Few supermarket vents

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Dave_C wrote: »

I agree that there is always some uneducated prat who will stand in front and look with their hands.:(

Including the uneducated prats that are partially sighted, I suppose?

jjj1980

Had to add to this with one that keeps happening to me....

People climbing over my daughters pram and using her foot rest to stand on to reach high shelves. Also, when she was tiny, them using her carrycot to lean on and push themselves up. :mad: The number of people that have ended up on the floor once I've seen and pulled the pram out from under them!! :rotfl:Its always when I'd literally just gotten hold of something from the shelves and am turning back to move. Does sometimes feel as though some people treat people with prams as not deserving of any courtesy. Yes, some with prams are intentionally obstructive but most aren't and just want to get done without any tantrums from their children.....or other shoppers for matter!!

Have to agree with Jojo though that there are reasons why people may need to pick items up to read/check the labels and finding they are not suitable, put them back down.

I also hate it when people just stop all of a sudden in front of you without any warning and especially when they turn round without notice and walk straight into you.

kajstring24

jjj1980 wrote: »

I also hate it when people just stop all of a sudden in front of you without any warning and especially when they turn round without notice and walk straight into you.

Yes!!!! I HATE that!! My god, it annoys me how oblivious to their surroundings people are.

Slow people get right on my nerves, I'm incredibly impatient and I do find myself getting annoyed with people unfairly, but I honestly can't help it I have to do my shopping as quick as possible, and people who walk slowly hold me up. I hate it. My OH likes to 'browse' for the most ripe pepper/softest bread etc. and it drives me up the bloody wall.

I hate other people in supermarkets. Shopping first thing in the morning is absolute bliss.

pulliptears

I remember one Easter, Tesco was heaving and I'd gone to get a few bits. Everyone was trailing round but the woman in front of me, who I couldn't get past kept stopping dead. A couple of times I ran into her, completely by accident and apologised but she wouldn't move over and still kept stopping dead. She turned around and had a right go at me, a real screaming fit. The queues were all staring at her at the checkout. When she'd finished yelling I informed her that the tampon aisle was to the left and the alcohol aisle to the right and maybe she would benefit from both. All queues burst out laughing and she finally scuttled off lmao

gozaimasu

I love this thread! Agree with most of it.

I hate parents who can't control their brats in supermarkets. Or anywhere for that matter. No matter how uncontrollable a child, it is the parents job to get it the f eck out the way of other people.

I don't know if it's just me or what, but it seems that everytime I go to the supermarket everyone there seems to think they have right of way over me. I always have to look around me all the time really cagey, just in case some uppity ar6eh0le decides to stand too close to me that I bang into them and them blame me.

I also hate that no one uses common sense. I'm walking down the "main road" in the supermarket and then lots of bl00dy idiots decide to walk out from a "side street" without even checking who they are walking into. And guess what?! It's MY fault.

I have been coming to the conclusion that I just hate people. It's turning me into a hermit. Why would I even want to go out on the street/supermarket when all I want to do is shout at all the people who think that I am in the wrong because they wrongly assumed they had right of way?!

I don't understand if it's my face or what. I am 6 foot tall and would have expected to have enough physical presence to command more right of way than somebody smaller, but for some reason their impoliteness and horrible attitude seems to get the better of me.

Thank you for this rant OP.

Luckyred

Screaming and/or badly behaved children annoy me more than anything followed closely by people on mobiles. I often wonder what could be so important that they have to ring someone up in the middle of doing their shopping or if someone rings them why cant they say "I am in the supermarket, can I ring you back?"

fa123

I hate it when you get people who open stuff up have a taste and leave the item there. I have witnessed this on so many occasions, people trying out chutneys, dips etc...disgusting! Another thing is people who bring along the whole family to do there shopping, kids everywhere and the parents are failing to control them. And you have to ask to get past...and get that stare as if you have asked a lot of them!

thriftymanc

I get really annoyed shopping too, having worked in a shop myself I have loads of gripes about customers! Having experienced 'the other side' of it I like to think I know how to conduct myself in a shop :A

Various things that I got annoyed about:

- people queueing in the wrong place so the queue would go in the wrong direction, and then another queue would form in the right direction, so people would start getting shirty with me over who got served next

- people completely ignoring the point where the queue's meant to start and standing right behind the person I'm serving, no regard for personal space and made me feel like I was too slow cos they're in such a hurry they can't afford to take four steps to my till once the current customer's walked off!

