/ck/ - Food & Cooking

mine, people who post this thread daily with the exact same shit so you have to wait for it to 404 or go around and hide the thread

When there's no self-check out.

Wal-Mart seems reluctant to do it for loss prevention reasons. Too much riff raff who'll abuse the system.

People being lazy shits and "pushing" their cart by leaning on it.
BTW, if you wanna have a laff, head to 26:20 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4c3zP6raA&t=26m20s

>buy food at walmart because it's cheap af
>typically go around 2-3 am on my days off (work nights) also, it has the advantage of being mostly empty
>I see this walrus of a black woman, doing something that might be unprecedented
>she is so big, one motor scooter is not enough, she is seated in one and has a second to the right of it, with her gigantic right leg resting across the seat, this leg is larger than her left, it just seems to be a massive growth
>her child, who looks about 10 and resembles a starving Ethiopian is standing on the extra scooter, in between the seat and the handlebars as he can't sit down
>he is driving an entire scooter for his mom's right leg/foot, sandwiched between it and the handlebars, lurched over them to fit, occasionally using his left hand to grab her scooter handlebars to keep them aligned and controlled
>but that isn't all, her daughter who appears to be 12-13 also has an entire cart behind them, full of frozen goods, boxes of cereal, poptarts and little debbie treats, almost overflowing (keep in mind: each scooter has a basket on the front, each are full)

When you’re next in line and customer in front of you won’t end their fucking small talk with the cashier.

>>9565346
Must have been pay day at the food stamp office.

>>9565336
Wtf is this? I've got bad alcohol anxiety this morning, this pic is seriousy freaking me out.

>>9565408
Horse hoof without hoof. Reverse google search says the horse was dead, so rest easy.

>>9565372
A lot states space out the dates they hand out the EBT benefits just to keep people like this from crowding the store.

>>9565340
I don't know what kind of ghetto you live in, but every Walmart I've been to in the past 2-3 years has self checkout

>big thunderstorm is approaching
>store is suddenly full of people acting like they're preparing for a hurricane
>we're 3,600 ft above sea level in flyover land
>the only places that actually flood are a few parks built on floodplains and some highway underpasses
>"hey man you just never know lol!"
I guess the food is for when they're waiting for a tow truck, because as soon as the first few raindrops come down, roughly half of them forget how to drive.

>when old people decide to start checking their receipt and they flip their shit if they were charged one cent too much and hold up the entire line
>when old people think they can cut in line and get away with it
>when old people bring out their fucking coupons

thank fuck the grocery store is getting self-checkout by the end of the year because I'm at the fucking breaking point

>>9565329
HEB

>>9565955
Don't forget the checkbook.

I had this really weird old lady serve me at the supermarket today.
While she was scanning stuff she asked if I had a members rewards card so I said yes and held it out for her to grab from me and scan but she just kept scanning things while I stood there like and autist holding a hard near her. Finally she finished scanning stuff and took the card from me and scanned it. Instead of handing me the card back she put it down on this table beside her and I handed her some cash to pay for my groceries. She put the cash in the till and pulled out the change and put it with the card on the table near the card even though I was holding my hand out waiting for change. She gave me this weird look and said enjoy the rest of your day.
I had to reach over the counter and grab my member card and change, I was just confused with the entire event.

>>9565979
who the fuck uses check at a grocery store?

>>9566016
Old people.

What's even worse is that they don't even start filling out the check until they get to the cashier. They could easily fill in everything on the check except for the dollar amount while they are standing in line. That would save everyone, including themselves, time. But alas, most are too dumb to do that.

When the stores really busy with a huge lineup and only 2 tills are open.
>Leave cart full of groceries and leave

>>9566021
Old people need to be locked inside their habitats.

>>9566029
They can be annoying sometimes, that's for sure. But I'll take old people over NEETs afraid of social interaction any day.

>>9565995
I hate this too.
They tell you the amount and you give them the money but they're still bagging things while you're pull money out and you have to wait 15-20 seconds so they notice you've been holding the money over their keypad the whole time and they give you a weird look.

It's like they're machines.

when cashiers cant talk and work at the same time

>>9566228
That happens because you're too inept to notice that they are occupied with bagging and you offer the money too soon.

You should be observant. Don't hand them the money until they are ready to take it.

>>9566271
When cashiers talk

>>9566311
When there are cashiers.

>>9566338
I'll take a cashier over a self-checkout any day. The cashier is much faster because there is no delay on weight-checking each item.

