Few supermarket vents

farmers-marketeer

Many years ago on Barnet market I wanted to buy a Christmas tree having selected my tree I asked for a price 3/6d i was told "about 17p" a woman pipes up you charged me 5/- 25p for one smaller than that, without missing a beat the vendor says half a crown 12.5p mate the woman was about to further protest but heard the words if you don't keep quiet I will give him the bloody thing, end of story.

kr15snw

Agrhhh.

Was in the self service queue the other morning and had been waiting a minute of so (there were a few in front of me when i got there). Just as I went to walk to a machine a woman walked in from the side and went to go to the machine (she hadn't been lined up, had only just appeared). I was just in front of her so popped my basket down and she stood next to me and said loudly 'oh that's ok, you can have MY machine. I don't mind lining up'. Considering there was a queue that she ignored I just chose to ignore her and then she said 'The word your looking for is THANK YOU'.

She then turned around to the girl with her (about 5ish?) and said 'that dear is someone who is rude and doesn't know manners'. At which point my friend turned around to me and said 'that dear is someone who thinks they are better than us, and doesn't feel the need the queue with the minions'.

The member of staff next to me giggled and the woman then stormed off to the back of the queue.

chewynut

I don't have many complaints since I'm a fairly chilled out person but the one thing that does make my blood boil is the supermarkets with their stupid "you must look 21/25 or older to be served" thing.

I'm 21 but I don't look it if I'm not dressed for work (do you wear your smartest clothes when shopping in ASDA at the weekend?) so I'm always having to prove my age. Even if it's the middle of a school day and I'm paying with plastic. Being ID'd is fine and dandy now I have my prov. license but before that, when you don't have any kind of ID, you might as well not exist.

What on Earth do supermarkets think I'm going to do with a PG rated Blu-Ray version of "Planet Earth"?

calleyw

I was in a little tescos express the other day.

I was waiting for till with a real live person.

The person at the till in front of me was a little old lady with a couple of items. Then a little old bloke popped out of no where and said we are together.

Then they proceeded to sort out who was paying for what. And paid for different items.

Cheeky git :rotfl:

I also hate people who have one man and their dog with them when at a till. It only takes one person to pay. I send my husband out of the way if I am paying. And if he is only stay to help as he is one handed.

Yours

Calley

Cool_Mint

loracan1 wrote: »

It's people whistling at the checkout that drives me to want to commit bodily harm.

I second that, whistling may be considered an innocent habit but when it's some old git reeking of Old Spice and stale sweat who thinks he's a crooner from the 1950's whistling Max Bygraves tunes at full volume it's bordering on anti-social. Even worse is when they start humming (usually at the top of their lungs) and they make that godawful grating/warbling noise in their throats.

Widelats

OK my next is the extremely overweight couple, who go to the basket checkout with a trolley thinking its not a lot (its a lot) but the staff are so "customer first be polite and say nothing" that they don't say anything to them, then they go pay, slowly as possible by chip & pin card, while having a conversation between themselves, slowing things further, so slow that the checkout woman is looking at her nails and obviously waiting, the queue grows even more until the go lightleys are decided to finish, then they want cash back at the end of the transaction ..... i feel my temperature getting higher with every passing few seconds of time taking antics...this happened today.

pulliptears

thriftymanc wrote: »

Aww bless, wait until you're in your late twenties with flipping crows feet starting to make an appearance and you're STILL being asked for ID when you fancy a bottle of chenin blanc with your £100 of grocery shopping... when I look in the mirror these days I see my mum staring back at me so god knows what the checkout assistants that serve me keep seeing!

wait until you are late thirties and still getting asked for ID when you go and see a band in the local club, and, when you cant produce any at all, because frankly at 37 you don't especially think you need it, are given a lovely red 'NO ALCOHOL' wristband and spend the night on cans of coke :mad::mad:

chewynut

pulliptears wrote: »

wait until you are late thirties and still getting asked for ID when you go and see a band in the local club, and, when you cant produce any at all, because frankly at 37 you don't especially think you need it, are given a lovely red 'NO ALCOHOL' wristband and spend the night on cans of coke :mad::mad:

At the rate the supermarkets are going, I probably still will be getting ID'd when I'm old and grumpy. I swear that everytime I reach the required age, they go and raise it again!

mttylad

I sometimes eat when at the supermarket, perhaps a cake or something similar, usually because I'm hungry when I go there and we al know that going shopping when hungry makes you buy more so eating something helps reduce this.
I always pay for it though, put the empty packet etc on the conveyer.

What I have to say to those that meet people and feel the need for a large gathering to chat - is blooming well move to the side when doing this.

My son works in Asda when not at Uni, on the tills etc - he uses hand wash, not because he picks his knose but because when customers
insist on touching him he does not know if they washed their hands when they just went to the toilet!
My wife works there too - the number of rude, arrogant and damned cheeky customers is beyond a joke.
Often they are after getting something for free, returning spectacles that are 2 years old and demanding hey are replaced because they sat on them etc.

I have picked up a few good suggestions for responses to some of the other shoppers reading this.

Blackpool_Saver

greektony wrote: »

All the reasons above is exactly why I avoid ASDA. The mecca of the un-washed and un-educated

aaah yes, but also for those who want to save a bit of money, I go very late at night so as to avoid the great unwashed !!!!