Things that annoy you in supermarkets

kev_min

People who take ages to pack their shopping and clear the till, when the poor shop assistant is working flat out to clear the que................

Heffi1

My son works in a supermarket and used to work on the checkouts for a while, apart from the screaming kids and people not ready to pay at the end, or not starting to pack their groceries until they had paid, he said the worst was smelly people who had a lot of shopping, they would stand very close and he had to smell that awful BO smell, he tried to get them through as quick as he could!

Helix

SevenOfNine wrote: »

Staff on the tills who likes to demonstrate how fast they are at scanning - regardless of whether I can keep up with the packing. The faster they try to go the more I slow down!

That will be because they are trying to meet their targets from Head Office. They have to scan so many items per minute. You slowing down doesn't really matter because as long as they keep scanning the amount of time they spend in 'Tender' mode where the till is ready to accept payment doesn't get added up.

Money-Saving-King

SevenOfNine wrote: »

Staff on the tills who likes to demonstrate how fast they are at scanning - regardless of whether I can keep up with the packing. The faster they try to go the more I slow down!

If I did a job like that and were serving you just doing what I'm suppose to do I'd then once I've done the scanning help you pack (very quickly).

If you then took ages to pay it wouldn't matter. It would be plain to see to everyone else queuing I'd done my bit and any further delays would be your own fault.

adandem

Helix wrote: »

That will be because they are trying to meet their targets from Head Office. They have to scan so many items per minute. You slowing down doesn't really matter because as long as they keep scanning the amount of time they spend in 'Tender' mode where the till is ready to accept payment doesn't get added up.

This is something I hate when I shop in Aldi. In fact, last week the girl was going so fast that some of our shopping ended up on the floor and there were 2 of us trying to load. The girl was really annoyed as my husband insisted on replacements for the dropped items and took his time in getting them.
Also, when you are standing packing your bags at the checkout and the staff sit watching you instead of helping or spend the whole time chatting to the person on the next till.

Nicklt

We shop in Waitrose and if you have one of the MyWaitrose cards you get a free coffee which comes in a take away cup and people walk around the store drinking them - most pointless thing ever.

Anyway, a few people seem incapable of just keeping the empty cup in their trolley until they leave the store and can put it in the bin so just dump it on a shelf, even seen some dumped in the freezers. Very lazy.

Been said a lot but people who stop and chat right in the middle of the aisle blocking it for everyone else.

Old people who think you should get out of the way for them and if you don't move in 0.3 seconds they glare at you.

We are quite young 26/25 and with Waitrose being branded the posh shop we do get some funny looks from more middle aged well to do people - maybe I'm being paranoid but it's a look of 'what are YOU doing in here'.

We used to shop in Asda and generally you don't get the kids running around screaming in Waitrose.

This doesn't really have to do with the shop itself, but the comments we get from people when we mention we shop in Waitrose - 'ooooh your posh' 'You must earn a lot' 'oooh get you' blah!! It's not that much more expensive than Asda or Tesco!

rwgray

Cannot bear... people bringing everyone they know to the supermarket with them. Or indeed bringing anyone at all! Why do you think your partner / child / neighbour is going to make your shopping easier? The worst offenders are the only ones with a genuine excuse - people with genuine need for assistance e.g. partially-sighted or wheelchair-users etc., OK, but the rest of you please SHOP ALONE!

I often have to bring my kids but make a point of losing them at the first opportunity - just go past the toys and TVs when you arrive, easy... pick 'em up from security when you've paid.

Also, "ladies" please ask someone what supermarket parallel parking is.

R.x

Cycrow

Helix wrote: »

That will be because they are trying to meet their targets from Head Office. They have to scan so many items per minute. You slowing down doesn't really matter because as long as they keep scanning the amount of time they spend in 'Tender' mode where the till is ready to accept payment doesn't get added up.

unfortunately when i worked at tesco, they would also monitor the tender time.

so you had to scan things through fast and get the payment fast as well. They even monitored the idle time between customers.

and of course they never take into account that sometimes you are waiting on customers.

The kiosk is the worse, as they expect you to scan the items at the same speed as the normal tills, even thou you have to actually pick the items as well, and wait for things like the lottery machine to finish printing

rwgray

When an item goes out of stock, many stores have the terrible habit of removing the shelf labels - even sometimes filling the gap with random stock - so that you cannot find the gap and hence cannot confirm that the item is unavailable - and so you have to keep on searching in vain indefinitely! Stupid, stupid, stupid, and all for the cosmetic benefit of not leaving a blatant gap on the shelves. This may impress regional management but it does not impress the customers!

R.x :mad:

trukdiver

rwgray wrote: »

When an item goes out of stock, many stores have the terrible habit of removing the shelf labels - even sometimes filling the gap with random stock - so that you cannot find the gap and hence cannot confirm that the item is unavailable - and so you have to keep on searching in vain indefinitely! Stupid, stupid, stupid, and all for the cosmetic benefit of not leaving a blatant gap on the shelves. This may impress regional management but it does not impress the customers!

R.x :mad:

Sometimes they leave the label there and fill the shelf with something similar that isn't on offer!