Few supermarket vents

charlie-chan

thriftymanc wrote: »

- 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 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

I agree with you on these two points. I work in a big name supermarket on a deli counter and I often get customers coming up to me barking things at me. I often go "pardon?" then they say "Where are "item"?" :rotfl:.

I do get really annoyed in any shop when people have to stand really close to me. They won't get served any quicker and I really don't appreciate smelling their own brand of smell!

I visited the M & S cafe in January and there was a very long queue waiting for the food. I was paying by card so I stood where the chip & pin machine was and there was a lady standing right next to me who didn't bother to move to allow me my privacy. I had to do a rush job to avoid my pin being seen. Grrr :mad:.

The Pick & Mix is terrible too. When I am on shift and I see kids stealing sweets, I confront them. They soon leg it! I swear I do more work than the security guard.

Come on, who gets annoyed when the security alarms go off and the security guard automatically stops you? :eek:

DCFC79

gozaimasu wrote: »

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.

i completely understand,

SHIPSHAPE

thriftymanc wrote: »

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

I remember as a student I worked stacking shelves in Sainsburys and on my last shift this snobbish twerp came up to me and rudely asked for a particular bottle of wine.

I said sorry there wasn't any left and I wasn't allowed to leave the drinks section to look and he barked 'I don't want your bloody apology!'

:mad: I just seen red and said 'I'm effing going outside and when you leave I'm going to give you a right kicking!!'

Should have seen the knob head scurrying away!

I feel for you.

Dr.Rock

thriftymanc wrote: »

I- 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

Was the most annoying part of this incident when you realised you'd missed a fantatstic opportunity to snap "Means Heinz!" back at them?

SnowBelle_2

Thanks to Shipshape I just nearly lost my coffee! that is one great retort!
One of the reasons I left retail/catering was because of the increasing rudeness of people,
I was working in a self service restaurant and politely asking a middle aged man not to save seats who then told me he was going to break my legs..I was 16 years old.
Some people really do just push any sane person's patience to the limit.

Dr_Cuckoo3

charlie-chan wrote: »

Come on, who gets annoyed when the security alarms go off and the security guard automatically stops you? :eek:

most people (yourself included ?) do not know what "really" sets the security alarms off

I find that more annoying

charlie-chan

Dr_Cuckoo3 wrote: »

most people (yourself included ?) do not know what "really" sets the security alarms off

I find that more annoying

Yeah, that's what I was referring to in my muddled post. It's normally someone else who sets the alarm off and the security guard stops you because you have several bags etc.

That's how thieves get away because they use you or another customer with lots of bags as a decoy :mad:

grimsalve

Luckyred wrote: »

Last week in Morrisons I saw a woman with a child of about five or six actually in the trolley....ugh!

How did they both fit in the trolley and who was pushing it?

Forwandert

charlie-chan wrote: »

It's normally someone else who sets the alarm off and the security guard stops you because you have several bags etc.

That's how thieves get away because they use you or another customer with lots of bags as a decoy :mad:

Your only a decoy because you are letting them, the alarm going off is irrelevant there's no reason why you have to be stopped and the guard has no right to look into or search any of your bags.

charlie-chan

Forwandert wrote: »

Your only a decoy because you are letting them, the alarm going off is irrelevant there's no reason why you have to be stopped and the guard has no right to look into or search any of your bags.

I never stop now when I go through alarms. I very rarely buy anything that is tagged and when it is tagged, I make sure it has been taken off.

The security guard where I work is useless, he is too busy stacking the shelves or reorganising the hot deli's grab and go cabinet to keep an eye on the door.... :mad: