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Supermarket angst!

What winds you up in the supermarket? One of my many iritations is people who stop in front of a shelf with their trolley in front of them then stand their like a zombie 10 feet of shelf, usually where I want to pick something up. Then they look all offended when you have the temerity to shove their trolly down the other end of the isle!


R1Geezer  Tue 02/09/08 17:00
Bathsheba
Tue 02/09/08
17:03
I've mentioned this before, but my biggest irritation is when the cashier reads my newspaper x
daffy654
Tue 02/09/08
17:04
1:People who think the middle of an aisle is the ideal place to gossip with their cronies,
2:People who stand 3 feet back from the shelves to see what is on there,so taking up half the aisle.
3:People who stand in a checkout queue then when reaching the cashier suddenly realise they need to get something else,so holding up the rest of the people in the queue behind them.
Zacsmaster
Tue 02/09/08
17:04
Women in the 10 items or less queue who wait to be told what the total is BEFORE fumbling for their purse and then fumbling for their debit / credit card and thTHEN continuing to pass the time of day whilst folding their receipt neatly and taking what seems like a geological age to put this and their card back in their purse pick the bag/s up and eventally LEAVE. Jeeeeeeeesus!
R1Geezer
Tue 02/09/08
17:05

Question Author

You mean stops scanning and reads your paper? Where's that?
indieanna86
Tue 02/09/08
17:10
I know this sounds really petty, but I get really wound up if I see someone in front of me in the 10 items or less queue, who clearly has more than ten items. I've seen people queue up with trolleys full of stuff and yet the cashier doesn't tell them to go to a normal checkout...
Bathsheba
Tue 02/09/08
17:10
It's happened to me in both Sainsbury's + Asda R1. But they know me now, cos i say to them "if you start to read that paper i will have to kill you", and that seems to do the trick x
Sachs
Tue 02/09/08
17:12
Just taken delivery of my Asda online shopping :0)))))
Oh I'm so smug!!!!
Ethel
Tue 02/09/08
17:14
Men.

They can't open the free carrier bags, huff and puff, complain and barge their way around with no consideration for other shoppers.

Then they take an age at the checkout, getting all flirty with the checkout girl half their age.
Bathsheba
Tue 02/09/08
17:14
Sains are much better sky. Only used Asda delivery once- it was a shambles x
mccfluff
Tue 02/09/08
17:15
i'm with you on the people who have way more items than the 10 or less, esp when i've got 1 item and have to queue for ages. and when the person in front of you has finished paying but has to have a chat with the cashier for 5 mins - great your being nice but i'm in a hurry!!!!!!!!!!
Sachs
Tue 02/09/08
17:15
Hi bath, crossed fingers, everything's been spot on! xxx
puddicat
Tue 02/09/08
17:17
Got loads of issues like

Like them constantly moving things around!

Getting the trolley from hell, or not getting a basket!

No staff around to ask for what i am looking for!

Standing in a queue waiting with my trolley and seeing one checkout out aisle empty, then finding its for 10 items or less!

Or trying to load up the conveyor belt to find its just closing!

People clogging up the aisle while they chat to there friends!

Children sitting in a trolley when they are about 10 to 13

Parents that dont check there children that are either screaming or having a paddy, cos they aint getting what they want!

Think thats enough for now i am sure i will think of others to add later!!!
R1Geezer
Tue 02/09/08
17:18

Question Author

Thankfully sachs I only go in at lunch time to get a couple of things, well for lunch, I guess that's why I notice all the annoying things because they eat into my lunch break. My main shopping is done by R1Bird so not too stressfull!

While we are at it, why do some people, usually elderly, have to feel every piece of fruit in the building before deciding on a particular sme66ing apple!
Velvetee
Tue 02/09/08
17:18
The trolley in front of the shelf, where they just stand and ponder and ignore people who want to get something where they or the trolley is parked, annoys me too.

Also people who allow their shopping to collect at the end of the cashdesk and then slowly start packing after they have paid.

People who after they have completed their transaction, decide to engage the cashier in conversation about cat food, whilst there is a long queue of people waiting to be served.

People who let their children run riot in the shop, allowing them to squeeze fruit and handle the unwrapped bakery produce.
Bathsheba
Tue 02/09/08
17:21
And what about seeing someone you know, and they want to chat, but also feel the need to look at what's in your trolley and pass comment? Or is that just me? x
Zacsmaster
Tue 02/09/08
17:21
Pensioners and the retired should be banned from supermarkets between 12 noon and 2pm and at weekends. If they go at these times they're obviously only doing it to wind the rest of us up.
pinkkitty
Tue 02/09/08
17:24
i hate it when i go to my local 24 hour supermarket and i go early so it's less busy, but it still takes forever cos the aisles are blocked by metal cages, empty boxes and cleaning staff on ride-on floor buffers. and then they only have one checkout open even though there's still a fair few people at that time of day.
Ethel
Tue 02/09/08
17:45
Zac - a lot of pensioners work as well you know, and have to shop in their lunch breaks.


annemollie
Tue 02/09/08
17:58
Women with blue rinses who wait iat the cashout in Lidl to have their bags packed for them.
People who get to the cashout and realise they have to pay.
tiggerblue10
Tue 02/09/08
18:05
I get fed up with all the above, but I have to say that what winds me up is when I go looking for something and there is hardly any of the item there or it is stuck right at the back of the shelf and I can't reach the flippin thing.

Also when I go to check the eggs there is always one in the box thats broken! Once I must have checked through 5 boxes before I found one with all entact.
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