TROLLY RAGE!!

j.col said:
when you start getting used to where everything is,
and then they go and move things around :(
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This is so annoying – I don't understand why they do it. Do they think I'll suddenly buy a cumquat because they are now where the cucumbers used to be?

Mat said:
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?!)
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Van Hellseek said:
I thought it was just me who thought this! :D

They're definately doing it on purpose. :/
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This is the single most annoying thing at the supermarket. It's not a ****ing race.

And to the person who said "it takes four times as long to pack bags for the customer so it's less efficient" how is it helping your efficiency by sitting there doing nothing while I'm packing all of the stuff that's piled up while you went on your little scanning sprint?

Supermarket shopping is the most soul destroying part of my week. :(
 
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I used to scan like a man possessed if the customer was ignorant or gave the "scan my items, boy" mentality.

It can be quite funny because they speed up until it gets to the point where you slam multipacks of cans or cereal down the belt, and their little brain implodes :D
 
Panzerbjorn said:
This is so annoying – I don't understand why they do it. Do they think I'll suddenly buy a cumquat because they are now where the cucumbers used to be?
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I think that's exactly why they do it, isn't it? To make you go to products you don't usually buy and think 'oh, I'll try this'. Pretty sure I heard about Tesco pumping the bakery smell through the air conditioning too, but that could be bull.
 
I get ****ed off at my Tesco in that it is an Extra store, yet if I shop after say 10pm there are zero checkouts open.

I must take a whole trolley through the self-service, which there isn't enough room to unload onto the shelf or enough room to put all bags in bagging area. The computer buzzes for the assisstant on 2-3 occasions. I am all for getting rid of the lazy checkout ***** for self-service tills but the self-service tills are suited to a few items, not a whole trolley of them.

Btw I have also worked at said Tesco and what disgusts me the most is simply how the majority (not all) of the staff have one speed, which is **** off, don't care about their jobs, are always off on the sick and go crying to the union about anything.
 
Fat or ugly middle age women that insist on walking in front of you and stopping as you are looking for something on a shelf, they then proceed to start looking at the shelfs from about 10 inchs away. I really thinks its a deperate act to get men to look at them.:rolleyes:
 
mglover070588 said:
I get ****ed off at my Tesco in that it is an Extra store, yet if I shop after say 10pm there are zero checkouts open.

I must take a whole trolley through the self-service, which there isn't enough room to unload onto the shelf or enough room to put all bags in bagging area. The computer buzzes for the assisstant on 2-3 occasions. I am all for getting rid of the lazy checkout ***** for self-service tills but the self-service tills are suited to a few items, not a whole trolley of them.

Btw I have also worked at said Tesco and what disgusts me the most is simply how the majority (not all) of the staff have one speed, which is **** off, don't care about their jobs, are always off on the sick and go crying to the union about anything.
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There's a small Tescos in the city centre here where the staff are just a bunch of lazy ******* .... I've been in there at 10am on a Saturday morning and there's always a group of 3 or 4 them all chatting away (normally about going out drinking) at the tills and theyt just refuse to serve anyone and just tell you you have to use the self service tills (and then take it as personal insult if the self service tills break and you need assistance).

I notice in Asda this morning they've gone and completely rearranged the fruit and veg area ... it wasn't bad before, and made fairly logical sense, but now it's as if they wrote all the products on a pieces of paper and pulled them out of a hat at random ... nothing is logically placed and by the time you've actually found all that you want you end up buying less elsewhere in the store as you are so hacked off you just want to get out of there ...
 
Van Hellseek said:
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???
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I did get my payment ready... but whilst I was waiting for the person in front, I got distracted and forgot which pocket I put my card/money into after taking it out of my wallet - now I have to look for it again. It would have taken me less time NOT getting my payment ready, but I do it pretty much every time anyway.

Van Hellseek said:
- 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.
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I tend to put the stuff on the belt in the order I want to pack it in, this makes it a lot easier if you get a couple of bags open, however it is annoying when you get someone who speeds all the items through, then sits there and watches you pack. They should notice it's taking you longer and help by packing stuff for you as they've scanned it. I always refuse when I'm asked if I want help packing because I don't want to look lazy, but I often want help, lol.
 
My biggest shopping irritation is in line packers.

They show up with a cart load of groceries and stand there an watch the girl scan everything through, then they dig for thier payment and only after they have paid to they worry about their groceries.

They then proceed to sit there and pack the groceries while they are standing in line holding up everyone behind them.

Sometimes I feel like saying to them "Don't worry I have all day you take your time"

Now I on the other hand I get my groceries, and as the girl scans them through I put them back into the cart.

I then pay and push the cart out to my car.

At this point I pack the stuff into the bags in my boot, return the cart and be on my way.

If more people did this it would greatly reduce the amount of time you have to stand in line especially when it's busy.
 
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What annoys me most, and, I've noticed that women are the worst for this, is on the self-checkout isles when it comes to paying they spend absolutely ages faffing around digging out a card or cash from their many purses/bags/god knows what. Honestly, why why why WHY don't people have this ready when they queue?

One woman was going through her purse looking for coins to put in, realised she didn't have enough then went through her handbag to find a different purse which had multiple cards in, she then spent ages looking for the right card. I seem to recall she was buying a 75p croissant. People today....
 
cm1179 said:
the self service till

'please place the item in the basket'

''it's in the ******* basket!!?''
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+1

This has got to be one of the most annoying things for me...****ing self service tills never work properly then you have to wait for some monkey to come out and put their code in so you can continue on...
 
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