Most annoying things abut supermarkets

suicide_circus · 05-08-2020 12:45pm

F*cking mouth breathers getting too close to you. Me and the wife were in the fruit and veg section of Lidl picking up a few bits and a woman came up and stood so close to us that she was actually touching us, no mask obviously, we had been at that part of the aisle for a maximum of 10 seconds. We both just looked at her and i ask "are you serious?" to which she says "ah sorry". True story.

Wanderer2010 · 05-08-2020 12:46pm

Another bugbear for me is being stuck behind someone who has just unloaded a trolley full of items on the belt and they are just standing there looking at the cashier for the final minute as the items are scanned over to the bagging area. Then the cashier says "Thats 78euros please" and only THEN does the retard in front of you decide to slowly open their bag or wallet and start fumbling around for their credit card to pay, as of they were surprised by this turn of events. Imagine having to pay for your groceries.

Have your card or wallet ready when they tell you the final amount, idiots. :mad::mad::mad:

breezy1985 · 05-08-2020 12:59pm

Tired Gardener wrote: »

So we should unload the trolley at the till, load the trolley after the till, unload the trolley at bench, to load the packed bags in the trolley?

Quite a few redundant steps there.

Fine if your packing bags quickly but not all this I need to categorise my shopping bags BS.

People say it saves time when you get home but wasting time in the shop to save time at home is redundant too

razorblunt · 05-08-2020 1:02pm

The bottle of milk you only realise is leaking when you put it on the till. Got hit 3 weeks in a row by this recently.

dartboardio · 05-08-2020 1:04pm

Nowadays it's idiots who think they're better than you because they are wearing a mask.

I laugh at them when they look at me or anyone else.

There's hundreds of reasons as to why someone isn't wearing a mask, be it health condition, breathing irregularity, or many other factors

If anyone ever says it to me I won't be long about putting them back in their box! Close minded fools.

And in regards to packing at Aldi, I always pack my bags in full at the checkout. Most of the time I am faster than the cashier :V the Aldi Challenge I like to call it each time...

It's only annoying if the customer is a slowcoach.

razorblunt · 05-08-2020 1:06pm

dartboardio wrote: »

Nowadays it's idiots who think they're better than you because they are wearing a mask.

I laugh at them when they look at me or anyone else.

There's hundreds of reasons as to why someone isn't wearing a mask, be it health condition, breathing irregularity, or many other factors

If anyone ever says it to me I won't be long about putting them back in their box! Close minded fools.

As long as you don't buy up all the tinfoil, you do you fella.

dartboardio · 05-08-2020 1:12pm

People who make Aldi/Tesco a family day out ????

Mummy, Daddy and little Oisin and Rory out in the supermarket for the day. The little annoying shxtebags running around the aisles nearly knocking into people

Why can't mum/dad stay in the car with the kids? seriously like

The Tetrarch · 05-08-2020 1:31pm

In my supermarket:
the mixed beans and the baked beans are in different aisles
the salted caramel yogurt is about ten yards from the rest of the yogurts

It is bad enough when they move everything about every few months, but similar products in different areas! Why?

RandomViewer · 05-08-2020 1:50pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Fine if your packing bags quickly but not all this I need to categorise my shopping bags BS.

People say it saves time when you get home but wasting time in the shop to save time at home is redundant too

Keep a plastic crate in the boot of the car, no need for bags

ThewhiteJesus · 05-08-2020 1:57pm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Another bugbear for me is being stuck behind someone who has just unloaded a trolley full of items on the belt and they are just standing there looking at the cashier for the final minute as the items are scanned over to the bagging area. Then the cashier says "Thats 78euros please" and only THEN does the retard in front of you decide to slowly open their bag or wallet and start fumbling around for their credit card to pay, as of they were surprised by this turn of events. Imagine having to pay for your groceries.

Have your card or wallet ready when they tell you the final amount, idiots. :mad::mad::mad:

why use the word retard ? Seriously i just don't get it.

angel eyes 2012 · 05-08-2020 2:09pm

Some store managers on a power trip giving out to staff on the floor in front of customers. It's ok to give directions to staff but reprimanding them on the shop floor is not professional and looks terrible. I've seen it at one of the more established stores on a couple of occasions.

