Most annoying things abut supermarkets

s1ippy · 06-08-2020 2:45am

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

I just love this :pac:

Could be a comedy sketch.

Slim Charles · 06-08-2020 7:31am

Alejandro68 wrote: »

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.

I genuinely go out of my way to rudely move them, hate those idiots. Stare at me all you wish I didn't come to the supermarket to make friends, I came to get essential supplies and get out ASAP before I get further irked by the stupidity of people.

PhilOssophy · 06-08-2020 8:48am

AllForIt wrote: »

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

Or in the case of Lidl/Aldi, goes in for tea, forgets tea but comes home with a petrol strimmers, 5 bags of bark mulch and a clothes line.

EDIT: Hadn't read the rest of the thread before posting!

RandomViewer · 06-08-2020 12:49pm

bobbyss wrote: »

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.

You keep the crate in the boot, you just put the items in it from the trolley, when you get home you carry in the crate

the purple tin · 06-08-2020 6:07pm

s1ippy wrote: »

I just love this :pac:

Could be a comedy sketch.

It was: it happened to Ricky Gervais character in Extras. But it was a restaurant rather than a supermarket.

stinkypinky · 06-08-2020 6:11pm

Probably been mentioned a few times. When you have a tonne of shopping and are putting it on the conveyor and the person behind you with their items starts putting there's on the belt leaving you no space to unpack the rest of yours. This has happened a few times and sometimes they'd look at you cross-eyed after asking nicely if they could give you a bit of space.

Spanish Eyes · 06-08-2020 6:18pm

In Aldi I am like the road runner at the checkout, scanned quickly.... into trolley on repeat and pack at the counter behind.

But there is always some idiot before me who is so slow and packs everything at the checkout. THEN tries to find their money or their card. Oh Jesus help me from these people.

Did I already mention about supermarkets changing the products in their aisles? Another twenty minutes trying to find anything. Boils my blood. Why do they do that? Must be a marketing thing or something.

And those on their own who park in the child spaces. GRRRRRR.

Capt'n Midnight · 06-08-2020 6:20pm

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.

Don't let them take your temperature on your forehead when you enter a supermarket !

It erases your memory.

I went in for bread and milk and came out with two cases of beer.

Spanish Eyes · 06-08-2020 6:24pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

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.'

Ah feck sake, that gave me a good laugh :P

NewbridgeIR · 06-08-2020 6:37pm

People taking the lids off lip balm, rubbing it under their armpit before putting lid back on and placing back on shelf. Ignorant f*ckers.

appledrop · 06-08-2020 6:38pm

People at self check outs who do not put their bags on first and then put shopping in bags as they scan. Then they could just take their items instead of having to pack everything after paying..[/quote]

No I've tried this in Super Valu + I always get unexplained item in bagging area if I try to do bag first.

appledrop · 06-08-2020 6:49pm

There are so many annoying things!

Can't stand self service check out especially Tesco. They are unable to identify Brennans sliced pan like wtf.

When I purposely park in quieter part of car park so plenty of room to get in + out+ some ****ers packs right beside me!

I despise packing in current Covid climate. We do a big shop once a week so one of us would load up conveyor belt while other packed. Obviously we don't go as family anymore + its like a race to stack them all on conveyer belt + make it down then to pack them before its too full!

Now usually check out staff are brilliant + kinda stack them for you so don't build up too much but one girl was literally just firing them down. She was so ignorant. I was still packing + she started putting through the next persons shopping + firing it down on me! The other people were mortified + told her I don't think she is finished yet.

riclad · 06-08-2020 7:08pm

Men do the same thing, get to till, look for money, oh I have to pay for this,
All the supermarkets I go to have self scanning units,
The thing that annoys me is if someone takes my basket away , I prefer to fill my bag away from the scanning unit. I need the basket.
People who get to close, please follow the line on the ground, stay 3ft away from me in the queue

riclad · 06-08-2020 7:10pm

riclad wrote: »

Men do the same thing, get to till, look for money, oh I have to pay for this,
All the supermarkets I go to have self scanning units,
The thing that annoys me is if someone takes my basket away , I prefer to fill my bag away from the scanning unit. I need the basket.
People who get to close, please follow the line on the ground, stay 3ft away from me in the queue

Go early in the morning or after 7pm if you want to avoid crowded supermarkets

Gregor Samsa · 06-08-2020 9:08pm

appledrop wrote: »

its like a race to stack them all on conveyer belt + make it down then to pack them before its too full!

