Women at the checkout - That really grinds my gears!

On an earlier note, i try not to get out of the way, in fact i will happily stop where i am in the middle of the street so the other person has to walk around me.
Admittedly if the other person is just as adamant then it can lead to a long wait
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One more thing I remembered which you all suffered. I'll leave keywords as I'm in a rush to get to the airport.

women - 3000 pieces of makeup NOT in plastic bag - airport - checking in line
 
St.Josh said:
This is definetly the worst thing ever. I always go to say something but just give up and let them do their own thing.
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but they get the hump with you when they dont get to use there reward card because they've inserted there payment card before you even asked.

hell my favorite is when they stick the card in before something is even scanned... Are the General public really this stupid? or just supermarket shoppers?
 
Overlag said:
but they get the hump with you when they dont get to use there reward card because they've inserted there payment card before you even asked.

hell my favorite is when they stick the card in before something is even scanned... Are the General public really this stupid? or just supermarket shoppers?
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No no no - stick the card in and start typing their pin before I've started :p

Or before I can say hello say 'I'd like fifty pounds cashback please!' :mad:
 
Overlag said:
hell my favorite is when they stick the card in before something is even scanned... Are the General public really this stupid? or just supermarket shoppers?
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Yes, it is the general public in afraid :(

Worse still are the ignorant cretins who stand there waving/holding a note right under you nose as you attempt to scan their items.

Picture a totally empty bread section in Sainsburys (late evening, near closing time, holiday period). Not a loaf in sight anywhere. Random numpty walks up and asks the assistant if they have any bread ("Gorr eny bred mer-ate"). What do you think genius? /facepalm

People who end up queuing three times because they forgot certain items and then complaining about the wait.

I have also lost count of the number of coffin dodgers and similar fruit cakes who have smashed bottles/jars by dropping them off the shelf and then just wandered off, making no effort to alert an assistant to the mess and broken glass.

And people who don't get their wallets/purse out at the till point (usually in pubs this one). Do they not a realise that they are going to have to pay? Part-time drinkers :p

FFFFFUUUUUUUU

/Woosa :p
 
Psymonkee said:
Or before I can say hello say 'I'd like fifty pounds cash back please!' :mad:
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"no, you can't have cash back. Why?, WHY? This is a shop, you give me money, not the other way round. There is a cash machine literally 1 minute down the road. no you cant speak to the manager, he's just had a heart attack from having to listen to a bunch of obnoxious old biddies talking about rights... AAArgh!!!"

Of course if they are friendly and polite about it then i don't mind, but there are so many people who are just so up themselves...

*goes outside to cool off for a bit*
 
skippi90 said:
Agreed. Hate people who take an age to pay for something. And those who insist on paying for even the smallest of items by card.... ARGH!
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I am the oposite, I hate it when people insist on paying for things by cash counting out all their bloody coins. If I pay by card its 10x faster.


A: Get out wallet, open wallet, get card, put card in pad, wait, pin, done and go.
B: Get out waller, open waller, count out change, check pockets for extra change, get out notes, hand over handful of crap to cashier who tried to work out what it is, wait for cash draw to open, cashier counts money back in to till, cashire counts out change, cahsire hands over change, you check change, done.

Whats quicker seriously. Its a misconception that paying by card is slow. Its only slow if you are unable to remember 4 easily rememberable numbers, or if you are scared of technology and try to go a -10 mph whilst entering your pin, taking a good 10 minute to type each number.
 
unknowndomain said:
I am the oposite, I hate it when people insist on paying for things by cash counting out all their bloody coins. If I pay by card its 10x faster.


A: Get out wallet, open wallet, get card, put card in pad, wait, pin, done and go.
B: Get out waller, open waller, count out change, check pockets for extra change, get out notes, hand over handful of crap to cashier who tried to work out what it is, wait for cash draw to open, cashier counts money back in to till, cashire counts out change, cahsire hands over change, you check change, done.

Whats quicker seriously. Its a misconception that paying by card is slow. Its only slow if you are unable to remember 4 easily rememberable numbers, or if you are scared of technology and try to go a -10 mph whilst entering your pin, taking a good 10 minute to type each number.
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Cash is generally faster.

Card delays:

Card insertion issues - wrong way, unexpected machine design, wont read etc...
Machine -> card company communication (unavoidable)
Possible card rejection
Incorrect PIN retries
Button pressing issues
May ask for a signature - even with a PIN card this can still occur (so always sign your card ^_^)
machine -> card company communication again (unavoidable)

I will also add that the machine communication can be anything from a handful of seconds to over a minute, no guarantees on speed.

Cash delays:

Counting out cash at the till as many mixed coins - however a few coins are OK
Fake/foreign coinage/notes (very rate tbh)


The fastest way to pay is cash using notes only / a few coins, exact money in a few coins pre-sorted is fastest of all. A fistful of mixed coins is not fast.

Of course there are fast and slow transactions with both. How fast it is for YOU entirely depends on how prepared you are and how easy you make it for the cashier.