Wanderer2010 · 05-08-2020 2:20pm

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

why use the word retard ? Seriously i just don't get it.

Thats what they are. Are you perpetually offended by everything? Pity about you.

ThewhiteJesus · 05-08-2020 2:25pm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Thats what they are. Are you perpetually offended by everything? Pity about you.

No, my vocabulary just exceeds referencing the most needy of society in order to try humiliate someone.Pity about you.

Wanderer2010 · 05-08-2020 2:28pm

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

No, my vocabulary just exceeds referencing the most needy of society in order to try humiliate someone.Pity about you.

:D:D

HildaOgdenx · 05-08-2020 2:33pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Some store managers on a power trip giving out to staff on the floor in front of customers. It's ok to give directions to staff but reprimanding them on the shop floor is not professional and looks terrible. I've seen it at one of the more established stores on a couple of occasions.

I agree. It's something I hate to see/ hear.

I was in a shop one day and a staff member apparently had been a few minutes late coming in. The manager tore a strip off them, on the shop floor. I felt so sorry for the staff member.

Muahahaha · 05-08-2020 2:59pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Some store managers on a power trip giving out to staff on the floor in front of customers. It's ok to give directions to staff but reprimanding them on the shop floor is not professional and looks terrible. I've seen it at one of the more established stores on a couple of occasions.

Have never seen it happen in Aldi or Lidl but have seen managers tear strips off staff in Dunnes on a few occasions. Dunnes managers seem to be special kinds of bolloxes.

?Cee?view · 05-08-2020 3:12pm

scudzilla wrote: »

Most annoying thing about supermarkets for me is those little barstard kids trollies, ya know the type, mammy wandering around everywhere and her 3 little angles each have one of these ankle slammers and are running riot.

These contraptions led me to one of the most embarrassing moments for me in recent times, went into our local Supervalu and there's a largish foyer, to the right is way in, to the left is people coming out, so i go in with wit my wife and i'm pushing the trolley, stadning right in the doorway is a little kid, maybe 5/6 years old with one of these trolleys, not budging, his dad just standing 5ft inside the doorway looking at him smiling.

After 30 seconds of this kid not budging and a few people starting to queue behind me i shout out "Ah come on, will ya get out of the way""""

He turns around and looks at me with his little down syndrome head :(:(

The mutterings from ladies behind me, the second he turned around my wife legged it, found her by the bread breaking her shite laughing

In fairness, the Dad there is an idiot. The kid having Down Syndrome is immaterial.

partyguinness · 05-08-2020 3:15pm

Middle aged couples or more usually elderly mother and middle aged daughter having full blown detailed conversations about the items they are buying. Loud enough for the whole store to hear.

partyguinness · 05-08-2020 3:19pm

Women who spend an eternity rifling through their purse when it comes to paying. It's almost like they are surprised and not expecting to have to get their purse out at the till.

And then an eternity closing it back up and putting it back in their oversized handbag. And the amount of crap in the purse...I mean why do feel the need to carry around your 25 year old card with your social security number on it.

Now I use self scanning so no more check outs.

Strumms · 05-08-2020 3:45pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Have never seen it happen in Aldi or Lidl but have seen managers tear strips off staff in Dunnes on a few occasions. Dunnes managers seem to be special kinds of bolloxes.

Dunnes managers are, having being a Dunnes employee in my late teens for a few months I can tell you, purebred cünts... one fûcker even put his hands on me because I had my hands in my pockets trying to warm them up so I wouldn’t drop product they were that numb after an hour loading up freezer cabinets. Fûcker grabbed my arm to pull it out, nearly pulling me out of my standing.. i think going by his reaction he immediately knew he was after overstepping. Still I should have bounced my fist off his cerebellum, instead I just threatened him and walked.. Just looked him up on FB, 20 years later he is... a manager in SuperValu in a small backwater town and bragging about it on social media.. nice CG.

