Pet Peeve: Grocery Store edition

[Matt1735]

So i make my trek to the grocery store, and since I have 12 items, I get into the express lane (all of the self-serve lanes were full).

The person in front of me either couldn't read or can't count, since he helped himself to 26 items.

I think a store should charge $1 per item in stupid tax for the 17th item and above.

 

[Killick]

... and where do those socks that go missing from the dryer go?

 

[DanOregon]

Have you travelled on airline's lately? I'm not saying the searches are invasive, but after I was screened I had to pay a $25 deductible.

 

[mustangj17]

Airline peanuts. What's the deal with those?

 

[RickStain]

He should have gone to the jewelry counter.

 

[spnited]

Get over it.

 

[Starman]

"Jumbo shrimp!!" What the ****'s with that?!?

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

So i make my trek to the grocery store, and since I have 12 items, I get into the express lane (all of the self-serve lanes were full).

The person in front of me either couldn't read or can't count, since he helped himself to 26 items.

I think a store should charge $1 per item in stupid tax for the 17th item and above.

As long as he knew how to use the credit-card machine, and didn't just stare at it like he was expecting it to talk to him, he's OK in my book.

Very true. Hell, he could probably have checked out 27 items quicker than a cashier could check out 12 in a regular lane.

 

[playthrough]

Well, you'd have loved checking out with my brother behind the register. Jeremy, as I've talked about on the board from time to time, is a special-needs kid who sees everything in the world in black and white. He worked as a Publix cashier for years and the first time someone took 12 items to the 10-item express lane, he flat refused to checkout. A manager had to tell him, look, it's OK for someone to miss the limit just a little. He couldn't believe it.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

Outing alert: Everyone posting on this thread is Andy Rooney.

 

[farmerjerome]

I'll take exception to that.

Dr. J, who normally does the grocery shopping, left me alone for 10 minutes in our supermarket on the morning of July 4th in our local market. This fell on a Sunday morning (x10 carnage), and was the day after my father's funeral (x emotional carnage).

It's like I was I was in a warzone. After awhile I found a quite (non-busy) spot and parked it. I can count the number of times on one hand that I've been back since. For Christ sakes, forget warzone -- it was like a zoo at feeding time for the best meat.

 

[Rhody31]

So i make my trek to the grocery store, and since I have 12 items, I get into the express lane (all of the self-serve lanes were full).

The person in front of me either couldn't read or can't count, since he helped himself to 26 items.

I think a store should charge $1 per item in stupid tax for the 17th item and above.

Here's my question - because I never go into the express lane if I have 13 items to check out:
What if you do one of the scan as you go things? I use it all the time when I do our big food shopping and if the express lane is open, I go for it, with my rational being I'm only scanning one thing.
It doesn't happen often, I just wonder what others think the rule is.

 

[Point of Order]

So i make my trek to the grocery store, and since I have 12 items, I get into the express lane (all of the self-serve lanes were full).

The person in front of me either couldn't read or can't count, since he helped himself to 26 items.

I think a store should charge $1 per item in stupid tax for the 17th item and above.

Here's my question - because I never go into the express lane if I have 13 items to check out:
What if you do one of the scan as you go things? I use it all the time when I do our big food shopping and if the express lane is open, I go for it, with my rational being I'm only scanning one thing.
It doesn't happen often, I just wonder what others think the rule is.

huh?

 

[DanOregon]

I actually like the long lines, more time to see how who the Kardashians, LiLo and Paris are doing.

 

[WolvEagle]

I actually like the long lines, more time to see how who the Kardashians, LiLo and Paris are doing.

Then you'd love the Wal-Mart a couple miles down the road from my house. Let's see here - grocery stores (actually, all-encompassing stores) are really busy on Sundays. Half your cash registers on closed on Sundays. It's not like you can't afford to pay mininum wage to the cashiers, especially since you're making oodles of cash.

 

[kingcreole]

So i make my trek to the grocery store, and since I have 12 items, I get into the express lane (all of the self-serve lanes were full).

The person in front of me either couldn't read or can't count, since he helped himself to 26 items.

I think a store should charge $1 per item in stupid tax for the 17th item and above.

Those self-checkout things are a joke. If people don't have 37 items, then they spend 5 minutes trying to figure out how to scan the bananas. Then they stare at the screen, oblivious to the "Look Up Item" button. So they ask the nearby clerk for help, and after the clerk takes 3 seconds to help, the grateful customer spends another 3 minutes talking and jibber-jabbering and laughing with the clerk. Then when they're done scanning, they spend another 3 minutes looking for means of payment. By the time they're finally done, the mom with two kids in her cart and 129 items has breezed through the regular checkout line and is on her way out the door while you're still standing there with milk and bread.

 

[trifectarich]

If I wanted to know what it was like to work at a job paying $6 an hour, I'd go to the self-check out lanes and then put the fruit in the bottom of the bag and throw all the canned goods on top.