Supermarket hates?

[Akzle]

countdown at okara park stopped selling the smokes i buy (drum) so i stopped going there.

the pie warmer/hot chicken nibbles etc are at the BACK of the paknsave store, rather than somewhere sensible near the front next to the bakery, or beer.

tuesdays. that's DPB-day. it's always packed with pregnant bitches pushing a trolley with kids standing in the front, just how the bright yellow signs on the trolley say not to. how f*ing difficult is it?

. i think sunday morning is about the best (people free) time i've found yet.

[awa355]

Theres' a supermarket in TeAwamutu??????? you got the interweb there yet?

We got 3 of 'em. 1 sells expensive food, another sell more expensive stuff, and P &S sell all the junk that the great unwashed bring their kids up on. ( one wall full of chips and soft drinks. )

And yes, we got the intaweb. Infact, I know a gguy in town with sumpit called broadband. He must have a really wide computer.

[Oblivion]

Mum shopping. 315.30
Dad shopping. 199.50

[Tigadee]

The local Pac & Sav must have 60 shopping trolleys. I reckon, at least 58 of the bloody things have a seized wheel on one corner.

I'm with you on that one - makes it so hard to get my knee down around the aisle corners...

[Spuds1234]

I hate that annoying lady inside the self checkout machine. There should be an option to mute that shit before you start.

[Virago]

I hate that annoying lady inside the self checkout machine. There should be an option to mute that shit before you start.

I reckon she's alright. You can abuse the hell out of her.

"Please place the item in the bagging area."

"I already have. Are you fucking blind as well as stupid?" etc etc...

[BuzzardNZ]

1) Scumbags picking up fruit and/or vege squeezing it then putting it back. don't know where their damn hands have been and even though I'll give it a good wash before I eat it, that sh1t gets up my nose.

2) passing by the beer isle during the week looking at the prices only to find out the ar$eholes have put it up on a Friday which is when I'm ready to buy it.

[Swoop]

I constantly wonder why there are no shopping trolleys that have a forward-firing M-60 mounted. Seriously.

An empty aisle is pure bliss. Get speed up and leap onto trolley, moving arms and legs = breast stroke swimming demonstration! Good fun!!!

[sil3nt]

I laugh at people who buy lotto on Saturday.

[Virago]

There's one issue with supermarkets I've always found rather intriguing.

People will occasionally change their mind about purchasing some item, and rather than take it back to its rightful place they will dump it somewhere. A packet of buns on the soft-drink shelf, a tin of shoe polish in with the frozen peas. You know the sort of thing.

But at our local (Countdown Dunedin Central) it often goes beyond random dumping, and actually seems to follow a pattern. Once you start noticing each item, you actually know where to look for the next. It seems to suggest that it's deliberate - someone is filling a basket with items and placing them in other (not quite random) locations. It suggests that some people do it as a joke - but I can't understand why...?

[sil3nt]

There's one issue with supermarkets I've always found rather intriguing.

People will occasionally change their mind about purchasing some item, and rather than take it back to its rightful place they will dump it somewhere. A packet of buns on the soft-drink shelf, a tin of shoe polish in with the frozen peas. You know the sort of thing.

But at our local (Countdown Dunedin Central) it often goes beyond random dumping, and actually seems to follow a pattern. Once you start noticing each item, you actually know where to look for the next. It seems to suggest that it's deliberate - someone is filling a basket with items and placing them in other (not quite random) locations. It suggests that some people do it as a joke - but I can't understand why...?

People love putting things in the freezers. Seen chocolate bars in with the hot chickens as well.

Shoplifters will dump things around the store if they think they are being watched (and they are being watched).

[Hoon]

For me it's people that leave their trundler in the middle of the aisle blocking it off while they look at the shelves. I'll usually try to squeeze through accidentally collecting them or sending their trundler off, then offering a 'gee sorry' as they scramble to move their shit out of the way.

PARK YOUR TRUNDLER TO THE FUCKING SIDE IF YOU ARE GOING TO LEAVE IT ANYWHERE!!

People will occasionally change their mind about purchasing some item, and rather than take it back to its rightful place they will dump it somewhere.

Yep especially bagged deli/fish bar stuff. People will ask for it, gets weighed and price given for approval. Instead of saying "Oh no thanks nevermind that costs far more than I thought it would.", to preserve pride they just say "yep thats fine" and then later dump it somewhere when no one is looking.

To curb the wife's impulse spending we now have a rule which states that any purchases must be on the shopping list.

[george formby]

Kids at high velocity face planting your trolley as you take a corner then the breed sow giving me arseholes.
The zero spatial awareness person standing in front of my favourite beer texting while I figure out how to get one over on them & get my beer.
The short queue & slow cashier...
The person in front of me with two items which turn into twenty as the rest of the family turn up. "s'cuse me" "s'cuse me, am in the q".
Hoverer's, I hate hoverer's, usually Israelis or French for some reason, standing back but managing to cover 3 check outs at once while they figure out which is fastest.
The guy who puts his items through $40 at a time so he can get more 4c petrol vouchers. I nearly got into a fight with this one......
Leaking milk sachets
The twat who analyses every single mushroom.
Progressive Enterprises Full Stop. I do not want Aussie/Merckan/Spanish stuff when NZ stuff is in season.
3 generations of Indians in a huddle discussing rice in Hindi blocking 2 aisles & the cheese fridge.
Little fat kids drinking huge cans of Mothers..
The cashier throwing my stuff into bags, soft first, glass & tins last. Get theirs they will come the day......
The customer waiting for the cashier to untangle their re-usable designer sweat shop bags while the rest of the growing queue stares at them venomously.
Being to scared to read the ingredients.
The bastards who start at the wrong end of the shop.
Waiting for the one person in the shop allowed to let me buy alcohol to wander over & ascertain I'm nearly 50. FFS!

[pzkpfw]

Cashiers handling my loaf of bread with "the claw" technique. (Grabbing it in the middle of the loaf).

Fucks sake. A quarter of the slices are no longer rectangular. If I make a toasted sandwich, the cheese leaks out, all over my bench. Maybe they are trying to sell me extra cleaning products? The 4x4 ham doesn't fit properly. It also means I need a degree in analytical geometry to most efficiently butter the bread, in its weird shape. I want rectangular slices, you ham fisted bastards!

I'm pretty sure the Serb who shot the Duke and started WWI did it after a bad bread experience at a local market.

My kids hate shopping with me. They know I'm a hair-trigger away from lecturing the cashier, if I see "the claw" ...


(Other than that, I'd add to the list in this thread: lazy bastards who can't be arsed putting their trolley away propery. Shops should have cameras to watch for that, and have these buggers found and their cars scratched with the words "lazy c**t".

Geez, even the ones' who do put their trolley away can be dozy. There's three lanes in the car-park trolley-park. And dumb-arses stick all the different sizes of trolley up the one lane so they don't stack together properly. Thimk!)

[HenryDorsetCase]

We go to the supermarket once a month and spend a fuckload.

we buy our veges at the farmers market on Sunday morning. We buy bread from the cafe/deli next to where I work or from the farmers market. We get meat from our local butcher. We get grog from the grog shop up the road or if there is a special at the supermarket then there. I fucking hate supermarkets.

One of my friends does the online thing.