>>9566311
>>9566338
What bothers you guys so much about cashiers anyway? Some kind of social anxiety?

>>9566352
I came to buy eggs and veggies, not to talk about muh weather and a hurricane.

>>9566367
So you're triggered by basic social interaction. Gotcha.

>>9566352
I used to register jockey, so I can get out faster. I fucking hate lines and chatty cashiers that want to talk amongst themselves or with the attention starved customers, I have shit to do.

>>9566367
It's small talk while they ring up your shit. They want you out of the line as fast as possible. Get over yourself.

>>9565329
Peaches in general. Fuckers have to handle each one, but manage to bruise them and break the skin. Then they attract fruit flies.

>>9566352
self-checkout is faster unless your autist. seriously, scan item, set on scale, pay. fast and easy.

>>9567047
I am an autist. I've timed it.

The normal checkout is much faster because it doesn't require a weight check. The cashier can just scan-scan-scan. When you use the self-checkout there is an extra step: scan-pause for weight check-bag-scan-pause-bag-wait.

The normal checkout doesn't have that annoying pause between every scan. And since you (or the bagger) can bag while the cashier is scanning you can overlap the bagging and the scanning steps. It's much faster.

Now if the cashiers have lines and the self-checkouts are free and clear, that's a different story. But if we ignore lines in both cases the normal checkout kicks the crap out of self checkout.

>>9566415
This.
We are being fucking timed, you sperg.
We also have to not fucking ignore your autistic ass because that would be "rude".
It's a balancing act.

As a courtesy clerk, (bagger and cart pusher, janitor and """returner of items""""), these are the things that make my job a bit more difficult. I will start with the obvious ones, then move the the more obscure ones.
Obvious:
>not returning carts to the cart corrals
>leaving trash in carts. (fast food bags, sample cups, drink cups, etc..
>as i am pushing carts back to store, trying to add your cart to the line that i am pushing. (i know you have good intentions, but it doesn't help)
>getting a $200+ order of groceries, but having $0 in the account
>standing over me like a hawk while i bag for you
Less obvious:
>girls leaving bloody tissues in trash that is not the mini trash next to toilet in stall
>leaving toilet paper in stalls on the floor
there are many more, but i need to walk to the liquor store not, because i am also a piece of shit.

THE BIGGEST CRIME OF ALL:
>when i am emptying trash, and as soon as i take out the plastic trash bag, they throw trash in can without the bag in it.
Please refrain from throwing your trash in the empty can for like 7 seconds until i put in the new bag! or, if you absolutely can't wait, throw it in another trash on the way out the store.

>>9565329
these people dont exist in my country yet

>>9567047
You must not be a burger, or you're one of the few burgers who don't buy weeks supply of groceries at a time. It's only faster if you have <10 items or so.

People who bring a full cart of shit to the 10 items or less cashier.
And it's all EBT.

>>9565995
As a cashier I hate people like you. I tell you the amount so you'll communicate if you'll be paying cash/card/check or so you'll have time to get your bills and change together if you require a second to do so. Just standing there and passively holding out your money infuriates me. You can see I'm working on getting your items bagged or loading up your cart. The very fucking least you can do is give me a minute to finish what I'm doing.

>Be cashier in the outdoor garden area of the store.
>Customers buy plants here.
>Plants and soil, and other gardening shit.
>But there is always one.
>Who brings their cart of raw meat, veggies, and other food items.
>Over to my dirty, garden chemical covered register.
>With my dirty as fuck hands.
>And wants to check out HERE.
>And then complains to my manager because my till is not clean.
>And it's now my fault.

>>9567047
Plus you can print out self adhesive barcodes for coolaid packs and gum and place them on your expensive items....

>>9567242
>ust standing there and passively holding out your money infuriates me
I'm confused. Why'd you tell me the total if you didn't want me to pay you?

>>The very fucking least you can do is give me a minute to finish what I'm doing.
I bag my own groceries while you are scanning. That saves us both time. And even if I wasn't, what's wrong with stopping bagging, taking the money, and then going back to bagging again? It's not like stopping and starting again takes any additional time or effort.

>>9567251
Doesn't work.
By the time you get to the check stand the cashier has been told by loss prevention to pay special attention to you.
If the store is worth a shit.

>>9567251
Except then the weight doesn't match so you're fooked.

>>9567258
If your skills are worth a shit then LP will never have noticed.

