Sainsbury's: PLEASE OPEN YOUR CHECKOUTS

QuackQuack_2

blue_monkey wrote: »

What is wrong with people these days that they cannot wait for anything?? 4 people in the queue? 15 minute wait at the most. Surely you factor this into your shopping time anyway? .

Sure, but frozen (and chilled) food waits for no man, woman or queue.

Most supermarket staff work hard. Any workplace will always have the odd shirker. Smokers being a good example - extra breaks to feed an addiction whilst others have to cover their backsides.

jamespir

all it takes is a bit of patience

soothyerboots

QuackQuack wrote: »

It's worth saying that some people who work in stores dread going on the tills, especially at busy times when the public can be really rude.

In Asda a few weeks ago the familiar war cry of 'All queue busters to the checkouts please' went out. In the same isle as me were two female Asda employees who suddenly tried to look busy. I very helpfully said loudly "Hey, I've seen both of you working on the tills before, did you not hear that announcement? There are people waiting to be served! Chop chop!".

Funny enough they did not seem to thank me for bringing their attention to the announcement - in fact, if I did not know better, I think they may have been a bit cross with me........

If you'd have spoken to me like that, I'd have smacked you one. :cool:

blue_monkey_2

QuackQuack wrote: »

Sure, but frozen (and chilled) food waits for no man, woman or queue.

Don't be ridiculous. My chilled stuff will sit in the car for at least 3 hours some days I am shopping and I have not died of food poisoning. Put your frozen stuff in 2 bags carrier bags, tie a knot in it and it'll last longer as well.

Actually, I'll shop and forget to put it away for the day sometimes and am still here. Ice cream no I agree, but everything else will not defrost to a mushy pulp in the 15 minutes you are standing in the queue.

QuackQuack_2

soothyerboots wrote: »

If you'd have spoken to me like that, I'd have smacked you one. :cool:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
You might have tried to...... sure.

boobyd

Skinted14 wrote: »

If you ever find a hard working supermarket employee, please let me know! :rotfl:

You can go into any workplace and make a general statement like that .
Judging by your tesco thread ( chump/spotty oik) you seem to have very little respect for any one, maybe look in a mirror ?.

soothyerboots

QuackQuack wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
You might have tried to...... sure.

Well I'd have given it a go! :cool:

QuackQuack_2

soothyerboots wrote: »

Well I'd have given it a go! :cool:

And a worthy go it would have been :-) If I had run away towards the check outs and you'd chased me, perhaps you could've killed two birds with one stone and served some customers whilst you were at it!

It would have been worth a slap! :rotfl:

Velcro_Hotdog

QuackQuack wrote: »

Is this just a localised phenomina, but each time I go to my local supersized Sainsbury's, the queues are usually 3+ deep and only 5-10 of the 40 checkouts are open?

I left a trolley full of stuff in there last night and just walked out in disgust. I'd never see this kind of disregard for customers in Asda (but I'd never see Sainsbury's quality in there either.....)

Please tell me this is a local issue and it's not like it everywhere in the UK?

So because you couldn't wait your turn someone had to run around putting everything back which you left? If you haven't got time to que why not go out 10 mins early, instead of creating more work for people. Or buy a magazine to read whilst waiting your turn?

You're the kind of person I would deliberatly make que longer just to wind you up further.

Azari

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

So because you couldn't wait your turn someone had to run around putting everything back which you left? If you haven't got time to que why not go out 10 mins early, instead of creating more work for people. Or buy a magazine to read whilst waiting your turn?

You're the kind of person I would deliberatly make que longer just to wind you up further.

If more people left trolleys full of goods when the queues became absurdly long the supermarket managers might buck their ideas up and get some more staff working the tills at peak times.

At the moment there is little incentive for them to avoid wasting their customer's time by having excessively long queues winding around unused checkouts.

Not that I'm suggesting people do that - it's just an observation.