Things that annoy you in supermarkets

TBeckett100

My supermarket hates

1) narrow car bays. Usually my posh car ends up parked next to a children's minibus. If I park at the furthest corner of the car park, trekking like Phileas Fogg to get to the shop door, don't bloody park next to me

2) 10,000 disabled bays. Yes I know there are disabled and elderly people out there and they should have parking but the space ratio is too much. If anything, the Paralympics taught me that one legged people are a lot fitter than me.

3) charity collection. I want to buy bread and milk not singlehandly save a the cats, dogs and Ethiopians

4) Chappie in the charity dog food collections. Seriously, if you are going to feed a dog, feed it something half decent

5) special needs checkout people. There is one guy in our local shop who speaks so loudly that I can hear him all over the shop. Bless him, but I can barely understand a word he says and I can't do small talk

6) bearded woman at the checkouts. Seriously, some women do have stubble. It's Tesco, not Ripleys Believe it or not

7) you child dwaine. If you must bring the 12 disciples shopping with you, please at least bring a taser. Having to trip over Dwayne and Dwaynetta when I am procuring smoked salmon is not my idea of a good evening

8) would you like a bag? Well, as you can see checkout person, I'm not a bloody octopus

9) do you need help packing? No it's three items. Having walked three miles from the corner of the car park through the desert of disabled spaces, I think I can muster the energy to pack three items

10) have you got a nectar card? No I dont. At this point I explain that a man who chopped up his girlfriend was caught because he put the black sacks on the nectar points. Usually stunned silence except for special checkout guy

11) 20p reductions. Your food is stale, about to grow mould any moment and you have reduced it from £5.00 to £4.80?

12) £1 trollies. Seriously, if you are going to make me draw £10 out of the cash machine, wait for ages at customer services to get change for the trolley, then I will just take a hand basket in protest. However, after about half a hour, the hand basket is laid down regularly before my arm falls off

13) checkout operators who hug your warm baguette. Yes I know it's lovely and fresh but please don't hug it and warm your breasts on it.

14) unexpected item in the bagging area. It's either my shopping or patience

15) the location of fresh custard. Naturally this should be in the milk, youghart aisle but for some reason it's at the other end of the store

16) car park car washers. No I don't want you to wash my car with the same cloth and bucket of water you have done everyone else's car with

17) old people who shop at lunchtime. If they aren't in the bank or queuing at the post office, why not leave the lunchtimes to busy working people. If Matilda the cat needs her salmon, buy it at 5am when you get up.

geerex

People who can't spell the word "bargain" irritate me greatly.

tonycottee

geerex wrote: »

People who can't spell the word "bargain" irritate me greatly.

In supermarkets? Does that happen often?

gik

The people who get their trolley from the trolley park and stop just inside the entrance to dig through their bag for their specs. and shopping list (their partner stopped beside them blocking you from entering.

The people who once they've got their shopping rung through the till who find surprise, surprise that they are expected to pay...why is your purse in the darkest recesses of your bag and not handy? Why when you open it do you have to look through it for the money/card to pay does it look like you are using a purse you've never seen before?

specialboy

My local Asda has moved the newspapers from by the doors to after the tills so instead of being the first thing you pick up you have to get it after paying for all your shopping and then queue up at the kiosk 10 deep just toay for your paper.

welfayre

My hates:

1) People taking up two parking spaces. If your cars that special don't take it to the sodding supermarket.

2) Trying to get from your car to the supermarket. Zebra crossings seem to loose all meaning in their car parks.

3) All the "offers" right at the entrance that cause people to stop and block your way in/out

4) Fat people with trolley full of crisps/pizza/sweets.

5) People who swing their trolley around in a circle instead of just going up the isle and coming down the other on.

6) People who fill their trolley with what ever special offer is on. If you need 8 bottles of Glens you have a serious issue.

7) Whole tribes doing the shop. Yes maybe the kids can't be left at home but why are Granny, Granddad, Uncle, Aunt and weird cousin there too?

8) When two tribes meet and decided the best place to discuss current events is right in the middle of the isle.

9) When the cat food isle is busy. That's MY short cut isle to the check outs I don't expect you to be in there blocking my way!

10)People that don't understand self service check outs AND people taking trolleys down them.

hollydays

"12) £1 trollies. Seriously, if you are going to make me draw £10 out of the cash machine, wait for ages at customer services to get change for the trolley, then I will just take a hand basket in protest. However, after about half a hour, the hand basket is laid down regularly before my arm falls off"


A corned beef can key will open trolleys. I keep one on my key ring-the key not the can.

hgotsparkle

welfayre wrote: »

10)People that don't understand self service check outs AND people taking trolleys down them.

I hate when I have to queue for 10mins of my 30min lunch break to just pay for my lunch because some numpty has decided to pay for their overflowing large trolley full on the self service. Its actually slower on self service for a lare shop!

I think self service checkouts should now be the new 10 items or less tills.

kwikbreaks

This is going to run and run. When I moan about these sorts of things to my wife she says I'm just a miserable git so it's good to see I'm not alone.

I'll add a gripe of my own - Morrisons are very keen to partially obstruct their already narrow aisles with baskets of deals of the week etc.

ScarletMarble wrote: »

. Xmas music played. Imagine having to listen to the same 25-30 looped songs for 6-8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week for 6 weeks. Retailers please stop this. It's depresses everyone. So a full time employee has to endure Noddy Holder screaming 'IIIITTTTSSS CCCHHHRRRIIIISSSSTTTTMMMMAAAAAASSSS' at least 130 times.

Now that's not only supermarkets and not only Christmas. Many years ago I went to an MFI and there was a tape loop machine that kept varying speed. It was really annoying. A year or more later we went there again and the same machine was playing the same tape. For the younger reader MFI was a cheap and cheerful flatpack furniture retailer.

wiogs

WantToBeSE wrote: »

1. Supermarkets that put the slowest of slow people on the checkout when they are super busy. Why is it always me that ends up choosing this till? I now recognise the slow till staff at local Tesco and avoid them.


2. People who allow their children to RUN around the supermarket. I know I'll get moaned at about this one. I'd like to say that I don't mind children crying/moaning, I don't blame them as I feel like doing the same when shopping. But running at break neck speed isn't safe and its annoying.


3. People thinking that its a social gathering and blocking isles while they natter.


Lots more to list, but I think I'll just leave it there

I was pushing my trolley when a child came running round the corner of one aisle and smacked his face of the end of my trolley. Cut his lip and was crying - looked sore!

His mother came and apologised to me and told me that she hoped it had taught him a lesson.