There’s an art to it. A mixture of preparation and timing. I do a weekly shop for my family of 5 on my own, and 98% of the time I’m way ahead of the teller and am waiting patiently for the last item to be scanned, as everything else is already neatly and systematically bagged. I feel a sense of failure if there’s a buildup in the bagging area.

Archeron · 06-08-2020 9:21pm

Are ya collecting the tokens for the fish knives?
Sorry, what?
The fish knives. It's an exclusive 84 piece set designed by John roccas dentist. For every million euro you spend, we allow you to buy one of these beautiful cast steel knives for up to 50% off their RRP of ninety euro each. You can complete the set within two or three generations as long as you don't mind filling your wallet with these tiny stickers that you will find everywhere, including behind wall sockets and under your eyelid.

Spanish Eyes · 06-08-2020 9:25pm

Looking like these rants about supermarkets are the least of our troubles now, going by Covid reports today.

But food is essential.

Strumms · 06-08-2020 9:35pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Looking like these rants about supermarkets are the least of our troubles now, going by Covid reports today.

But food is essential.

Bit depressing alright... I’m not surprised however.

Food is essential and so is the behavior of people when they go to get it... when they leave their front door... for shopping, exercise, get petrol, McDonald’s whatever.

News about the 80 positive in the meat packing / processing plant.

Leg End Reject · 06-08-2020 10:00pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

People taking the lids off lip balm, rubbing it under their armpit before putting lid back on and placing back on shelf. Ignorant f*ckers.

WHAT?

My annoyance is the trolleys full of junk food that comprise the weekly shop of some families.

AllForIt · 07-08-2020 12:02am

You know what does annoy me, it's the security guard. I have a strange supermarket habit of wandering arokund aisle to aisle back and forth, where others do them in order. I just know he's looking at me via camera on his screen inside the front door. I always glare at him on the way out as If I don't know he's looking at me on his screen and looks up at me when I'm leaving giving me my opportunity to glare at him. I mean they should be a bit more surreptitious about it - it's their job. Don't make it so obvious your spying on everyone.

trashcan · 07-08-2020 12:12am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

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.'

Copywrite that gag before Brendan O'Carroll nicks it

Purple Mountain · 07-08-2020 12:18am

trashcan wrote: »

Copywrite that gag before Brendan O'Carroll nicks it

My mam's late friend told me that about 30 years ago and she said it was a true story. I think it sounds like a yarn

07-08-2020 12:46am

I gotta say, the folks working in my local Lidl are showing a remarkable level of good humour and so on considering the **** they have to put up with. It's almost a pleasure to go shopping there.

kegg · 07-08-2020 3:51am

biko wrote: »

Baguette even

My mother called it 'duck loaf'. I never asked why.

PhilOssophy · 07-08-2020 8:43am

AllForIt wrote: »

You know what does annoy me, it's the security guard. I have a strange supermarket habit of wandering arokund aisle to aisle back and forth, where others do them in order. I just know he's looking at me via camera on his screen inside the front door. I always glare at him on the way out as If I don't know he's looking at me on his screen and looks up at me when I'm leaving giving me my opportunity to glare at him. I mean they should be a bit more surreptitious about it - it's their job. Don't make it so obvious your spying on everyone.

Eh, I think you might be over-thinking things.....

weldoninhio · 07-08-2020 8:54am

Padre_Pio wrote: »

Baguette.

Never heard it called a French log.

Baguette is what you get a chicken fillet roll on. French stick.

murphyebass · 07-08-2020 10:37am

Dickheads holding up the queue talkin ****e to the cashier.

They don’t want to hear about your ****ty insignificant life.

And I don’t want to be in the shop for a second longer than absolutely necessary which you are now increasing with your **** talk!!!!

Probably been mentioned but this happened me yesterday with the person essentially refusing to pay until they told the cashier their life story.

