Food4Less is that way around here. Two bagging areas and a flip-gate (not unlike a train switch) that sends items one way or the other.
stop asking me if I want my goddamn receipt!
Such as at the Home Depot, next to the spackle.
That makes good business sense, and I would do that in the grocery store that I ran. But I would not advertise anything at 10 for $10, and REQUIRE that a customer buy ten in order to take advantage of the discount ($1.29 each if you don’t buy ten). If my store was contractually obligated to require that a minimum of ten be purchased, then a customer would be able to get eleven for $11.00, rather than $11.29.
ALSO (if I ran the grocery store), and you want me to sell your brand of mayonnaise, you will provide 32-ounce jars for me to sell. I’ll happiy carry your 16-ounce and even 64-ounce jars as well, but the standard size for a jar of mayo is one quart, NOT 30 ounces.
And tell your friends, the ice cream maker and the bacon packer not to bother coming around with 56-ounce “half-gallons” of ice cream (or worse, 48-ounces), or twelve-ounce “pounds” of sliced bacon. I don’t have shelf space for any of those items.
Sure, I know that I stand to lose the business of customers who would be more okay with shrinking food packages than with actually SEEING (:eek:) food prices rise. My store is going to be “Where the Grown-Ups Shop.”
Also orange juice is to be in half-gallon containers, and a single serving cup of yogurt is EIGHT, not six or four ounces.
Yes, YES, Yes!!!
The one thing that would most improve my grocery shopping experience is eliminating the other customers. It never fails to STAGGER me how clueless and idiotic people are. And it seem the older they get, the more clueless and self-centered they get, parking their carts across the aisle and blocking the rest with their ginormous asses while I stand inches away from them trying to get through. How is it possible to get to such a ripe old age without any concept that there are other people in the world?
I actually like the self-checkouts, but I’m a functional adult with a functional brain. An IQ test should be required before using them, because I invariably get stuck behind some numbnuts who can’t figure it out.
So often you state the obvious…zzzzzzzz quid pro quo
Miniature carts need to go too. Today I had the pleasure of doing my grocery shopping when a mom with 2 little girls were doing their shopping. Mom was in her own world, browsing the aisles and looking at her phone, while the 2 girls, each with their own pint- sized carts were blocking the aisles and bumping into people and things. Whoever came up with that idea should be bitch-slapped.
Yup. I don’t know what’s up with the multiple responses saying they should be removed. There should be more of them! I don’t understand just what people think is so hard and confusing about them. They are super easy and it’s so much quicker to use one of those than have to wait in a long line at a cashier.
A lot depends on the design of the self-checkout - some of them really are horrible.
Other people want to go to the cashier because they want to save jobs for people.
If you have an item that requires an ID to purchase due to age restrictions or other reason - alcohol, tobacco, certain movies, ammunition, fireworks, etc. - you might as well go to a cashier because you’ll have to wait for the self-serve attendant to check your ID anyway.
I’d make grocery shopping fun again. Periodic announcements like, “for the next 15 minutes any shopper wearing a Penguin shirt gets 10% off their purchase”.
" Attention [Store Name] shoppers! For the next 15 minutes, there’s a blue- light special on ______________ in aisle 12!"
:flees:
The motherfucking clothespins would be with Cleaning Supplies, not Bazar (crappy plastic items).
I once had to ask one of the people who put stuff on shelves about the clothespins, she laughed and said “my own reaction when I was told they went in Bazar was ‘no they don’t! They’re cleaning supplies!’ It seems to be one of life’s great divides, people who do laundry figure those go in Cleaning Supplies, right next to the soap…” “manager doesn’t do laundry much, you’re saying?” Now that I know that, I’ve been able to find them in Bazar several times, in multiple supermarkets, but I still say they’re cleaning supplies damnit.
Yep. I’ve had some that were easy-peasy, others which were designed by someone who apparently doesn’t know the difference between a credit card and an airplane (hint: a CC isn’t large enough to sit in).
Don’t you mean “squid pro quo”? 
I’ve never had your experience with those.
I do like the smaller carts for adults that are cropping up these days. They do have a safety problem, though. The basket and handle don’t have as much overhang as on the regular carts, so the wheels end up closer to one’s feet. I wear sandals in the summer and have lost at least two pinky toenails to the wheels on those things while making maneuvers that are perfectly safe with a full-size cart (buggy here in S. GA). I guess I’d redesign them by tucking them farther under the basket or by adding floor-hugging fenders to the wheels.
While I totally agree, and I always use the self-checkout if I can, this kind of thing gets old. It’s rare that I make it through the checkout process without encountering it. I’m guessing that is what the complaining is about. I see it as a small price to pay to get out of the store quicker.
Because you always want it or because you never want it?
Personally, mine is in the trash unreviewed before I leave the store.
I like to review my receipt for accuracy and I put it in the bag so I have it later if I need to return something.
But if I ran the store,
Said Dopers galore,
I’d make a few changes
From how it was before…
The PB and jelly and that kind of stuff,
Where they have it now is not quite good enough.
You place things like that in just any old store,
They’re too hard to find. I want something more!
So I’d cancel each checkout, open every self-serve,
Move the canned goods together, and throw you a curve.
And somehow or other, I could arrange
Some merchandise that is so much more strange.
There’s no telling what I might give for free-o!
And then, just to show them, I’ll stock Tapatío,
Set out store-made kimchi, hire cashiers like Neo,
Run weird mobile robots that sing like a griot!
Brava!