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Post by peasapie on Apr 4, 2016 19:45:33 GMT
"Can you please back up? I need space." I say it and I mean it. People don't like it when I do it, but if you're going to mow me down I doubt you'd see a problem w/your behavior. Exactly this. I don't like people being too close to me and I have no problem asking them to step back.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 20:13:39 GMT
The shopper that ticks me off the most?
The one who has less than 10 items and takes up the entire belt with those ten items and then blocks the belt so nobody can unload their cart. Why do they shop at "rush" hour? This is at Winco where they have two for one checkouts One gal did that in front of me with 6 shoppers behind us, and I was in a mood. I feel no guilt for pushing her stuff up and and unloading my cart. Then she tried to shove my stuff off. And tried to block the sensor that makes the belt move, so she could hand the checker one item at a time. Ha I just shoved my stuff further and the checker did a hand swipe to bring her stuff to the scanner.
This is a shopper that needs to shop early in the morning , not late in the afternoon.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Apr 4, 2016 20:15:29 GMT
I have had very few issues with people crowding me. I like my space.
From reading this thread, there seems to be no consistency across the country/world in grocery checkout design. I'm surprised any conveyor belts don't automatically cut off as soon as something reaches the end. I guess that is why I occasionally see people feverishly trying to stop an item from getting to the end, but if they just let it get there, the belt would stop at all of the stores I visit.
What bugs me is when the cashier doesn't slide the dividers down. It seems to be common for them to keep them all down at their end. Sometimes, there are multiple customers between me and the cashier. I don't really want to be reaching over people for a divider, and one or more of the customers and the cashier are engaged in a transaction. In those cases, I leave an obvious space and start unloading. I have also had several occasions lately when there wasn't a divider at all.
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Post by panda on Apr 4, 2016 22:07:38 GMT
I haven't had too many issues with being crowded. Generally shoppers and cashiers are cooperative and good-natured. I had one weird encounter. The person in front of me had approximately thirty items, and instead of placing them all on the conveyor belt in the normal fashion, he put them down the very centre of the belt, one right behind the other. So it took me ages to be able to put my stuff on because he had one item in the middle of the belt with wasted space on either side. It was bewildering and annoying.
I did have a rude'ish cashier this weekend. I bought four large bags of potato chips for my son and his friends. There was the cashier and a bagger. The cashier scanned the first bag, and threw them onto the counter on the other side for the bagger to bag. Then she did the same thing with the second bag. As soon as she grabbed the third bag, I asked her politely and with a smile to please not throw the chips down on the counter because they'll definitely break. And she was rude after that. Not verbally, but she made no eye contact and didn't say one more word to me.
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Post by gar on Apr 5, 2016 7:20:14 GMT
The shopper that ticks me off the most? The one who has less than 10 items and takes up the entire belt with those ten items and then blocks the belt so nobody can unload their cart. Why do they shop at "rush" hour? This is at Winco where they have two for one checkouts One gal did that in front of me with 6 shoppers behind us, and I was in a mood. I feel no guilt for pushing her stuff up and and unloading my cart. Then she tried to shove my stuff off. And tried to block the sensor that makes the belt move, so she could hand the checker one item at a time. Ha I just shoved my stuff further and the checker did a hand swipe to bring her stuff to the scanner. This is a shopper that needs to shop early in the morning , not late in the afternoon. Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids.
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Post by Merge on Apr 5, 2016 11:25:05 GMT
Never had these things happen to me! Wow. My major annoyance is baggers who mysteriously disappear just as the cashier starts scanning my order. I shop at a nicer store (and pay a bit more) in part because it has baggers at the registers. I don't like trying to frantically get my groceries bagged while also watching the cashier's screen for mistakes and then stopping to pay. When there is no one to bag my groceries, I feel like I should get a discount, because I'm not getting the service I paid for with a tiny markup on each item.
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Post by gar on Apr 5, 2016 11:39:39 GMT
Never had these things happen to me! Wow. Me neither! Oh and we don't have baggers either, at least not in my part of the country.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 5, 2016 12:01:55 GMT
Another reason I shop for items on Amazon and Jet!! Lol. Makes our list much shorter at the grocery store!