- same with people who slam all their shopping down on the counter while I'm still serving someone else

- people who would walk right past where I was standing and go to another till... when I was the only person serving. Why? And then get annoyed with me for picking their stuff up and putting it in the right place so I could serve them!

- people who dumped their shopping in the bagging area (quite obvious as it's a small space with bags in, whereas the other side of the till is a nice big flat empty area for a basket) so I had to take it all back out of the bag to scan it

- people who'd come up to the till with one item and thrust money at me but wouldn't let me take the item to scan on the till

- people who ignore you when you ask them if they want a bag, any cashback, a receipt... I'm only being polite

- or people who reply rudely for no reason. "Of course I need a bloody bag, I'm not going to carry it in my hand all day am I?" e.g. for a small bottle of Coke, how do I know you're not going to drink it now? "What the hell would I need the receipt for?" How do I know you're not buying it for someone else or claiming it on expenses or something? Gimme a break!

- people who throw a load of change down on the counter instead of putting it in your hand - takes a flipping age to pick it up when you've got short fingernails and they get annoyed when you have to count it all. Or people who throw a note at you rudely, oh, you need change, sorry, I've only got loads of grubby pennies left in my till

- people who snippily snatch things off you "otherwise you'll pack it wrong and all my food will get ruined", and then proceed to do stupid things like put a six pack of bottled water on top of croissant

- people who come up to me on the shop floor and bark something like "BEANS". I'd just ignore them until they constructed a proper sentence

- people who would get inordinately angry that I was stocking a shelf, even though I'd always be ridiculously polite and move out of their way straight away and offer to pass them something - of course these are the same people who would be demanding to complain to the store manager if whatever they wanted wasn't out on the shelf because I hadn't put it there!

- people who would come up to the till and demand that I change a note for them, I'd politely explain it was against company policy and I wasn't allowed to do it (it was to prevent being conned by people swapping money back and forth to confuse you into giving them more cash than they came in with!), then argue with me for about ten minutes holding the queue up, then storm off, then come running back over when I had the till open serving someone else and try again, what part of "sorry it's against company policy and I'll get the sack if I do it" don't you understand?!

- people who pick something up off a shelf then decide they don't want it anymore and leave it on a random shelf two feet away, usually something out of a fridge so it has to be thrown away

- people who yell when their card gets declined and say "but I've got money in the bank, you obviously don't know how to use a till properly", etc. Oh right, so I should just press the "Customer is rich enough to pay but just not right now" button to end the transaction should I?

- people who tut and say "well that's a bit expensive" when you ask for the total - did I set the prices? Did I write your shopping list for you? No so either pay up or buy something cheaper!

I'm sure you get the idea by now!

faded_flowers

How about people who go and stand at an empty till, watch you serve other customers at your till and then start shouting about how they've been waiting for ages??

I had a new one recently from a fellow customer... I was looking through a card rack (the spinning ones?) slowly turning it to see all of the cards - when she walked up and turned it the opposite way, despite clearly seeing me already looking

Dr_Cuckoo3

Checkout operators who cough / sneeze into their hands and then touch my shopping or generally cough over my shopping (particularly when buying instore bakery bread not fully wrapped)

checkout operators who spit onto their hands to assist with grip when opening carrier bags

Customers who pick their nose and use the same finger to enter their PIN number in the chip & pin machine (they seem to favour Waitrose)