Most annoying things abut supermarkets

HildaOgdenx · 04-08-2020 1:03am

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 · 04-08-2020 1:08am

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

YellowBucket · 04-08-2020 1:13am

The checkout operator who comments on all your purchases:

Oh they look lovely!
Is that shower gel nice?

auspicious · 04-08-2020 1:33am

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

Samsgirl · 04-08-2020 1:36am

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 · 04-08-2020 1:46am

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 · 04-08-2020 1:51am

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1990sman · 04-08-2020 1:52am

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wonski · 04-08-2020 1:57am

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 · 04-08-2020 2:00am

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.

04-08-2020 7:28am

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 · 04-08-2020 9:49am

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 · 04-08-2020 9:59am

Deleted User wrote: »

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 · 04-08-2020 12:08pm

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 · 04-08-2020 12:13pm

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 · 04-08-2020 1:55pm

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 · 04-08-2020 2:02pm

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 · 04-08-2020 2:10pm

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 · 04-08-2020 2:13pm

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 · 04-08-2020 2:16pm

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:

Paddygreen · 04-08-2020 2:17pm

No clue at all what people are trying to say in the local Ulster Scots dialect up in Newry. All I hear is “hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy...”

Sam Quentin · 04-08-2020 2:19pm

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

Seen that myself, I was nearly feeling guilty wearing a mask definitely a couple of months ago and it hasn't improved greatly at-all up to yesterday....

Sam Quentin · 04-08-2020 2:35pm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

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:

Shame on you Amen 🙏

cj maxx · 04-08-2020 3:02pm

When some jumped up store manager takes it on themselves to rearrange everything, thus conflaberating me when I do my shopping:(

RandomViewer · 04-08-2020 3:02pm

Paddygreen wrote: »

No clue at all what people are trying to say in the local Ulster Scots dialect up in Newry. All I hear is “hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy...”

Gregory, go back to sleep

RandomViewer · 04-08-2020 3:05pm

Sam Quentin wrote: »

Seen that myself, I was nearly feeling guilty wearing a mask definitely a couple of months ago and it hasn't improved greatly at-all up to yesterday....

Wasn't comfortable at all, was only in as I had to collect something nearby

RandomViewer · 04-08-2020 3:08pm

Paddygreen wrote: »

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.

Thought the Greens were big on kids

neris · 04-08-2020 3:13pm

when your in the que with a few items and the tills are busy and they announce opening a new till and some c*** with a full trolley rushes to be 1st in line

PhilOssophy · 04-08-2020 4:41pm

neris wrote: »

when your in the que with a few items and the tills are busy and they announce opening a new till and some c*** with a full trolley rushes to be 1st in line

Its open season once a new checkout opens.....

RMAOK · 04-08-2020 4:44pm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

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:

Even better when he reeks of B.O.

breezy1985 · 04-08-2020 4:44pm

biko wrote: »

A french log is confectionery
You're thinking of a baguette.

That's what I was thinking.
And the short bag is to make it look authentically French which the baguettes in Irish supermarkets are far from

Ted_YNWA · 04-08-2020 5:11pm

Paddygreen wrote: »

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 wrote: »

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.

Paddygreen wrote: »

No clue at all what people are trying to say in the local Ulster Scots dialect up in Newry. All I hear is “hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy...”

Mod

Cut out this trolly nonsense.

riclad · 04-08-2020 10:25pm

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

Oscar Bravo · 04-08-2020 10:28pm

Lady in front with big trolley of shopping,all the shopping goes through ,turns around to you "sorry ,do you mind if I run out to the car to get my vouchers,wont be a sec"

PhilOssophy · 04-08-2020 10:54pm

riclad wrote: »

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

If I bought something for 20c I'd be paying with card! Swipe is probably quicker than cash and change, I don't see the problem

boardise · 04-08-2020 10:55pm

RMAOK wrote: »

Even better when he reeks of B.O.

Being Old ?

happyday · 04-08-2020 11:06pm

When the shop assistant deliberately puts the items as close to their end of the check out as possible so you have to stretch to get each item to pack your bags. Like they get a little kick out of it.

KevRossi · 04-08-2020 11:09pm

Old people tottering along in the supermarket in the evenings. Slowly packing their stuff away and looking for a chat with the till people.