Infuriating.

partyguinness · 07-08-2020 10:58am

When supermarkets move the produce around every few months.

I know where everything is and then some overweight sweaty middle manager on a power trip decides to move everything around to 'freshen things up'. No- you're just pissing me off and no it will not trick me into buying crap I do not need.

Canyon86 · 07-08-2020 11:05am

murphyebass wrote: »

Dickheads holding up the queue talkin ****e to the cashier.

They don’t want to hear about your ****ty insignificant life.

And I don’t want to be in the shop for a second longer than absolutely necessary which you are now increasing with your **** talk!!!!

Probably been mentioned but this happened me yesterday with the person essentially refusing to pay until they told the cashier their life story.

Infuriating.

If I could like this post twice I would

Canyon86 · 07-08-2020 11:07am

People waiting until the very last minute to go looking for purse / wallet to pay

people blocking up already narrow aisles to have chats with people they meet,:rolleyes:

NeinNeinNein · 07-08-2020 11:25am

People squeezing the sliced pans and then replacing them on the shelf.

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 11:29am

AllForIt wrote: »

You know what does annoy me, it's the security guard. I have a strange supermarket habit of wandering arokund aisle to aisle back and forth, where others do them in order. I just know he's looking at me via camera on his screen inside the front door. I always glare at him on the way out as If I don't know he's looking at me on his screen and looks up at me when I'm leaving giving me my opportunity to glare at him. I mean they should be a bit more surreptitious about it - it's their job. Don't make it so obvious your spying on everyone.

This has to be one of the funniest things ive read in a long time. id love to be listening to you muttering to yourself with delusions of someone looking at you from the other side of the shop, based on absolutely nothing. And throw in the glare at the end, priceless. This has to be a windup.

ShatterAlan · 07-08-2020 12:38pm

bobbyss wrote: »

The French Log Experience

Buy a French Log. The long bag it is in is always shorter than the actual length of the bread itself. The end sticks out. Waiting for it to slide out and fall to the floor. This probably happens just as you are at he checkout. During Covid some places had the bag made bigger so that all of the log was covered. No touching.

But by and large it is back to normal now because we all want to buy bread that other people have handled.

I used to blow a fuse when I was in a queue and the cashier left his/her station to do something. Maybe get a bar code sorted. However I have got over that. Not his or her fault. Could be me that they have to leave their station.

But that French log.

WTF is a french log?

Do you mean a baguette?

Marhay70 · 07-08-2020 12:40pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

WTF is a french log?

Do you mean a baguette?

I always thought a French log was something you found in a jacks in Paris

kegg · 07-08-2020 1:27pm

Very annoying when people decide to put the groceries on the conveyor at the tills at the very end. As if I'm goin to steal some!

Thephantomsmask · 07-08-2020 1:37pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Baguette is what you get a chicken fillet roll on. French stick.

Demi-Baguette is the chicken Fillet roll. Baguette is the full thing.

Muahahaha · 07-08-2020 2:10pm

bobbyss wrote: »

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.

I think those bags with the poles that rest on the trolley edge are actually a really good idea. Because they are opened up they allow you to keep pace with the cashier scanning the goods and pack everything at the till. Then just lift the bags into your car boot and you're good to go. If I were buying trolley loads of food myself I'd definitely get them, they speed everything up.

Strumms wrote: »

Dunnes managers are, having being a Dunnes employee in my late teens for a few months I can tell you, purebred cünts...

We had a brilliant thread on AH a couple of years back, I think it was called 'Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland'. Once all the 1970s looking depressing Dunnes got listed it then descended into many, many ex-Dunnes employees relating how toxic it was to work there with lots of stories of little Hitler managers.

I think its a cultural thing with Dunnes. The senior management in HQ behave like bolloxes too and that carries on down to store level. Dunnes HQ thinks nothing of riding roughshod over Irish planning laws, they throw in frivilous planning objections when Aldi or Lidl try to set up a new supermarket, they sign leases with landlords and then refuse to pay the rent, they are commonly in the High Court for their shennaigans. They just seem to be an overall prize kunt of a company.

And thats before we get into their 60 euro Paul Costello plank of wood....

