NOTICE HOW THE CLERK CAN’T RING UP ANYONE ELSE’S GROCERIES BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T COMPLETED YOUR TRANSACTION?
AND THE GRANDE FINALE!
AND NOW YOU COME UP AND GIVE THE CLERK YOUR CREDIT CARD?
You fucktard! You’re over 40 years old. You know credit card transactions take much longer. But you thought we’d all get a bang out of watching you bag your groceries before you fucking bothered to give the clerk your credit card.
I’m with ya’. It generally takes at least 30 seconds to print the damn receipt, and that’s after it hums for a while verifying the card. At least the boner didn’t pay by check.
Okay, I’m not getting why you’re ranting about how long he took to bag his(her?) groceries.
Credit cards take much less time than checks, and with some people (those who have to dig, uncrumple, line up according to denomination, etc) they take less time than cash too.
I also don’t get why, if you saw that this person had a huge amount of groceries, you didn’t get in a line where the people didn’t have a huge amount.
As for him/her taking a long time to bag his own groceries, you don’t know if that person might not have had some injury that was slowing him down, or if he’d never done it before and wanted to make sure he wouldn’t squash anything etc.
Last, I’m with CRorex, I buy my groceries a few days worth at a time, use the “UScan” and unless some seriously techno challenged idiot gets in front of me, I’m out of the store in no time.
Shopping with just a basket with a few items in it allows one to quickly maneuver between the carts “wagon-trained” at the end of each aisle and manned by the gossiping housewife crew as well.
CanvasShoes, the problem with the OP was not so much that the person took a long time bagging their groceries. If they have a lot of them, then yes, it’s going to take a long time. It seems the problem was more that the guy didn’t get the payment going so that as soon as all his stuff was bagged, he could leave, rather then having to take MORE time after that to pay. Sure, it’s only a couple extra minutes, but it can be damned annoying when people don’t think about how their actions affect everything else.
I can beat that. I was in the “15 items or less line- cash or card only”. Now, we all have to be reasonable. 16 is OK. 12 different items and another half-dozen of one is not so bad. But this woman had about 20 items. Annoying, but not worth making a fuss over. But then:
Twice, when the price code came up with one price, she said that was wrong, thus a “price check”. Wrong both times. Once by such a large amount, that I can’t see how she could have in her wildest imagination thought she was right (scanned= 3.99, she though it was really .99. Riiiiighht :rolleyes: ) The other time it was for a 10 cent difference, which is almost as bad.
Then, when she got the total, she said “that had to be too high”, causing the clerk to go over it with her. No errors. “Numerically challenged”.
So then, she had the clerk “take some items off”. Cheap.
Then coupons. One had expired. One was for the wrong item. More arguments with poor clerk. Result- nothing. REAL cheap.
So we come to a total AT LAST. Comes time to dig in purse. Time passes. She then digs out (you guessed it!) a checkbook.
I almost went berserk. In the lane beside me, families with two carts full to the brim had checked out, paid & gone, to be replaced by more, who had also checked out already. Whole continents has risen, then sunk beneath the waves.
Of course, she had to be the kind of semi-literate idiot who has trouble spelling her own name. “Is there one r or two in Moron?”
Topper? She said to the clerk “I hope I don’t get such poor service next time”.
And my freind zenster here has the gall to complain about “credit cards”. I see your point & feel your pain, old zen m’ boy, but you had a vacation in the Bahamas compared to me.
The clerk apologized profusely to me, and offered to have the “bag girl” run get me a cup of coffee. But I said it wasn’t her fault. (I guess she could have told the woman off, and not taken the check, but clerks have been fired for that sort of stuff).
Anticlimatic topper. She was in one of those motorized carts, like PD dudues use. I was giving her some benefit of the doubt, because of it. When she got done, she took the cart to the front of the store, and walked with no problem out to her car. Seems like she was just fat & lazy.
I slipped on a patch of ice after our last snowstorm and because of that I’ve been having serious problems with my back & knees for the past few weeks. How serious? Last time we went shopping, I was tempted to use one of those motorized carts.
Ah, so hit the space bar under the right condidtions and you auto-submit.
I have solved the mystery of the auto-post.
As I was typing; She continued to bag her cart full of groceries for MINUTES after the clerk finished ringing her up. She then has the nerve to come up and begin a credit card transaction.
The most galling thing about this is that the store specifically designs their checkout counters to have TWO product streams so that when the clerk is finished ringing you up, they can begin checking the next person’s groceries. BUT ONLY if the current shopper allows the till to be closed out on their transaction.
There is no possible way that the woman was unaware of this. She was just plain fucking rude.