When the girls at the tills flirt with me even though I'm pretty sure they all know I'm as gay as a daffodil
Hetero ciswomen are disgusting.

>>9566271
As a Grocery store employee I only talk to customers when if I feel like it or if they show interest in conversation. Otherwise fuck you, I'm gonna stay quiet. Especially if it's busy and the lines are long. I just want to scan and bag your items as fast as I can to get you the fuck out. I don't care about your day or what you're gonna do with the avocado you're buying.

>>9566311
>>9566367
>>9566415
I love you.
I just want to scan and bag your items. I get paid by the hour for my work, not by how well I can converse with total strangers.

>>9567267
Most shoplifters are dope fiends so they find it hard to have skills when they look like Golem.

>>9565329
People who make the same thread a week later and still post the same thumbnail they saved from google. Please go back to your imageboard for ants.

>>9566228
It's so while they're bagging, you get out the money. Of course, most of the time you'll get out the money faster, but this is the most time efficient way of doing things. Do NOT keep the money offered while bagging, keep it to yourself, wait till they're done, then they'll ASK for the money. It's fucking easy, dude. Don't make it weird.

>can I speak to your manager?
>can you call the manager?

>>9567375
>When a customer think you are the manager.

>>9567255
I responded to the wrong post. Whoops.

>Why'd you tell me the total if you didn't want me to pay you?
To give you time to collect your money or to tell me how you'll be paying. I want you to communicate with me because that's how social interactions usually play out.

>I bag my own groceries while you are scanning. That saves us both time.
Honestly, if you're doing this as a customer you can slap me, spit in my face, or passively hold out money towards me. Thank you for being considerate.

>And even if I wasn't, what's wrong with stopping bagging, taking the money
You don't understand because you're not a shit customer that stares daggers at me with their arms folded while I scan and bag their shit. Those customers are usually the ones to get upset if you don't have everything ready as soon as you receive their order. So if they're just standing there, passively holding their money out, while I'm working my ass off for them, I get triggered.

>>9567098
the normal checkout has a scale built into the scanner, moron. There is a weight check. You just have shitty self scan machines near you that are slow as fuck.

>>9565594
>official hurricane warning issued
>news anchors blast out triple cherry nigger alerts for ratings
>everyone runs out and buys a month's worth of food
>at the end of twenty-four hours there's nothing left
>they try to return all their spoiled food after the category-1 hurricane passes over

I fucking hated working at Wal-mart.

>>9567402
Those scales are for produce you idiot.

>>9567351
Not just loss prevention. If your department is near the entrance/ exit (in my case, produce), we were taught to spot go-carts (carts loaded with cheap, innocuous items on the outside, and stuffed with steaks, beer, diapers, baby formula, etc. in the middle, left unattended near the doors), as well as suspiciously-acting people.

Not that we gave much of a shit. We might back up a manager when he follows you out, but in general the old-schoolers aren't risking a bullet or a stab wound over the store's loss. We'll get on the walkie-talkies, but that's about it.

When I worked wine & spirits, I had a department leader straight tell me people could walk in there, grab a bottle, and look him in the eyes while they walked out. He'd say, "don't do it.", then immediately call a manager and log the incident, time and description so management could dick around going through security footage.

Hate to break it to ya' management, but taking a bullet or a stab wound will cost me a helluva lot more than the $10.25/ hr you're paying me.

On the other hand, we will occasionally follow you to your car, memorize or write down the license plate, make, model, and description, then report it to the cops. So, petty thieves, if it seems like a safe bet, I hope you like getting pulled over days or weeks later and arrested for petty theft.

>>9567380
I always used to do this.
Whenever someone would ask for a manager I would just be like "I am the manager".
90% of the time they would shut up and leave.
Nobody likes talking to a twenty something manager.

>>9567412
(cont.) if you're curious about the go-carts, the steaks and beer are obviously high-priced luxury items. The diapers and baby formula are practically as good as cash on the crack whore market, or get resold on ebay/ craigslist.

>>9567412
Eh, it's more of a game of spooking the fuck out of the twitchy ones in the store and watching them ditch that cell phone charger.

>>9567407
>try to return spoiled food
>stocking up on perishables in preparation of a hurricane

I don't want to believe it but I do.

>>9567412
The LP in my store would pay us if we recover one of those carts and they have enough in them.
Made an extra 40 bucks because some druggy got spooked and was trying to cover up their cart of makeup with a $300 jacket.

