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Supermarkets are just a perfect environment for everyone to show how inconsiderate they can be.

Awards for the top levels of give a ****:

1) Blocking the whole aisle while you sit there deliberating which product you want. Ignoring anyone who says "excuse me".
2) Walking at 2 miles an hour stopping periodically to block everyone behind you when the shop is busy.
3) Treating the shop like your personal jungle gym for your kids. No one ever wants to hear your children let alone when they are running around causing everyone to dodge them.
4) People who decide that they missed an item at the checkout and leave to go and get it. They know that they forgot the item when they were waiting in the queue but they thought "I'll lose my spot if I get it now, instead I'll wait until I am at the checkout and I can instead waste everyone else's time".

5) The winner by unanimous decision, the grade A *****. The ones who plonk their basket / cart onto the checkout and wait till it's all scanned.

"Oh, I have to pay, let me rummage in my bag for my wallet"

"I'll pay by card and take twice as long as possible whilst making sure that only a crack of light illuminates the keypad enough for only me to see my pin"

"Oh, these items are not going to float out to my car of their own volition, I guess I should start to pack them slowly into bags".

"Have I wasted enough time? Hmmm, not sure; better have a little chat with the checkout person"

Seriously, it's just common courtesy. Try and make other peoples lives easier rather than harder. If you can't do that, at least try not to be a complete barrier to anyone else achieving more than two things in a day. Never ever ever go into a co-op around 11-1. Its full of the elderly who seem to do this as a matter of course. I can forgive them to a certain extent but when its some ditzy person in their 30's I just want to lay into them.
 
Zero Pope said:
I forgot to add the one that annoys me, self checkout where the person can't follow the on screen instructions and has to have their hand held by the assistant for the duration of them putting their items through the scanner, which means I have to wait 5 minutes to get ok'd for a bottle of whiskey.
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Similarly, I don't want to be waiting around at the self checkout because someone has bought something that needs authorised by the assistant thereby negating the "self" part of the self checkout.
 
I'm just back from the supermarket. Don't know how anyone can go shopping in the middle of the day when it's busy. Don't even get me started on Saturdays. I hate the general public.
 
I'll often amble about when food shopping. I'm not usually going with a specific planned menu for the next couple of weeks, so I may well amble around seeing what I fancy. When doing so, I may well look at labels to read the ingredients list and see the nutritional data.

But I do that kind of shopping in the middle of the night, so I'm not in other people's way, there aren't people in my way and I won't have to queue.

Daytime non-food shopping I'll do as the OP does - know what I want in advance and go straight in to get it.
 
Turambar said:
Similarly, I don't want to be waiting around at the self checkout because someone has bought something that needs authorised by the assistant thereby negating the "self" part of the self checkout.
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Touché, a very valid point. If I could just scan my driving licence that would help save time. :)
 
Dis86 said:
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Also hate it when people wear PJs, slippers or dressing gowns. This is housewear, not out in public wear. You don't live in the supermarket so put some clothes on you tramps!
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I don't give a damn what other shoppers are wearing, as long as they're not in my way. They can do their shopping naked for all I care - what difference does it make to me? Why does it bother you?
 
fez said:
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Seriously, it's just common courtesy. Try and make other peoples lives easier rather than harder.
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I was shopping in a supermarket late at night recently. There was a person working on the tills, so I went there because it was nearer than the self-serve and I'd already heard the automated self-serve voice too many times as I was shopping. You know the thing - "Please insert your card", "Unexpected item in bagging area", etc, etc.

I have a trolleyfull of food and stuff and I've loaded it on the belt while the person in front of me is being served. Some guy comes up behind me with just a bottle of something. So I invite him to go ahead of me. Either I wait maybe 30s while he's served or he waits much longer while I'm served. Easier overall if he goes first. It's not like I'm rushing to go and perform emergency surgery on someone who might die if I take 30s longer to get there. I like living in a civilisation, so I act in a civilised way. This was unusual enough for staff to comment on it, which is sad.
 
Browsing supermarkets?

Adjusting recipes?

No.

Shopping list, round as quickly as possible, then out.

I don't like people, I don't like shopping, my wife hates them both even more than me, so it's over quite quickly.
 
I can tolerate most things in the supermarket, except for the incredibly slow walkers who do their best to block you from passing them too, just makes me want to punch them in the back of the head. :mad:
 
I tend not to get too annoyed with slow shoppers unless they're blocking the ilse or being annoying in other ways*.
Although it can be mildly annoying when it's like that scene out of Shaun of the Dead with the old fogies doddering around:p but then, as you get older you do tend to slow down a bit due to mobility problems, and things like poor eyesight (which means you may have to actually pay attention to the shelves and look more carefully, rather than possibly spotting what you're after with a quick look


I can be in an out of the store in minutes if I've got a set list of items that I regularly buy and thus know their locations (unless they've rearranged them again).
But I can also take it slow if I'm not in any rush and actually looking for stuff, and have no shame about taking my time when it comes to things like bread, eggs and veggies:p as those tend to be items you want to check before buying due to either breakages or short dates.





*parents of young children, please note that Isle 4 is not the playgroup playground, your huddle of trolleys and screaming children whilst you natter away about your new sofa and the weather is blocking everyone else's access to the produce (and more importantly, my access to the tangfastics!).
 
