Supermarkets

[junior]

What pisses you off in a supermarket?

I've just been to my local Asda superstore and witnessed a little run in at the reduced section. There always seems to be a binfest at the little section at the end of the isle where they sell all the reduced bits and bobs.

There were people literaly pushing each other aside and getting very big elbows just trying to protect their place at the front of the little crowd that there always seems to be around this area.

What annoys me? The usual AA/RAC man in the foyer and the 20 questions you get from the Pakistani (usually) woman at the counter i.e, thank you for waiting, do you need any help packing?, would you like any carrier bags?, are you collecting stamps for schools?, do you have a clubcard?, do you need a reciept for parking?, Do you want any cash back? NO. Just scan my sodding shopping!!!!!! Today i even got asked "what do you have planned for the rest of the day?" I felt like saying mind your own f***ing buisness or "going home to watch some porn".

 

[Sussax]

Kids, running up and down the aisle.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

2 for 1. Sell it at half price if you want to do me a favour; I don't need 2 tubes of tooth paste.

 

[pasty]

Special offers that aren't. Like a "special offer pack of 3 somethings for 90p", when the individual loose item is say 26p

 

[maltaseagull]

What pisses you off in a supermarket?

I've just been to my local Asda superstore and witnessed a little run in at the reduced section. There always seems to be a binfest at the little section at the end of the isle where they sell all the reduced bits and bobs.

There were people literaly pushing each other aside and getting very big elbows just trying to protect their place at the front of the little crowd that there always seems to be around this area.

What annoys me? The usual AA/RAC man in the foyer and the 20 questions you get from the Pakistani (usually) woman at the counter i.e, thank you for waiting, do you need any help packing?, would you like any carrier bags?, are you collecting stamps for schools?, do you have a clubcard?, do you need a reciept for parking?, Do you want any cash back? NO. Just scan my sodding shopping!!!!!! Today i even got asked "what do you have planned for the rest of the day?" I felt like saying mind your own f***ing buisness or "going home to watch some porn".

Well you're a happy chappie.

I used to work in supermarkets and although we didn't have all the sell on stuff we did ask our staff to engage with customers and offer to pack etc. Would have been a real pleasure serving miserable sods like you Perhaps you should use the self scan checkouts and not speak to anyone?

 

[CHAPPERS]

The cashiers that want a chat ARE annoying though and it seems they have been told to talk more. It's f***ing annoying, especially when you're in the queue and the person in front is a CHATTER.

 

[banjo]

I love a bit of chat it annoy's everyone behind Me in the queue.

 

[Nibble]

I quite like going to the Supermarket. I always time it so I am not trying to shop for an hour or so after schools close. Not because I don't like kids. I'm on the register.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The cashiers that want a chat ARE annoying though and it seems they have been told to talk more. It's f***ing annoying, especially when you're in the queue and the person in front is a CHATTER.

You can use this to your advantage though. For example, if I'm feeling a bit low I go to Waitrose as they often have pretty girls on their check out and they smile and show some interest in you.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

What pisses you off in a supermarket?
20 questions you get from the Pakistani (usually) woman at the counter i.e, thank you for waiting, do you need any help packing?, would you like any carrier bags?, are you collecting stamps for schools?, do you have a clubcard?, do you need a reciept for parking?, Do you want any cash back? NO. Just scan my sodding shopping!!!!!! Today i even got asked "what do you have planned for the rest of the day?" I felt like saying mind your own f***ing buisness or "going home to watch some porn".

Checkouts staff are monitored by management and the occasional "mystery shopper" to make sure all the customer service principles are adhered to. The latest idea is to engage the customer in a chat if there is a gap at any point in the transaction (price check needed etc). I was caught out last month for not being chatty enough even though I pointed out the customer was Polish and barely understood me.

 

[Mackenzie]

When the supermarkets try and tell you that something is half price when they've quite obviously doubled the price the previous month. Don't insult my intelligence you robbing wank stain bastards.

 

[Colossal Squid]

You can use this to your advantage though. For example, if I'm feeling a bit low I go to Waitrose as they often have pretty girls on their check out and they smile and show some interest in you.

I'm exactly the same. You even notice that the queue tends to be longer for the really pretty ones, but you still get in it

 

[Nibble]

No shop at all asks if you want a carrier bag anymore. I sometimes forget my re-usables and stand there in a stand off until they ask me if I want a bag. f*** you Tesco's, they are hardly in a position to get shirty with me about the environment. Look at the f***ing place.

 

[red star portslade]

You can use this to your advantage though. For example, if I'm feeling a bit low I go to Waitrose as they often have pretty girls on their check out and they smile and show some interest in you.

Tesco's on Boundary Rd only employ rejects from the Undateables.

 

[banjo]

Tesco's on Boundary Rd only employ rejects from the Undateables.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The cashiers that want a chat ARE annoying though and it seems they have been told to talk more. It's f***ing annoying, especially when you're in the queue and the person in front is a CHATTER.

I get a lot of regulars through who like being served by someone who doesn't spend 5 minutes rambling on about what was on TV the night before with EACH customer.

 

[Nibble]

Theres an Indian gentlemen works on a checkout at New England Sainsbury. Pleasant enough bloke but always avoid him as he's so sloooow and I nioticed one day he has got really badly chewed and bitten nails that are often bleeding, all over my Marris Pipers, no thanks. Sama as a guy in there who has scabby bits in his hair and on his nose. I don't like being mean but no way I will let them serve me.

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Theres an Indian gentlemen works on a checkout at New England Sainsbury. Pleasant enough bloke but always avoid him as he's so sloooow and I nioticed one day he has got really badly chewed and bitten nails that are often bleeding, all over my Marris Pipers, no thanks. Sama as a guy in there who has scabby bits in his hair and on his nose. I don't like being mean but no way I will let them serve me.

 

[glasfryn]

the old 5 for £2 trick
have a whole row of stuff with this offer and stick one right in the middle that is not in the offer then end up paying full price for the lot
TESCO
ASDA
are both guilty of this
Jack Cohen was doing this in the 50/60's its called sharp practice

BASTARDS

but we did get a rather large voucher after pointing this out to the management at head office but the stuff on the shelves stayed the same

 

[Nibble]

The fishmonger at Morrisons. Arse.

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The fishmonger at Morrisons. Arse.

 

[wunt be druv]

People who eat food before they have paid for it,the elderly couple who comment on what you have in your basket at the check out,the elderly who moan because I have my kids with me,the elderly who complain that I should be at work and my wife should be shopping,the dopey old twat who told me that supermarkets operate a one-way system up and down the aisles and that I am going against the flow,the pugnacious old git who was going to see me in the car park because I chose the joint of meat he wanted and the old couple who stand in front of what ever item you are trying to get off the shelves taking about 100 years to decide whether to buy said item and refuse to budge one inch when you politely ask them to move.Bastards the lot of them.Oh yeah,I nearly forgot,the meddling arse wipes who say "oh go on, let them have it" when my kids are pestering me for some overpriced piece of crap.Fcuk the lot of 'em.