Women at the checkout - That really grinds my gears!

[Mark A]

This is why shopping on the internet was invented.

Takes me 10 mins to order my weekly shop and then it gets delivered directly to my door for £3 odd delivery charge.

If i have to go to the store i will try and use the self service checkouts.

 

[Nix]

I still don't know why it's hard for people to get chip and pin. The idea is we don't touch your card. So put it in the little machine, yep now read it and do what it says. No don't put it in and start pressing keys. Let it read your card. ..... are you going to enter your pin now? No your talking to your friend.... excellent. It's not like I have other people to serve. OK now you need to pull out your card. No I cant do anything on the till until you pull out your card as my till is telling me YOU NEED TO REMOVE YOUR CARD!

Because when Chip and PIN was first introduced the cashier often still had to take the card and put it through the till - this happened when I worked at Tesco many moons ago. Now, I'm a young-man, good with technology and keen to not trip on people's toes but when every damn shop implements their chip and PIN system in a different way (some put the card in differently to others) it gets a little difficult to stand there like a pleb trying to ascertain which way this particular shop does things, hence why I may choose to simply hand my card over to avoid holding anyone up further.

People have been shopping with cards for years and C&P is still a relatively new service. Indeed, most people probably don't shop that often or have bigger fish to fry then pleasing you with the damn trivial gripes; get over yourself. I used to work behind the tills and if someone handing you your card or politely asking you a civil question winds you up, then you either have issues or a pretty damn easy job. Seriously, stop being a ****. That goes for those others of you moaning on similar grounds too.

 

[danza]

Purses and bags etc are pointless when out shopping unless you plan to carry manly things around such as WMDs, guns or pasties, in which case it is acceptable to use a bag. I normally just take a card along in my pocket, then there's no faffing about with cash at all.

 

[D.P.]

Inefficient people annoy the hell out of me. I mean, I go shopping quickly as possible because I don't have the time to dawdle around the place like a wallowing elephant like some people.

 

[RDM]

I still don't know why it's hard for people to get chip and pin. The idea is we don't touch your card. So put it in the little machine, yep now read it and do what it says. No don't put it in and start pressing keys. Let it read your card. ..... are you going to enter your pin now? No your talking to your friend.... excellent. It's not like I have other people to serve. OK now you need to pull out your card. No I cant do anything on the till until you pull out your card as my till is telling me YOU NEED TO REMOVE YOUR CARD!

Sounds like a customer service issue here, a polite prompt at each stage would speed things up a bit no end.

 

[Bubo]

Woman in the queue at WHS did nearly the same thing as the OP mentioned. I had a 30 minute lunch break and 10 minutes of the was taken up by this stupid biddy ****ing about at the checkout. What is it with wimmin and bags?

You should have used the secret checkout. There is always a secret checkout in a WHSmiths, usually where the books or stationary are. Don't tell everyone though.

 

[D5T]

People who answer their phone at EVERYONE else's inconvenience regardless of common sense. As in the OP's case - she couldn't manage what she was already doing so adds the answering of a mobile into the equation to push it further into arena of epc failure.

 

[mame]

I prefer it when the other half's got a bag to when she hasn't, because all the pockets on her clothes are either pretend, or too small to fit anything in.

So it all goes in my pockets and I look like a clown.

**** off, get your own pockets, these have got my stuff in! I PLANNED AHEAD

And when say they "slow down, I can't walk in these shoes" What are they for then?

 

[Surfer]

When walking down a busy street, Say in the town centre and somebody is walking towards you, Do you move out of the way or do you expect them to move?

I find it's always me that takes the side step lol.

99 times out of a 100 its me that moves....i put this down to them being automatons/zombies (see D.Chalmers) or i just notch it up to another +1 in favour of my solipsism theory.

Because surely a concious being when seeing coming towards it...it moves out of the way....

Curiously..a lot of you feel the same...but there must be a heap of you that are secretly non-movers that are only saying you move out of the way...you sneaky selfish baskets ehh.

 

[theevilsam]

I'm a cashier and i have slowly been going mad these past few years. The only way i get though the day is by smiling manically and inventing ways of causing the customer great amounts of pain silently in my head.

Honestly, all the shouting i do in my head is probably gonna put me in a coma one of these days...

and yes, i did just give you your membership card back, its in your hand for gods sake aaaargh!!!

