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Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
What I like is when I'm examining stuff on the shelves. Sometimes I need to take a step back to see the stuff on the top shelf or something, or to scan a broader area to find what I'm looking for. Then someone comes up and stands right in front of you and starts their own examination of the shelves.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Who, it's really funny when people do that and you go stand right in front of them again. I'm such a when I am shopping. I go in, get what I need and get out. People who hinder that irritate me to no end. However, I am also the coupon girl at the check stand. I have numerous coupons in my hand, but I have them ready to go for the items purchased and I am not standing there sorting while people are waiting. I've been behind that lady and swore it would never be me.
I know I should be more tolerant, but parking a cart in the middle of an isle has nothing to do with hearing loss. I am guilty of it as well. I've moved carts out of th eway for people, and got the dirty eye. When someone has had to move my cart (it's a rarity) I apologize and get my patooty out of the way....

Hermione69
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07-23-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
parking a cart in the middle of an isle has nothing to do with hearing loss.

I didn't say it did. How the person reacts to it could. As you said, we, or most of us, are all guilty of parking our carts sometimes and I just asked people to be mindful that in asking the person to move, if s/he does not respond, then it could be because of a hearing loss.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Last week I was in a clothes shop, in a narrow aisle facing one way, and a woman comes up in the other direction. It's a bit of a squeeze but we did it ok, but as we are shopping cart to shopping cart, she picks up something from my cart, holds it up says it's nice, looks at the label and says "it's too big for me" and carries on!! If it wasn't too big for her was she going to take it from my cart and put it in hers?!?!

You meet some strange people in stores. That's why I prefer to be a hermit ;).

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
LOL Kitt, maybe you were on a version of Candid Camera. I actually remember that being one of the skits on one of those Candid Camera type shows (if not Candid Camera itself). Only the person actually did take something from the "victim's" cart and put it in their own!

Have you ever stopped to grab something from a shelf/bin, only to have 3 or 4 more people come dashing over to rummage through the bin as well. I think they must think I've found a great bargain and they come running to see what I've found.

Or, the one item you need in this one empty long aisle, and there's one other person there. But they're not after the thing you need, but they park their cart right in front of where you need to go while they go about selecting their own item a few spaces over. This happens quite often in the cooler section, where things are behind doors. They park their cart in front of the door you need to open while they open the door next to it for their item. Usually that's not a rude thing I find, its just my dumb luck that happens to be the one space I need to get to. LOL. They usually move quickly out of the way if they see I'm trying to get to the door their cart is in front of.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Escapee I am like you when I goi into stores, Go in get what I need and get out. I have a friend that I refuse to go shopping with. One time we spent 5 hours count them 5 hours in Wal-Mart. I have learned that if she wants to go shopping we take 2 cars because after an hour or so I am done.

Maplsyrp
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02-10-2009

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maplsyrp a private message Print Post    
I am a stickler for manners. DS's took themselves to the dentist while they were on spring break and I called to make sure they remembered to pay and the lady at the front desk said that they were the nicest kids and how everyone in the office commented on how polite they were. Made me feel so good! Re: people blocking the aisles at the store, I give them one very loud excuse me then the next excuse me comes with my cart gently moving their cart out of the way.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
My older sis is like you two Escapee and Dfennessey. She offered to take me shopping once, and I'll never accept her offer again. I need to take enough time to price things and see if stuff is on sale. I also wait till I have a pretty hefty list to shop from; usually inspired to go to the store when we're out of something very crucial that can't wait for later (dog food, Mom's cigarettes, etc). Older sis's attitude was that I was to race down each aisle, know exactly what I wanted and where it was, grab it on the fly as I run down the aisle with my cart and end up in the checkout lane within 15 minutes. Sorry, just ain't gonna do that!!

I sure don't take 5 hours though! My normal errand day (Wal-mart for prescriptions and a few other items I can't find in the grocery store, then on to the grocery store and liquor store; all in different locations) takes about two hours (including drive time) from the time I leave the house to the time I walk back in the front door. Sis would be livid with me over that kind of schedule. She's offered a few other times to take me, and I have to politely decline!

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Whoami I would not mind spending 5 hours shopping if we went to different stores, but in one store come on that is a little too long for my liking.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Who, I wondered if she thought I worked for the store and was restocking what was in my cart. Maybe I should be more careful that what I wear isn't anything like the store uniform!

Rissa
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03-19-2006

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Carts... drive to the right, pass to the left!!!!!!! Same as driving rules, basic manners 101. Everytime I go into a Costco I want to strangle at least a dozen people. In what world is driving two carts side-by-side so that no-one can go the other direction considered acceptable? It's not rocket science or demolition derby time, stay on the right, pass to the left!!!!! (off soapbox and going to deep breathe)

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
ITA 'bout the cart stuff. And to stop with the cart or leave cart parked in the middle of the aisle -- grrrrrrrrrrrr. I pretty much leave my cart at the outer ends of aisles when I'm looking for things.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I didn't say it did. How the person reacts to it could. As you said, we, or most of us, are all guilty of parking our carts sometimes and I just asked people to be mindful that in asking the person to move, if s/he does not respond, then it could be because of a hearing loss.


I know that you didn't say it, I was just trying to be funny is all :-)

Also, I just hate grocery shopping. I get in and get out. Other shopping I could spend all day.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
You guys are funny. Now if the subject was grocery store employees complaining about what the customers do, the list would be much bigger...LOL I was front end manager at a grocery store for several years, and oh boy, did it teach me patience.

(front end manager is the manger of the checkers and courtesy counter)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Oh I'll bet Naja! I can't believe how many times I've seen packages of meat left in the candy section at the registers! Just tell the clerk you changed your mind or something idiots! I swear! And those people probably complain about the cost of groceries going up!

I just used too many exclamation points, sorry...

Sia
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03-10-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
LOL at the road-rage in the grocery or department store! Hukd, your post made me LOL when you described wanting to yell at the lady blocking the aisle!

As for finding things abandoned in an aisle, I will send one of my kids to the checkout registers immediately if we find something that is supposed to stay refrigerated just abandoned on the shelf. I don't want the "kids" (sorry, no prejudice intended) who clean up the store at the end of the night returning spoiled food to the refrigerated section of the store because they don't want to go to the trouble of doing whatever paperwork is required to write them off.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 2:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
LOL, at first I thought you meant grocery store employees complaining to each other about customers in front of me (another customer) as if I'm not there. Or talking about the party they are wanting to leave work for but the customers won't let them cause they keep coming through their line (got that one on my last shopping trip). The second employee did point out it was management not letting them leave, not the customer (me).

The first guy kept on complaining about his job whilst I stopped him 4 times from mixing perishable goods with non-perishable in the bags. The 4th time he put bags of chips on top of some eggs. I told him again that I may have to leave the non-perishables in the car for later and I HAD to have the perishables bagged separate. He looked at his cashier partner and snarked, "it makes sense to ME to put chips in with the eggs, doesn't it to YOU?" I sternly told him, "not if I'm looking down at the top of the bags in my dark car and see chips and think they can wait till later, and I end up leaving the eggs in the car for several hours cause I didn't see them at the bottom the bag." Not to mention I had specifically asked him repeatedly NOT to mix perishables with non-perishables.

It's not rocket science guys. Touch the item, its cold, that means it was stored somewhere in a refrigerator or freezer in your store cause its PERISHABLE!!! Not to mention I sectioned off all the PERISHABLE items in the top part of my cart so you wouldn't have to sort them out (yet you mixed them up anyway by grabbing stuff out of the cart willy nilly).

Oops, that kind of went off to a rant, didn't it! LOL. Can you tell what one of my biggest grocery shopping pet peeves is?

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Yes! Huck! You! did!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Sia, if the kids who straighten up at night had to do paperwork for all the refrigerated stuff they found, they would never go home. Please believe me, they don't have paperwork. It all goes to a special area in back in the big fridge/freezer for someone else to sort through a couple times a week or more and to do the paperwork. First it's sorted by departments, and then someone from each dept comes and sorts it by vendors, and then the write-offs happen. And it's not the same kids who clean up at night.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Dogdoc.

Who, I've had a similar experience at Costco that left me wanting to bang my head. They always ask if you want things put in a box and I say no after the first and only time I said yes. Ended up with a box of groceries that was way too heavy for me to pick up. So now anytime they ask I say, "No, thank you." Had one guy pester me about it, are you sure you don't want a box? No, thank you. Then he said, "well it'd be easier for me to box it up." Yeah, well, I'm the one who has to load it in my car and then take it out of my car and carry it in the house! Trust me, I'd rather make multiple trips to the car than have to deal with a box of groceries I can't lift. Cashier was right on my heels with, "It doesn't matter what would be easier for YOU, she said no!"

I have on occassion asked the bag boy/girl at the grocery store to let me bag my own groceries (they have no problem with that.) A lot of times I'll buy some groceries for me and some for my aunt and it's easier for me to bag them up because I know whats what and can seperate them right there.

The only time I really have an issue with people blocking aisles is at Costco around the food sample tables. Get something really yummy and it's near impossible to get down an aisle without having to go around the other way.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Bagging my own groceries (and thus preserving the fresh fruit and veggies from demolition derby style packaging) is one of the things I LOVE about the self-check out aisles!

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i can understand why the clerk thought the chips and the eggs go together. Both are fragile items that you would want separated from something like soda cans or such. but in your case you wanted the refrigerated items separated. He just didn't get the idea of the word "perishable". He probably thought you mean from food to other grocery items such as toilet paper. now i am giving him credit, and maybe that is too much. but i did see another side.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 12:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Hmmmm, you may have a point there. He was a young kid, and maybe he just doesn't know what the word perishable is. I'll have to remember that next time spell it out for them.

Regardless, it was still very rude of him to snark at his cashier friend about it in front of me. Oh, and when I got to the car I still had to rearrange 3 more perishable items he'd mixed in with non-perishable that I didn't catch when he was doing it!

I have an issue with the cashiers/baggers chattering on with each other about the cute boy 3 cashier stations down, the party they went to last night, or the party they hope to make in the future; all the while totally ignoring the customer. I think if he'd been paying attention to what he was doing, he might have been able to bag the items per my request.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Technically, potato chips are perishable items; they don't have an indefinite shelf life.

Or so I've heard. It's not like a bad of chips have ever lasted long enough in my house for me to find out.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
I hate texting, that's my gripe. I don't understand the need for it, and I hate typing text messages on my tiny phone keypad. I'm either all about the voice mail, or just plain e-mail. I don't do IM-ing either. I guess I'm annoyed that I have to learn to be proficient at yet another form of communication by typing cryptic SOS messages that take longer to compose than the content warrants.