How odd. I can enter my card and go through all the screens up to approval while the checker is a-checking, and still have plenty of time to bag my groceries if there is no bagger.
yes, I make my list in the order of the aisles as well. I only go around once–I do not trace back and forth. Saves time, money and on traffic “jams”.
Another pit-worthy topic.
The number of times I’m behind someone writing a check is far greater than the number of times I’m behind someone with a card that refuses to scan.
As others have said, if you want to write a check, go ahead of do it, but have as much of it filled out ahead of time as possible (ie, everything but the amount. Hell, most places now write the check for you, just sign it and it prints everything else on it faster than you can write!)
I generally handle buying grocery, but sometimes my girlfriend and I both go to the store because we’re fitting it in between other activities. It’s easier to go together after a movie or whatever than to drop one of us off at home and then go back.
I hate it when people mix up displays like soup or pasta because they reshelve packages in the wrong spot. The right spot is one sheft up, move your damn hand the extra foot!
Dear Local Metro Supermarket:
You have a checkout labeled “ten articles or less”. This is inaccurate. Would you be so kind as to change this sign to “10 articles or less/fewer or cigarettes or bottle return or lottery tickets or whatever ‘customer service’ task your customers are complaining about this time”? How is a minimized checkout line supposed to help a customer save time if the one person you have staffing it has to split his or her time between at least two lineups?
Related pit: Folks who buy their lotto tickets at the supermarket and ask for last weeks’ tickets to be checked. You are slowing down everybody’s *need *for food with your *desire *to get rich quick combined with your colossal laziness for not checking your numbers yourself. If you ask the clerk “are you sure?” with that kicked puppy look when she tells you no, you’re not the east end’s next millionaire, I may be forced to beat you with a perfectly good crusty baguette.
I put my cheese on one leg at a time.
My beef with the grocery store - every time I get addicted to a product, they discontinue it.
Breakstone dip.
New Coke.
Pineapple pie.
Eagle Brand barbecue potato chips.
And my all - time favorite cookie; Nabisco’s Ideal Bars.
(mmm…real milk chocolate covering a cookie shell with a peanut butter center…after twenty years, I can still taste them…)
Yeah, I know, I should be pitting the companies that stopped selling these products, but I’m not that logical. It’s the grocery store that I got these snacks from, so they get the full fury of my wrath.
To hell with you, grocer, who stopped selling the things I love!
Remember. In Moscow Central Market, cheese cuts you !!!
( someone had to do it. 
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There will be plenty of Hemming and Hawing in that thread I’m sure…
Goes outside to blow own head off with bazooka…
I LOVED Ideal bars as a kid. I also haven’t had them in many years. They were the BEST cookie ever. Little Debbie makes something that looks similar on the box, but is nothing like the real thing.
Great, now I have go start Googling Ideal bars to see if they’re avaiable online…
Just out of curiosity - Which is your Wegmans? Mine’s the East Ave. store, and it’s tiny. (For a Wegmans, that is. It’s still head and shoulders above the supermarkets I grew up with in Massachusetts.)
I avoid the Pittsford Wegmans, too, more because it’s just too damned much, unless I’m looking for a specific item I’m not likely to find at the smaller ones.
Supposuburgers.
I always stay out of these threads because they annoy me (in the same way that my brother gets annoyed at the restaurant threads), but I had to add one little thing:
I’ve heard of that practice in other states, and I think it is probably one of the stupidest things I have ever encountered. I simply can’t imagine why it is so important that an adult ring up a beer or wine sale. My chain has to deal with this ridiculous setup in Tennessee and I’d be seriously irritated as a customer that I’d have to wait for an override because the state requires a 21+ year old to sell me a bottle.
It’s never been that big a deal for me, because it’s never been that hard to find an adult to come over and run my alcohol over the scanner. It’s certainly better than living somewhere that booze isn’t sold in grocery stores.
I’m guessing the reason for the rule is so that teenage cashiers don’t ring up alcohol for their underage friends, but it does seem a little silly.
We have a rule like that in Alabama, but 19 year olds (age of adulthood here) can sell alcohol if there is a 21+ manager nearby.
I’ve had fun at times flirting/hassling the cashier to show me her id to prove she was old enough to sell it to me.
Yes, I already knew her so I wasn’t just another asshole customer she had to put up with.
I pit myself at the grocery store. Almost everything I got today was on sale. Did I show my discount card? No, I did not.
Also, why is it impossible to find Arm & Hammer Cat Litter Deodorizer in this town? Is the truck being held up before it can get to the stores? If so, where? My cat’s box is stanky.
I haven’t read through all of this thread yet, but this little gem
is just so wonderful, I am saving it to hurl at moronic drivers and general bungholes .
I thank you for this new curse.
Hah - I always check my bananas for tarantulas, so your curse won’t work on me!