Things that annoy you in supermarkets

SparkyMark123

Bit of light fun rather than a vent having just come back from the weekly shop- what things annoy you about supermarkets.

1- People who stand chatting blocking the whole isle forcing people to squeeze by or asking them to move.

2- Blocking the whoopsie counter just in case they miss a bargin.

3 - staff who leave pallets blocking stock whilst not actually filling stock up at peak time.

4 - Cashiers who ask do you you want bags only to give you 3- for a whole trolleys worth of shopping- why its obvious you need more

Anyway miny vent over your pet hates please

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warwicktiger

People with out of date Hungarian credit cards that do not understand Chip and Pin payments, why are they always in front of me at the checkouts?

Faith177

The reduced vultures the ones who just hang around waiting for the staff to bring it out and then turn into nasty grabbers who would take out their own mother for a reduced pork pie.

As I said on another thread people who eat what is in their trolley as they walk around. I can't understand how you can that hungry that you have to eat right that minute yet can continue shopping just amazes me. Especially as I'm sure most of them don't then pay for the thing they have eaten

People who block the aisles or shelves to have a chat and then get sniffing if you ask them nicely to let you pass

The ones who don't get their method of payment out or at least have it to hand

SparkyMark123

Faith177 wrote: »

The reduced vultures the ones who just hang around waiting for the staff to bring it out and then turn into nasty grabbers who would take out their own mother for a reduced pork pie.

As I said on another thread people who eat what is in their trolley as they walk around. I can't understand how you can that hungry that you have to eat right that minute yet can continue shopping just amazes me. Especially as I'm sure most of them don't then pay for the thing they have eaten

People who block the aisles or shelves to have a chat and then get sniffing if you ask them nicely to let you pass

The ones who don't get their method of payment out or at least have it to hand

Reminds me of people who use pick and mix and eat it whilst wondering around doing the rest of there shopping surely that's theft?

azzabazza

Staff having personal conversations amongst themselves whilst serving customers.

DCFC79

OP I agree with what you say but especially 1 and 4. Ive said why cant people arrange to call the other person rather than stand in the most awkward of places chatting for 10 minutes or so.

Staff just stood chatting olivious to customers trying to reach items and dont help the customer by passing the customer the item.

Gavin83

Faith177 wrote: »

As I said on another thread people who eat what is in their trolley as they walk around. I can't understand how you can that hungry that you have to eat right that minute yet can continue shopping just amazes me. Especially as I'm sure most of them don't then pay for the thing they have eaten

This should be treated in the same way as regular shoplifting.

I'll add another. The way supermarkets move an entire aisle to elsewhere in the shop. If I visit the supermarket regularly then I know where stuff is and don't appreciate having to search for it. Someone told me its to force you around more of the store and therefore encourage impulse purchases but it has the opposite effect on me.

firefox1956

When the checkout person hands you your change...........
Puts the notes in your hand first THEN a pile of coins on the notes so all the coins end up on the floor !!!
I hate that............
Why they cannot put the coins in your hand first & THEN the notes...........

dealer_wins

Self checkout with enough space for about 4 items!

Yes Tesco Kilburn im talking about your hideous self checkout machines, the only ones I have ever seen where you stow your items on a tiny ledge at the top!!

Edwood_Woodwood

1 Waiting in a queue for the self scanner and some twerp just waltzes past everyone to use one that has just become available pretending not to notice the queue.

2 Someone who is being served at a checkout and you're the next in queue but they forget something halfway through and walks off to the furthest corner of the massive store, holding up everyone else till they come back with their tin of beans.

3 Usually lotto days, when I just want to buy a paper, and the people in front each take forever to buy their tickets, have them checked (do it at home for God's sakes!) buy scratch cards etc etc.

4 As above, usually in Morrisons, where a member of staff will say to me, after queueing, this is the lotto queue, go to the other till, when there are no signs stating this anywhere! It's a blooming fag kiosk usually too!

5 Drivers who are too lazy to park in a bay so use the designated taxi bay and then you see the elderly, disabled, mums with kids and shopping, having to struggle in between the cars or onto the road to get to the taxi.

6 Huge price changes that seemingly happen overnight, like Tesco a few years ago used to sell a whole in-store baked loaf for 80p one day and just a few days later increased it to £1.10.

7 Really good bargains, like buy 1 get 2 free, yet always seemingly sold out by 9am. Morrisons are good at this.

8 Really expensive items in comparison to other stores, usually the COOP.

Tin of Whiskas 30p more, Clover butter, 45p more etc.

9 Tesco. Just find it utterly depressing.

10 As above, Lidl & Aldi, also cheap muck.

happy_to_be_here

Staff ignoring me when I'm standing at the deli counter as they're too busy chatting about how wasted they were last night.

The fact that my local supermarket (morrisons) only ever has three or four checkouts open and massive queues that you've to fight to get through to get to the next aisle.

People who shush my daughter when she's babbling or getting a wee bit grumpy-I can't leave any quicker because of the massive queues so get over it!

The one extremely rude checkout operator who shouted at my daughter to "just bloody be quiet!" And then refused to apologise when I got the manager over.