I've been at work all day and I'm bloody starving and I just want to to pay for a Pot Noodle and some bread and butter and go home to eat. They've had all fcuking day to shop, but they choose the busiest time, which is an inconvenience to themselves and people working.

On the subject of Tesco, I did a large part of the Christmas shop in Tesco in Merrion, came to €174.00. I knew it was too much, spent 10 minutes going through stuff at the service counter and the new bill was €148.00. Stuff marked as discounted on the shelves was not marked in the system. It's a deliberate rip-off strategy.

breezy1985 · 04-08-2020 11:10pm

riclad wrote: »

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

Dont ever go to London. Theres even markets that are contactless only now

bobbyss · 04-08-2020 11:15pm

happyday wrote: »

When the shop assistant deliberately puts the items as close to their end of the check out as possible so you have to stretch to get each item to pack your bags. Like they get a little kick out of it.

Yeah I do hate that.
Or those that slide along breakables roughly.

Errashareesh · 04-08-2020 11:22pm

Crikey, some of you seem to think people are deliberately trying to be hostile to you when you're hardly that important to them.

04-08-2020 11:37pm

Sam Quentin wrote: »

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:

Wait wha? You realise they're not putting it down behind your shopping, they're putting it in front of theirs? And that that's exactly how the process is supposed to go?

Instead you herd your groceries down the conveyor belt, holding the last item with a protective caress... Seems totally sensible yep.

gmisk · 04-08-2020 11:39pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Old people tottering along in the supermarket in the evenings. Slowly packing their stuff away and looking for a chat with the till people.

I've been at work all day and I'm bloody starving and I just want to to pay for a Pot Noodle and some bread and butter and go home to eat. They've had all fcuking day to shop, but they choose the busiest time, which is an inconvenience to themselves and people working.

On the subject of Tesco, I did a large part of the Christmas shop in Tesco in Merrion, came to €174.00. I knew it was too much, spent 10 minutes going through stuff at the service counter and the new bill was €148.00. Stuff marked as discounted on the shelves was not marked in the system. It's a deliberate rip-off strategy.

Tesco are absolutely shocking for overcharging.
No other supermarket is half as bad.

freshpopcorn · 04-08-2020 11:39pm

riclad wrote: »

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

PhilOssophy wrote: »

If I bought something for 20c I'd be paying with card! Swipe is probably quicker than cash and change, I don't see the problem

breezy1985 wrote: »

Dont ever go to London. Theres even markets that are contactless only now

I love the card vs cash debate!

Jimmy McGill · 04-08-2020 11:49pm

People not packing their stuff away at the packing bench in Lidl/Aldi. Butterfingers holding the whole queue up finding the right bag to put her fish fingers in.

Fitz* · 04-08-2020 11:51pm

Not being ready to pay at the til has to be mine.

It's as if some people hide their purse at the very bottom of their bag and only go searching for it after all the shopping is packed away and then they go searching through the purse for 2e coins to pay for the 58e worth of shopping. Get prepared while you queue.

Strumms · 05-08-2020 12:34am

KevRossi wrote: »

Old people tottering along in the supermarket in the evenings. Slowly packing their stuff away and looking for a chat with the till people.

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I don’t give a monkeys if they are fast or slow but that chat bôllocksology sends me spare.. they get handed their change, receipt and make nothing even approaching an expeditious effort to get their stuff packed...instead trying to keep the attention of the employee, making small talk... “these were cheaper last month”. “Have you long to go”, “awful this covid isn’t it”.... no love it’s brilliant we all ordered two doses each ... ffs, I’m trying to get out of here and away from everyone not stood here in a potential covid shooting gallery ! Pack and go !

Omackeral · 05-08-2020 9:20am

The absolute abundance of people that call it “Tescos”.

Scum.

Alun · 05-08-2020 9:29am

My favourite peeve, albeit pre-Covid ... a new till opens up in Lidl/Aldi, everybody rushes to get there and unpack their stuff, stupid person in front of me dumps everything right at the very start of the band rather than walking up to the end and letting the people behind them put their stuff on too.

Tired Gardener · 05-08-2020 11:05am

Jimmy McGill wrote: »

People not packing their stuff away at the packing bench in Lidl/Aldi. Butterfingers holding the whole queue up finding the right bag to put her fish fingers in.

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.

Most annoying things abut supermarkets

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