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 5, 2016 12:07:32 GMT
I mostly shop at Giant and if there isn't a bagger at the checkout then the cashier does it, never the customer. The only time a customer usually bags is in the self-checkout line, although even there I've sometimes had an employee walk by and bag my stuff especially if I have a lot. I guess my gripe about the checkout lines is when I'm in self-checkout and someone has just finished in front of me. Then they take FOREVER to bag their stuff and they don't put up the barrier to block their stuff from mine. So I'm forced to wait till they're done bagging, or else take the passive-aggressive route and start checking out my stuff so that it runs down the conveyor belt onto theirs. The reason I chose the self-checkout in the first place was most likely either because the cashier lines were long, or there was no good cashier available (I know them all), so basically I'm in self-checkout for speed.
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Post by julieb on Apr 5, 2016 12:24:42 GMT
This happened to me yesterday at Target. I was very uncomfortable with the guy breathing down my neck while I put my pin in.
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Post by cakediva on Apr 5, 2016 12:35:00 GMT
Something that seems to happen to me often enough that it's really annoying: I'm behind someone in line, at the grocery store or maybe Walmart, my stuff safely behind theirs on the belt with the spacer bar firmly in place. Then, as the cashier turns to help them complete the transaction, my stuff continues to move because she has forgotten to turn off the conveyer belt. So, here's my items, crushing each other against the edge of the till, and the cashier is blissfully oblivious. I am frantically trying to keep my items in place, and finally I have to shout STOP! Sometimes it's harmless, but other times I've had bread or other fragile items smooshed. Am I the only one this happens to? all of the belts around here have a sensor in them - the minute they get to the end of the belt where the cashier's section/weigh scale is, they stop automatically. I've never seen one where the belt just keeps going and going!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 5, 2016 12:48:12 GMT
Fascinating thread. I work as a cashier (amongst other things) in a supermarket in England. It's very interesting reading how differently things are done in other parts of the world. Dividers 1: if the person in front of you has not put a divider behind their shopping, then please put it there yourself. This isn't about whose job it should be, it's about helping the cashier know whose shopping belongs to whom. That isn't always as obvious to us as it is to you. Also, please keep an eye on your shopping at both ends and make sure no items have fallen or slid over the divider. I can't tell that that chocolate should have been on the other side of the divider. Dividers 2: I always try to push them as far along the channel as possible so that people at the end can reach them. However very often people place their items so that they overflow the dividers channel and stop them moving. If you pile your shopping on the belt, you can help by making sure that the channel stays clear. You can also ask the customer in front of you to pass a divider back. I've never heard anyone refuse! Personal space: yes, please give the person in front of you privacy to enter her PIN without feeling watched. And while we're on the subject, it's school holidays here at the moment. Please, please keep your little angels under control while you're shopping. Give them something to find, to do, to carry, to be responsible for, to think about. Make the disagreeable task of grocery shopping a fun thing for them to engage in, then you won't have bored brats taking bites out of doughnuts then leaving them without paying, or lying down on the floor refusing to move, climbing up the displays knocking things over, or leaving their candy wrappers on the floor for the staff to clean up. (That was just yesterday.) Oh and if you let them eat before you've paid for the food, please make sure it isn't something bought by weight? You'd think it was obvious but apparently not. Thank you! ETA: I forgot to say about the belt sensors. Ours all have sensors on them, but they don't work with black things (yeah I know ) or bottles that are placed at right angles to the long edge of the belt. If you lie your bottles down neck or base first, the sensor will locate them and stop them from rolling on top of me and breaking. Days when I don't get covered in wine and broken glass are always appreciated.
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Post by julieinsweden on Apr 5, 2016 13:06:29 GMT
Something that seems to happen to me often enough that it's really annoying: I'm behind someone in line, at the grocery store or maybe Walmart, my stuff safely behind theirs on the belt with the spacer bar firmly in place. Then, as the cashier turns to help them complete the transaction, my stuff continues to move because she has forgotten to turn off the conveyer belt. So, here's my items, crushing each other against the edge of the till, and the cashier is blissfully oblivious. I am frantically trying to keep my items in place, and finally I have to shout STOP! Sometimes it's harmless, but other times I've had bread or other fragile items smooshed. Am I the only one this happens to? This one drives me nuts. I've learnt to put delicate and squashable on last. That and know which cashier to avoid because they somehow manage to squash my eggs even though I've put them down last.
