Supermarket hates?

**george formby** · 7th June 2012, 15:42

The new "please insert" bank cards. I can think of a good place to insert em! Our elders are still coming to grips with swipe cards, the new ones have increased the number of dementia incidents in super markets by 70%.

**blue rider** · 7th June 2012, 16:52

the lack of people working at supermarkets......so many empty tills

**awa355** · 7th June 2012, 17:03

Originally Posted by Spuds1234

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

This morning I had to return to the supmkt to replace the 5 Eskimo pies that escaped from the packet I bought yesterday, before the wife found out.

Told the lady at the self serve, I was sick of the dumb tart inside the machine. She said they hear it all day. They get just as pissed off.

**Chris_r** · 7th June 2012, 19:03

If you look at the bottom of the screen there is a picture of a speaker, bash that a few times and it shuts the talking woman up

**jellywrestler** · 7th June 2012, 19:11

Originally Posted by Virago

It suggests that some people do it as a joke - but I can't understand why...?

to live rent free in YOUR head?

**schrodingers cat** · 7th June 2012, 19:21

Improve your supermarket experience.
Like arses? Follow the crowd. More a boob man? Skip an isle and run against the tide.

Harm your supermarket experience.
Pretend you are riding the brand new bike o your dreams (sound effects optional). Imagine the other shoppers are fellow road users.

SCARY SCARY. THEY'VE GOT NO FUCKING IDEA. No periphial vision, no situational awareness, no idea where they're going or what they're doing.

Pay for your groceries and leave

SCARY SCARY. THEY ARE FELLOW ROAD USERS AND THEY'VE GOT NO FUCKING IDEA. No periphial vision, no situational awareness, no idea where they're going or what they're doing.

MMMwwaaahhhhaaaahahhhahahah

**Berries** · 7th June 2012, 22:40

Originally Posted by Chris_r

If you look at the bottom of the screen there is a picture of a speaker, bash that a few times and it shuts the talking woman up

Just like real life then. Sweet.

**nathanwhite** · 7th June 2012, 23:05

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

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

Just as well your not up in my neck of the woods :drop: I do this all the time. Never actually hard enough to squash the bread mind you, just enough to pick it up. This is because we have to keep up a (fairly high) scan rate and it's the easiest way to move a loaf of bread.

My pet hate/s?
Customers who decide they really need that something extra right before they pay and go hunting for it.
Customers who spend an age counting out the exact change nevermind it's faster for me to give the correct change and there is a massive queue.
Customers who try to be friendly by using my first name after (obviously) reading it from my nametag.
Customers who didn't read the special properly and its not this item, its that item.
Customers who come in five minutes before closing, hear the PA message that we are closing but still continue to leisurely browse the isles.

**nathanwhite** · 7th June 2012, 23:13

The funniest moment I've had in a supermarket was when I was serving a female in her early 20's.
She was buying some 'lady items,' chocolate and a bottle of water IIRC. I did the usual "Hi, how are you today?".

Her reply?

"Good. . . . well kinda."

I had no idea what to say after that.

**mossy1200** · 7th June 2012, 23:27

I hate people that park trolley and stand beside it to pick items blocking the lane. Also the double parkers that put their trolley beside another and block the lane. The lanes should be one way only.
I have trolley rage.

Also I hate the carpark. Its the park lurkers that I hate the most they cruise slow and stop everytime it looks like someone may get into a car or wait at the begining of the lane blocking the whole lane so they get the next park someone leaves from but traffic blocks up and nobody can go anywhere.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 8th June 2012, 00:27

I have only one hate.

The bill

**Sable** · 8th June 2012, 04:05

And how do you guys suppose the cashiers feel about all this? It's much worse for them, trust me.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 8th June 2012, 09:00

Originally Posted by nathanwhite

Just as well your not up in my neck of the woods :drop: I do this all the time. Never actually hard enough to squash the bread mind you, just enough to pick it up. This is because we have to keep up a (fairly high) scan rate and it's the easiest way to move a loaf of bread.

My pet hate/s?
Customers who decide they really need that something extra right before they pay and go hunting for it.
Customers who spend an age counting out the exact change nevermind it's faster for me to give the correct change and there is a massive queue.
Customers who try to be friendly by using my first name after (obviously) reading it from my nametag.
Customers who didn't read the special properly and its not this item, its that item.
Customers who come in five minutes before closing, hear the PA message that we are closing but still continue to leisurely browse the isles.

Hey I found this picture of you from your "employee of the month" evaluation: Your surname is "Explosion", right?

**FROSTY:Me** · 8th June 2012, 09:01

Originally Posted by DrunkenMistake

Try working in one,
Number three pain in the ass would be people who simply barge in and push you aside without asking you to move, apparently manors are extinct
Number two pain in the ass is the people who have a social gathering in the middle of an isle and despite anybodies efforts to get past, simply dont move.

You have a job because of those people. End of the day really thats what it comes down to--THEY pay your wages. When a customer is REALLY being a pain I just look at em and see the big $$$ sighns