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Originally Posted by Darren
(Post 9727308)
Other shoppers and their spawn.
lili, unfortunately some stores like giant food have a policy of not ringing up things that way. |
Originally Posted by Kagehitokiri
(Post 9839640)
how can you go out in public :confused:
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Skinny aisles and wide carts.:td:
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Originally Posted by Kagehitokiri
(Post 9839640)
lili, unfortunately some stores like giant food have a policy of not ringing up things that way. |
Originally Posted by obscure2k
(Post 9840292)
Skinny aisles and wide carts.:td:
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People who wait until everything is rung up before they go digging around looking for their club card and atm/credit card.:mad:
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Originally Posted by lili
(Post 9840416)
Why?
also, it could be an inventory issue, as most stores have computerized inventory, and they didn't want you to ring up the red pens and blue pens as 2 blue pens, because it would throw their automatic inventory off-kilter. |
Originally Posted by KNRG
(Post 9728691)
Someone dropped a massive bottle of red wine on it (port me thinks?)
Also - If I don't have a loyalty card for the store - or left mine at home - I freely ask others around me to borrow theirs. (I've even asked another person to borrow theirs so that another person could use it - anything to get things moving faster.) |
Grocery queue jumper king-hit and left for dead
Chilling story, possibly with footage to be shown on TV news:
Queue-jump rage: shopper left for dead [SMH] A man is fighting for his life after he was punched and left unconscious in a pool of blood by a man who accused him of queue-jumping at a supermarket. The 57-year-old father was accused of queue-jumping by a female shopper on Tuesday at the Sainsbury's superstore in Merton, south-west London, the Daily Mail reported. CCTV showed the woman, who was at the checkout, phoning her boyfriend. When her boyfriend arrived minutes later, the woman then allegedly pointed to the man, the paper said. The man then punched the 57-year-old, who hit his head on the floor, the paper alleged. A Sainsbury's employee told the paper: "He fell backwards and his head hit the ground. He just never got up. I didn't see the punch but I saw the blood everywhere." Another man said: "The victim was simply standing at the entrance to the shopfloor. He was hit once with a powerful punch and slumped to the floor." The man was briefly resuscitated in hospital, but lapsed into a coma. The incident is believed to have occurred in front of a number of other shoppers, including children. The man was believed to be in a long-term relationship and had a five-year-old child, the paper said. |
Originally Posted by sammy0623
(Post 9840456)
its a loss prevention tactic. i used to work in retail, and you could do quantity of any number, but they arbitrarily changed it to quantity 8. my thoughts are that the extra scan or 5 scans aren't taking up that much time, and you could steal from the company by hitting quantity 3, for example, and then put 4 items in the bag, or there could be 3 items, but they could be differently priced. i suppose this could always happen on accident, but the LP people at the company i worked at seemed to be focused on the employees a bit much, IMO, when we knew we had regular "customers" that were stealing from us.
also, it could be an inventory issue, as most stores have computerized inventory, and they didn't want you to ring up the red pens and blue pens as 2 blue pens, because it would throw their automatic inventory off-kilter. |
Originally Posted by BiziBB
(Post 9864847)
the Sainsbury's superstore in Merton, south-west London
Incredibly sad story, but I can't say I'm surprised. If you've seen how people drive in London, it becomes all the more expected that people should behave like this. |
Originally Posted by Mongah
(Post 9840443)
People who wait until everything is rung up before they go digging around looking for their club card and atm/credit card.:mad:
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Originally Posted by mangokitty92262
(Post 9871302)
These people sometimes seem completely surprised that they're supposed to pay. I don't get it.
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Food For Less aka Food For More Hassle
Out here in California, we have a division of Kroger markets called Food For Less.
My pet peeve about them is how they are laid out. You can only enter in one door or set of doors, and you must go through the produce, bakery, and deli which is in somewhat a "C" shape and length of about 500 feet, before you get to the grocery and dry goods. If try to go in the exit door to bypass this, you have to "swim" backstream through the checkouts to get to the grocery section (if the employee usually stationed at the door doesn't stop you first from entering) I don't know if this was a marketing idea to force people to look at groceries they may or may not need or what. To me, I just want to get what I need and have the flexibility to go to any department of the store without barriers. Anyway, I avoid Food For Less, they seem to have lower end quality products anyway. |
For some reason, the patrons in the supermarkets I frequent all have a knack for walking very slowly right down the centre of the aisle, effectively blocking cart traffic from either side. I'm constantly having to negotiate around these individuals.
The other really big pet peeve for me (as mentioned before) are the people who put 35 items on the 1-8 item or less checkout. You all know who you are. I'm sorry but 10 cartons of eggs does not count as 1 item. |
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