Supermarket Behaviour

[Glassman]

I'm not a regular supermarket shopper, but I do like to go when I can; I'm not a massive fan of online shopping but sometimes needs must etc (and sometimes there is no alternative). I'm also not a one shop only buyer; it's whichever is most convenient, or because Sainsbury's are the only one to stock Mango flavoured iced tea.

Supermarket behaviour.

I don't think this only happens in the lower priced shops. I think it happens in them all at varying levels.

Such as:

• grazing while they shop. I get you might pop a grape or two in your mouth (from the bunch in your basket/trolley) but to open a packet of something and feast on it? Cue: empty wrappers discarded in random places.

• not returning a perishable item to the refrigerator after deciding they don't want it. 'I don't want this mackerel so it can rot here in with the cans of deodorants.

• not picking up something they've dropped

• blocking the aisle as if they are the only ones shopping (especially when chatting to others)

• standing in front of you as you look at the different options

• packing everything away so slowly making everyone wait while they manoeuvre items into different bags like Tetris

• as above and THEN pulling out coupons and checking each one for validity

• as above again, THEN checking the receipt looking to see if there is an error

• leaving the trolley abandoned where they emptied it

Will add more if when I think of them.

Is it just a lack of spatial awareness? Self entitlement?

I watched a woman carry her infant on her hip and struggle to push a trolley with one hand. She stopped to load something into it but it happened to be on the blind end of an aisle. Sure enough, someone clattered into it, and the immediate reaction was 'CAN'T YOU SEE I'M CARRYING A BABY?'

[Leftfootwonder]

I avoid like the plague but if must visit one, my trolley is my weapon and I bash anything, or anyone, who I deem to be inconsiderately in my way. Which is most of the brain rots in there.

If you're minding your own business you're safe, if you're being a tool, I'm coming for the back of your legs.

[TheK1981]

After nearly 28 years of working in supermarkets, all I can say is you meet all types of people, ive seen some sights that make you wonder if your eyes are lying to you, theft, people breaking/squashing things on purpose, peeing in a corner to save walking to the toilets, and thats before you get onto the attitude,

As a minimum wage monkey I leave them to it, im not paid to deal with people like that

[The Gauge]

Also those elderly women who pay cash and try to either give the exact amount of money, or over pay in a way that they think makes it easy for the cashier to calculate how much change is needed…

Cashier “That’ll be £34.22 please “
Old lady hands over £34 and a 50p coins and frantically rummages through her purse whilst saying “Do you want the 2” ?

Don’t hear it so much now.


Also in sandwich shops etc when a customer pays with a £20 note and the server puts it in the till whilst shouting to her colleague “Twenty going in Sandra”, thus incriminating Sandra by dragging her in as an alibi when the till doesn’t balance.

Edited by The Gauge on Thursday 8th May 18:42

[markymarkthree]

Kids in shopping trolleys, pees me right off.

[POIDH]

I've a son who works in a supermarket as a shift leader.

Let's just say that 'Code brown on Aisle 7' was a low point...

[Spare tyre]

I used to work in a supermarket in uni summertime

Loads of mad stuff went on

Old boy would destroy products

He would also throw eggs over the aisles

[Monkeylegend]

Leftfootwonder said:

I avoid like the plague but if must visit one, my trolley is my weapon and I bash anything, or anyone, who I deem to be inconsiderately in my way. Which is most of the brain rots in there.

If you're minding your own business you're safe, if you're being a tool, I'm coming for the back of your legs.

You certainly talk like the alpha male but I suspect the reality is somewhat different

[gtidriver]

Can we have idiots who walk amongst us who bring back an opened disposable bbq because it did not have the advertised sausages included. I was on the checkouts at Sainsburys years ago watching this argument unfold between the customer and the checkout manager. She didn't get a refund.

Or the folk who park right outside the front of the store, I think if they could remove the bollards they would drive into the shop they try to get so close.

I was behind a couple the other day who had a belt full of shopping have it pile up after it was scanned then discuss who was paying, then pay and pack it up.. very inconsiderate.

[P2KKA]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire...

Im sure something similar happened nearer me but i cant find itt. Was a fair few years ago

"He then moved on to the wine section where a member of staff saw a fine vapour come out of his bag and on to the wine, leaving brown fluid over the shelves, the court heard."

[loskie]

jeez there's some mentalists going about. Proper punishment needed no need for so called rehabilitation

[Glassman]

Those who leave their trolley as they go looking for something they forgot in the previous aisle, blocking anyone else getting by in the process.

[Super Sonic]

People squeezing the breadloafs. Twats

[bigpriest]

Shelf-stackers getting annoyed because you've messed up their display trying to get to the back of the shelf where they've hidden all the items with the longest best before dates.

[Dingu]

You clearly live in a sthole OP.

[miniman]

Super Sonic said:

People squeezing the breadloafs. Twats

I’m quite inclined to squeeze a loaf. How else does one judge freshness?

I’ll admit that a deep fingering is not de rigeur.

[Glassman]

bigpriest said:

Shelf-stackers getting annoyed because you've messed up their display trying to get to the back of the shelf where they've hidden all the items with the longest best before dates.

Yes! The shelf stackers. Never mind there are punters shopping... you just park your rolling cage in the middle of the aisle and block where I want to look.

[cliffords]

gtidriver said:

Can we have idiots who walk amongst us who bring back an opened disposable bbq because it did not have the advertised sausages included. I was on the checkouts at Sainsburys years ago watching this argument unfold between the customer and the checkout manager. She didn't get a refund.

Or the folk who park right outside the front of the store, I think if they could remove the bollards they would drive into the shop they try to get so close.

I was behind a couple the other day who had a belt full of shopping have it pile up after it was scanned then discuss who was paying, then pay and pack it up.. very inconsiderate.

On the parking subject . A third of the car park is now disabled,young children or EV's. I often hold all those credentials symatanously and there are no available places remaining. The spaces are interpreted as single women in tracksuits with large SUV's. If you challenge them they show full bile and entitlement given with gusto.

[Mr Penguin]

Shelf stackers - not so much putting the cart in the middle of the aisle but barging through, using the cart as a cow catcher to take out any shoppers who may be in their way. Or scowling because they stop for a chat and customers may want to go past.

As for the customers - people walking backwards and being surprised that someone may be in the aisle with them.

And on the manned tills - one checkout assistant in one of my local supermarkets has a chat with people she knows even if they have paid and there is a queue.

Finally the self-checkouts - staff who scan someone's entire trolley for them because "they don't know how it works" or don't bother to look to see if there are customers waiting for help in case it interferes with their conversation.

[TGTiff]

Biddys who decide to have a conversation in the doorway!!
Get out of my way you coffin dodgers!!!!