>>9567420
Gotta admit, it's fun seeing them bale on the cart and yell excuses and apologies while peeling out of the parking lot.

One of my favorites was this fat crack whore that tried to run with a cart. Me, a manager, and one of the meat department guys is running after her when some total random dude in the parking just fucking body-checks the cart into a curb. Bitch takes off while we get the cart back together. On the way into the store rando is walking with us, and he says, "some motherfucker broke into my shed last week and stole my tools! I FUCKING HATE THIEVES!" Manager offered to comp him $50 work of groceries, but he was just coming in for a few bucks worth of items. Cool fucking guy.

>last jenkins no longer fit for service on the publix board of directors
>greedy jews get rid of employee bonuses
>slash other benefits
>give themselves pay raises

and we now most of us no longer give a single fuck if you shoplift

>>9567380
>When they don't believe you are a manager

>last jenkins no longer fit for service on the publix board of directors
>now that none of George Jenkins' kids are in publix anymore the board can do whatever the fuck they want
>greedy jews get rid of employee bonuses
>slash other benefits
>give themselves pay raises

and we now most of us no longer give a single fuck if you shoplift

>>9567427
Some liquor stores will do that with fake IDs. A buddy of mine worked in one that gave a $25 bounty on every fake ID turned in. He'd grab your ID, look at you and say, "you're not getting shit. If you want the ID back, give me $20 cash right now. Otherwise I get $25 on payday." He was a glorious asshole about those, it was awesome.

>>9567260
The scales weight the items on one side verses the items on the other side to "see" if you scanned everything. (The system doesn't know that the Clorox bleach is now 15% more free!) dingus...

>>9567434
>>9567438
Well fuck, there goes Florida's best grocery chain...

>>9567155
>not returning carts to the cart corrals
Fuck those people so hard. I work at a Trader Joe's and we don't have corrals. So people just leave their carts near where they parked. I have to coordinate in my head the most efficient way to collect their damn carts.

>leaving trash in carts. (fast food bags, sample cups, drink cups, etc..
If I'm a cashier and see trash in the cart I throw it away but not before making a face and feigning disgust. I hope it inspires some customers to throw their trash away.

>standing over me like a hawk while i bag for you
Fuck those customers. If they wanted it packed a certain way they should do it themselves.

>>9567441
No. It compares the weight of the product on the scale with the weight in the computer recorded for that item. It's designed specifically to thwart what you are discussing.

If you put a kool-aid barcode on a heavier product it will reject it.

>15% more free
That's a different SKU. It has a different weight in the computer.

Of course there is some leeway programmed into the system otherwise there would be a lot of false positives. So you could get away with something that's similar in weight. Or if there is a lazy attendant who overrides everything without checking. But if you stick a bar code from a product with a radically different weight on a different product then you're likely to get caught by the scale.

>>9567375
>>9567380
>be working security at a warehouse
>batshit angry lady keeps calling
>the department she is trying to get a hold of is swamped, has a bunch of calls on hold
>she never waits on hold, just keeps calling back
>I tell her each time that there are multiple calls on the line ahead of her
>she then goes off on my accuses me of lying, says that I'm doing this to spite her
>thank her for giving me the idea of keeping her on hold to mess with her, I'll consider doing it in the future
>hang up and wait
>she calls back
>answer using a different voice
>she's livid, blowing up, asking to speak to the manager
>"I am the manager, that's unacceptable. Please hold while I deal with this."
>put her on hold for 20 minutes

>>9567463
you're my hero

When management has you do work way below your pay scale.

>Get told to repair shopping carts/clean out hair from in the wheels.
>Decide fuck it, nothing else to do, beyond work the floor like I am supposed to.
>Be outside in the summer heat taking wheels of carts for hours when the head manager pops out to smoke and sees me.
>Asks me what i'm doing out here doing parcel work.
>Tell him that the 4th in charge manager has me doing this.
>Asks me how long I have been at it.
>Point at the line of 20 carts finished, and the 40 waiting to get fixed.
>He finishes his smoke, tells me to put the carts away and gets on the phone.
>Calmly asks someone on the other end of the phone why he is paying someone nearly $20/hr to fix carts when they are needed in the store that is currently swamped with customers because of a huge furniture sale.
>Other manager pops out the door, and from the look on his face, was not expecting his boss to be outside waiting for him.
I always hated that weasel of a manager.

