Grocery store pet peeves

>if you don't work there who gives a toss
wasting food because you're too lazy to put it back is pretty shitty m8

>when you have a lot of items in your cart late at night and people are coming to the register with very few items and you have to make a decision on how many people you're going to let go in front of you and when you're finally done a person comes to the register with a single item and you avoid making eye contact

Fuck the stores for not opening more registers or not having self checkouts

>Why do grocery stores do this?
A lot of bigger stores don't look at total profit as much as profit margins. Often it works out to be better to completely write something off than to make less than 100/200/300 percent profit on it, depending on product.

Remember the guy deciding prices makes no more money if they sell better. Their only incentive is to not piss off the people above them.

I'd like for grocery stores to have a single queue so I wouldn't have to figure out which register choice won't make me look like a thirsty weirdo. Micro Center has one line and I like it.

i know that fucking feel, habened recently; let just one woman with two items ahead of me. they really should just have a less than 10 or 5 item lane and a normal one

here, fuck you

>why are middle aged white women such cunts?

Because they were "daddy's little princess" and boys are taught to never hit women. They never learned to give a shit about other people and the consequences of being a shit person.

I mean a single queue split between the same number of registers. It's done that way in some countries, but estadouinidenses like to pretend they're the boss after being abused all day by their employers.

Our Walmarts have this now in Canada in addition to self-serve areas

I think the US still has the old style because everybody thinks they can save time by choosing the right lane. Its still like this at Costco (only other store with massive volume) and I hate it.

When they put more and more of some crap candies, soda or other overpriced trash in walkways. Somtimes to the point you almost can not walk trough.

Loud children.

>old ladies who pay with a check

Infuriating

>peak hours
>only two lanes open out of ten normal and two express
>one of them is express

>random items shoved in the back of shelves
>found a curdled gallon of milk behind the Goya products
>dirty diaper behind the air freshener
>cheeseburger behind the iced teas

>groups of people clogging the aisles who aren't even browsing
>literally just talking
>feels like high-school all over again

>pushy assholes who barge through the deli line claiming they were next
>see that same person try to hide what they ordered in another aisle, and pick up the prepackaged shit instead

>find product I like
>they stop carrying it by the next visit

>hourly walkie call for cashier backup because they only schedule 3 or 4 cashiers for each shift
>customers leaving shit on the wrong aisle, some even looking at me while they do it
>customers leaving carts haphazard in the cart area when the rest of them are neatly parked and tucked in
>customers blowing me off when I ask them if they need help finding anything 5 minutes before closing
>that one bitch supervisor that never shuts the hell up about reminding me of various aspects of my job despite the fact that she never worked in my department and still has no clue what she's talking about
I've only been working here for a year, but I swear to god the only thing keeping me in this job is the pay

>be 16
>stacking shelf
>cart back some boxes
>slip
>whack head on the floor
>no yellow signs
>notice the smell
>slipped in some kids piss
>as I walk back to change my clothes I see that little shit and his mother running out from the bathroom

Children shouldn't be allowed in stores.

Some cashier ones.
>People who shop(make final decision) at the register.
>People who stack shit vertically on the belt.
>Customers that don't use dividers.
>Customers that don't grab their bags until transaction is over or I'm so full I need to ask.
>Customers that put really heavy shit on the belt.
>Customers asking for discounts on damaged items.
>Customers that don't understand their own payment methods.
>Having more than 1 cart. (unless it's really big shit)
>Fucking clothes without tags.
>Fucking with the carousal while I'm bagging.
>Self checkout (ALL OF IT)

I pulled a gun on a coon for acting stupid in the restroom.
Shut right up.