I have a cousin who is a manager in Dunnes clothing section. Nice enough girl away from the job but but totally career driven and obsessed with work, I’d say she’d be a cûnt to work for in the extreme, her own brother even agrees.

bobbyss · 05-08-2020 3:51pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Keep a plastic crate in the boot of the car, no need for bags

But how can that work if you have a lot of shopping to do? It certainly would not carry all my shopping. And if you have not a lot of shopping to do a crate seems quite a heavy thing to lug out of the car in the first place?
Also does the crate fit evenly into the trolly.

I have seen some people, but rarely I have to say, with a series of bags hooked into the trolley like an accordion player type of thing. I often think how well organised they appear to be.

PhilOssophy · 05-08-2020 5:21pm

This thread is fantastic, I never knew the supermarket trip had so much tension and strife connected with it!

Robsweezie · 05-08-2020 5:35pm

when the aul one you skipped ahead of in the queue catches up to you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_THzkANNPU

Robsweezie · 05-08-2020 5:57pm

this one not so much annoying, more....funny/unprofessional?

staff bitching about other staff on the shop floor. ''and then i asked him to shift those boxes and he looked at me like id ten heads...lazy fuucker....oh yeah, i told mick i wanted them holidays booked off and he said no but sheila is allowed take them? ridiculous like...''

the purple tin · 05-08-2020 6:48pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Have never seen it happen in Aldi or Lidl but have seen managers tear strips off staff in Dunnes on a few occasions. Dunnes managers seem to be special kinds of bolloxes.

I saw it in Lidl, one time I asked a girl at the till could I get something out of the locked cabinet beacause there was no staff on the floor.
She came down with me and opened the cabinet and when we went back to the till her wagon of a manager was waiting there and ate the head off her for leaving her station. I felt mortified for the poor girl, I think she was new but there was no excuse for yer wan to bawl her out of it on the shop floor.
I wish i had told the manager that it was my fault she left the till but she scared the crap out of me

GT89 · 05-08-2020 7:01pm

Strumms wrote: »

Dunnes managers are, having being a Dunnes employee in my late teens for a few months I can tell you, purebred cünts... one fûcker even put his hands on me because I had my hands in my pockets trying to warm them up so I wouldn’t drop product they were that numb after an hour loading up freezer cabinets. Fûcker grabbed my arm to pull it out, nearly pulling me out of my standing.. i think going by his reaction he immediately knew he was after overstepping. Still I should have bounced my fist off his cerebellum, instead I just threatened him and walked.. Just looked him up on FB, 20 years later he is... a manager in SuperValu in a small backwater town and bragging about it on social media.. nice CG.

I have a cousin who is a manager in Dunnes clothing section. Nice enough girl away from the job but but totally career driven and obsessed with work, I’d say she’d be a cûnt to work for in the extreme, her own brother even agrees.

I've worked in Dunnes and that's complete and utter nonsense

Spanish Eyes · 05-08-2020 7:09pm

It may have been said before, but honestly I have the aisles in our local SV and Aldi down to a T. I could run in there and in five minutes get everything I want, mask on, out the door.

But when they change the effin aisles with a different layout, oh god, I hate that. Why do they do it? Admittedly the local Aldi was refurbished just before lockdown, so I can kind of understand that, but SV, go away and keep things as they are thank you!

Strumms · 05-08-2020 7:54pm

GT89 wrote: »

I've worked in Dunnes and that's complete and utter nonsense

Because you ‘worked’ in Dunnes that enables you to have complete authority on everyone else’s experiences and thoughts does it ? In every store under every manager ? Some boyo. It’s not, quite simply nonsense, maybe things have changed, ok, that’s good if it’s happened but don’t be calling ‘nonsense’ on a situation and experiences which you never experienced personally, during my short stint they were a crap employer both as regards their treatment of their employees and various other aspects that I should not elaborate on.

Capt'n Midnight · 05-08-2020 7:54pm

When the checkout person squeezes the really fresh bread.

And it stays squeezed :mad:

YellowBucket · 05-08-2020 8:07pm

riclad wrote: »

People who use a credit card to pay for 5 euros worth of items, do you not carry cash

It’s way faster than cash and in a supermarket potentially less to process than cash too.

It’s not 1986, when they had to get out the carbon paper and the big rolly thing.

Also there’s a pandemic on. Most ppl aren’t using much cash.

