Numpties at checkouts

esuhl

bairn7 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but if you were ahead of me and you did that, you'd get back to the checkout queue to find all of your shopping back in a trolley at the back of the queue. Wouldn't put up with such ignorance and selfishness at all.

I see. And how do you convince the checkout person to stop scanning? Do you physically grab the stuff out of their hands and insist they serve you instead?! And... what exactly am I supposed to be ignorant of?!

If I came back and saw you moving all my stuff to the back of the queue, I'd tell the cashier not to serve you, move your stuff out of the way, and put mine back. Either that or forcibly eject you from the shop. I wouldn't put up with such chavvy petulant aggressiveness at all.

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't have to be spot on every time... that wasn't really what was meant. You scan down and add/round it up and down as you go through.... coming out to within £1 of the right answer. Then you toss another £1 in your back pocket "for luck".

Well, I still find it tedious to keep a mental tally. I've got better things to do with my time. The supermarkets caused the problem; they can fix it.

(Not sure I understand the £1 in my back pocket thing, though. Why would I take money out of my wallet to put it in my back pocket whilst shopping? Are you suggesting I carry hundreds of coins of different denominations so that I can fill a pocket with coins corresponding to the cost of items I add to my basket? That still seems like waaaaay too much effort! And just think how much time it would take the cashier to count if I handed over a bucketful of change!)

Peter333

bairn7 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but if you were ahead of me and you did that, you'd get back to the checkout queue to find all of your shopping back in a trolley at the back of the queue. Wouldn't put up with such ignorance and selfishness at all.

You have to tell me where you shop, because THIS I would PAY to see.

I can just picture it. :rotfl:



This happens at least once a week to me (someone going off back into the store for a minute to grab something they forgot,) but it doesn't bother me much. I think if someone started hoiking someone's shopping off the conveyor belt and wanging it back in someone else's trolley, the whole queue would think they had taken leave of their senses.

By the way, as for me; if I am in a foodstore with a grocery shop, and I have say 25 items, and they don't offer to help me pack, and just throw it down the belt (Lidl, Aldi and Iceland are devils for this!) then I refuse to pay until I have finished packing. And I don't care how 'busy' it is, or how many people are in the queue. Because I have had times when I have my shopping thrown at me by the cashier (usually while they are talking to their colleague,) and if I pay before I have packed everything, they start with the next customer before I have finished packing, making me feel as if I am in the way, and that I am a hindrance, because they could not be bothered to help me pack, or even barely acknowledge me!

Say what you like about ASDA, being cheap and tacky (as some have said on here!) but the service in the THREE ASDA's within 10 miles of me, is very good. They always help you pack, and they are always friendly.

System

I do the rough adding up game - two things costing £1.39 and £2.79 I call that £4. Then £2.19 and 79p - £3. Both add up to over £7. Sometimes they are under. Overall if I have £40 voucher to use I normally spend 50-70p above that 97% of the time. The odd time it's under £40 I grab the nearest thing - batteries, choc, bleach, etc

Tigsteroonie

esuhl wrote: »

Okay, then. Time yourself. Prove how easy it is to tot up this small amount of shopping to the nearest penny.

£1.89
£2.25
£0.40 X 4 @ "buy 4 for the price of 3"
£5.65
£0.37 X 7
0.327 kg @ £5.72/kg
0.213 kg @ £0.89/kg
0.156 kg @ £3.33/kg
£2.39
£4.00 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £7"
£0.25
£0.57
£0.79 X 3
£1.19
£3.29 X 2
£1.59
£3.29 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £5"
£2.61
£0.49
£1.09
£1.00
£2.99 X 4
Plus a pack of cigarettes, where you can't see the price in advance.

Roughly £74? Am I close?

I know that's not "to the penny" but fortunately I no longer have to account on a penny by penny basis, so can afford to do rough arithmetic.

Peter333

Yes I do the rough adding up game too, and am 9 times out of 10, within a pound to a pound fifty within the total. Fairly easy, as the supermarkets usually have stuff priced a lot more sensibly than the stuff in the 'example' price list above.

