What's Your Supermarket Pet Hate?

[ToraToraTora]

I have many but the main one is those eejits that take their trolley to the self service bit and clog it with a trolley full. Death's to good for them! The staff are useless, they refuse to enforce even their own rules in cae they annoy someone, so to avoid annoying one selfish pratt they'll annoy everyone else. aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh! rant over!

[silka]

People who pack their stuff slowly and then look for their card /purse /money, I always have mine ready

[sandyRoe]

Where does it say you can't take a trolley load through the self service points?
In M&S I hate it when they move goods from the shelf you'd expect to find it.

[carolegif]

When they offer 2 for the price of one, all across different flavours etc., then get to the till only to find that you have to have both the same flavour!!!

[cupid04]

Silka, how do yo do that, have you got more than two hands?

[Arksided]

Cupid500, behave... of course it does!

[cupid04]

It's 508 and rising!

[flump1]

I don't like queuing when there are empty tills and few checkouts open.

[andy-hughes]

I have no problem with them moving things, because I rarely know where anything is anyway, so moving it makes no difference!

I look at people shopping and they almost always seem to be really miserable doing it. I know it's a chore, but it has to be done, so just adopt a Zen attitude and be calm and get through it - that's what I do.

That said, I tend to shop as I need, not do the proverbial 'big shop' so I am in and out in a few minutes.

[daffy654]

Kids running around screaming. If you have to take the kids to the shop at least make them behave, stay with you and be quiet, I used to leave if my kids played up and couldn't be quieted.
People who stand too close to me in the queue, it is even worse when you can smell them or feel them breathing on you :-/

[wolf63]

I take a trolley through the self scan some times. The other week my little friend in my avatar was with me (in his little carrier) he started meowing loudly at the scanner. Bet that doesn't happen too often.

[sherrardk]

People tutting at children (having forgotten that they used to take their own children shopping - but of course theirs would have been beautifully behaved). Being asked if I want bags for my week's worth of shopping - no, I'll put it in my pockets. Waiting for assistance at the self-service tills because the assistant is having a chat with a colleague, etc, etc.

[Rosie29]

Not a supermarket as such but music in M and S drives me bonkers

[daffy654]

My kids were not beautifully behaved, I have on more than one occasion abandoned a shopping trolley full of food in the middle of the supermarket so that the rest of the shop was not subjected to my little darlings wailing their heads off or having tantrums.

[LoftyLottie]

People who tut and mutter in the check out queues because they have to get back to work and are shopping in their lunch hour. They should shop after work and not get so ratty.

Men who have two items and ask if they can jump the queue. Woman don't do that.

People who get annoyed with old people because they are slow and dithery and it takes a long time. Everybody gets old and will slow up and be dithery.

Mothers who let their little darlings run around the aisles screaming and shouting. I have no problem with children in supermarkets. I have a problem with badly behaved children in supermarkets.

People on mobility thingies who think they have total priority and show no respect to other shoppers and often cause injuries.

Music in shops, any shops.

And so it goes on.

It's a chore - can't say it's exactly enjoyable but I do try to make the most of it, help people when I can and not got impatient.

[Rosie29]

I agree with you Lottie - you sound great.

[LoftyLottie]

No point in getting uptight Rosie. I feel sorry for the check out operators who have to deal with an awful lot of uptight, rude and impatient people. I would hate to work in a supermarket.

[maggiebee]

When I have been queueing for some time then they decide to close that checkout! Grrrrrr

[Eve]

I'm usually pretty chilled out (and used to work in a supermarket).

I'm not keen on space invaders who are jumping at the bit to get served and are almost breathing down your neck, especially when you are trying to put your PIN in. I go as fast as I can and am very considerate but I'm disabled and tutting and huffing at me does not enable me to go any faster.

People who jam aisles, I don't mind waiting if people are looking at stuff, it's busy etc... but if they are just chatting and blocking a whole aisle or display and I don't like raising my voice to have to ask them louder to "Excuse me" after all other quieter polite requests have gone unheard.

[smoneybags]

Loud music!

[DTCwordfan]

The woman in the Sainsbury's meat department who serves fish after handling meat and doesn't do the necessary hygiene, or even a change of latex gloves.