Princess Calla · 05-08-2020 8:46pm

GT89 wrote: »

I've worked in Dunnes and that's complete and utter nonsense

I've worked in Dunnes drapery and yeah the managers were less than nice. Though one manager was lovely.... Yup her managers treated her appallingly.

I've worked in 6 different retail outlets both supermarkets and normal shops and Dunnes was by far the worst.

When someone made the comment about staff members getting disciplined on the shop floor the first place I thought of was Dunnes.

Slim Charles · 05-08-2020 9:22pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Have never seen it happen in Aldi or Lidl but have seen managers tear strips off staff in Dunnes on a few occasions. Dunnes managers seem to be special kinds of bolloxes.

Ever been to a musgraves store ?

Slim Charles · 05-08-2020 9:24pm

YellowBucket wrote: »

It’s way faster than cash and in a supermarket potentially less to process than cash too.

It’s not 1986, when they had to get out the carbon paper and the big rolly thing.

Also there’s a pandemic on. Most ppl aren’t using much cash.

yep, it was frustrating as heck years ago now you tap and walk its literally the fastest method of payment. Someone is just recycling posts from a 2005 equivalent of this thread.

Marhay70 · 05-08-2020 9:26pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Have never seen it happen in Aldi or Lidl but have seen managers tear strips off staff in Dunnes on a few occasions. Dunnes managers seem to be special kinds of bolloxes.

Absolutely, little Hitlers. I used to drive a truck in a former life and the jumped up little fcuks who called themselves goods inwards managers were something else. If they took against you you could spend hours sitting outside, just on the whim of these little ****s, Tesco were much the same but without the suit and tie.
I remember one particularly obnoxious fcuker in Newbridge who, if if you only had half a pallet and your own tail lift wouldn't let you unload it yourself. Often felt like running over him but I believe one driver did lose the head and broke his jaw, wish I'd been there to see that

Nevin Parsnipp · 05-08-2020 9:58pm

Tired Gardener wrote: »

So we should unload the trolley at the till, load the trolley after the till, unload the trolley at bench, to load the packed bags in the trolley?

Quite a few redundant steps there.

Unload trolley at till....essential as goods have to be scanned.

Scanned goods back in the trolley mucho rapido...so as not to hold up next person.

Leave till area...it is now free for the next customer.

Strategic packing at bench...where you hold up NOBODY...or

Wheel trolley to vehicle and load there ....again holding up nobody.

It's common sense to this poster ....

05-08-2020 10:07pm

Two things about supermarkets that I hate:

Forgetting what I went in for.

Unexpected item in the bagging area.

I genuinely love a nice supermarket all the same.

AllForIt · 05-08-2020 10:21pm

Candie wrote: »

Two things about supermarkets that I hate:

Forgetting what I went in for.

Unexpected item in the bagging area.

I genuinely love a nice supermarket all the same.

Tea. Goes for tea and comes back without tea. It's always tea.

05-08-2020 10:23pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Tea. Goes for tea and comes back without tea. It's always tea.

It's so true.

I go in talking to myself. Tea and milk, tea and milk, don't forget the milk, Candie.

Forgets the tea.

dubstarr · 05-08-2020 10:28pm

I have to agree about jumped up managers.

I worked in Tesco and i had one manager who was a wagon.

I was in at 6 one day and the person for self scan hadnt turned up.So i was on it.

Bout 6.30 went to get on my own till.This manager was on a till and called me over.And in front of everyone said it was so good of me to join them.Big smirk on him

I said i wasnt late,the person who was on self scan was,so go and say it to them.And if they had a problem with me being late,say it not in front of the customers.

Well his face was a picture and off i went.

AllForIt · 05-08-2020 10:32pm

Candie wrote: »

It's so true.

I go in talking to myself. Tea and milk, tea and milk, don't forget the milk, Candie.

Forgets the tea.

Yeah like I come back with some ripe avocados (for a change) and forget what really matters.

05-08-2020 10:42pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Yeah like I come back with some ripe avocados (for a change) and forget what really matters.

Once, my husband went out to buy a particular chocolate cake I wanted. Nay, needed.

He came home without the cake, but with a fishing kayak.

True story.