Trixi

I love the people who absolutely will not start putting their items on the conveyor belt until there is a 'next customer' sign after the end of my shopping.

It genuinely baffles me. I'll put my items down when there's space to do so then stick a divider thingy in front of them when one becomes available/within reach but it seems (from my experience) that I'm in a minority.

When I'm feeling evil I find it quite entertaining to watch the gap get bigger and bigger while the next customer twitches anxiously behind me...

Peter333

Trixi wrote: »

I love the people who absolutely will not start putting their items on the conveyor belt until there is a 'next customer' sign after the end of my shopping.

It genuinely baffles me. I'll put my items down when there's space to do so then stick a divider thingy in front of them when one becomes available/within reach but it seems (from my experience) that I'm in a minority.

When I'm feeling evil I find it quite entertaining to watch the gap get bigger and bigger while the next customer twitches anxiously behind me...

I don't think I have ever experienced this Trixy. Strange behaviour. :rotfl:

System

esuhl wrote: »

Okay, then. Time yourself. Prove how easy it is to tot up this small amount of shopping to the nearest penny.

£1.89
£2.25
£0.40 X 4 @ "buy 4 for the price of 3"
£5.65
£0.37 X 7
0.327 kg @ £5.72/kg
0.213 kg @ £0.89/kg
0.156 kg @ £3.33/kg
£2.39
£4.00 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £7"
£0.25
£0.57
£0.79 X 3
£1.19
£3.29 X 2
£1.59
£3.29 X 3 @ "buy 2 for £5"
£2.61
£0.49
£1.09
£1.00
£2.99 X 4
Plus a pack of cigarettes, where you can't see the price in advance.

Shopping at a guess £67. Cigs give/take 25p based on the price you normally pay at your regular place you buy them. At my work they vary from £5.99 for 18 Rothmans to £9.42 for Embassy Number 1.

I guess with the cigs you will get change from £75.

esuhl

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't have to be spot on every time... that wasn't really what was meant. You scan down and add/round it up and down as you go through.... coming out to within £1 of the right answer. Then you toss another £1 in your back pocket "for luck".

Well... it sounds like some people have got the knack for such things, but it would really slow me down. And the supermarkets I shop in are the smaller ones, so no one has to wait very long if I nip off to grab an extra pack of detergent.

I suppose I got really p***ed off with vouchers when I saw a really frail nonogenarian who was clearly shopping frugally, down to the penny, and her voucher wouldn't scan. They pretty much just stared at her hoping she'd either go away or tell them not to bother (but it was clear she was hard up and couldn't afford to not use the voucher -- expiring that day). After several long minutes, a couple of big, aggressive blokes in the queue started huffing, puffing, and shouted at her to "come on". There was one till open, and the staff were absolutely clueless as to what to do. She looked absolutely intimidated and humiliated, almost to the point of tears.

Why don't shops make it quick and easy for people? Instead they play silly games to waste our time and embarrass people.

Loyalty cards are fine -- a quick scan and you get points and/or money off. Stupid vouchers that fill your wallet, that you have to hand over in great bunches for a cashier to see if any are actually valid, and then run back like in Supermarket Sweep to grab something so you can get the £5 off that they will give you today, but not tomorrow, if you've done your arithmetic right...? Aaaargh!

skivenov

Trixi wrote: »

I love the people who absolutely will not start putting their items on the conveyor belt until there is a 'next customer' sign after the end of my shopping.

It genuinely baffles me. I'll put my items down when there's space to do so then stick a divider thingy in front of them when one becomes available/within reach but it seems (from my experience) that I'm in a minority.

When I'm feeling evil I find it quite entertaining to watch the gap get bigger and bigger while the next customer twitches anxiously behind me...

My favourite is doing this on the self scans that have the conveyor belt. Strangely, their shopping doesn't get scanned with mine, even though there's no bar. Magical stuff.