What is it with all the fucktards at the supermarket lately?

The BBQ Pit
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And, I don’t mean the staff. I mean the fucking idiot, drooling, LAZY fucktard customers that are soooo fucking inbred they must have a hard time breathing and walking at the time.

The past two visits I have noticed:
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Fresh meat put in the freezer

Fresh produce put in the freezer

Half-eaten chocolate bars put back on the shelf

Open cookie packages, several eaten put back on the shelf

Milk in the freezer

Bread in the freezer

A wheel of triple-cream Brie in the freezer (worth about $80)

Frozen vegetables put on the shelf

Frozen orange juice put in with the magazines

People pushing their shopping carts right over magazines, clothes, you name it (the grocery store I shop at is kind of like a dept store) ruining them

A bloody, ripped open fresh hamburger package in with the apples in the produce section!
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Now, I know that some people are just lazy fucks, and I’ve always noticed people putting stuff back in the wrong places before. Lately however, it seems to be getting worse.

If you change your mind and don’t want something, FINE! That happens! Fuck, I do it too! You should put it back where you got it from, but if you’re about to shit your pants and can’t make it back to where you got it from in the store, it is understandable if you can’t.

BUT, for fucks sake,
DON’T PUT THE SHIT WHERE IT IS GOING TO GET RUINED!!!
That fresh produce is good for fuck all after its been frozen. That nice $30 roast is going to be a nice hotel for bacteria after its been on the room-temperature shelf for several hours. That magazine that you put away wrong and fell on the floor isn’t going to sell very well after it has your fucking FOOTPRINTS ALL OVER IT, FUCKFACE!

WHAT THE FUCK IS SO WRONG WITH PEOPLE? ARE THEY REALLY THAT LAZY??? I swear to god, I am in a bad mood every time I leave the grocery store lately and look at what other “regular people” are like. The human race is sooo doomed if more and more of us get that fucking lazy.

Oh yeah, you old filthy, smelly fuck that was eating candy right out of the bulk food bins with your filthy, grimy piss covered hands. Here is a concept to learn: Scoop, bag, label and <gasp!> PAY FOR IT. EVERYONE ELSE DOES! (or should!) FUCK!!!

[sub]someone, pass the fucking decaf to me![/sub]

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Oh, and if you like your Ralph’s coffee with some Uber-special Sweet Honey Chocolate Créme Français, and all we offer are the single-serve mini tubs of half & half, you do not get to take a bottle of Uber-special Sweet Honey Chocolate Créme Français off the shelf, put some in your coffee, and walk off, leaving the Uber-special Sweet Honey Chocolate Créme Français sitting at the coffee display.

That is theft.

If you’re buying ground beef and hamburger buns, you do not get free bottles of mustard.

If I catch you doing it, I will alert the cashier whose line you approach, inform them, and you will be charged. And if you don’t notice, fine by me.

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I work in a supermarket. The actions you describe are a daily happening there. Prices that consumers pay for their things would be lower if people would not ruin perishable items by abandoning them in inappropriate places. It is sad to observe that many people are just as lazy and inconsiderate as you have noted.
Thanks for being one of the good guys.

Mona Lott

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Just yesterday I was at a grocery store in San Francisco - Call it a non-dangerous path.

I swear, they must have hired on a fresh short-busload of people unencumbered by double-digit IQs. As I was checking out, I pointed out some perishable gobacks (they gotta go back to the cooler!) that someone left at the far end of the belt to the cashier.

The cashier calls a clerk over and tells them that there’s some perishable gobacks at the end of her belt. Clerk looked blank. She clarified - there’s some milk and yogurt over there. Please take it back to the cooler. Clerk still looked dazed. The cashier all but grabbed this guy by the nose and dragged him over like a bad puppy to the abandoned milk.

Then, for whatever reason - perhaps a damaged package - the customer in front of me at the checkout needed a new box of raisins. Cashier asks a different clerk to get them. Surprise! Clerk asks where they are. “Left side of produce, back by the bakery, about halfway down.” comes out of my mouth, much to the surprise of both the clerk and cashier. I told you I know how grocery stores work. :smiley:

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That hardly ever seems to happen where I shop… but last week I passed a bag of carrots and a nice bok-choy lettuce in the bakery section. I was so annoyed - if those vegetables just had to leave someone’s presence that fast, they could at least have left them in the cake cooler, which was nearby and mostly empty.