AllForIt · 05-08-2020 10:50pm

Candie wrote: »

Once, my husband went out to buy a particular chocolate cake I wanted. Nay, needed.

He came home without the cake, but with a fishing kayak.

True story.

lol

Strumms · 05-08-2020 11:42pm

PaulKK · 05-08-2020 11:47pm

Rockbeast2 wrote: »

Women of all ages at tills.

That look of surprise when asked to pay.

The 2 minute root in handbag for purse. Looking for exact change when she has a €50 note. Not finding it. Paying with €50 note.

Remembering an item she forgot/voucher she has/item to return. Cashier has to call a supervisor to open till...

This. Also, fiddling with the change back into the purse. Taking ages to put it away, then spending a good 20 seconds studying the receipt and not moving their trolley while your stuff is being scanned and piling up.

Same women who queue for an ATM, and go through the same ordeal once they get to the machine, but this time have to have a good think about how much cash they should take out after entering their pin.

However I digress.

People who take the parent and child parking spaces at Aldi with no kids irrationality annoy me, if I've got kids with me it's actually very useful to have the extra room.

People who make a point of slowly packing their bags at the till in Lidl/Aldi while clearly knowing that is not what you are ment to do. They always have that smug/self righteous look too as if "you won't get me to play your efficient German game".

People who block shelves staring at products and not picking anything, who clearly don't give a sh1t that you are waiting to pick something off a shelf and won't stand back for a second to let you get it - more so in covid times.

People not tapping their card when it's within the tap limit. WTF are you still punching in the pin for?

I don't mind people using vouchers in Dunnes but it encourages the behaviour of leaving the till to go "make up the cost". Cashier might say, "oh you're at 191, do you want to make it up to 200", and everyone has to wait while the person will run off and choose steak or wine or something that they clearly didn't need in the first place.

The crappy range of items in Lidl and Aldi drives me mad. They are untouchable on price on lots of stuff, but the product range makes no sense. Taco spice mix but no taco shells, chicken wings but no sauce for chicken wings. Only the basic spices. No strong flour for making pizza etc which means you end up needing to go to dunnes or somewhere. Plenty more examples.

Last but not least, if I don't have the kids I generally park in the furthest possible space from the entrance so that some f*ckwit doesn't damage my car with a trolley or their car door. Without fail some clown will have parked right beside me, even though there are 100 available spaces closer to the entrance.

Mysterypunter · 06-08-2020 12:09am

Candie wrote: »

Once, my husband went out to buy a particular chocolate cake I wanted. Nay, needed.

He came home without the cake, but with a fishing kayak.

True story.

Cake and Kayak sound very similar, he may have got them mixed up, if you had a regional accent you might say get me a caayk. In that case I'm not surprised. My annoying thing about supermarkets rant is people who load up a trolly, head to the counter, load up the bags, stand there and eventually produce the money, did u think you were getting it on the book?

CollyFlower · 06-08-2020 12:34am

Hated it when I used to buy a newspapers in the supermarket and the check-out person would casually read it before scanning.

Omackeral · 06-08-2020 1:07am

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Cake and Kayak sound very similar, he may have got them mixed up, if you had a regional accent you might say get me a caayk. In that case I'm not surprised.

You would make a fantastic defense lawyer.

Alejandro68 · 06-08-2020 1:36am

When two women with carts completely block the isle while gossiping.And see you coming up the isle but ignore you.And when you say excuse me you then are greeted by hateful stares.

Purple Mountain · 06-08-2020 1:41am

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

OP's post had me seriously confused there for a bit.

I thought it was going to be about something fit for the etiquette thread.

Purple Mountain · 06-08-2020 2:25am

Rockbeast2 wrote: »

I bet you squeeze both ends of the sliced pan! LOL

Aul ones in my local shop squeeze everything; bread, rolls, cakes, fruit. Big dirty finger dents in everything by the time they go back to the first one they picked up and take that!:D

I once heard a yarn about a posh woman at the Moore St stalls who was pawing at the prawns to choose which to buy.
The Mrs Browne type stall holder barks 'they're prawns missus, not mickies. They won't get bigger by stroking them.'

Most annoying things abut supermarkets

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