The Raging Bile Duct · 07-08-2020 2:12pm

The way they steal random 'o's from thread titles.

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 2:14pm

I don't know why it annoys me so much but parents who open up packets of crisps or yogurts from the shelf or even breadrolls or buns from the bakery and give it to their kids while walking around the store. Always bugs me wondering do they pay for them at the checkout.

The Raging Bile Duct · 07-08-2020 2:15pm

AllForIt wrote: »

You know what does annoy me, it's the security guard. I have a strange supermarket habit of wandering arokund aisle to aisle back and forth, where others do them in order. I just know he's looking at me via camera on his screen inside the front door. I always glare at him on the way out as If I don't know he's looking at me on his screen and looks up at me when I'm leaving giving me my opportunity to glare at him. I mean they should be a bit more surreptitious about it - it's their job. Don't make it so obvious your spying on everyone.

You're giving the security guard pissy looks for doing exactly what they're paid to do? Is your name Karen?

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 2:16pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

You're giving the security guard pissy looks for doing exactly what they're paid to do? Is your name Karen?

And they don't even know if they are doing it. This is the best laugh I have had in a long time.

Rodney Bathgate · 07-08-2020 2:18pm

Marhay70 wrote: »

I always thought a French log was something you found in a jacks in Paris

Bûche de Noel? (Yule log for the non-French speakers among us)

paw patrol · 07-08-2020 2:19pm

i love supermarkets - i don't get the hate for anything in there. It's a relaxing experience for me , chill out get my groceries

i hate clothes shopping though

Rodney Bathgate · 07-08-2020 2:21pm

We are being told to plan out our shopping trips, use shopping lists, get in and out as quick as possible.

Not dawdle about and wander around the shop like you are lost. No wonder they are judging you.

They should be throwing you out and barring you.

PhilOssophy · 07-08-2020 2:30pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

You're giving the security guard pissy looks for doing exactly what they're paid to do? Is your name Karen?

And the funniest part is that the security man is probably wondering "WTF is that guys problem" before moving on with his life while the poster here vents his fury!

Ted_YNWA · 07-08-2020 5:56pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

The way they steal random 'o's from thread titles.

Got any O's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1IP4N9ajg

Princess Calla · 07-08-2020 6:57pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

I think those bags with the poles that rest on the trolley edge are actually a really good idea. Because they are opened up they allow you to keep pace with the cashier scanning the goods and pack everything at the till. Then just lift the bags into your car boot and you're good to go. If I were buying trolley loads of food myself I'd definitely get them, they speed everything up.

...

I have these, I stopped using them as I found them really awkward.

I found the big bag way too big, trying to get it out of the trolley when full was a challenge. The bags themselves are very long. Though I accept my 4'11" frame did not help. The smaller bags were OK but to just use the two small bags kinda defeated the purpose.

So they are now thrown in the back of the press and dunnes and lidl bags are used.

Potential-Monke · 07-08-2020 8:57pm

paw patrol wrote: »

i love supermarkets - i don't get the hate for anything in there. It's a relaxing experience for me , chill out get my groceries

Are you basically admitting you're one of those people most other people on this thread are giving out about? Sauntering around the place without a care in the world, instead of getting in, getting what you need (pre-planned) and getting out?

I do dislike this. We're not yet back at the sauntering phase of grocery shopping yet. More places are being closed down, entire towns are going back into lockdown, but people still dawdle getting the groceries. Furthers my main issue that the problem with shopping are the people.

PhilOssophy · 07-08-2020 9:08pm

You know, with the stress shopping seems to cause people it is probably costing you time off your life getting worked up about it!
I am absolutely amazed that something as simple as somebody being a bit slow with their credit card or packing their shopping seems to be such a cause for blood pressure to be raised!
Calm down people, you'll be a long time saving 5 minutes. Its a perfect chance for deep breaths before getting in to the car and no doubt getting stressed by the traffic on the way home!
(I do draw a line at people touching items and not buying them and bad parking, but as for the queue, packing etc I couldn't give a sh1te)

its_steve116 · 07-08-2020 11:00pm

That there's no jungle animal animatronics in Tesco like there was in Crazy Prices.

Most annoying things abut supermarkets

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