The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

dealer_wins

All these hassles are a lot better than having to visit 10-20 different shops like we did when I was a kid.

GoPD

Those loud televisions for JML and such that are always broacasting adverts over and over.

In my local Range store there are four or five of them all next to one another all with different adverts, you can't hear yourself think by them.

GoPD

getzls wrote: »

Well this p!ssed me off yesterday. In Tesco 09-30 and the tannoy called all managers to front of store. As i was trying to decide what one of only three open tills to use i counted said managers. 14! Yes FOURTEEN. Get on a blo@dy till.:cool:

Similar thing in Morrison's the other week. We've been travelling to a morrisions a town over because its less congested with stock and quicker to get served however they have now cut down on staff there and two weeks ago we had to queue for over 25 minutes to pay, longer than we spent filling our trolley.

Five managers eventually noticed the ques, once you couldn't move for people wanting to pay, and after asking for more staff to come to work on the tills with no results ended rifling through some clipboards and calling people by name to come and work on the tills. All the time the five of them stood doing nothing.

GoPD

...and one final one. When you are trying to browse a section of a shop and the staff either come to tidy up where you are looking or else to restock that area. If it were me I would wait for the person but the other day in Debenhams the woman all but pushed me out of the way in her efforts to make sure all the hangars were pointing the same direction.

I left the shop in the end but was tempted to go back just to muddle them up again.

I_luv_cats

Supermarkets

@ Morrisons Self Service Tills it doesn't even let you get a couple of bags ready before you get the bagging warning message (does it think I am a product avoiding the scanner?)

@ Tesco - The first hour they only have Self Service so you have to put a trolley load through yourself if you go in early.

@ Morrisons - They never have much fresh produce (Bread/Meat/Fruit n veg) when they open. Freshness dates are getting worse. Where's the so called price crunch?

@ Morrisons - They have empty main shelves YET they have full stocks in promotional bays - are they silly enough to not stock up both areas?

Dave_C_2

Some of my peeves

• Big queue at the counter but only one person serving, when other members of staff are just standing about talking.
• Unmanned tills when they are busy - 40 tills but only 10 are open. At my local Tesco superstore I have yet to see all the tills in use!
• Loud, totally inappropriate music in some shops. For example Ibiza club music selected by bored teenager sales assistant (Mainly shoe shops)
• No I don't want a mobile top-up or stamps (Mainly Wilko)
• No we don't need help packing, you can tell because I've got a big blue Ikea bag in the trolley ready to pack (Tesco)
• No I don't want cheap chocolate (mostly newsagents)
• Roped off queues because they haven't got enough people on the tills. A big queue is a sign of bad service (Are you listening Boots?)
• Dorks buying a newspaper or magazine with a credit card (W.H. Smith).

And finally can we please have a "I've got the right money in cash and only one or two items" till.

Dave

allybee101

oldone wrote: »

Long queues at most check outs. Pick one with only one person waiting.

This person happens to be shopping for ten other people and wants each batch rung through seperately, with receipt and change given for each.

Came across the ultimate last week. Woman (why is it always women) had divided her shopping into three. One lot she paid with a debit card, another with a credit card and the last with cash. Seperate receipts for each transaction of course.

Maybe the lady was shopping for eldery/ poorly relatives/ neighbours who couldn't get to the shop?

Or was at the end of her payslip and was splitting her shopping across three ways as she's not a regular on this site!

And seeing as we're making generalisations on gender, why is it always men that pack heavy items on top of the bread/ fruit so it gets squashed?

Azari

Dave_C wrote: »

And finally can we please have a "I've got the right money in cash and only one or two items" till.

That was a major annoyance at the local Somerfield back in the day.

The 'quick service' till was also the 'kiosk' so you had to try and work out whether the two people in that queue with a couple of items each were likely to be losers who would:

1) Pay for their items.
2) Ask for cigarettes
3) Ask for a half a bottle of scotch
4) Get their lottery card validated
5) Get their friend's lottery card validated
6) By a selection of scratch cards
7) Get their gas key reloaded
8) Get their electricity key reloaded

It was, on occasion, possible to wait ten minutes for a single person to go through that lot whilst people with fully loaded trolleys sailed through the normal checkouts.

Gingernutty

"ARE YOU USING YOUR OWN BAGS?"

Press YES

"PLEASE PLACE YOUR BAGS IN THE BAGGING AREA!"

Place bag (which weighs more than the standard carrier bag) in bagging area

"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!"

Short pause as machine waits for override code from supervisor but no one available/fast enough

"PLEASE CALL FOR HELP!"

EVERY F*CKING TIME! :mad:

Now I don't place my bag in the BAGGING AREA and just put the items on the flat surface beside the carrier bag dispenser and pack my stuff after the transaction.

"DID YOU USE YOUR OWN BAGS?"

Press YES

"HOW MANY BAGS DID YOU USE?"

Use keypad to enter number of bags

"PLEASE TAKE YOUR CHANGE!"

"PLEASE TAKE YOUR RECEIPT!"

Pack stuff into bags

"PLEASE TAKE YOUR ITEMS!"

Short pause while I carry on stuffing items into bag

"PLEASE TAKE YOUR ITEMS!"

Short pause as I'm still stuffing things into bag and muttering quietly

"PLEASE TAKE YOUR ITEMS!"

:mad:

Once items are thoroughly stuffed into bag and lifted off the BAGGING AREA

"THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT SAINSBURY'S WOLVERHAMPTON!"

EVERY F*CKING TIME! :mad:

Crisp_£_note

My biggest :mad: at the moment is kids in trolleys! I mean the ones who stand or sit in with the food compartment not the ones in the purpose designed child seat part. Its not only dangerous but unhygenic!

Having a several items and then being asked by the cashier if I need any bags. I really have to hold myself back from saying "No thanks I can juggle them home!" :rotfl:

A checkout assistant who forgets to give out the vouchers for Schools etc.

A checkout assistant who doesnt credit 'green' points for using your own bags, or for just 2 items for being able to carry them out to the car. The self serve machies can do this so why cant they?

A cashier who argues that the blue reusable Tesco bags are only worth 1 point when it states on the side they are worth 3 (only certain bags have this).

An x items or less till

Other customers who stand so close behind me at the checkout they could be a hemaroid. have to refrain from telling them they can pay for my shopping too if they want. .Usualy same people who cough or sneeze all over me as they have no manners to use their hanky or hand! :eek: I So I go down with it tooWhatever happend to giving people space, especialy when paying by card?

Kids who think the shop is a playground.

And although this is a bit dodgy Foreigners (who have migrated over here) who have not adapted to UK manners and holiday maker muppets who leave their brains behind and clean out the shelves before we even have a chance then litter the local area adjacent to the shops (caravan / holiday park) with rubbish.

People who park in child spaces and dont have kids in car. I dont have kids but wouldnt park in those spaces but it annoys me for those who do it. Cant comment on the disabled spaces as its not always obvious.

People who drive up the car park the wrong way to the one way arrow and park in the space I was going in the right direction for

Miserable Tesco staff who cant be bothered. Staff who want to mow you down with a cage or pallet truck.

Shoppers who dont say thank you for letting them through first when others have caused a blockage.

Shoppers who reach over me or push me into the fridge, freezer or shelf to reach something and act as if I am invisible! I maybe short but I am not a kid. Hubby has to bite his toung quite a bit. I cant open my mouth as it not worth it

People who knock things off shelves or rails and dont pick them up.

People who put things back in the wrong place.

Wrong products next to shelf labels.

Suitable replacement items being totaly unsuitable !

Ordering 2 x 250 ? of something and receiving 1 x 500 ? pack

etc etc etc.