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Post by gloryjoy on Apr 5, 2016 13:15:56 GMT
I don't know if it is just a Canadian thing or what but this has never happened to me and I grocery shop every day I would be pissed off if someone was in my personal space as mine is quite small I'm in Canada and I've had people right behind me when I am paying with Interac and I don't like it, but not often, just a few times. What I do is stand really close to the pad and then turn my whole body so they can't see, and it's obvious I am doing it but I don't really care.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 13:26:10 GMT
The shopper that ticks me off the most? The one who has less than 10 items and takes up the entire belt with those ten items and then blocks the belt so nobody can unload their cart. Why do they shop at "rush" hour? This is at Winco where they have two for one checkouts One gal did that in front of me with 6 shoppers behind us, and I was in a mood. I feel no guilt for pushing her stuff up and and unloading my cart. Then she tried to shove my stuff off. And tried to block the sensor that makes the belt move, so she could hand the checker one item at a time. Ha I just shoved my stuff further and the checker did a hand swipe to bring her stuff to the scanner. This is a shopper that needs to shop early in the morning , not late in the afternoon. Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids. I have run into this shopper three times. She is something. The last time I saw her, she had three of the shopping baskets on the belt and was using them them as the block. At least it wasn't a busy day.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 5, 2016 13:42:50 GMT
Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids. I have run into this shopper three times. She is something. The last time I saw her, she had three of the shopping baskets on the belt and was using them them as the block. At least it wasn't a busy day. Oh my. I would pick a different lane even if it's longer just to avoid her. Life is too short to put up with that! Reason number 8,962 why I won't ever work in retail again in any capacity. There are far too many nutty people in the world whose sole purpose in life is to go around making things harder than they have to be for everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 13:43:53 GMT
Ok, I have one that hasn't seemed to happen to anyone else, so wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I always try to be as polite as possible when shopping. I've allowed people to get ahead of me if they don't have a lot of items and the cashier hasn't started my order yet. I try my best not to crowd, and I make sure the person ahead of me has placed all their items on the belt before I start unloading my cart.
My problem I've encountered, not just one time but several times, is the cashier will not allow the belt to bring the items up. I'm trying to unload my cart, and the cashier will literally reach as far as she/he can to grab items off the belt without grabbing the one that prevents the belt from advancing. Or if they have the stop button, they don't push the button to advance the belt. So I'm trying to unload my cart and can't because there is no space to do so.
Once when a cashier did this to me, I piled as much of my items as I could on top of each other. I didn't have any breakables. This happens only at Walmart which may explain it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 13:44:42 GMT
Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids. I have run into this shopper three times. She is something. The last time I saw her, she had three of the shopping baskets on the belt and was using them them as the block. At least it wasn't a busy day. I'm sure she did! After all, one time when she was shopping there, some asshole shoved all her stuff around.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 15:01:03 GMT
I have run into this shopper three times. She is something. The last time I saw her, she had three of the shopping baskets on the belt and was using them them as the block. At least it wasn't a busy day. I'm sure she did! After all, one time when she was shopping there, some asshole shoved all her stuff around. The guys and gals at our HEB are really good about keeping those kind of shoppers from keeping things moving. They will take the baskets off the belt. However, I still love shopping at Brookshires. It is the only grocery store I know of where the cashier unloads your cart for you. The shopper does not put the items on the belt. It's heaven in a grocery store.
