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Grocery Store Etiquette
MamaMootz:
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--- Quote from: princessdolly on March 12, 2012, 05:19:40 PM ---And lastly, if you continue to push your cart into my leg while I am in the queue I will turn around and push it back at you. At that point you should just count your blessings that it is between us.
Wow. That made me feel muuuch better lol ;D
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More than once, I've said to the cart-nudger "I'm sorry, but banging into me with your cart is not going to make me move faster. Please move back." Ditto with the person who is looming over me as I go to enter my PIN. Except in that case, I'll plant myself facing him (almost always a man), ask him to step back, and stand there looking at him with my arms crossed until he does. Mom Look-of-Death is optional.
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This happens to me frequently and i thank you for posting a way I can deal with it. Because these people drive me batty.
Nikko-chan:
Please, when you buy an alcoholic beverage in the store I work, provide your birthdate when the cashier asks you. If she asks for your ID please hand it over. There could be any number of reasons she wishes to see it. Perhaps you look younger than your true age, or perhaps she is in training, and was instructed to ask for EVERYONE's ID, just to get used to asking for ID.
Kind sir, when you come through my till and I ring you through, cheerfully asking "ID please?" with a grin on my face do not, and I repeat do not tell me "I left it in the car, you really need to ID me blah blah blah,"
When I turn to confirm with OtherAwesomeCashier that you are a regular and it is okay not to ID you, just to put your birthdate in, do not start cursing at me and walk away, leaving the beer at my till. I will not be a happy cashier.
Also: My fellow customers (for even though I am a cashier I am a customer as well), when your cashier is ringing something up and the scanner will not cooperate with her, do not ever say "Guess it's free right?" or some variation. Because we have heard it all before and we are sick of it. We will smile at you, we may even laugh with you, but inside our heads we are most likely screaming.
And umm: Fellow cashiers? I am so sorry if I have ever ever ever said that to anyone. I didn't realize it was so annoying!
Barb3000:
just two points -
I hate self-scanners. IMO it is much faster to go to a person cashier, even if I have to wait for one. For some reason they only have to scan each item ONCE, whereas when I am at the self-scanner it takes multiple swipes for the machine to recognize what I have.
To the management -- if my SO has to go to the CS desk and point out that there are a lot of customers in line, and not enough cashiers, and you then put more cashiers on, you are not doing your job. YOU should be noticing the problem before it becomes a problem.
CrochetFanatic:
There's an interesting...I don't know if "loophole" is the word...at the Walmart near us. The "15 items or less" line has to ring up a customer who exceeds the item limit (sometimes a hugely full cart) if they are buying a tobacco product. The reason? That is the only line in the store that sells cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco. I guess that makes sense, but it sort of makes me wonder why they have an express lane at all. I think the last time I got held up there, I was behind a lady with a cart stacked almost to over-flowing because she had decided at the last minute to buy one pack of cigarettes. I was standing there with two skeins of yarn, a magazine, and a pack of gum, thinking to myself, "I could have been half-way home by now..." No big deal, really...just a bit of an inconvenience.
Slartibartfast:
I'll make a pact with you, fellow shoppers: I promise that I'll try to hurry as much as I can when my baby starts fussing, so I can get out the door before she goes into full-on tantrum mode. In return, I'd ask you to not glare at me and make PA comments under your breath (but loud enough to be audible) when I pass by. I'd rather cut my shopping trip short but actually buy what's in my cart than just abandon my cart and walk away to spare you a minute or two of baby grumpiness. It's easier for the store to not have to re-shelve everything I tried to buy, and it's definitely easier for me! I promise, I'm trying to go as fast as I can!
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