Supermarket Pet Hate

GobbledyGook

delain wrote: »

On the odd occasion I bump into a small person I always apologise to the child first and then the parent. I can't believe people dont!

They really don't. The woman who turned away from a shelf and swung her basket round which walloped my daughter on the head told her to watch where she was going! There was no way of avoiding it or knowing she was going to swing it round.

Grumpygit

I was in M&S the other day and was in line - there was a woman in front of me who was hopping from foot to foot, sighing and in a hurry (I watched her walk very fast along the tills to see which one had the shortest queue)

She had two tubs of natural yoghurt, she had the correct money for them - when it was her turn, the cashier scanned them through, she reached over to get a small free bag (all bags are charged for over here) and she couldn't open it as she was rushing.

She picked up the yoghurt and bag and one yog dropped (only the top came off nothing spilt) she then tried to put it back on which wouldn't happen properly - she rushed again and picked everything up.

Took three steps away from the belt and dropped one on the floor splitting it.

She then just left it there and walked off - I thought that she was going for an assistant or something but no - she walked back into the foodhall.

After that, she walked straight out of the foodhall with another yoghurt which she just took from the shelf - at not time did she approach the supervisor - they were all looking around to see what had happened!

I was not right behind her as I could see that she was in a "tizzy" and didn't want to put pressure on her - she could have slowed down but didn't.

I couldn't believe what she did but wasn't in a position to either speak to her or the supervisor as she was straight out of the door!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Grumpygit wrote: »

I was in M&S the other day and was in line - there was a woman in front of me who was hopping from foot to foot, sighing and in a hurry (I watched her walk very fast along the tills to see which one had the shortest queue)

She had two tubs of natural yoghurt, she had the correct money for them - when it was her turn, the cashier scanned them through, she reached over to get a small free bag (all bags are charged for over here) and she couldn't open it as she was rushing.

She picked up the yoghurt and bag and one yog dropped (only the top came off nothing spilt) she then tried to put it back on which wouldn't happen properly - she rushed again and picked everything up.

Took three steps away from the belt and dropped one on the floor splitting it.

She then just left it there and walked off - I thought that she was going for an assistant or something but no - she walked back into the foodhall.

After that, she walked straight out of the foodhall with another yoghurt which she just took from the shelf - at not time did she approach the supervisor - they were all looking around to see what had happened!

I was not right behind her as I could see that she was in a "tizzy" and didn't want to put pressure on her - she could have slowed down but didn't.

I couldn't believe what she did but wasn't in a position to either speak to her or the supervisor as she was straight out of the door!

Thrush can be a terrible thing, I hear.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

mrcow wrote: »

Supermarkets have trolleys with 2 seats available.

I know because I have used them for many years.

My daughter was the smallest in her class and there is no way her legs enabled her to get into a supermarket trolley seat after about 3 years old, as they were just too long to get in.

dontone

People who are texting whilst pushing the trolley, then just stop dead in front of you. Seems to happen mainly in the already busy fruit n veg aisle.
Happened to me today in ASDA. Nearly parked me trolley where I shouldn't have done

angelil

tori.k wrote: »

thank you I am actually & I was being facetious, the cages/flatbeds are placed in the middle of the isle so there is space either side for people to pass but sometimes a bit of patience is needed, you wont have any issue carrying your weeks shopping home if there is no stock on the shelf.

You obviously don't go to the same supermarket I do (thank goodness ). At the one I go to they have the nice habit of shoving the cages up against the side of a shelf...so firstly you can't see what's on the shelf in the first place...then they are in the way...then a load-bearing column is in the way...making the whole thing into a complete obstacle course. The staff also have a tendency to talk loud and fast to their colleagues while working slowly and ignoring customers. Typically, sod's law also dictates that the items they tend to have in stock that I need are also the heaviest (milk, juice etc)

Makes me wonder why I shop there really when I put it like that

And you'd be pretty impatient too if you had to leave for work at 7.20a.m., get back at 7pm and still have to do the weekly shop and get the dinner on...

cootuk

I hate people that smell - either of mould from unwashed clothes or of really, really cheap deoderiser.
You pass them first in one aisle and gag at the smell.
You then try to time it so you either don't pass them again or even have to travel in their 'wake'.
Somehow, even though you try to rush ahead, they skip aisles and you see them heading towards you again...eurghhhh

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

puddy wrote: »

if only this were true, i feel you're being overly optimistic here! the lesson normally learned is how to row constantly, shout into phones and skid about on the aisles

Mine learned to identify vegetables, colours, pattern recognition from cartoon shopping lists when tiny, then how to select the best produce and how to identify supermarket psychological tricks/bargains that weren't, that kind of thing.

Then, when I had an RA flare, I'd wrangle the terrible twosome into coming shopping with me on a Saturday/Sunday morning to help carry things.


I did notice that the youngest was better behaved in Waitrose than Sainsbury's; perhaps because there wasn't bright orange signage everywhere, lots of visual clutter, physical clutter on corners, mid aisles, at the tills, everywhere, plus fewer kids with heelies.



But once Ocado decided to deliver to my area, that became my saviour. Much to the despair of the delivery men who had to carry a month's worth of cat food, cat litter, washing powder and all other heavy things up five flights of stairs


When I go back to work, I'm in two minds whether to continue as I am, shopping at funny times, or whether to go back to deliveries. As I don't have to buy for the girls anymore, it would be less frequent, but anything is better than dragging a ton and a half of cat food home by hand.

FatVonD

angelil wrote: »

You obviously don't go to the same supermarket I do (thank goodness ). At the one I go to they have the nice habit of shoving the cages up against the side of a shelf...so firstly you can't see what's on the shelf in the first place...then they are in the way...then a load-bearing column is in the way...making the whole thing into a complete obstacle course.

They do that at mine too, I'd thought late night shopping would be a brilliant idea but whole shelves were inaccessible so I ended up going home and ordering online :rotfl:

meer53

I don't mind supermarkets, or the people who go there. We all have to eat, we can't all shop at Waitrose (not very MSE anyway !) I just go in, get what i need and come out, if i get held up by OAP's, chavs or whatever, so what ?

I usually shop when i know i'm not going to be rushing to get out, usually on a Saturday morning, yes the shops are busy, but it's just a fact of life that most people work Mon-Fri.

I've put my kids in the trolley, and given them stuff to eat whilst going round the store, always paying for it. I'm not really bothered whether other people like it or not, they're my kids and as long as they don't bother anyone, it's up to me what i do with them.

I find that if you're ok with the checkout people, they're usually ok with you.