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Post by mallie on Apr 5, 2016 15:07:33 GMT
Never had these things happen to me! Wow. My major annoyance is baggers who mysteriously disappear just as the cashier starts scanning my order. I shop at a nicer store (and pay a bit more) in part because it has baggers at the registers. I don't like trying to frantically get my groceries bagged while also watching the cashier's screen for mistakes and then stopping to pay. When there is no one to bag my groceries, I feel like I should get a discount, because I'm not getting the service I paid for with a tiny markup on each item. Why are YOU frantically bagging? Why not wait for the cashier to do it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 15:23:26 GMT
I'm sure she did! After all, one time when she was shopping there, some asshole shoved all her stuff around. The guys and gals at our HEB are really good about keeping those kind of shoppers from keeping things moving. They will take the baskets off the belt. However, I still love shopping at Brookshires. It is the only grocery store I know of where the cashier unloads your cart for you. The shopper does not put the items on the belt. It's heaven in a grocery store. I don't know what HEB is, but I do know Winco, which is a discount-type store. It would not be the best choice for someone who wants a luxury shopping experience by any stretch. It's like Costco but no membership required and things come in regular sizes. Each cashier line starts with one belt, then divides in two as the groceries are moved to the bagging area. You bag your own. So you put your stuff up on the belt, then you have to move down to start bagging (a two-person team works best, but not everyone has that luxury.) You scoot back up to pay, then scoot back down to continue bagging. While you're finishing, the cashier can start the next order and send it down the other side. There are no guys-n-gals to make sure someone is nicely using the front of the belt where you load your items. It's often a little crazy, but there is no excuse to ever push someone else's things around because you've determined they are shopping at the wrong time and not moving fast enough for you.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 5, 2016 15:31:46 GMT
Ok, I have one that hasn't seemed to happen to anyone else, so wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I always try to be as polite as possible when shopping. I've allowed people to get ahead of me if they don't have a lot of items and the cashier hasn't started my order yet. I try my best not to crowd, and I make sure the person ahead of me has placed all their items on the belt before I start unloading my cart. My problem I've encountered, not just one time but several times, is the cashier will not allow the belt to bring the items up. I'm trying to unload my cart, and the cashier will literally reach as far as she/he can to grab items off the belt without grabbing the one that prevents the belt from advancing. Or if they have the stop button, they don't push the button to advance the belt. So I'm trying to unload my cart and can't because there is no space to do so. Once when a cashier did this to me, I piled as much of my items as I could on top of each other. I didn't have any breakables. This happens only at Walmart which may explain it. Sometimes something stops the belt from moving. That can be for safety, maintenance or cleaning purposes. We have a reset button which I always use as soon as it jams unless someone has broken something. Maybe those staff who don't reset it need a supervisor to come and reset it? I would ask the cashier, because I'm curious that way!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 15:49:01 GMT
Ok, I have one that hasn't seemed to happen to anyone else, so wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I always try to be as polite as possible when shopping. I've allowed people to get ahead of me if they don't have a lot of items and the cashier hasn't started my order yet. I try my best not to crowd, and I make sure the person ahead of me has placed all their items on the belt before I start unloading my cart. My problem I've encountered, not just one time but several times, is the cashier will not allow the belt to bring the items up. I'm trying to unload my cart, and the cashier will literally reach as far as she/he can to grab items off the belt without grabbing the one that prevents the belt from advancing. Or if they have the stop button, they don't push the button to advance the belt. So I'm trying to unload my cart and can't because there is no space to do so. Once when a cashier did this to me, I piled as much of my items as I could on top of each other. I didn't have any breakables. This happens only at Walmart which may explain it. Sometimes something stops the belt from moving. That can be for safety, maintenance or cleaning purposes. We have a reset button which I always use as soon as it jams unless someone has broken something. Maybe those staff who don't reset it need a supervisor to come and reset it? I would ask the cashier, because I'm curious that way! That would be a great explanation, except when the cashier wasn't able to reach anymore, she/he either moved the object that stopped the belt from moving, or pushed the button to advance the belt. So the belt mechanism wasn't broken.
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Post by katlady on Apr 5, 2016 16:08:11 GMT
I guess my gripe about the checkout lines is when I'm in self-checkout and someone has just finished in front of me. Then they take FOREVER to bag their stuff and they don't put up the barrier to block their stuff from mine. So I'm forced to wait till they're done bagging, or else take the passive-aggressive route and start checking out my stuff so that it runs down the conveyor belt onto theirs. That is interesting because all of our self-checkout stands here don't have conveyor belts. There is no counter to the left of the machines, and to the right are the bags and you put your stuff in the bags as you scan them. Interesting how things are so different.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 5, 2016 16:30:23 GMT