My brother works at a grocery store, and says I’d be shocked at what ends up being thrown out. :frowning:

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Sounds like grocery stores could save money by hiring someone to patrol the aisles with an empty cart gathering abandoned products and returning them posthaste. It may not stop the morons who feel compelled to open and “taste-test” some things, but it might prevent loss by spoilage.

Give this person an identifiable vest or something, and it might cut down on pilferage too, ya think?

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There are many brands of decaf that taste just as good as the real thing. – Val Kilmer in Real Genius
But, yeah, bernse, I hate seeing that, too. No wonder prices go up on a regular basis.

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I hate seeing this stuff, too. In fact, if I see perishable items left on shelves, I will go out of my way to track down an employee and let them know, in the hopes that it hasn’t been there long, and can be returned safely to whence it came.

I’m not sure it’s so much physical laziness as psychological. The people who do this kind of thing never bother to think through the consequences of their actions. It seems to never occur to them that “hey, if I leave this frozen entree here, it will go bad, and the store will have to throw it away. Then they’ll be losing money. Then they’ll have to raise their prices to make up for the money they lose.” This sort of reasoning seems just a wee tad too complex for these people.

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As another grocery store worker, I can tell you that this is common everywhere. We do try to have a person walk the store with a cart to gather these things, and if we do it about once an hour, we usually fill half a cart. The leaving of non-perishables where they don’t belong is irritating enough, but the finding of custom-sliced deli meats or cut-to-order steaks on top of the FUCKING FROZEN ORANGE JUICE frozen SOLID and therefore completely USELESS and UNSALABLE is enough to send me over the line. Also, if I am on an aisle with a go-back cart and putting things away, don’t put down something you don’t want on the shelf where it doesn’t belong. If it’s on that aisle, you could put it where it belongs or AT THE VERY LEAST put it in my CART which is on the VERY SAME AISLE you are on and therefore no more than 20 FEET AWAY. If you don’t want to walk down to me to put it in the cart, just tell me you don’t want it and I will make the arduous trek over the HUNDREDS OF INCHES it takes to get to you and valiantly return the item to the shelf.

Another related thing is customer behavior in re go-backs in the checkout line. Very often I will be bagging an order and see a customer decide he doesn’t want something. Usually, he’ll look right in my eyes and stick whatever it is in the MAGAZINE RACK at the checkout line. I’ll then ask nicely that he hand it to me, and I get a quizzical look that suggests that the customer is of the belief that a MAGICAL GO-BACK PIXIE collects these items from the magazine racks and restores them to their rightful places on their shelves without intervention from the employees. If you don’t want something while you are checking out, HAND IT TO THE CASHIER AND SAY, “I decided I don’t want this.”

Sorry, seemed to have tapped a vein on this one.

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I used to work at a grocery store. My favorite trick was the people who decided they didn’t want their ice cream at the checkout. Did they tell me this? Most did, but a few didn’t. These select few would find a clever place to hide it! Then when I was finally on break, I’d find the stuff melting underneath the magazine rack.

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Hundreds of inches? That’s more than ten feet! And you expect me to WALK that far?

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Another grocery store worker checking in. Perishables being left in inappropriate places is rampant in our store. A few days ago, I found a thirty-dollar standing rib roast hidden behind stacks of cans of cat food. It was totally warm, and it was a crying shame to throw it out. Is there some stigma related to just handing the unwanted item to the cashier?

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Speaking to the local brand of retarded customers:

HEY YOU! YOU WHO WHO ARE STANDING IN LINE AND PLAN TO PAY BY CHECK/CREDIT/DEBIT CARD!

Look for the damn thing now, why dontcha? You aren’t doing anything except staring blankly into space. Find that checkbook, get the card out of the hidden slot in your hidden wallet, whatever. And find those coupons if you plan to use them.

