Supermarket Pet Peeves

Wetwerks said:
My biggest pet peeve are the people who stand there while being rung up, then once they see the total they proceed to fill out the *entire* check. A close tie would be the same situation, but then digging around looking for their ATM/bank card/credit card.
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It should be legal to hurt those people. :xyxthumbs
 
Wetwerks said:
This really is not a pet peeve, but I do enjoy watching the parking lot vultures drive around and around trying the find the spot as close to the front of the building as possible. I always park out in the middle of no where and usually end up walking past the same people I followed in *still* driving around looking for the prime spot.



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Heh, I really love that. Sometimes I have to go to (supercenter) Wal-Mart (:nervous2:) and there's this parking lot to the far right of the store, that I suppose is technically behind another strip of stores. Anyway, its usually nearly empty there, and I always park there. How much time do I spend driving among dangerous (and man, do I mean dangerous) Wal-Mart shopper traffic and looking for a parking spot? Oh, about 0 seconds. It takes me 2 seconds to find a spot (oh which empty spot shall I choose :D), and the irony of it all is that this parking lot is actually closer to the store than most of the rest of the parking lot :lol



However... that parking lot I park in seems to be where everyone abandons their carts... and Wal-Mart doesn't even have a cart return thing on that side of the lot! Why wouldn't they put such a simple thing in place? :rolleyes:
 
Accumulator said:
The place I patronize the most has to do their restocking during the day because a) it's more affordable, b) it's easier to supervise, and c) they have cleaning crews in after-hours.



Some employees *are* less than considerate, so it can be necessary to attitude-adjust those who forget whose satisfaction oughta come first ;)
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I intercepted said cart before it could hit my vehicle and said something to the effect that "you shoudl watch where you are pushing the cart"...

Her repky to me was "it's only a truck....."
 
satizsa said:
..Her repky to me was "it's only a truck....."
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Heh heh, I mighta given her a brief lecture about polite consideration of others and her, uhm... apparent shortcomings as a human being.



My poor minivan is getting *SO* many dings...people are obviously showing it no respect despite its near-concours condition :sadpace:



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the people who walk extremely slow and right in the middle of the aisle with their cart so that you cant get around them.



the people who cut through the parking spaces at high speeds without even looking. i actually almost got hit by a guy at home depot doing that. and when i say "I", i really mean me. i wasnt even in my truck. needless to say, i had some colorful words for him.



and the people who walk down the middle of the parking lot aisle and dont move when you are trying to drive down them. thats the big one for me. im that guy that gets as close as possible to them till they move the hell out of the way.
 
Yesterday at the local Wal-Mart, I saw several people who were too lazy to take their carts back to the corral even though it was less than 100 feet away. I guess a few seconds of walking or asking if someone else needed the cart would be out of the question. :rolleyes:
 
PrinzII said:
Yesterday at the local Wal-Mart, I saw several people who were too lazy to take their carts back to the corral even though it was less than 100 feet away...
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Yeah, Friday people left a bunch of carts in the vicinity of my Yukon (fortunately none touched it), so I gathered them up and took 'em all back to the corral along with mine. People looked at me like I was crazy :rolleyes:
 
I have to shop at Wal-Mart. It's the only game in town; Wal-Mart's coming forced everyone else out of business. All of the above Wal-Mart comments ring true.



I do have a Wegman's an hour away. I'm there fairly often when I have a refereeing job, so I try to stop. Everyone who works there is super polite. If I had a local Wegman's, I'd be in heaven.



One day, I could not stop at Wegman's, though. I made a crucial call in a Penn State-Northwestern tennis match, which Penn State narrowly won.



Afterwards, I noticed NW's team bus in the parking lot at Wegman's (they have a great cafe). Needless to say, I couldn't go in.



When I've been far enough south, I've been to Publix. Two thumbs up, too!
 
Best to date for me, some big fat woman was clipping her nails in the produce section.
 
I'm sure they have their perfectly legitimate reason(s) for doing so that aren't visible to us consumers.



I remember working in retail sales and being able to understand certain methodologies that a customer wouldn't understand. I know the supermarket has a great reason. I just don't know what it is :).
 
I think there's just a change in attitudes .... the days of going out of the way for the customer or "the customer is always right" seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur.



I worked at a grocery store when I was in high school (OK, OK, Jimmy Carter was president, Asteroids was the most popular video game but you needed to go to an arcade to play itfor a quarter, and gas cost less than $1/gallon :chuckle:) We wore neckties, were required to be well groomed with no facial hair, and we couldn't chew gum. We were required to greet and thank each and every customer, and no flirting with the cashiers or talking to each other while waiting on customers.



Today, it seems most store clerks seem annoyed to have to interact with customers, let alone put the customer first. I guess they forget without the pesky customers they wouldn't have those jobs. :sosad
 
another thing.. as mentioned before... eating in a store before you have paid for an item (or even if you have) is just something i don't do. i remember trying to do that when i was little and my mom smacked me in the back of the head LOL...
 
MichaelSpoots said:
I'm sure they have their perfectly legitimate reason(s) for doing so that aren't visible to us consumers...
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Heh heh, if *I* posted that it'd probably be in brackets :chuckle:



I remember working in retail sales and being able to understand certain methodologies that a customer wouldn't understand. I know the supermarket has a great reason. I just don't know what it is :).
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IMO that's why people oughta educate themselves. Some of those not-so-apparent reasons aren't in the customers' best interest ;)
 
Scottwax said:
Chatty Cathy customers and cashiers piss me off. A few pleasantries are fine but I don't want to hear anyone's life story from birth to the present while I am stuck behind them.



People who cannot follow visual and audible direction on the self scanners irk me too. How do these people ever successfully use an ATM or even a touch tone phone?
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Self scanners and people not being able to use them is beyond me when they first came out yes there was some issues with the system but now a days the systems are dummy prof and I dont know how some people even get out of bed and make it to the store.
 
BigAl3 said:
another thing.. as mentioned before... eating in a store before you have paid for an item (or even if you have) is just something i don't do. i remember trying to do that when i was little and my mom smacked me in the back of the head LOL...
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I do that all the time. A couple of the grocery stores have carts with cupholders in them and cases of refrigerated soft drinks near the entrance of the store. They love selling the 20oz soda for more than the two liter on the other side of the store.



That reminds me of being at a candy store and a man telling the cashier his wife had "eaten some" of the bulk candy out of the bag he was weighing. Like the clerk was supposed to know how much she ate.
 
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