Supermarket Pet Hate

thehappybutterfly

I would rather see kids in the trolley than running around. I'd rather they sat in the seat provided but as long as they're not on the loose! I can't tell you how nervous I get seeing kids running up and down the wine and spirits aisle :rotfl:

They never run up the middle of the aisle and neither do they "keep their hands inside the carriage"

daisiegg

zaxdog wrote: »

Had to dash to the supermarket at lunch today and saw again something which makes my blood boil........kids standing/sitting in the trolleys.

1. It is dangerous for the kids

2. I don't want to put my shopping where anyones outdoor shoes have been as I'd really rather not have potentially dog poo etc all over my veggies!

I know I'm going to get panned by a load of parents but surely they can either sit in the allocated "trolley seat" or walk?

Haha were you at the same supermarket as me at the same time?! I was really annoyed at the supermarket this afternoon when a really ch*vvy family were walking around with a boy who must have been 9 balancing in the trolley. I really wanted to say something but of course I didn't!

madison-nyc

pinkteapot wrote: »

While we're hovering around the subject of kids in supermarkets, can any parents on here explain to me why whole families go to the supermarket?

When I see one parent with kids in the supermarket, fair enough. Can't leave them at home. But why on earth do people go there with both mum and dad and the kids? Why not one of you go to the shop and the other stay at home with the kids? Drives me up the wall when I'm trying to get round the shop and there's families there mooching around like it's a day-trip out for them.

lol are you for real?! i didn't relalise we were under group number restrictions whilst shopping!

I mostly get my shopping delivered to save me dragging my 2 and 5 yr old round the supermarket but sometimes we'll go as a family with hubby too if we've been out for the day and nip in on the way home etc. It's easier with two parents as one can watch the kids whilst the other shops/packs.

i have put my kids in trolleys many a time and still do occasionally if it's just me and my 2 year old although he isn't allowed to stand up in them , he sits down and i pass him the shopping and he puts it in so it keeps him quiet. The dirty shoes in the trolley is a bit of a daft reason to moan about it as most trolleys are kept outdoors open to the elements and bird poo etc. so i doubt there the cleanest to be keeping your veg on anyway

daisiegg

newcook wrote: »

I hate this too – and when the cashier seems to think it’s a race to see how quickly he/she can scan my items!

Ah but unfortunately the supermarkets have targets for 'items per minute' and each operator's is recorded and they get in trouble if they're not making the target I used to hate this as a checkout girl.

mumcoll

Oh and I just remembered fat, sweaty men in vests and shorts![/QUOTE]

Fat men in low shorts who bend down in front of me and 'treat' me to a close up of their builder's bum. Gross!

Also, what happened to the conveyor belt passing your shopping down to you as you pack it away? Nowadays, it seems to be scanned and just moved into a pile right by the cashier's arm - forcing me to have to reach right over and pull it down to the end where my bags are.

claire16c

Person_one wrote: »

I've honestly never ever seen that.

But so what anyway? Does it hurt you? Do you definitely know they haven't paid for it? Do you know they haven't asked the deli staff who've told them to just hang onto the label so they pay later? Do you know if they've eaten anything else that day or if they have a medical condition?

Seriously, the world becomes a much much nicer place when you stop letting completely insignificant things like that bother you.

I used to work in Sains when I was a teenager, and the reason it used to annoy me was because people often used to eat half a chocolate bar - or worse a kid had and then give it to you with drool all over it. Totally gross.

If someone had drunk half a bottle and then screwed the top back on then I wouldnt have cared. It was half eaten stuff with undone wrappers that were the worst - especially when the eejits ripped it through the barcode and then handed it to me....

I used to hate working there with an absolute passion. Its the most boring mind numbing job. Definitely good for teenagers though - good motivation to do well at school :rotfl:

So if I go to a checkout now and the person is talking to their mate I dont care as long as theyre not delaying me. I didnt get to chat much when I was working because of the space between the checkout youd have to have yelled unless it was really quiet, and we weren't supposed to do it anyway so I was scared of getting told off.

Checkouts were the most hated role in the place. Everyone wanted to work on grocery where you just chatted and stacked shelves all day. And pretended to look out the back for stuff when a customer asked...

Even now I go in supermarkets and when its busy and they do a call over the tannoy to ask all checkout trained staff to go to the tills, I can see them avoiding it! :rotfl:No wonder there's such long queues sometimes.

But from the other side, customers are just as annoying. The half eaten thing was just 1 thing they used to do to annoy the staff!

thehappybutterfly

claire16c wrote: »

I used to work in Sains when I was a teenager, and the reason it used to annoy me was because people often used to eat half a chocolate bar - or worse a kid had and then give it to you with drool all over it. Totally gross.

