Shopping Pet Hates

balletshoes

securityguy wrote: »

How many people have a supermarket within reach, but do not have the option of online shopping?

my mum and everyone who lives in her town. There is a Co-op for a supermarket (no online shopping option), thats it. The nearest Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys is about 10 miles away and is outside their delivery area.

Mind you, I don't really count the Co-op as a supermarket - it doesn't matter how big the store is, they never seem to have enough variety of stock for me.

Maz

balletshoes wrote: »

my mum and everyone who lives in her town. There is a Co-op for a supermarket (no online shopping option), thats it. The nearest Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys is about 10 miles away and is outside their delivery area.

I'm at least 12 miles away from my nearest Sainsbury and they deliver to me so it might be worth double checking this.

alyth

having spent three years working weekends in a supermarket whilst at uni, I can empathise with all the comments. We're encouraged to speak to customers - do I want to - do I hell. I want to get your shopping out of the way as soon as possible, and move onto the next customer - my supermarket is manic all day every day, given it's location. For sure I will acknowledge you, but I have a spiel that I have to work through - and if it's not bad enough that we get mystery shopped four times a month, we also have this thing where the managers will stand and watch what you do with a customer.... and then go and ask that customer how their shopping "experience" was.

For example - two elderly ladies, lovely, I chatted to them, packed their bags, did the spiel, looked after them. Report comes back from the manager: one said you talked too much. The other said you didn't talk enough. You cannot do right for doing wronng as a checkout chick, trust me.

lollipopsarah

Well said alyth if only customers new how the other side is they might be a little sympathetic
xx

dontone

I hate supermarket shopping with a passion. The best thing ever was when supermarkets allowed you to order everything online :j
anyway, when I have to go into one my pets hates include (get ready) :rotfl:

People with trolleys who park them at any angle in the aisles, entrance ways etc, all because they've bumped into George and Ethel who they haven't seen for 30 years and it's the best time to have a catch up.

People who allow their kids to push the trolley (I have seen one idiot actually in the trolley while his kid pushed it, at Christmas time of all times) No one was impressed.

Those who let their kids mess with stuff, like trying to straighten bananas, or allowing them to bite crisp packets. Or let really small kids toddle off in front of trolleys pushed by others, then they blame the trolley pusher for the near miss. Hold your kids hands/ have them on reins or better still, put them in those seat things.

People (other customers) who tell you to go to the self serve tills instead of queuing behind them. Why? What is the problem with waiting patiently, some of us HATE self serve tills. We are keeping people in jobs if we use them to scan our items.

Self serve tills - rubbish, they never work right and we have to wait ages for someone to reset the thing when it cocks up. That's why some of us like to queue up and wait for the human.

and also (controversial one this) Those who are doing a charity thing and just grab your stuff without asking if it's ok and just cram stuff willy-nilly into the bag. LEAVE IT ALONE!!! I only have a small car boot, so packing groceries is a delicate operation, and everything has to be packed square. I don't want you putting tatties on top of eggs and bleach in the same bag as my sausage rolls. It's not so bad if you are asked but a refusal usually ends up with a over enthusiastic mother giving you a Medusa stare. They supermarkets should make it so if you want help to have alternate tills with kids and the like and others free if you don't want help.

Rant over :rotfl:

alyth

if you work in a supermarket you're a robot - you are told what to say. I'm studying history and at times I wish i was studying psychology..... you have to gauge/mindread/understand/deal with things being thrown at you (if you've ever worked a checkout you will understand). Be patronised - I speak mandarin, try being told you're stupid for working in a supermarket middled aged and then surprising the customer! We have targets, to those that complain about their shopping being shoved down the checkout, perhaps that person is on a final warning, perhaps that person has a family of 3 kds to feed and is on a final warning.

I apppreciate that isn't your problem when you come in to shop, but if you have pressure in your workplace then we do too.

Saturnalia

I hate seeing customers having a rant at the cashier for things like the layout changing, the prices not being to their liking, the shop being too busy on a Saturday afternoon! The till assistant has no influence at all over any of those things but has to sit there and take the rudeness without snapping back, or the management will always side with a customer and they'll lose their job. Which the customer knows fine well, which is why they're so brave with their gob.

dontone

Saturnalia wrote: »

I hate seeing customers having a rant at the cashier for things like the layout changing, the prices not being to their liking, the shop being too busy on a Saturday afternoon! The till assistant has no influence at all over any of those things but has to sit there and take the rudeness without snapping back, or the management will always side with a customer and they'll lose their job. Which the customer knows fine well, which is why they're so brave with their gob.

It was exactly the same when I worked at Argos many moons ago. So I appreciate shop staff more because it's not nice being on the end of a tongue lashing by a customer.
The saying "the customer is always right" is one of those horrible sayings that over time has proved false, yet the assistant has no comeback when it is said.

embob74

Ames wrote: »

The car park thing annoys me too. At the massive Tesco in Leeds the parent and child spaces are nearest to the door, and the disabled ones are the safest to get to the door (along the side of the store with a big pavement running past). Surely it'd be better the other way round?

I think I have been to this Tesco!!
I always assumed the disabled spaces are where they are so users don't have to cross the road. A small kerb can be a big deal in a wheelchair. And the taxis are all over the place.

If it is the same Tesco I saw Gaynor Faye shopping there once

chewynut

Ahh, I forgot the competitions for who has the most severe allergies in the Free From aisle.