8? Well, I hit 7 most of the time, I suppose. Debit, then my pin, no to cashback and yes to approving the total. The only one of those that I suppose is really unnecessary is the cashback but I like being able to choose myself whether it’s credit or debit and while I’ve never disagreed with the total, I don’t mind being asked to approve it.
No, we don’t.
You have the right to shop wherever you want to, and the people who own the shops have the right to run the shop the way they want to.
Where the fuck do you get the idea that you have a right to have other people behave in a manner you find pleasing? In their own fucking building no less.
eta: you can be pissed off about and not shop at places that do that stuff (I am, and I try not to), but don’t act like the world owes you somethng, it doesn’t
One of the places I was the other day asked “Do you want the entire amount on the card”, which annoyed me*, and PetSmart usually asks if you want to donate money. Sometimes Walmart does that one too.
- It’s a Debit card. It’s coming out of my bank account. Do you THINK I want to pay part in cash and part from the account that cash came out of?
The entire amount question, if asked via the pinpad, is because gift cards can be run through the pinpad as well.
And people can split between 2 credit cards. The fuckers, making my transaction that much more complicated. An extra button to push!
My only issue with those card-swipers is that they’re not all the same. Some I can swipe at any time; others I have to wait for the cashier to total.
I’ve done this before: “the account that cash came out of” might have checks pending, so I don’t want to overdraw.
I know right. How dare people bitch about having to interact with people at the store.
You poor dear. Interacting with that cashier must have really sucked. I too wish the interaction would be as limited as possible. I feel your pain.
I once had to tell a gas station cashier, who was trying to be funny and failing dramatically, to stop trying to be funny and just ring up my gas. :rolleyes:
Or he could attend one of your congeniality seminars, Professor Sunshine.
You missed the one about whether you’d like to donate a dollar today to save puppies with breast cancer starving in Namibia.
I’ve never gotten a screen asking me to donate to a charity. I must go to extremely selfish stores.
If answering the question “Did you find everything you needed?” is too much for you, (and I’m asking, not because I care if you actually found it, but because I don’t want to have to deal with you coming back after I already rang you up once) then do us all a favor. Order on the internet and don’t go out in public where you might have to talk to a stranger.
What happens if you answer “no”? Does time stop? Does an army of robot butlers clatter out of a storage closet to locate and retrieve the unfound, yet necessary thing while you stand there catching up on the latest Kardashian hijinks and receiving the stinkeye from the long line of customers waiting behind you? Do balloons fall from the ceiling as a confetti-tossing manager in a sparkly suit and top hat tap-dances over to present you with your giant award check for being the millionth customer to not find an item?
I honestly don’t know, because I tend to get all my purchases before I go to the checkout aisle. Is that weird?
Serious answer: at the store I shop most often at, I’m either told, “Oh, we moved that to Aisle 4’s endcap this week. Would you like Gail to grab it for you while I ring up your order?” or “We don’t carry it yet, but I’ll let the manager know and he’ll order a dozen for next week. If they sell well, we’ll keep it in stock.” And, miracle of miracles, they do. :eek:
Then I ask you if what you were looking for and can I look it up and order it for you? Or I tell you where in the store to find what you were looking for and ask if I can page another associate to help you locate it. And if you need it right away, our sales staff may be able to help you find an alternative that would meet your needs.
Really, it is our job to do whatever we can to create satisfied customers and maximize our sales. It should be obvious that we’d like to do so because that’s how we get more hours and earn a bigger paycheck.
The only one that really annoys me is the clerks who INSIST upon having an answer to the question “how are you today”. I really dislike this question, and will usually politely side-step it by saying “hello” or “and how are you”.
99% of store clerks accept this, but there are the few who will answer and then ask it again, and if side-stepped again, will go for a few more tries…WTH?
Do they get stuck in a little clerkbrain error loop?
Oh you know you lie! Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie!! Nowhere, most especially in the Chicagoland area, does this EVER EVER HAPPEN! We are thrown bodily out of the store! Quit yer LYING!!!
Seriously - my grocery store does that too - and I don’t want all kinds of - well - CUSTOMERS - messing up my grocery shopping experience! So QUIT SPREADING THESE LIES!! If there were more and MORE people in my grocery store it would be a bad thing - I wouldn’t be able to get in and out of there in like thirty seconds (if I don’t have the husband with - if he is, more like thirty minutes.) I LOVE my grocery store!! One of the checkers actually saved somethng for me for a special dinner I was making that they were about to run out of - she knew ahead of time I’d need it because we’d talked a few days earlier. I love her. I do not want more people at my most wonderful grocery store! 
You’re totally right. The parking lot is bad enough! What was I thinking?!
Yes, I’m a lying liar who lies. That never happened. We didn’t single-handedly bring in almost the entire gluten free section piece by piece. We most certainly didn’t get them to stock naan in three flavors (not gluten free, but seriously missing, given their great um…terrible Indian food section.) And the mead? Not me, no sirree!
THANK YOU!! The first step in getting help is recognizing that you need it. Ya liar!!
See? I can be supportive when I need to be! Snort
I can’t get my head around the concept of going to the checkstand to inquire about the whereabouts of a product that is eluding my shop-fu. The people there are BUSY; I’d just as soon ask someone who’s working out in the aisles, or go to the customer service counter. If I’m standing at the checkstand, it’s because I’ve actually found everything I wanted. If I haven’t found everything I wanted to buy, I’ve given up on finding the missing items.
Such as a half-gallon of ice cream, or a quart of mayonnaise.
I just respond with “Reasonably well, thank you.”