If someone had drunk half a bottle and then screwed the top back on then I wouldnt have cared. It was half eaten stuff with undone wrappers that were the worst - especially when the eejits ripped it through the barcode and then handed it to me....

I used to hate working there with an absolute passion. Its the most boring mind numbing job. Definitely good for teenagers though - good motivation to do well at school :rotfl:

So if I go to a checkout now and the person is talking to their mate I dont care as long as theyre not delaying me. I didnt get to chat much when I was working because of the space between the checkout youd have to have yelled unless it was really quiet, and we weren't supposed to do it anyway so I was scared of getting told off.

Checkouts were the most hated role in the place. Everyone wanted to work on grocery where you just chatted and stacked shelves all day. And pretended to look out the back for stuff when a customer asked...

Even now I go in supermarkets and when its busy and they do a call over the tannoy to ask all checkout trained staff to go to the tills, I can see them avoiding it! :rotfl:No wonder there's such long queues sometimes.

But from the other side, customers are just as annoying. The half eaten thing was just 1 thing they used to do to annoy the staff!

I loved loved loved working in the supermarket! I started as a YTSer and progressed from there. The worse was the tills admittedly and these were the days before barcodes and scanners. All the items had price tickets and you had to ring them up - loads of mistakes used to get made. If anything came thru without a price ticket, I used to know the price of most things as I was a ticketer and stacker amongst other things. If you didn't know the price, you would have to press the button to the lady in the office and tell her what the item was and she'd look it up and tell you. It was so embarrassing if it was Dr Whites or some other lady's only item

My main job though was stock ordering. Everything had a six digit code and I'd go round the entire store and manually enter codes and quantities in my hand held "computer"! Which would then get modemed down to head office. Oh those were the days! Now everything is automatic. Where's the fun?

tori.k

It amazes me how somepeople don't realise how much pressure there is in a supermarket job there are dozen of rules and regs and targets that have to be adhered too. your checkout girl and home shopper's have pick and scan rates, the guys that work replen in the meat/freezers and cheese deptments have legal set time limits that they can have products out on the shopfloor, plus a lot of places have time limits set for certain jobs. it's more then just sticking stuff on a shelf or through a till, it's a low paid job but they make sure they have there pound of flesh by the end of your shift, nobody's ever trying to be rude, just trying to do their job's

claire16c

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I loved loved loved working in the supermarket! I started as a YTSer and progressed from there. The worse was the tills admittedly and these were the days before barcodes and scanners. All the items had price tickets and you had to ring them up - loads of mistakes used to get made. If anything came thru without a price ticket, I used to know the price of most things as I was a ticketer and stacker amongst other things. If you didn't know the price, you would have to press the button to the lady in the office and tell her what the item was and she'd look it up and tell you. It was so embarrassing if it was Dr Whites or some other lady's only item

My main job though was stock ordering. Everything had a six digit code and I'd go round the entire store and manually enter codes and quantities in my hand held "computer"! Which would then get modemed down to head office. Oh those were the days! Now everything is automatic. Where's the fun?

Yeah I worked in another store after Sains where they had a manual till, no barcodes, and I did stock ordering. Much better!

When I left Sains they got these fancy tv type screens for the cashiers that showed adverts. Thank god I left when I did! I really felt bad for the ones who had to look at that all day.

Oh yes - the embarassing products. The worst was a group of guys buying condoms..

One of my friends worked in Asda, she hated it so much she used to get her closing sign ready to hand at the start of an 8 hour shift :rotfl:

krlyr

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

My pet hate is when the check-out operators yap to each other or to other members of staff when I'm being served. It's the height of rudeness!

Definately agree with you!

Person_one wrote: »

To the bolded, yes, which is not particularly important!

Who cares if some poor sod working in a supermarket fawns over you? Do you really need their attention?

Do I need their attention? When they're getting paid to give it to me, yes! In my local supermarket they definately natter away to each other between serving customers so I think they can spare 2 minutes to serve me. I'm just as eager to get home and enjoy my free time as them so I'm not one to dawdle or make idle chitchat, but I've lost count of the times I've been served without even a word said to me, not even a "That'll be £X" or "Please put your pin number in". I got served the other evening without even a glance in my direction as she was busy discussing her evening plans with what was obviously a friend of hers who she'd just served. I try to use the self-service tills as often as I can nowadays because I just find it so rude of them - and yes, I have worked in retail before, but it was always strictly drummed into us that customers came first and you always stopped chitchat the minute a customer approached the till (and toned it down when they were browsing nearby). Yes, it's a boring job, yes, it doesn't pay well - but if I managed it, so can others.