Most annoying things abut supermarkets

Montage of Feck

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for a special offer
A guaranteed personality

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Montage of Feck wrote: »

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for a special offer
A guaranteed personality

That you Joe ??

Remember why I've him on Ignore.

Oh well, we can all eagerly listen in tomorrow!

Galwayguy35

I'd be easy going about most of the slightly annoying things others do but it drives me mad when someone is on the phone unloading their shopping because it takes them all day to get it on the conveyor and the chat continues on the other end when its time to pack it in the trolley and sometimes even goes on while they root in the purse for cash/card.

99% of the time the conversation is rubbish and we know this because we can all hear it but they still couldn't just hang up and call back later instead of holding everyone else up.

dubstarr

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'd be easy going about most of the slightly annoying things others do but it drives me mad when someone is on the phone unloading their shopping because it takes them all day to get it on the conveyor and the chat continues on the other end when its time to pack it in the trolley and sometimes even goes on while they root in the purse for cash/card.

99% of the time the conversation is rubbish and we know this because we can all hear it but they still couldn't just hang up and call back later instead of holding everyone else up.

When i worked on tills,i waited till they where finished to serve them.Its just so rude.

Gregor Samsa

I load the stuff onto the conveyor belt in the order I want to pack it: heavy stuff first (milk, water, etc), fragile stuff last (fruit, eggs, bread). Annoys me no end when the cashier reaches over the milk to scan a head of lettuce or a punnet of strawberries first - then I have to leave it sitting there in the packing area until the milk cartons come down so I can put them into the bag first, then put the soft stuff on top. I’d hate to see what kind of crushed mess their own shopping ends up in.

I used to shop at my local Tesco at 10 at night, because it was nice and quiet and I was busy at home at normal hours with a very young family. Tesco was open till 12 at the time. Every night, there was always just one till open, and always the same woman on it. She used to try to be friendly and chat, which I didn’t mind at first. But then she started this thing of analysing all my shopping: giving out to me for buying something she thought was too expensive, asking me if such and such was nice, making unsolicited recommendations about stuff I didn’t want, asking personal questions about my family and why we were buying stuff. In the end I had to stop going at that time because she was just getting too emotionally invested in my groceries.

Was in there a few weeks ago, and this guy on the till kept firing my stuff down to the bagging area after scanning it. It slopes down anyway, but this guy looked like he was practicing his 10 pin bowling. I feel like a baseball catcher, having to be at the ready with my mitt to catch this stuff before it smashed off the end of the checkout. Then half way through, he picks up some random item and instead of scanning it, starts reading the label. Then turns it over to examine the ingredients and instructions in minute detail. There’s a queue standing behind me, I’m just standing there looking at him, and this guy is taking his time to study this packet of pasta or whatever it was. Next thing, he scans it and fires it down the slope at me. I caught it, but I swear he was just trying to catch me off guard.

Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I swear he was just trying to catch me off guard.

I don't doubt you.

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Feisar

true-or-false wrote: »

My main annoyance (especially since COVID, as I'm trying my best to give other people space), is when you're looking at a shelf and you know you're going to be a while, and someone else comes along trying to look at the same thing. I think to myself, oh I'll step back a bit so we can both see the shelf and I'm not blocking it. 70% of the time the other person just steps in right in front of me, totally into my personal space and blocking the shelf for me, even though I'm clearly still trying to look for something.

Is it: thickness/self obsession/complete lack of awareness of surroundings?

Errashareesh

Robsweezie wrote: »

the worst is when fuuckers like this, nuisance customers who do nuisance things in general, laugh to themselves like its nothing as if to say'' ah jesus im a gas thing, holding everyone up, i should have my own podcast im such a character hehehe''' like they're in a sitcom or something, oblivious to the blinding urge of fellow shoppers to strangle them.

I remember a couple of days before Christmas one year going to a Dunnes Stores off-licence which is in its own unit next to the supermarket. A man decided to pay for the contents of a heaped trolley in there because he was too impatient to queue in the supermarket. He had masses of groceries. I was annoyed that the off-licence staff agreed to entertain him. It took ages, and there was only one person on the till. The queue became ridiculous. The man got embarrassed and said he was sorry repeatedly, which was something I suppose - better than acting all self entitled. But he can't have been that sorry when he did it in the first place!

Potential-Monke

It was said early on in the thread, the most annoying thing is the people, be they selfish ignorant customers or staff. It's why I shop late, it's why I use self service. If I want to chat with staff, I'll initiate it, otherwise just do your job and move on. Customers, I get angry just thinking about them, the touch-everythingers, the talkwhereverthefukiwantblockingothers people, recently the non-mask wearers. Just people in general. Bring back the days of 24 hours Tesco so I can go in at 3am and enjoy my shopping, which subsequently takes less time because of the lack of aforementioned gobshytes.

HildaOgdenx

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'd be easy going about most of the slightly annoying things others do but it drives me mad when someone is on the phone unloading their shopping because it takes them all day to get it on the conveyor and the chat continues on the other end when its time to pack it in the trolley and sometimes even goes on while they root in the purse for cash/card.

99% of the time the conversation is rubbish and we know this because we can all hear it but they still couldn't just hang up and call back later instead of holding everyone else up.

It's so rude to the person working in the shop, IMO.

No conversation is that important. And if it is, well it shouldn't be conducted while shopping.

HildaOgdenx

Oh and nobody in a very busy supermarket thinks it's cute that your toddler can play with the self check out. Nobody.