>>9567511
tfw management has you trying to do work way above your pay scale too

I never understood the point of self-checkout machines. Well, I understand why stores have them, but for the customes, there is no way in hell it's faster than using a register. They're always slow and finnicky, you need to put shit in bags while scanning, weighing stuff and whatnot.. whenever I see someone use one of those it always looks like it takes forever.
There is one form of self-checkout though that's vastly superior to both regular SCO and registers; the one where you get a handheld scanner when you enter the store and scan them while putting them in a shopping bag as you stroll through the store. Fuck they're easy to use and takes no time either. When you're done shopping you just put the scanner in a station and pay in the machine. Why would you ever use the old system when you can be out of the door so much easier?

>>9567568
I work at a big box retailer, not a grocery store, but they just put in two banks of four self-checkouts a couple months ago.
It's a lot faster (or at least feels a lot faster) for the people only grabbing maybe a handbasket full of things or less, because they don't have to wait in line behind someone with an overflowing cartful of stuff or obnoxious couponers hwo pick a fight every time the misread a coupon.

I suspect the main reason, though, is cost-cutting.
Sure, the eight self-checkouts might cost 25 grand a piece (number pulled out of my ass, but i would believe it), but with one cashier watching four self-checkouts at a time that's two employees for eight registers, as opposed to eight employees for eight registers.
The machines may be expensive but they'll pay for themselves in payroll hours saved in a year.

>>9567568
Some customers like them. If you have a customer with social anxiety who can't stand to talk to another person these things are like gold.

>>9567599
You're describing a problem with lines, not an advantage with machines. If you compare a self-checkout with a cashier, both having no line, then cashier is faster.

>>9567568
what's so hard about scanning and bagging at a self-checkout? it's really for someone with 10 or less items who wants to avoid a long line. except for the fucking idiots who bring well over the limit of items to one.

>>9567613
There's nothing hard about it. But it frustrates me because it is so slow compared to a cashier. That pause while the machine checks the weight of the item is infuriating. I also hate that annoying electronic voice that tells me what to do next. Bitch, I'm not an idiot, I can read the screen and know what to do well before your stupid computer voice has even started telling me.

I do use them but only if there are lines at all the cashiers and the self checkouts are free--and that's pretty rare. Usually if there are lines at all the cashiers there are lines at the self checkout too. And those can be awful if some idiot can't work the machine properly.

>>9567613
I'm saying it's generally just unweildy and doesn't seem to be much faster. The handhold scanners seem so much better it's ridiculous by the way.

note: generally you never have more than 4 people a line here.

>>9567604
there's not really any advantage to the consumer.
the company has the advantage of it being not really any worse than a normal register, while allowing one person to handle multiple registers.

>>9567456
>self checkout
>select bananas on the self-checkout screen or whatever bullshit
>usually $0.49/lb in my town
>weigh your random shit that isn't actually bananas, making sure not to accidentally scan a bar code in the process

I've saved literally some amount of money doing this.

>>9567412
>go-carts (carts loaded with cheap, innocuous items on the outside, and stuffed with steaks, beer, diapers, baby formula, etc. in the middle, left unattended near the doors)
I don't get it, what's the plan?

>>9565329
Shop lifters. I've been working at this grocery store for three years and some of them are thrifty. I was "impressed" by one of them but I've never mentioned it on /ck/ because I don't want to give faggots any ideas.

>>9567771
when someone enters the store their plan is to exit through the entrance with the cart while the gates are open. Generally the cashiers are more focused on catching someone trying to walk past the lines to the exit than keeping an eye on the entrance.

They put cheap stuff at the top of the cart so staff are less likely to be suspicious while hiding the expensive stuff under it. People generally don't have giant carts in the "start" of the store, and if there's a bunch of tenderloins and booze and other expensive stuff found much further inside the store it's a pretty big tell something fishy is going on.

>>9567773
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs

>>9567599
Which is why I never use them, Jews killing jobs, albeit shit jobs.

>>9567777
Nice quads, I guess just can't picture the layout and don't understand how they manage to get the cart near the door without somebody thinking they're about to run out with it anyways. My grocery stores can only get to the exit through the cashiers.

>>9565955
E L D E R Y G E N O C I D E

>>9567807
Well how do people enter the store? Through a couple of gates, I assume. They wait by the gates on the inside with their cart, and when someone enters and it's open, they walk right out.

