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I can write 10 checks in the time it takes some card-wielding fuckstick to scan their card, try again, enter some number, try again, get the cashier to do it, try again, call a supervisor, try again…
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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.
[QUOTE=Voyager]
We do this also. We don’t have a list of stuff in aisles, but we do rewrite our list to be more or less the order which we’ll visit aisle - produce first, deli last. The main benefit we see is that it reduces impulse shopping, plus we know we have all the ingredients needed for an entire week of eating.
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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”.
[QUOTE=Taters]
Yeah, write a book and turn it into a series of motivational presentations for corporations. You’ll make MILLIONS!
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Another pit-worthy topic.
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]
I can write 10 checks in the time it takes some card-wielding fuckstick to scan their card, try again, enter some number, try again, get the cashier to do it, try again, call a supervisor, try again…
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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!)
[QUOTE=chela]
I see this a lot, and I have to wonder if they are considering it “family time” spent together. Then there are just the couples who shop together, and I wonder if this is their version of “date night”.
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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.
[QUOTE=Voyager]
I cut my cheese.
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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!
[QUOTE=Voyager]
I cut my cheese.
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Remember. In Moscow Central Market, cheese cuts you !!!
( someone had to do it. 
)
[QUOTE=Pithy Moniker]
Another pit-worthy topic.
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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…
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated]
In my town, we have this grocery store called Wegman’s. There is a Wegman’s in the suburbs that is so posh and lush that it is basically a 5 star grocery store, complete with fine dining, sushi bar, coffee shop, tea shop, amazing flower shop etc, etc.
You have never met a set of people with ‘entitled’ written across their foreheads until you meet the folks that shop at this Wegman’s. When they plant their carts in the middle of the aisle, forget it. It will set just that way, until they are good and ready to move it. I try to avoid that store, but the Wegman’s in my own neighborhood is tiny and crowded.
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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.
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
Just yesterday I was in line at the checkout behind a person who was buying 1) three pounds of hamburger, 2) a pound of American cheese, and 3) a quart of Miracle Whip.
I don’t want to know what the outcome of that recipe would be.
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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:
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
Good point. If you’re going to sell alcohol, could there maybe be more than one person that works in the front of the store that old enough to check me out? I really hate those nights when it’s frozen pizza and beer night and I have to hold the line up because nobody as far as the eye can see is over the age of 21 and the only person who is old enough is apparenly busy buidling a life size state of Abraham Lincoln out of pretzel sticks or something and can’t be arsed to come help.
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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.
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
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.
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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!