I shop like a BMW/Audi driver, sporty shallow trolley, weaving in and out of lanes, over and undertaking plebs with their boring family trolleys who haven't moved out of my "lane" even though I'm clearly a better shopper. Trolleys need horns in my opinion (either audible or bull, both would work).
 
I go supermarket shopping when I know that there are not going to be many people around and go round as quickly as possible, (I can be in and out in ~15mins including checkout and making changes to what I was getting on the fly). I hate shopping when there are loads of other people around as most people are really inconsiderate (or just oblivious) to what is going on around them. I've normally done all my shopping, maybe browsed a couple of DVD/Book shops and got home again by 09:30 on a Saturday morning leaving the rest of the weekend free to do other things.
 
Nothing annoys me more in the world than slow shoppers. It's the self-service checkouts that particularly get me, when people are aware of the massive queue behind them but still appear to be in a daydream/semi-coma and proceed to take 5 minutes to pay for 3 items. I can't stand it. I live between Clapham/Brixton and the amount of people that crawl around Sainsbury's, clogging the aisles and glaring disapprovingly when you have to push past is unbelievable.
 
I dilly dally a fair bit. I hate planning what I'm going to eat, I wait for something to jump out at me and go ooooo that'll do!
 
Bennie-Mac said:
I shop like a BMW/Audi driver, sporty shallow trolley, weaving in and out of lanes, over and undertaking plebs with their boring family trolleys who haven't moved out of my "lane" even though I'm clearly a better shopper. Trolleys need horns in my opinion (either audible or bull, both would work).
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Hahahahahaha.

:D
 
Crowded supermarkets are hell. Closely followed by empty supermarkets where the only other shopper is standing exactly where you want to be. You go away, you come back. They're still there. Hnnnng.

Home delivery for me all the way now.
 
DanTheMan said:
Working in a supermarket, what really annoys me are people who queue for 5 minutes, pack their shopping and then proceed to get out the handbag, delve to the bottom for their purse and then faff around getting the correct change/card out. Why oh why couldn't you have done this in the queue?
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Oh man, THIS!

One thing that always did my head in was when I would help a slow person packing.
"I can manage thankyou"
Clearly not, judging by the ****ing huge queue which has formed and the shopping piling up on the end of the belt, I'm trying to help you out!

Slow people in general annoy me.
 
I was going to write a note of general agreement, but someone has just annoyed me at work, so now I'm venting.

Advise for self centred ****ers:
You have a duty to reduce delay to other people as much as possible. If you have 5 people waiting behind you and dawdle for 1 minute, you have accumulatively held other people up for 5 mins.
Here are some tips to avoid this -
Push your trolley to the side of the aisle when looking for purchases.
Similarly, if you are going to dawdle in general, take care that you are leaving a passing space. If this is not possible, move quickly to where there is space, then feel free to dawdle again.
Plan ahead - if an action is going to be required, prepare for it. Have your card/cash/vouchers ready.
THINK - Is what I'm doing holding someone up in any way? If so, is there another way I can do it?
Now, you may be thinking, none of these things are a legal requirement, why should I bother? The answer is that then people will hate you less. If you are this person, I really, genuinely, hope you die and free up a soul for a decent person.

Furthermore, whilst this is not a universal truth, as a general rule, I'm bigger than you. When there is a small space we are approaching from opposite directions and I stop to let you pass first (Which I generally do), please bear in mind that I am being courteous. I have more momentum than you, if I decided I was coming through first, there would be NOTHING you could do about it, you would simply be barged backwards, quite possibly getting hurt in the process. I have this ability and I make the choice not to use it.

Given that I am extending a courtesy to you simply because I'm respectful to my fellow humans, it is not unreasonable to expect a nod or a smile of acknowledgement. However, while failure to acknowledge my gesture is rude, it is forgiveable. Stopping part way through the gap is not. If you know you want to look at something in that space, let me through first. If you see something as you pass, come out of the way, let me through and THEN go back and look. If you are VERY fast, it is acceptable to grab something in passing. However, if you stop and peruse, you have no right to get upset when I stuff you into your own hand basket, and lob you like a grenade into the melons 3 aisles over.

I am aware that the "Just about to go off, specials" fridge usually gets a bit of a crush on when they restock it, and that's fair enough. As I mentioned above, I'm a big guy, if I am at that section, no one else can get to it, so as a courtesy, I stand back and my girlfriend goes in.
It should be noted, you are not actually the magical special flower that your mother told you you are. You have no special rights. You do NOT have the right to barge my girlfriend out of the way when she is already there. If you do, expect to find me stood uncomfortably close to you when you turn around asking you to apologise.

Finally, the staff, as the saying goes, "Just work there". If you are unhappy about something, by all means bring it to a staff members attention, but be polite. If you start shouting at some poor 16 year old girl because something was wrong, I will become angry. If you are holding me up in the process, I will be even angrier. If you make her cry, I will be very angry, and if it turns out you made the mistake in the first place, I will become apocalyptically angry. Somewhere in this mix is my "snapping" point, mostly where people are blaming others for their error. If you cross it, you will be ridiculed, loudly, and then I will personally throw you out of the shop, regardless of what the staff have to say on the matter. You may expect to get damaged as I throw you out.

I feel much better for that :)

For those of you wondering, I do not work retail, and have not done for about a decade. I just hate inconsiderate people.
 
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