TROLLY RAGE!!

[Van Hellseek]

What winds you up about shopping in supermarkets?

A few of mine...

- People queueing for ages and then when it's finally their turn they faff around looking for their money/card. WHY DIDN'T YOU GET IT READY WHILE YOU WERE WAITING YOU MORON???

- Going to buy 2-3 items, heading to the cigarette counter with only a couple of people in the queue, but they buy **** loads of lottery crap that takes ages ><

- Fat people.

- People who bump into you and don't apologise, or even aknowledge it.

- Checkout monkeys who are rude.

- Being rushed after you have paid. It's like they somehow expect me to pack everything in 3 seconds flat and go away, regardless of how much stuff I've bought.

- Shelf stackers pushing the big cages around and look at you like you're getting in THEIR way. :/

I could go on and on and on... :/

What are your own supermarket rages?

 

[Van Hellseek]

Quite a lot of offensive things in your post tbh

lol fattie.

 

[Van Hellseek]

I dont agree with this, just step aside and let pass with it.

Indeed, I'm talking about the LOOKS they give you, like customers are just an unnecessary pain, and we should be be apologising to them for being in their way.

Good luck keeping your job in a supermarket with no customers.

I was in wilkinsons once and two shelf stackers were standing where I was trying to browse, and they didn't move despite me obviously struggling to see the items. They just looked at me like I was annoying them by being there, so I said to them "Oh sorry, am I in your way?". They got my point.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Good luck buying out products if you don't let us give them to you.

Customer > Shelf monkey.

Or am I missing something?

 

[Van Hellseek]

Being asked if I would like bags when it's clear I don't have my own. What do they think I'm going to do, carry it all on my head like an African? It happens weekly in Waitrose.

It's the opposite for me. I bring an obviously empty bag and still get "would you like a bag?".

Yeah, this one is just a fashion accessory.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Old people.

Old people in supermarkets do my bloody head in.

They should either have certain times when they are allowed into a supermarket or they should all be Logan's Run'd.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Here's another one of the things I hate... Possibly even my MOST hated thing....

- Bumping into someone you vaguely know and having to make awkward small-talk while you each check out what the other is buying.

 

[Van Hellseek]

This is more an issue with parenting than supermarkets.

It's still a supermarket 'issue' for the other customers.

 

[Van Hellseek]

the amount of old ladies that go digging around in handbags is a joke

I'm a rational man usually, but I swear to god... This makes me wish I'd brought a chainsaw/katana with me.

 

[Van Hellseek]

In Iceland Frozen Foods, we pack for you- unless you ask otherwise

They offer that in the Tesco where I shop too, but they just chuck everything into bags, without taking weight/temperature etc etc into consideration, so despite the offer of 'help' self-packing is still necessary.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Ahhh, we get told to actually pack all of the bag for you. Or at least the first three items unless you ask otherwise.

That's great in theory, I'd love my packing done for me.

The problem is I get my bread, eggs etc at the bottom of the bag with my tins on top.

By the time I get home my loaf of bread looks like it's been used as the ball in a game of rugby.

No thanks, I'll pack myself.

 

[Van Hellseek]

There is a lot of people in this thread that need to step back and just relax!!

It's not often we get a chance to vent about these things!

 

[Van Hellseek]

People who turn shopping into family day out. Kids crawling everywhere, entourage like for audience with Pope, motorcade of trolleys parked across five isles, everyone chatting away in the middle of frozen food section like they had no living room.

"Runner" kids - you know - the chavy little clever **** sent by mummy to run and cut you up in a queue at the till, just for her to arrive after 10 minutes, at the last moment with flipping piles of white label beer across 5 trolleys expecting everyone to clear the belt and make space.

Cretins that break multiple item packets and then insist on stalling the checkout queue demanding on Customer Service "CSI" unit to play fetch and browse - sending them to the most distant shelves and back just for them to return with nothing unable to verify price.

Unexpected items in bagging area.

"Clever" people who put alcohol or DVDs on self checkout scales, weight them up as carrots and then get all dramatic and shirty when the tag sets off alarm and spawns security. It's that massive, bulky pin or label on top of the bottle, you're not exactly interpol most wanted list material love, please just stop trying.

The shy "lunch buyer" types that change their mind at the last moment, but instead of leaving unwanted item on the till they abandon it in their basket and play dumb, five seconds later the coleslaw/strawberries/ice cream/cottage cheese/whathave you gets flattened by the next basket, splat, **** everywhere, shoes, trousers in someone else's rejected lunch. Why? Why do that?!

Sainsbury's Cafe staff near where we work has this great way of winding everyone up:

"I'll have the poached salmon with new potatoes and salad, no sauce and a regular latte please"
"Poached salmon or salmon fishcakes?"
"poached salmon."
"New potatoes or chips?"
"Potatoes"
"Green peas or salad?"
"Salad please. And a latte. Regular"
"Lemon and dill or cucumber sauce?"
"No sauce"
"Lemon sauce?"
"No sauce, none at all"
"No sauce?"
"Yes"
"Any drinks?"
(grabs a fork, aims at eyeballs) hack - hack - hack

 

[Van Hellseek]

Personally, I always pack somebodies shopping how I'd like my shopping to be packed i.e. bread in a separate bag so it doesn't get squashed, eggs not with heavy items and meat in a separate bag encase it leaks or anything

Well then you are a shining example of good customer service! You'll be a 'manager' in no time.

 

[Van Hellseek]

I know their only trying to be nice, but when checkout staff try to make awkward conversation. Sometimes they are nice but sometime its a bit odd.

A while ago there was a phase where the girls at my Tesco were being particularly flirty. I couldn't quite work out wether it was some kind of game they had devised to pass the time (since I noticed them exchanging glaces), or wether it was a result of some bizarre Tesco customer service policy.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Checkout person: "Would you like help with your packing?"

Me: "No thanks..."

Checkout person: [scanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscanscan!!!]

Me: . o O (Are you scanning the stuff that fast, making it pile up, to make me realise the error of my ways and wish I had asked for help?! Now you're going to sit there and make me feel bad for making you wait for my card now aren't you?!)

I thought it was just me who thought this!

They're definately doing it on purpose. :/

 

[Van Hellseek]

So much rage in this thread.

 

[Van Hellseek]

One of the most annoying things ever about shopping is finding an absolute bargain of a BOGOF...


BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE LEFT.

 

[Van Hellseek]

You are in the way + we fill the gaps, u moan r empty so get out my way n stfu LOL

I work in a hospital and I'm often pushing things around with other staff, patients and visitors getting in my way. However I somehow manage not to look at them like they are dirt and peeing me off for being in my way.

My gripe isn't that they are there, it's that they often don't seem to understand that they should be trying to please the other people around them, not being rude to them.

 

[Van Hellseek]

DOOR BLOCKERS!

I hate it when you arrive at the supermarket and there's a bunch of people talking or just hanging around the doors, bottlenecking the entrance. I shouldn't have to queue just to get inside! Go talk somewhere else!