I never know where to look when I'm standing in line for the cashier.

it's really easy nowadays
just use your phone

Stare at their eyes, remember user they're trapped with you (;

>peak hours
>only two lanes open out of ten normal and two express
>one of them is express

>random items shoved in the back of shelves
>found a curdled gallon of milk behind the Goya products
>dirty diaper behind the air freshener
>cheeseburger behind the iced teas

>groups of people clogging the aisles who aren't even browsing
>literally just talking
>feels like high-school all over again

>pushy assholes who barge through the deli line claiming they were next
>see that same person try to hide what they ordered in another aisle, and pick up the prepackaged shit instead

>find product I like
>they stop carrying it by the next visit

>pass by little kid in one of those cart seats
>she says hi
>smile and wave gently at her as I pass by out of habit
>kid giggles
>the mother has this look of disbelief and terror on her face

a few more
>clearly mark my availability and give plenty of notice (usually a month or so) if it ever changes
>manager still constantly schedules me for shifts I can't work due to classes, gets upset because I "didn't give proper notice"

>come in for a closing shift
>previous shift's worker did fuck all in terms of sales floor shit, obviously dicked around in the backroom for the entire shift
>get blamed for the overflow of re-shop for the department

>have to scan and throw out perishable items left on shelves every night before closing
>overnight team makes sure to block all possible paths to the trash compactor
>get angry when I move shit out of the way to bring the perishable bin through to process it all

How much is the pay?

A question by a customer to the employees.

I'm one of those people who can't grab the item that is right on the aisle, but always takes the one behind or under that item.

Do you know about that phenomenon, is there a name for it and what is your attitude towards people like that?

>"Buy one get two free!" deal on pork ribs
>the price is triple what it usually is

>be me
>starting working at a grocery store about two weeks ago
>cashiering yesterday
>old hag kept laying down handfuls of unsorted change to pay her total
>called me an idiot when I didn't count it fast enough for her

People are my pet peeves. Fuck this gay Earth.

I hate being asked if I want to donate at every single goddamn store. I no longer go to Petco because I don't have a fucking dollar to give every time I go in. I don't give a shit about your charities that I can't use as a tax writeoff.

>I'm one of those people who can't grab the item that is right on the aisle, but always takes the one behind or under that item.
Sure you can, you just choose not to.

>>Do you know about that phenomenon
Of course.

>> is there a name for it
silly? OCD? fucked in the head? take your pick.

>>and what is your attitude towards people like that?
You have a mental issue. Then again, so do a great many customers. Nobody really cares though. The behavior makes no sense, but it doesn't cause problems for the staff so we really don't care. There are plenty of customers whose silly habits cause problems for the store. Yours does not so we pretty much ignore you.

>little girl sitting in cart
>mother gave her a bag of grapes
>is happily munching on them
>randomly screaming at the top of her lungs in joy

Torn between the theft/annoyance and the adorableness of it

>little boy all alone and crying
>too afraid to approach and be accused of anything
>also too afraid to just leave him to go get a manager

>sir you've spent $24.99 on pet food and a monster energy drink, would you like to add one more dollar to help abused animals?
>sorry that's just too expensive

I have to watch every damn dollar that comes in due to burger medical expenses.

BIG FAT ASS IN SKIN TIGHT PANTS DOWN EVERY AISLE

People who put the cart BEHIND themselves in the checkout lane. Honestly, what the fuck are you doing? I can't add my items.

Remember this logic Everytime you deal with a nigger.

White people are the new nigger.

Employees should have the right to refuse people for breaking that rule if its done blatantly. Not by like 1-2 items though.

>>Customers that don't use dividers.
pisses me off when cashier does not slide dividers to the end/beginning of belt. just puts them right next to her/him

Working behind the butcher counter is what made me hate boomers so much. It's either the uppity cunt with several thousand specific demands, or the little faggot chewing on a tooth pick just waltzing around, fuck every single one of them.

>with several thousand specific demands

I'm confused. Isn't that the whole point of a clerk behind a butcher counter? To address a customer's specific needs? If they didn't have specific needs they'd just grab something out of the cooler.

>people not knowing what they're looking for walking slow as fuck and stopping at random so you almost run into them

$5.20 per hour

>Being a cuck
You were there first, they can fucking wait regardless of how many items they have.

>Not if it's 1 or 2 items
Fuck you nigger, and follow the rules.

You're paying with EBT and actually have the audacity to complain about giving a dollar to charity? Don't forget that you're a parasite that is only alive because productive individuals collectively decided to sacrifice a portion of their income to sustain your sad existence. Sort yourself out, user.

>>pass by little kid in one of those cart seats
>>she says hi
>>smile and wave gently at her as I pass by out of habit
>>kid giggles
>>the mother has this look of disbelief and terror on her face
I get the opposite issue, I ignore them because I don't want to be creepy and the parents look at me like I'm a jerk for not acknowledging their kid.

