Do you feel rushed while checking out at retail stores?

I only feel like that at Aldi. I try to talk with the cashier at times (say hi or something) and they are in such a hurry that they can't even look up. I get that they have to go fast. But it is a little ridiculous there.

Nope! I want to get out. *looking at you check writers*

No I usually do not feel rushed. However, I really hate the few times I will be shopping and they call for the next guest before I am done putting my money and card in my wallet! I feel like this happens at CVS mostly. Really obnoxious and rude. I don't take forever but at least let me get my money put away!

Yes. But I am one of those who hate feeling rushed and think we hurry way too much. It's hard on the soul.

I take as long as I need getting everything gathered up. What really bugs me is the people behind who are encroaching on my space, practically breathing down my neck as I deal with the card reader. Back off. Breathing the same air as me does not make the transaction go faster.

To answer the OP, no, I don't often feel rushed, by I know that my mother does. She has her wallet set up just so, and when she's done paying she wants to be able to put her card away or to put her change back into the bill & coin compartments and tuck her receipt in a certain spot. And really,t hat only takes a few seconds, and she gets upset when the cashier starts the next person while she's still juggling both her open purse and her open wallet. It makes her nervous that she may drop something important.

I always just jam my card & receipt or change & receipts into a pocket and sort it later, but she just hates that because she figures 10 seconds right then and there can keep thing organized instead of accumulating a mess by the time all of the shopping is done.

I do admit that on days when we go several places I do occasionally have a pocket full of chaos when I get home. (And yes, I did accidentally throw away a $20 bill once because of that, so my mom has been vindicated in her advising me against my "system", LOL!)

I feel rushed at one store because the card reader is BEFORE the register. So I want to push the cart up for the bagger, but then the rude person behind me who has nearly clipped my heels with her cart is in front of the card reader. I think next time I'll say "If you want to pay for my groceries, cool, otherwise, Imma need to get to the reader there."

Target bothers the heck out of me because they will start ringing up my stuff before the person in front of me leaves the line. I ALWAYS ask them to wait a minute before they continue ringing because I want to watch the prices.

But my regular grocery store moves at just about the right pace, at least as far as the cashiers go. I avoid one particular bagger because he's always got like three more bags to pack when the cashier is done because he thinks it's his job to carry on a conversation with everyone about their groceries.

I think on other threads cashiers have chimed in that they get timed now for how fast they can get people through the line, and they get docked in some way if they're too slow. Personally I think it's really lousy customer service to rush people through especially if it's faster than they want to go. It's one thing if someone is in a hurry for the cashier to scream through their stuff to help them get on their way quicker and another thing entirely to make it their job to intentionally rush people through.

What chaps me the most is when the cashier is rushing through my stuff and bothers to ask me if I found everything I was looking for. Yeah, right, like you are going to slow down this line to help me find some oddball thing that wasn't where it ought to be? Didn't think so.   Sometimes the rules these corporate stores put on their employees is absolutely contradictory and completely ridiculous. 

Quite honestly, my favorite checkout lines are the automated ones where I scan and bag the stuff myself. Then I don't have to deal with another person at all, there usually isn't anyone directly behind me crawling up my backside and I can take all the time I want.

I'm going to have to go with this. Seriously. Why does it take 47.6 minutes to put your flipping change away?! And why must you do that directly in front of the cashier? 

My purse is very neat and orderly so I can appreciate wanting to put away your change just so. So you know what I do?! I take my change and roll on past the cashier, out of the way, and take all the time I need *out of the flow of traffic.*

This is one of my biggest irritations with the human race. That and the ones who don't pull all the way up in the drive-thru. It should not bother me as much as it does. I'm a very nice person otherwise. 

I really feel that way at Costco. They are grabbing for the membership card before they are done with the current transaction. There's not time for conversation. It's rush, rush, rush. I love the store, I just dread check-out.

I don't ever complain about the length of the line when ALL the registers are OPEN. My complaints are voiced when there are 16-20 lanes and two cashiers tearing their hair out trying to ring up 25 stressed out, crabby people each. Been there, done that AND IT SUCKS. (Just one of a thousand reasons why I'll never, ever work retail again.) Open some stinking registers already! That complaint isn't aimed at the cashier just trying to do her best, that one's on the management.

No.

I don't need to have a conversation with anyone. Let's all go fast.

I have plenty of time to put my card alway while waiting for the receipt to print, so I don't understand people who are still screwing around when their turn is over.

Move. Get out of the way.

sometimes - usually at Target. But that could be because they only have 2-3 lanes open on Sunday after church and everyone is there after church....

THIS!!!!  I feel like the next person in line is ready to nudge me away from the card reader.  Please give me 30 seconds to put my change or my card back in my wallet before you shove me out of the way!