And, if it’s to be a check, then dig a pen out of the bowels of that suitcase’o’junk you call a purse at the same time, dammit.

Start filling the check out! Let me help you: no matter how long you think this line is, it will still be the same date. Trust me.

And the store name? No way is a merger going through in the next few hours.

And why not sign it, too? What are the odds a thief will strike in this minute window of opportunity, eh?

Then all you have to do is write in the amount and all the rest of us can move along that much easier.
Sorry for the hijack, but it drives me bats. People, in case no one told you before, the reason you are standing in line to see the cashier is that THEY EXPECT YOU TO HAND OVER SOME MONEY EQUIVALENT. So why aren’t you ready, hmmmm??

Sheesh. By the way some people act all flustered and surprised and have to start hunting for payment means, I swear some idiots think these lines are just for a game of Show ‘n’ Tell so the cashier can admire their choices.

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I sometimes wonder if these product abandonments are inspired by malice. Alexxandra’s example of the $30 standing rib roast that was hidden behind the cans of cat food confirms this, in my opinion. The customer who did this did not just casually discard that roast. It took some effort to do that.

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Sometimes though when things are obviously out of place you just know that it was a setup. People often put expensive items in other locations of the store in order to return and steal them. Maybe their shoplifting day got too busy in the case of the standing rib roast.

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Good God, bernse! I’m glad I don’t live anywere near your grocery store. What you are describing is not lazyness, it is vandelism. Pure and simple. I live in a town that is too small to even have a traffic light. There is only one grocery store for miles. Half of the employees are named Selby. The worst I’ve seen in this store is canned goods put back on the wrong shelf. Not a big deal and not destructive.

I like going to the grocery store. (Soon to be) Mrs. Feather hates grocery shopping, so it works out well for us. A store like you describe would drive me insane. I couldn’t shop there.

(Soon to be) Mrs. Feather will open a box of cookies and a drink and eat while we shop, but we always pay for it on our way out. The clerk doesn’t even blink when he scans an empty bottle or box.

I’m really glad I live in a small town. Really, REALLY glad. And happy. Glad and happy. Really.

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That’s what stockers do in between aisles. Doesn’t help much. It has to be thrown out anyway because they don’t know how long it’s been out there. My favorite instance of this was when I was stocking the baby food aisle (stocker hell) and an old lady found a strange fruit in the magazine rack. We identified it as a papaya. We figured this out by looking at a V-8 Splash label.

Paper Towel Aisle Rant: Do not. Do not EVER poke your fist through a 4-pack of toilet paper and take one (1) roll for yourself. Buy the whole damn pack. Saves time in the long run. If the brand you have destroyed is Scott (the fastest selling brand when I was a lowly stockchick), then may you sit on a rusty pike embedded in an out-of-control carousel.

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NO offense meant at all to SBS, but as a customer I’d like to rebut this one.

Okay, I’m standing there yes. I have a basket in one hand and my purse in the other, and even if I didn’t have my hands full, there is nothing on which to write, (in the way of hard surfaces that is), if they weren’t.

And if you put your basket and purse on the floor, and start getting out your card/checkbook etc, THAT’S when the line starts moving again.

Can’t write on the belt, not only is it moving, but it’s full of people’s stuff once you get up that far in line. What stores need is a sort of “standing in line” counter. You guys could even have signs “Put your stuff here”!! “Write your checks”!! etc.

I usually pay with my debit card, but once I finally unload my grocerys from the little hand carry basket onto the belt and get up to the playing card sized “convenience” counter, I have to attempt to balance my purse and wallet, pull my debit/credit card out run it through the POS machine (which is of course halfway blocked by my purse) and then sign the sale slip, all on that tiny surface.

I would also like to rant against some of my fellow customers re: the “UScan” (the computerized do it yourself checkouts)…

NO!!! Stay away from them!!! You canNOT figure it out. Either come during non-rush hours and get free lessons, or else stay the hell away from them, leave them to those of us who are at least reasonably comfortable with the 20th and 21st century technology.

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Your imagery is truly frightening. I don’t want to shop in your sore either.

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Sorry, that should have been ‘store’.