Most annoying things abut supermarkets

Strumms wrote: »

When the customer in front of you realizes that they have forgotten something, leaves the till, disappears for 2 mins, leaving everyone standing , comes back laughing with an extra box of Cadbury’s mini rolls which are on special.

I put one woman's stuff back in her basket when she did that for the second time in the queue. First time she raced to get into the queue, unloaded her 4 or 5 items and then disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with some fruit. Then she headed off again and I just packed her items back into a basket and left it to one side and moved up the line.

She wasn't pleased when she got back a few minutes later with a couple of bottles of wine and about 5 people now ahead of her in the queue.

Idiots in the queue in Dunnes handing the cashier a big fistful of money off vouchers thus holding up the entire queue.

Also in Lidl one day, the same big galoot with a whistly voice kept cutting across me and getting in my way no matter what aisle I was in. I just couldn't shrug him off!!

The music is usually more than 20 years old.

Probably a good thing now that I think of it.

When they don't have what you want

Standing for ten minutes at the only till open and then as soon as you start to put your stuff on the belt, they open the one beside it.

I never realised the supermarket was such a hot-bed of stress, tension and frustration!! Get over it people, you'll probably take 10 minutes off your life getting worked up about a slow moving queue!!
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!

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 ??

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.

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.

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?

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.