 

[Overlag]

Get this all the time. Tesco staff are rated on there "speed" they serve customers through the tills, but whoever made up those guidelines really didnt think about customers like in the OP.

get two or three of these customers a day (which is not hard, 50% of our customers are like the OP's) and you can be getting disciplinaries for being too slow... Keep being slow and you get fired. Hardly fair when its the ******* customers fault is it?

Oh what fun this recession is.

 

[Dark_Angel]

Get this all the time. Tesco staff are rated on there "speed" they serve customers through the tills, but whoever made up those guidelines really didnt think about customers like in the OP.

get two or three of these customers a day (which is not hard, 50% of our customers are like the OP's) and you can be getting disciplinaries for being too slow... Keep being slow and you get fired. Hardly fair when its the ******* customers fault is it?

Oh what fun this recession is.

That is massively unfair...

So basically in theory if you didn't like someone you could send a few people to that persons checkout at different times of the week and be as slow as possible till they got fired? if so that is harsh?

BTW - I am not sure but your signature may break the rules, it is displaying as a few text lines on top of your image for me. Might be my browser acting weird.

 

[Overlag]

That is massively unfair...

So basically in theory if you didn't like someone you could send a few people to that persons checkout at different times of the week and be as slow as possible till they got fired? if so that is harsh?

BTW - I am not sure but your signature may break the rules, it is displaying as a few text lines on top of your image for me. Might be my browser acting weird.

Yup, very harsh, only 4 people "pass" in my store anyway so they wont be firing people any time soon, other wise they'd have no checkout staff (nothing new there).




only one line here, and smallest text possible. been ok to the mods for a year now. What browser you using?

 

[Dark_Angel]

Yup, very harsh, only 4 people "pass" in my store anyway so they wont be firing people any time soon, other wise they'd have no checkout staff (nothing new there).




only one line here, and smallest text possible. been ok to the mods for a year now. What browser you using?

Have staff explained to them that some customers are just... well, slow?

Firefox. No idea, it's set to default text size?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

It grinds my gears when you're behind someone at the Deli counter and they take 3 tickets from the machine (seemingly unable to pull off 1? ) then decide to buy fifteen different meats. After which the girl is calling the 2 "missing" numbers and everyone is stood around pee'd off.

I do all my shopping online. MySupermarket.co.uk + free delivery coupon = no annoying queues and hassle.

 

[jp_bl_68]

I always avoid any queues with elderly people and women. They're too talky. Get in a queue that just has men and you're guaranteed to get things done a lot quicker.

 

[Mailman86]

On a positive note, I was behind this old lady at the checkout once and she was taking her time, but it was in the middle of the day during a week day so fair enough. I only just got back from work though and so didn't have any of the reusable carrier bags with me, so the lady in front gave me a few of hers! I'm quite happy to use the standard ones if I don't have any of the reusable ones with me, so I initially refused, but she insisted. So in the politest way I could, I said something like "erm.. thanks!"

To be fair, I think she thought you had to pay for any bags you didn't bring yourself, so she thought she was saving me a few pennies, but it is the thought that counts!

 

[Amp34]

Curiously..a lot of you feel the same...but there must be a heap of you that are secretly non-movers that are only saying you move out of the way...you sneaky selfish baskets ehh.

That's what I wonder, apparently "everyone" moves out the way... odd...

 

[agnes]

I'm really sad when it comes to things like this, or maybe Its cos im a man, prime example, went into H&M the other day looking for 2 items, got off my bike, undone my leathers, was on my own so prepared.

Put my card in my leathers inside pocket, as well as my mobile phone, put gloves in helmet and secured it in a locker in the parking area. Put bag on my back and started walking, went straight into H&M, got my belt, spotted my shirt at the same time, picked that up. Went straight to the checkout when all of a sudden I got side tracked. 3 pairs of socks for £2! So, back tracked 2 steps, picked up 3 bundles, sorted.

Checkout, card in, bagged up, card out, off I walk...

Now that to me was a NIGHTMARE...

But, I knew what I needed/wanted so prepared before wading through tons of people that are not organised.

It takes 2 seconds to think ahead yet 5 mins to think back.

ags

 

[PiKe]

Women don't really have any forward thinking ability, if I'm at the checkout, I will actually get my card out in advance, or get the right change ready for when they ask for it, not just stand there like a lemon until I'm asked for it.