading doors while were moving pallets of concrete from behind the building inside and was spotted with a cart full of stuff at the front-end. :smack:
My WAG are those are all items the cashiers can ring up without actually scanning them so people can pay for them without bringing them in the store then pick them up on there way outside. That how it’s been setup at most places I work. Speaking of stuff that shouldn’t be brought inside; it always really annoyed me when customers would bring empty propane tanks inside the building. Just leave it in your car, pay for it, then pull up near the metal cage that somebody has to come out to unlock anyway.
If you are buying a sandwich or sushi for lunch, can’t you pay right there at the counter where you get it? (well, some stores have a register in their takeout food section, maybe not all). And isn’t that what the express line is for, just a few items? The SAHMs who are doing mega-shopping would be standing in the regular lines with their full carts, out of the way of the hungry lunch buying people.
My little one never made a commotion at a grocery store but once, when she started crying sitting in the cart because she was in pain from teething. Poor little thing broke my heart, I started crying, too - I couldn’t let her sit there crying her eyes out. I took the cart back to the dairy section, put everything perishable on top of the cheese bits, and confess I just abandoned my cart and we left the store.
Speaking of abandoned carts, what is it with Walmart that takes your basket or cart when you leave it and walk away from it for a minute? I can see they think, ‘oh-oh, somebody just walked away and left their groceries, better put everything back right away’, but I’ve only gone back to the other aisle to get something I forgot. And when I come back - in a minute - cart is gone!
Just like your arteries. 
I don’t know what kind of hyper-attentive employees work your local Wal-Mart, but I’ve never seen this on a cart left for less than 5 minutes.
I have seen other customers take a half-full cart if it was left unattended, though. Lazy bastards shouldn’t be taking other people’s carts, especially if there’s clearly stuff inside.
As someone who’s cashiered for almost 3 years–your rant was amazing.
Someone asked about the pay hierarchy–at the store where I’ve worked, there is an increase in pay for switching departments. Also, friends of mine that were hired after me (also cashiers) somehow managed to make more than I did after nearly two years on the job–$7.60 to my $7.43 at the time. I was quite pissed, but never said anything about it.
I’m not sure if anyone’s brought up this about coupons yet…but…please, please, please check the dates on them. And most stores have a policy about using a certain number for one item.
Make darn sure the item you pick up from the meat department or the deli has a pricing sticker on it, please. Otherwise we have to call for assistance to get it weighed and priced. This slows down the process for not only you, but the people behind you in line.
Don’t decide you don’t want an item after I’ve scanned it. It requires an override, which needs manager assistance, and will further delay things.
Also, please actually read the sale signs.
75-80% of the price checks at the register will determine that the charged price is correct, and that the customer has read the sign wrong. Yes we occasionally make mistakes with the signage or POS programming, and we will take care of the customer in such cases. If it rings up wrong, it is free.
But most of the time, a customer has simply misread the sign. Meanwhile the line is held up while the price check is completed.
I am with you on this one. While I understand that appointments and so forth may leave this time the only feasible time to shop for that day, SAHPs that don’t give their shopping time a moments thought tick me off. My husband was guilty of this ONCE. He was staying home with our preschool daughter and informed me that he couldn’t believe how busy the store got around 12:30pm? I explained the situation, he gave me a :smack: and never pulled that again. It is mutually beneficial to be considerate in this case.
This is my peeve, and I cannot figure out why they do it. I can understand not overloading a bag until it breaks from the weight, but if there’s only one item in a bag, well then, you don’t need that bag at all, do you?
“One shouldn’t lurk in doorways…it’s rrrude.”–Ursula, “The Little Mermaid”
Depends on the item. At times I’ve stolen a spare bag to put my twelve-pack of toilet paper in - I can barely get it in there, but once I do it provides me a handy handle to help me handle the thing’s otherwise unwieldy shape handily, with a half-dozen other bags in hand.
Other than things like that, yeah - I don’t really see the point of dividing six small objects across three bags. But I’m not paying for the bags, and I care nothing about the environment, so it’s all good to me.
It’s a good idea to bag the rat poison and the grapes separately, for instance. You’re SUPPOSED to wash the fruit before you eat it, but many people don’t. Most baggers will take the “better safe than sorry” approach when it comes to bagging questionable items.
I just want to say, in my own defense, and if you happened to be the man behind me sighing loudly and glancing meaningfully at the “15 items” sign above our heads: I know I have more than 15 items. But when I arrived at the checkouts with my 20-or-so items, the cashier TOLD me to come ahead. I even said, “I have more than 15 here…”, and she just waved it away. There was no one in line, including you with your carefully-counted, less-than-15 items. Not to mention that there are six, count’em, SIX self checkout lanes that you could use and be out the door before you even managed to heave that second sigh.
I don’t normally use the express lanes unless I qualify, but damn…if the checkout woman tells me to go, I’m GOin’!
I appreciate a reasonable man.
Arthritis.
Since I’m usually using the cart as a walker, I tend to park next to carts that have been left out, so I’m returning them where I got them.
Ha! So did I.
A+ 10/10 rant and thread.
Fellow shoppers, it’s not the fault of the store that you cannot buy your beer, wine or other liquor on Sunday here in Hoosierland. If you have a complaint about the issue, please direct it to your State Representative and/or State Senator. Explain to them that it’s well into the 21st century, and Blue Laws are so old-school.
But don’t take your frustration out on the cashier. They didn’t make the law.
Back when I was working, people asked me if it was difficult working in a prison. Threads like this illustrate why it wasn’t really that bad. On the negative side, I had to deal with a lot of annoying people. But on the positive side, when they got too annoying I was allowed to spray tear gas in their face.
My thoughts exactly.
I’ve seen a sign at some stores saying “Unattended children will be given espresso and a kitten.”
Also, please watch your children even when they’re in the cart. My sister once saw a toddler pull a plastic bag over her head while the mother wasn’t looking. (She grabbed it off and screamed, “Lady, your baby!” And my sister’s not a screamer.) I have seen a toddler start to climb out of a cart and onto a shelf which wouldn’t have held his weight. (I said, “Stay in the cart,” and the mother turned around.) Many children are injured each year from falls from carts.