YellowBucket

The checkout operator who comments on all your purchases:

Oh they look lovely!
Is that shower gel nice?

auspicious

Vegan foods are interspersed with everything else. A vegan section would halve my time spent shopping.

Samsgirl

Our local Tesco, in its infinite wisdom decided to move all the stock to different places in the store.
In the middle of a pandemic.
The very time you just want to nip in for one or two items, knew exactly where they were and no, you now have to wander around the store lost like everyone else and end up in contact with far more people who are also befuddled.

Sam Quentin

I don't like when a woman yes usually a woman who's over weight slaps(sounds like a clapper board movie thing)the next customer thingy-ma-jiggy ruler down on the conveyor belt behind me when there is an obvious gap in our shopping, and even when it's getting close to the end of my daily shopping I put my hand on the last item so the cashier knows am-da-man. Women just know us men can't give them a 'telling of'.. the competitive wee divils that they are hmmmmmmmm.

1990sman

other people

1990sman

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wonski

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

Why don't they load the fcukin shelves when the supermarket is CLOSED ...?

Hmm.

Maybe because even when they do that, some products are sold out during the day?

Do you have a patent for infinite shelves that can be stacked for 24 hours and never be empty.

Genius.

Errashareesh

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I don't like when a woman yes usually a woman who's over weight slaps(sounds like a clapper board movie thing)the next customer thingy-ma-jiggy ruler down on the conveyor belt behind me when there is an obvious gap in our shopping, and even when it's getting close to the end of my daily shopping I put my hand on the last item so the cashier knows am-da-man. Women just know us men can't give them a 'telling of'.. the competitive wee divils that they are hmmmmmmmm.

Think you're reading way too much into it. I put the thing next to my groceries to be helpful - to both the cashier and the person behind me (whether male or female). That's what it's for. I don't have any intention to be confrontational or relish that a man "can't" tell me off for something that doesn't deserve a telling off.

I see the prime supermarket sinner suspects are now on the thread hiding behind dismissive and deflecting posts. Onto the ignore list Yee go.

Go start your "counter argument" in R&R forum where it really belongs

Gregor Samsa

auspicious wrote: »

Vegan foods are interspersed with everything else. A vegan section would halve my time spent shopping.

But for the rest of us it wouldn’t make any sense to have the likes of the baked beans, water and frozen chips all beside each other.

Ted_YNWA

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I see the prime supermarket sinner suspects are now on the thread hiding behind dismissive and deflecting posts. Onto the ignore list Yee go.

Go start your "counter argument" in R&R forum where it really belongs

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Marhay70

Samsgirl wrote: »

Our local Tesco, in its infinite wisdom decided to move all the stock to different places in the store.
In the middle of a pandemic.
The very time you just want to nip in for one or two items, knew exactly where they were and no, you now have to wander around the store lost like everyone else and end up in contact with far more people who are also befuddled.

That's the strategy, they don't want you to know where things are. They want you to search the shelves for what you want and maybe come across half a dozen more items you had no intention of buying but decide to throw them in as well. There's a whole science to supermarket shelf layout and where things are placed.

RandomViewer

Was in a large supermarket in NI over the weekend, won't be happening again anytime soon, very few masks, no attempt at distancing, cashier was constantly fiddling with her mask, was sniffling and didn't sanitize hands between customers. No effort being made at all as far as I could see

Sam Quentin

Errashareesh wrote: »

Think you're reading way too much into it. I put the thing next to my groceries to be helpful - to both the cashier and the person behind me (whether male or female). That's what it's for. I don't have any intention to be confrontational or relish that a man "can't" tell me off for something that doesn't deserve a telling off.

Yeah yeah that's cool am all about that and making life easier for people etc etc...but if I don't bother putting the ruler shopping border thingy-ma-jiggy behind my shopping, because I know there's a substantial gap to the next persons shopping and I also place my hand on my last piece of shopping ...then I don't expect some person behind me to slap the border thingy-ma-jiggy ruler like a clapper board down behind my shopping just to make a psychotic episode point..ok ok we cool we cool :cool:

wassie

PhilOssophy wrote: »

...My only real gripe about them is the car-parking. Car pulled in, front wheel across the line into the next space. Learn to park FFS, it'll take you 30 seconds to park properly. Not unique to supermarket car parks though!

....and those without reason whom insist on parking in family or accessible carbays to save themselves a 30m walk.

Paddygreen

RandomViewer wrote: »

Was in a large supermarket in NI over the weekend, won't be happening again anytime soon, very few masks, no attempt at distancing, cashier was constantly fiddling with her mask, was sniffling and didn't sanitize hands between customers. No effort being made at all as far as I could see

Ewwww I know. Those who don’t do their duty and wear masks for the greater good as recommended by our experts are the new leper’s. They should wear bells around their necks so that right thinking, progressive good citizens who do as they are told by the government and our experts can hear their potentially infectious carcasses shuffling around.

Paddygreen

wassie wrote: »

....and those without reason whom insist on parking in family or accessible carbays to save themselves a 30m walk.

If more people cycled to the supermarket with their kids that space could be used for testing and screening customers before they are allowed to enter. There are bike trailers you can put kids in. People are having too many kids anyway, it’s bad for the planet.

Wanderer2010

Old people ahead of you in the queue. I know ill be old someday so patience and compassion yadda yadda, but fcuk me its extremely annoying to pop in for one or two things and be stuck behind some awl fellow who takes 1000 years to give the cashier his money, all in coins, then takes a further 800 years to pick up his bag and shuffle away. :mad: