Supermarket Checkout Etiquette...

[Scrubs]

I've been thinking this for a few weeks now, when you queue up at the checkout at a supermarket, do you grab the plastic customer divider that seperates peoples shopping on the belt or do you wait for the person in front to do this. Also do you thank them for doing it or expect a thanks from the people behind if you do it for them?

I make an effort to thank them if they do it for me but plenty of times I do it and the people behind don't say thanks, then I think sod ya!

So is their an unwritten rule?

[Puggit]

Home delivery - HTH

[Jasandjules]

Don't know, but I always get a strop on if I have to reach past the person in front of me to get the thing, and I always ensure I put the thing behind my shopping - and usually get thanked for it.

[Targarama]

I always start to pile my shopping on the belt leaving a gap. If they haven't put the divider down then this makes them do so. I then make a joke about hoping they'd pay for my food (which is what they were panicking about!).

[Papa Hotel]

I never bother putting it down either in front of or behind my shopping, I find it an almost aggressive move... GET YOUR st SHOPPING AWAY FROM MY ORGANIC CRAP. I SHALL PLACE THIS PLASTIC DIVIDER HERE TO KEEP YOUR PAUPER MUCK SEPARATE FROM MY WARES.

[Targarama]

Papa Hotel said:

I never bother putting it down either in front of or behind my shopping, I find it an almost aggressive move... GET YOUR st SHOPPING AWAY FROM MY ORGANIC CRAP. I SHALL PLACE THIS PLASTIC DIVIDER HERE TO KEEP YOUR PAUPER MUCK SEPARATE FROM MY WARES.

Well it creates a bit of fun while you're ogling the checkout girl...

[ipwn]

Aslways assumed you were responsible for the shopping behind.

Thats how the system would work and makes sense too :/

[Getragdogleg]

If the shopping from the person behind you collides with your shopping it is their responsibility.

I put the divider between me and the person in front, the one behind is of no consequence to me or my rapid passage from the halls of hell. If an item of theirs finds its way in error onto my meager shopping rations I will state, "i dont think thats mine" and leave the till/rear shopper to sort it out.

[chopper602]

I'm not bothered about the divider, I get really annoyed by the people who move right up to you as you finished packing your bags and then move back to pay - they're there in your face. Last night I had to move there trolley so I could actually get to the debit card machine . . .

[oddman]

Putting an ostentatiously expensive item (champagne, whole salmon etc.) adjacent to the pile of rich tea biscuits, teabags, tinned meat that the coffin dodger in front of you is purchasing.

See how quickly they lunge at the divider

Edited by oddman on Friday 2nd October 21:58

[TheCarpetCleaner]

Puggit said:

Home delivery - HTH

I used to think it was an expensive gimmick @ £4+ per delivery, however it just now means that we shop less frequently and plan better

No more-

Having to listen to other shoppers screaming horrible children

Having frogsucking cockwits push past you, even if you are standing well out the way next to the Tenapants isle

Waiting for the shocked expression on the shoppers face when they have completed paccking their shopping and being asked to pay - come on you knew what was coming... so stop fannying about and pay already!

Coming back to my car to find someone parked like crap in the parking bay so they are an inch away from my door...

The list is endless.

[captainzep]

Targarama said:

Well it creates a bit of fun while you're ogling the checkout girl...

[Shaolin]

Bleeding hell! I didn't realise I was surrounded by such a bunch of nutters so easily offended by such insignificant things while at the checkout.

[GTIR]

Ask Hammond, he's on the other thread.

[pad58]

Here i go again......Supermarkets are so impersonal ,,I went to the local morrissons only thing that was said to me was £45.89 please .I wouldn'nt mind but but the guy at the checkout was polish or something and was to ingrossed
in his polish mate packing the bags '
God only knows what they said but i think i was on the end of it.

[ipwn]

pad58 said:

Here i go again......Supermarkets are so impersonal ,,I went to the local morrissons only thing that was said to me was £45.89 please .I wouldn'nt mind but but the guy at the checkout was polish or something and was to ingrossed
in his polish mate packing the bags '
God only knows what they said but i think i was on the end of it.

I love a trip to the supermarket where I quite literally dont have to say anything apart from Thank you.

I hate checkout women who try and strike up a conversation asking how my day was. What I'm upto ? Why ? We're not in America ! Don't try and make small talk with me goddamnit.

You're a checkout person, all you need to do is scan and get the money, that is all !

I had a women the other day infront of me having a conversation with the checkout girl, after she had paid she was still yapping away for a good 3 minutes! ( 10 seconds in my book is long enough before it starts to get rude ). So I just left my trolley and walked off...


Rant over, no idea where that came from actually..

[Dogwatch]

ipwn said:

I love a trip to the supermarket where I quite literally dont have to say anything apart from Thank you.

Try Lidl. You may be the only person in there at the time who can actually speak English.

[Tunku]

If the shopper in front does not put the divider down, I lift the trolley onto the conveyor belt, and get up and stand behind it, and conduct my business from there when it's my turn. This also prevents many people from joining behind you, so you don't have to put the divider down for anyone else.

[ipwn]

Dogwatch said:

ipwn said:

I love a trip to the supermarket where I quite literally dont have to say anything apart from Thank you.

Try Lidl. You may be the only person in there at the time who can actually speak English.

Indeed, I didn't even know what 'yarite duck' meant untill a few months ago !

[zollburgers]

Yes:

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/