THings about supermarkets you find annoying
ffawkes
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Probably a topic done to death in the past but having just got back from Tesco I wanted to have a whinge.
Yes I know how handy supermarkets are, all under one roof and so aon, and in general I dont mind using them but a couple of things got my goat today that I have noticed before:
Checkout staff who finger their faces: Seen this a few times, usually a young person, fingers fiddling round their nose or eyes, dometimes chewing their fingers. Then fingers greab my packet of sandwiches, which I will have to hold and open before transferring contents to my mouth. Should I put on gloves to eat?
Charity collectors stationing themselves right at the exit where you can't avoid them. I find this very awkward and embarrassing, you almost feel youi have to have an excuse for not donating.
Moan over.
Yes I know how handy supermarkets are, all under one roof and so aon, and in general I dont mind using them but a couple of things got my goat today that I have noticed before:
Checkout staff who finger their faces: Seen this a few times, usually a young person, fingers fiddling round their nose or eyes, dometimes chewing their fingers. Then fingers greab my packet of sandwiches, which I will have to hold and open before transferring contents to my mouth. Should I put on gloves to eat?
Charity collectors stationing themselves right at the exit where you can't avoid them. I find this very awkward and embarrassing, you almost feel youi have to have an excuse for not donating.
Moan over.
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When you get used to a Supermarket's layout then they change it all round so you are wandering round in a sea of confusion trying to find the pasta. WHY WHY!!!!
Wobbly squeaky trolley wheels. Grrr....
Are you being serious? What do you expect them to do, handle every single item with tongs , despite the fact that it has already got layers of wrapping around it. Do you lick the wrapping of your sandwiches or dispose of it like most people
Yes, this irritates me too, (even though the reason for it is understandable). I always make a point of tossing the packets of older sausages, bacon etc at the front in an untidy pile all over the place, as I reach into the back for a newer packet. Petty, but it makes me feel I've got one over on them, instead of the other way round.
As a checkout operator, I have put my fingers up to my nose, and even my eyes, but never chewed my fingers
What do you expect us to do, Im sitting there for at least 4 hours before a break, and in that time, my nose or even my eyes get itchy, so you have to do something
If your a customer, and you have an itchy nose what do you do, and then how often do you wash your hands, you probably dont think about it
Now sometime we have hand santitisers at the till, if you can find one, and if there one I will use it to clean my hands
You are my soul-mate shopper - I wasn't going to admit that I also do that but now you have, I shall be braver about it
I make up for it by not eating grapes I haven't paid for
What about one of the dirtest things there touched by thousands and never knowing were its been MONEY
Rather better than just letting a load of perfectly good food go to waste, don't you think? The shelves have to be restocked, it makes perfect sense to stick the stuff with a longer shelf-life at the back.
You could always use the self service tills, t
In our car park they get fined
That's where a fictional / non fictional call your on your mobile comes in handy
Okay, choose whatever you want and move on but noooo - it's like a massive student congregation just staring at the lasagne and cottage pie.
Well, what I'd like them to do, the ones who do it and they know who they are, is to stop wiping their fingers over their faces/ inserting them in their mouths/ before serving me; it makes me feel a tad queasy to watch, but hard to tear my eyes away from, like watching someone in a traffc queue picking their nose.
Re the sandwiches, they transfer their face goo to the pack, it gets transferred from the pack to my fingers, then I use aforementioned fingers to grab aforementioned sandwiches.
Our local supermarket is near the local Further education college and the behaviour of some of the students is a disgrace, running up and down the aisle, shouting and swearing throwing stuff around.
People who take forever to pack their bags at the end of the conveyor thus delaying the queue, One advantage of Aldi and Lidl is that you bag your items away from the checkout,
Hmm. Not keen on those I'm afraid.
Mind you I'm about to add another whinge, and I suppose self service would answer that one as well:
being bombarded with questions at the checkout, when I am not in the mood for them:
Are you using your own bags?
Would you like help packing?
Have you got a clubcard?
Are you paying with that too?
Are you collecting cutlery vouchers?
I use the self service tills now as much as possible.
Also I have very rarely used the self service tills without it going wrong in some way and having to wait for a member of staff to come over and swipe their card to continue, I have had that happen multiple times in one shop and in the end I swore very loudly and embarrassingly at the machine!
But has any harm been done, have you fallen ill, now you could say the same about bank notes, there even more contaminated with germs, and some nasty ones...faeces germs, but no one makes an issues of getting notes
Yeah they annoy me as well! I always just say a polite "no thanks" when they offer to pack my bags, but sling a few coppers into their bucket at the end anyway.
People who eat in supermarkets, especially those who eat something from the store and then don't even pay for it.
I'm not as extreme as the OP, but it does annoy me when people lick their fingers to get the carrier bags off the roll thing. But then again, it annoys me when people lick their fingers to turn pages on books and papers. It is completely unnecessary and annoying. Nothing to do with germs, just pure irritation at the gesture. I know I'm odd.