Supermarkets

[BensGrandad]

They need to haved more of the full size self-checkouts. I get annoyed when dimwit parents let their muelling cabbage children swipe the shopping on the self-checkout, they're always retarded and slow. This is supposed to speed up shopping not provide a playground for your child.

A uni in USA did a research, I read, about self checkouts and came up with the conclusion that for more than 6 items it was the slowest form of checkout especially when people take a shopping trolley through, which is not what they were designed for.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Children standing in the baskets of trolleys I have a view that they are small so should be in the seat or they are big enough to walk but never standing in the trpolleys having possiblky trod in something on the way to the store. I would think that it is against Health and Safety legislation.

There is a warning icon on the trolley handle which gets ignored. Pointing out that it is unhygienic and unsafe normally leads to threats of violence from the parents.

 

[Fef]

Selling food at 3 for 2 or 2 for 1. How many of us buy these offers, only to find that the 'free' element is eventually thrown away, because it has gone off.
Why don't they just sell it at the unit price ffs.

 

[wellquickwoody]

1/ Elderly people who stop in the middle of the isle and look at the shopping list or get a snot rag and blow their nose.

2/ Fat pikey people with kids who have a trolley full of oven ready meals,crisp, fizzy pop, and genral shit moaning they are on a budget, then you see them in the que buying 600 fags.

3/ Parking the car and being asked if I want my car washed...... eeerrrr feck off I would have gone to a feckin car wash if I had wanted one.

4/ Students (one is always the wildest camp twot ever) on a Friday night loitering in the beer, wine and spirts isle loudly claiming to be going to the wildest party ever and deliberating over own brand spirts and special offers.....

 

[wellquickwoody]

I've just left Tesco's in burgess hill. I hate it in there. The main culprits are the dawdlers. They walk at normal speed with their trolley until the first aisle and then it's go slow.

People (normally the women) who randomly meet friends there and block the aisle whilst the they have a chat.

Sudden stoppers in front of you. Next time I will run my trolley into your heels.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Staff who do not get out of my way. Bit like traffic, sometimes one or the other has to give way to the other, me or staff member?

I AM THE CUSTOMER, I AM ALWAYS RIGHT, AT LEAST WHILST I AM IN EARSHOT, I GO FIRST!

But not in Tesco's apparently, I am less important than the floor cleaner, shelf stacker etc.

PS I love Sainsburys, it keeps the riff raff out of M&S thankfully.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Dick Tight in Tesco's in Hove (Droveway) yak yak bloody yak (bless him)

 

[Nibble]

I refuse to use self service checkouts for anything f*** Tescos/Asda/Morrrisons I refuse to save you 1 penny you cheap bastards pay for the staff you need.

What anoys me in supermarkets? Self serve checkouts and being corraled to them by some halfwit who dosnt realize its there job thats being replaced

Ha! That is an excellent point, and yes it is annoying in the extreme.If I've got booze or something that is going to need varification I never use self service, you end up standing there waving at 1 member of staff who, through no fault of their own to be fair, is trying to deal with several customers having problems all at the same time.

I remember using the self service in Sainsbury's whilst very hungover and goggling at some women or other, in my hanging state I swiped everything through, picked up my two full bags and left. It was only passing New England house that I realised I hadn't paid. If you don't pay the till locks and they can check on cctv who you are so I returned and paid. Very lucky not to have been spotted and nabbed when I first left though.

 

[Cappers]

Pensioners at weekends

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

The Waitrose experience is usually fine as too expensive for pikeys / chavs / riff raff etc, however there is an affluent elderly element who can put a spanner in the works. I was at the checkout the other day when a very elderly lady wandered up to the cashier and asked for a jar of marmalade. The cashier promptly set off in search of the marmalade. It was all the old dear wanted

 

[Nibble]

Although I am not ahuge fan of Asda, it is very close to me so I usually stroll down there at about 10 at night when it is pretty empty. Much less stressful experience. Though I do like food shoping.

 

[TheJasperCo]

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.

I think internet shopping was invented with you in mind sir

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Clothes - does any adult ever wear Tesco's clothes, complete waste of store space
People who look surprised when asked to pay & then proceed to spend 30 seconds looking for their credit card, 30 seconds for their loyalty card & a minute fir their 20p off vouchers
No wine boxes

 

[BensGrandad]

There is a warning icon on the trolley handle which gets ignored. Pointing out that it is unhygienic and unsafe normally leads to threats of violence from the parents.

I often wonder what THE SECURITY staff are employed for as they take no notice of this or store notices saying shirts and shoes must be worn in case they upset the customer FFS they are SECURIIY staff they are supposed to watch for these happenings it is their job and what they are paid to do.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Mums in PJs with kids messing around while the mum completely ignores them.

 

[vegster]

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".

As a matter of course most high street and supermarket stores get "Mystery Shoppers " in who will check that staff are following the rules issued from the head office command bunkers. Most staff don't give a hoot about interacting happily with their miserable customers but will feel the rap if they don't ask about school vouchers/ would you like a Nectar Card and say sorry about the wait even if there hasn't been one.

 

[vegster]

Morons, quite often students, that stagger around the aisles carrying loads of assorted boxes and packets of food without having the intelligence to pick up and use a basket.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The skiving gits at the new Sainburys local at the bottom of Preston Drove. Usually they do anything other than serve the punters but reluctantly answer the annoying ringing bell call for assistance. Tonight they weren't even doing that, when the queue resembled the lard queue in communist Russia. They MAY think they're being smart, but only takes one email to Sainos head office and they won't be such clevor trevors. If anybody knows one of aforesaid skiving gits, maybe they could have a word with the unwise before they find themselves out the door, unemployable apart from maybe at the Park View up the road where they wrote the book on shit customer service.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I often wonder what THE SECURITY staff are employed for as they take no notice of this or store notices saying shirts and shoes must be worn in case they upset the customer FFS they are SECURITY staff they are supposed to watch for these happenings it is their job and what they are paid to do.

The security staff are paid the same hourly rate as other workers. It isn't worth having the shit kicked out of you when trying to stop a smackhead who is determined to leave the store. If supermarkets only employed SIA badge holders to do security it wouldn't be a problem.

 

[BensGrandad]

If supermarkets only employed SIA badge holders to do security it wouldn't be a problem.

I agree 100% what is the point of some old fellow who is only there because he is past doing an active job and is cheap labour. The ones to blame are onviously the supermarkets them selves for cutting the costs too much in the name of increased profits.