Ahhhh I know too much :(
 
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I'm a cashier in a large toy shop and this reallly winds me up when women spend so long at my checkout. Fair enough you get quite a few women who know exactly what they're doing and go about paying quite purposefully but the majority are just like the OP described.

My nightmare is getting a family coming through at once where you have granny wanting to pay for her items using her card "I've left my glasses at home, can I enter my PIN yet?" - maybe if you have actually put your card in the reader or handed it to me to put in, it will ask you to enter your PIN in a few seconds! So granny goes searching in her handbag for her purse and card and battles to insert it into the reader any way that it fits adament that each way is correct and that she will do it herself. Then just as granny is actually about to enter her PIN Mum shouts "Wait! I have a loyalty card!" Now here's where the OP's little rant comes in, mum goes digging in her massive handbag for the purse and can't find her card there so it must be in the card wallet which she then goes searching for before discovering that it's not there and remembers that Dad has the loyalty card in his wallet which he goes searching for in his pockets to discover it's left in the car.

So whilst dad goes out to the car to get his wallet granny and mum talk random jibber jabber while the kids do their best to destroy the remainder of the shop they haven't wrecked already when the time could be used to prepare for the next load of transactions. Finally dad is back and just as daft as his wife he waits to get to the checkout before searching his wallet for the card! Often this is the point where it's discovered the card is now lost and the process as to how to obtain a new one has to be explained.

Eventually granny is done and dusted and it's mum's turn. After fighting with the children as to what items she is buying it's time to dig out that purse that she put away (insert OP here where she faffs about for what seems an eternity) before eventually getting to the childrens turn who have to pay for their items separately to save all the argueing and crying! They can't keep their own money of course so mum has to search in her big bag for their individual wallets/purses for each child where she insists on using up all their change to pay for the toys joking that they have just emptied their money boxes! Really organised mums come loaded with money bags already sorted into different amounts and look at you in discust when you open them to count out the change! Now comes another problem mum has to add money as they don't have enough so out comes the purse and card again! Repeat this for 2 or 3 children and finally when you think they're about to go they go back into the shop to do it all again! :(

I think I need a new job.
 
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I would read your post, but it's late and all I can see is a a big white blur...

You see that big key on the right? That's the enter key... :p
 
They should teach queuing etiquette in schools.

Doesn't matter what I'm queuing for, whether it be shopping, turnstiles, bus etc I always take the opportunity to get whatever it is I need ready while in the queue.

Same goes for car keys, annoys me if we are walking back to my wife's car and she hasn't got the key out in time to zap it before we arrive.
 
Don't forget the pervs.
We've got two regulars in our store, I really don't know why they haven't been banned yet, especially as I always end up serving them as I'm the male on the tills late. :rolleyes:
All they ever do is ogle up anything with a skirt and ask why they're not being served by 'that nice girl'

We've also got various pet nutjobs- An old lady who insists on discussing her incontinence at the top of her voice :eek: , several eastern european hobos with voices, a bloke who leaves his milk on the side and then comes back to try for a refund when it goes off and plenty more who're simply odd....

The joys of running the kiosk for a city-centre Tesco.

-Leezer-
 
I think that a problem lies not just with the customers, but also the cashiers - especially in Morrisons. In the Morrisons near me, whenever I'm done and pull into the checkout and begin unloading, the miserable sow behind the till always has to say "Oh I'm closed now". That's it. No apology, no redirecting me to another checkout, just "I'm closed now". This happens 100% of the times I go there, guaranteed.

Even worse are the ones who see fit to inform you of this only after you've loaded about 15 of your items onto the belt. And even worse than that are the ones that have the bare faced cheek to ask you to pull the chain thing across to indicate the checkout is closed.
 
Sometimes cashiers are away in a little world of their own which keeps them sane or being distracted by the current customer that they don't notice another customer coming when they're trying to get off their checkout. It can be a nightmare trying to go for a break or even go home when new customers keep appearing! If this ever happens to me I would often get the customer that has just appeared to shut off my register by closing the gate and in return I don't make them move to another till.

The one thing that really annoys me though in this situation is when another customer comes along and re-opens the register lane and starts piling on their shopping without even asking if I am open or not. In this situation I am quite happy to inform them to go somewhere else.
 
Steve2000 said:
I think that a problem lies not just with the customers, but also the cashiers - especially in Morrisons. In the Morrisons near me, whenever I'm done and pull into the checkout and begin unloading, the miserable sow behind the till always has to say "Oh I'm closed now". That's it. No apology, no redirecting me to another checkout, just "I'm closed now". This happens 100% of the times I go there, guaranteed.

Even worse are the ones who see fit to inform you of this only after you've loaded about 15 of your items onto the belt. And even worse than that are the ones that have the bare faced cheek to ask you to pull the chain thing across to indicate the checkout is closed.
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damn so when you finish your shift at work you are fine staying 20minuntes unpaid because more jobs keep coming up? you do realise if someone has finished there shift they have to close down a till? If they didnt they would be there *ALL* night. How else are they supposed to finish there shift?

You're just like the people that complain at 9 that i only have 5 tills out of 27 open. Well duh, theres only 5 customers in the store, of corse i dont need checkout 27 open :rolleyes:
 
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