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also wide loads riding around in jazzy chairs

>having autism and going grocery shopping

>people shitting themselves while shopping

Oof, user you are the type person to ride in the shitty electric grocery carts

there's just no winning with some parents. you could save their kids life and they'll get mad at you denying their kid was ever in any danger cause that would mean they're bad parents

yeah wanting to get in, find shit where it should be and not have to navigate through large groups blocking the aisles so you can get your shit and leave is soooo autistic

>couple at the checkout
>they realize they forgot something
>one stays and the other goes back to find the item
>waste over five minutes of the people waiting in line

>hispanohablante nativo
Opinion discarded

Often times those front items are the oldest, so passing it over may lead to waste, especially in perishable foods, which isn't good for anybody.

>grocery store near me Yas some stuff I normally buy
>Stuff I usually look for at different location, same store
>Have to go to two of the same store
>Just because demographic of customers is so different it changes selection
When I make my chili for parties I gotta go to 2 different stores (not just location) solely due to what they carry. I feel off when I go into one and buy a shit ton of canned things and beef, then to another just to buy spices and seasonings and some canned peppers

>customer decides that he doesn't want cheese/meat/frozen product
>instead of bringing item to cashier so it can be promptly put away because he is embarrassed
>puts item in drink machine
>I'm cleaning registers and find spoiled goods in overglorfied cooler

70 to 80 dollars a day because laziness

Employees, what do you feel about the personalities of the people using hand baskets over carts?
Do you think they're more tolerable than those with carts?
What about the people going in to buy a bottle of something and using no basket at all?

Is your manager too dumb to tell a coworker to check all the register coolers every hour or so?

Just about
but it's also a large and popular store so normally we try to keep more people at the door to stop theives
I'm one of the few assistant managers that watches the registers

don't give a flying fuck about either of these

if you use your common sense and try not to be a complete arsehole in the first place you are miles ahead of the general populus

I hate customers. fucking hate them. the moment a person is a customer they are the most entitled little shits ever.
They leave stuff everywhere. even things from the frozen section.
Today a guy screamed at me for selling beer and wine to 16year olds(completely legal in my country) because he thought alcohol isn't allowed to be sold to people under 18.
The work is nice and all, but customers are fucking shitstains.
>inb4 wagecuck. I am a student.

>go to pickup groceries
>get everything I need and then some
>make my way up to the cashier
>they put everything in bags for me
>then they ask for money
What the fuck? When did this trend even start? Fuck you, capitalist pig. These are my groceries.

I allready found a cart at the busstation of our city... one of out carts.
yea. allways nice. isn't it. I still engage with the kid. their parents are assholes anyway.
Is this realy a thing in burger land? are you incapable of packing shit yourself? we don't do this shit here in germany.

People walking slowly in general

do you not have a list

do you not know where you are going

>People that have never been told no and freak out when they are
This is just generally

I went to a ball game and the guy next to me was standing up and leaning over the edge and an employee asked him to sit down and he argued with her for 5 minutes over it. Then when he finally sat down because she picked up her walkie talkie, she walks away and he stands up and stretches and shit. Then he turns to the guy who he went to the game with and complains about it for the rest of the game: "I can stand up when I goddamn wanna"

Of course it was a fucking boomer, I hardly needed to mention that.

>customers who put heavy shit on the belt
I do this only because i don't know what the alternative is and I'm too autistic to ask. What am i supposed to be doing?

Most people who use a hand basket either don't take their shit out and expect me to, leave their basket under the counter or in the middle of the lane for someone to trip over, or ask the stupid question of where they should put it. Put it where you found it, dummy.

Leave it in your fucking cart so I can scan it with my hand scanner.

They only do it so they can write it off on their taxes. The store doesn't need a cut of my charity.

Brudi, I always used to abuse the lack of shopping cart security back in the day and took the cart + my shit back to my apartment all the time.