This is literally one of my biggest pet peeves in life. I cannot understand how people are so unaware of personal space in a line. If I'm unloading my cart, I'm not going to go any faster if you stand so close to me that I can feel you breathing. I can only go as fast as the belt moves! I always put the divider behind my stuff, even if no one is behind me because on a few occasions I've had other people's stuff scanned in with mine. The diligence on my part about placing the divider has stopped that. I have shoved a cart backward more than once when someone is shoving it at me while I attempt to swipe my card. I mean who does that? How rude do you have to be to shove your cart into me while I'm swiping my card? The looks of surprise and death starves I get after shoving it back make me giggle. I mean you're going to ram with a cart while I try to pay, you think I'm going to stand there and let you assault me with your cart? You've got to be kidding me! I am normally a patient person but put me in line with an encroacher and watch out! lol I see it in the deli too. They crowd the deli case so closely trying to be waited on quicker, all while holding a number for their turn. If they were any closer they might as well go behind the counter and slice their own meat!!! That is the pet peeve of mine. Crowding the deli counter so I can't see what is on sale this week. I have never really experienced someone crowding me in line, either that or I just don't pay good enough attention. But the deli counter crowding drives me nuts.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 5, 2016 16:35:31 GMT
The shopper that ticks me off the most? The one who has less than 10 items and takes up the entire belt with those ten items and then blocks the belt so nobody can unload their cart. Why do they shop at "rush" hour? This is at Winco where they have two for one checkouts One gal did that in front of me with 6 shoppers behind us, and I was in a mood. I feel no guilt for pushing her stuff up and and unloading my cart. Then she tried to shove my stuff off. And tried to block the sensor that makes the belt move, so she could hand the checker one item at a time. Ha I just shoved my stuff further and the checker did a hand swipe to bring her stuff to the scanner. This is a shopper that needs to shop early in the morning , not late in the afternoon. Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids. Well I can't wait to retire. Because my slow ass is going to shop at 5 pm on Friday nights. It seems like every retiree in my town is out shopping at 5 pm on Friday night when I am trying desperately to get my groceries as fast as humanly possible and get home to make dinner.
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Post by cath4k on Apr 5, 2016 16:43:50 GMT
Like you should get to decide when it's convenient for someone else to do their shopping You both sound like a pair of squabbling kids. I have run into this shopper three times. She is something. The last time I saw her, she had three of the shopping baskets on the belt and was using them them as the block. At least it wasn't a busy day. This almost sounds like an OCD thing where she doesn't like her food to touch.
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Post by Merge on Apr 5, 2016 16:46:12 GMT
Never had these things happen to me! Wow. My major annoyance is baggers who mysteriously disappear just as the cashier starts scanning my order. I shop at a nicer store (and pay a bit more) in part because it has baggers at the registers. I don't like trying to frantically get my groceries bagged while also watching the cashier's screen for mistakes and then stopping to pay. When there is no one to bag my groceries, I feel like I should get a discount, because I'm not getting the service I paid for with a tiny markup on each item. Why are YOU frantically bagging? Why not wait for the cashier to do it? Because the person behind me gives me the death glare and probably goes to her message board and writes a vent post about the bitch who was too good to bag her own groceries and held everybody else up.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 5, 2016 16:58:30 GMT
I guess my gripe about the checkout lines is when I'm in self-checkout and someone has just finished in front of me. Then they take FOREVER to bag their stuff and they don't put up the barrier to block their stuff from mine. So I'm forced to wait till they're done bagging, or else take the passive-aggressive route and start checking out my stuff so that it runs down the conveyor belt onto theirs. That is interesting because all of our self-checkout stands here don't have conveyor belts. There is no counter to the left of the machines, and to the right are the bags and you put your stuff in the bags as you scan them. Interesting how things are so different. Ours started out like that, but people who buy a ton of stuff seem to like the self checkouts too. So now ours are half like that (presumably for those with only a few items) and half that have a little basket holder and shelf to the left of the scanner and a roller conveyor to the right with a small corral type thing at the end where the items pile up for bagging. I always use the ones with the conveyor and corral because I hate the icky thin plastic bags that are used at the smaller self checkouts. I would rather use paper or cloth bags and those always seem to set off the register prompting someone to come over which slows me down and defeats the purpose of using the self checkout in the first place.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Apr 5, 2016 17:15:58 GMT
"I did have a rude'ish cashier this weekend. I bought four large bags of potato chips for my son and his friends. There was the cashier and a bagger. The cashier scanned the first bag, and threw them onto the counter on the other side for the bagger to bag. Then she did the same thing with the second bag. As soon as she grabbed the third bag, I asked her politely and with a smile to please not throw the chips down on the counter because they'll definitely break. And she was rude after that. Not verbally, but she made no eye contact and didn't say one more word to me.[/quote][
I would have asked for replacement bags. No way would I pay for food that someone deliberately broke. When my bread gets squished when they don't stop the belt, I ask for a replacement and it's never been a problem. You have no way of knowing if the chips were already broken, but you do know that she was breaking them. If not with her, I would go to customer service right after.
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