>Customer loads up like 20lbs of chicken breast
>All the packages have the price striked out with a sharpie and $2 written on them
>Chicken breast not on special
>Guy obviously did it himself
>Page the manager
>Guy says "Something wrong?"
>"Yeah, Chicken breast isn't on special this week so I just want to double check"
>"Really? This is ridiculous, you can't just raise the price when someone wants to buy it"
>Manager comes over and asks "What's the problem?"
>I'm about to start but the customer says something like "Your employee here is trying to scam me"
>"What user?"
>I grab one of the packages and ask the manager, "did you do this"
>"No, we always use new tags"
>He calls the meat guys up to the front
>Customer says "This is fucking ridiculous" and storms out
>Manger tells the meat guys to repackage the meat

town bans plastic bags, douchebag supermarket doesnt even bother to get decently thick bags or handles. if i have more than 1 bag it's 2 trips or groceries on the driveway, especially if there's any frozen goods or condensation moisture. fuck shitty paper bags

Just bring your own reusable bags. I get free bags from people promoting shit all the time.

just buy a reusable bag you can fold up in your pocket. you can even shop around to find one of the size, shape, fabric etc personally tailored to your specific autism

If you do get a reusable bag please get one with the little loops so the cashier can hang it and not have to balance everything while keeping your bag open.

>communism joke goes over the nazi's head
Why is no one surprised?

>Work at a small shop in a Disney resort
>About half small groceries and half souvenirs and gifts
>People asking me why everything is so expensive
>People asking me why everything is so expensive and actually expecting me to give a justifiable answer
>People who leave all their shit on the counter for me to ring up and then go and get more stuff when there’s a line behind them
>People who throw fits when they don’t get discounts on alcohol or cigarettes
>People who don’t discipline their fucking children
>People who throw a fit because they’re not allowed to use their discounts to help their family member pay less (discount only applies to the person who has it and no one else)
>People who throw a fit that they can’t get their items refunded to their card because they don’t have a receipt and it has to be refunded to store credit

Along with all other basic retail shit.

I've tried but im forgetful and disorganized and never remember to put the damn things in my car or bring them into the store. I've resorted to doing groceries in a different town

Very few American stores expect you to bag your own things. Vast majority have employees do it for you as a courtesy; some even insist on having baggers help you take groceries out to your car.

fkn hell, if that was a ob here, that would be nice. we hardly have enough to do things needed to keep our market running.

Honestly thought, I thing customers are the worst.

>>apple pay or chip card
>patience is a virtue
tell that to literally everyone else who isnt me. i'll be down to stand around waiting for 5 mins for one person doing their shopping. but the instant i mess something up and need to do something over, people are gonna get pissed at me

Never worked at a store but I try and make the carts look better when I go there because nobody puts them away right

Okay, thanks for the answer. Was pretty much what I wanted to hear - been wondering, if certain "types" of customers have nicknames in the industry, and if I'm in one of those.

I'll try to better myself shopping, but I don't think I'll ever be able to take the first item when it comes to cosmetics. Anyone have any experience with that?

cunt house wives who are all grouchy because whatever vagina tier problems they have need to learn to be humble and respectful. Don't make your problem an associates problem. A lot is out of our control. Why would you cry to me and be huffy and passive aggresive because the rotisserie chicken is out of stock, or the pizza shop is closed. its not even my problem. i dont tell people working in places retarded stuff as if they give any cares at all. treat me and store associates like you would treat strangers on the streets. dont be so comfortable and entitled that you treat me like i'm fucking ronald mcdonald trying to make your shopping experience oh so nice. just put your head down, shut the fuck up, shove your coupons up your cottage cheese ass, and pay for your shit. There is nothing stopping me or anyone else from calling you a cunt or an asshole. there is no physical barrier between us when you're giving me awful banter and disrespecting me to my face. the fluoride and soy hasn't pacified everyone.

>he doesnt live in the midwest where none of these things happen at glorious hy-vees because the people aren't fucking assholes

where there's a helpful smile, in every aisle!

At the deli counter it feels like a constant struggle.

>1/2lb ham, sliced as thin as possible
guy shows me example thick slice
>is that as thin as the machine goes?
no
>a bit thinner please, thank you

also, why can't they remember how much i've asked for? i'm not asking them to remember a phone number, it's either a half pound or a pound of X, yet i have to confirm it for them constantly.

The deli counters are so shit in the chain supermarkets that I go to a Polish store specifically for their deli.

>>found a curdled gallon of milk behind the Goya products
That's fucking infuriating because you could make everything look presentable in your aisles as a retail cuck right before you start to restock.