>>9567850
Isn't a person with an unpaid load of grocery heading toward the door suspicious as it is? How does getting another guy to carry it out any less suspicious than just out right walking out?
Is there something missing or am I that much of a shoplifting brainlet

>>9565329
Be 57 years old with a gray beard and get carded for beer. Fuck that shit.

>customers move fridge items out of the fridge and leave them around the store
>same with kids and candy because their parents won't get it for them
>recently found firelighters in the fucking freezer

When people who have no business using self-checkout machines try using self-checkout machines.

I've witnessed an old guy smooshing a bag of milk against the screen thinking that's how scanning is done.

I've seen some distracted lady grind the banknote slot jammed because she didn't notice her shopping list was stuck to the note she was inserting.

I've seen an idiot mother seat her toddler on the bag scale and wonder why the machine was complaining.

No wonder approximately a third of the self-checkouts at my favorite supermarket are out of order at any day of the week.

>>9567885
Who's supposed to be suspicious? Other customers don't care, cashiers are busy dealing with irritating old people and drunks that are right in front of them rather than checking over the should over what happens at the entrance gates.
>How does getting another guy to carry it out any less suspicious than just out right walking out
you wot? Who's this magical "other person" now?

Here, lemme show you a picture.

>>9567949
I thought there were two people involved, my bad.
If the person can leave the cart by the entrance unnoticed, why not just walkout with the items in the first place?

>>9567965
Because the idea is to meld into the other customers who are exiting through the registers and not cause a ruckus. If you walk straight out with 20 pounds of steak in your arms even half-dead blind boomers will notice and start shouting,

>>9566026
i've done this so many times

>>9567934
>Smoothing a bag of milk

>>9567972
I guess I'll need a video of it in action or something, I just can't picture this working withiut it being obvious or unnecessary.

>>9567425
People literally buy milk and bread in the South instead of lol canned goods and water.

>>9567977
ackchyually

>middle age woman with dark tan, blonde or greying hair, and maybe sunglasses
>parks shopping cart on one side of aisle
>stands on other side while deciding what to get
>she takes her time deciding
>can't get through the aisle
>kindly ask her to move
>she gets mad and doesn't move just to spite you

>large woman, riding electric scooter
>has with her a child of a peculiarly dark complexion
>she is on the phone while riding her scooter
>the child has a tantrum and knocks things off the shelves
>woman gets off scooter and waddles toward the child
>when she catches the child, she holds his arm and rolls back to the scooter
>she scoots off while holding the child

>someone is walking at a consistently slow speed
>they stop for a second
>as you try to pass them, they start moving again and block your passage

I wonder why old people (60 years and above) use the grocery store as some kind of community hot spot where you lounge around for 90 minutes talking shit with all the other geriatric fucks, parking their carts in the way and standing around in groups for an hour talking. Have these fuckers never thought about going to a café or a bar or something instead?
Bonus points if they've barred the way at the entrance to the store with their carts so you physically have to move them to get through, and somehow you get the stinkeye trying to actually get into the fucking store.

>>9568001
>Place kebab in the bag

>>9568024
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>>9568012
When you're fucking old, and the grocery store is your one chance to get out of the fucking home and socialize, you'll want to talk too. Fucking Christ, imagine yourself stuck in a fucking home, when you're too old to go to bars or shows, or fuck anyone but the other geriatrics at the aquatherapy session. You're damn right you'll fuck around talking and socializing to keep your mind active while your body craps out at the grocery store.

When we get that old, we'll most likely block the aisles, and call people faggots when they bitch about it, because we won't give a shit at that point either.

>>9568034
Toi không biet, mi deng.

>>9565351
OLD PEOPLE WHO WAIT UNTIL THE TOTAL IS ANNOUNCED BEFORE THEY EVEN BEGIN TO GET OUT THEIR WALLET TO TAKE OUT THEIR CARD TO PUT IT IN THEN NEED TO BE TALKED THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF INTERACTING WITH THE CARD READER
HOLY FUCK
it happens so often

>>9565329
>Grocery store pet peeves
Going to the grocery store

>when the grocery store jester takes a sick day
unacceptable

>Produce manager
fucking corporate has put strawberries on sale for a week starting yesterday. In October.

>>9568229
>His store doesn't have a reserve jester.
Do you shop at a fucking Grocery Outlet?

People who fall asleep on the furniture displays.
>For literal hours.
>Yes, I fucking time you.

>>9565443
ours got rid of all but 1 machine. Was out there late at night a couple months back when only the self checkouts and the cigarette aisle was open. At least 10 people lined up, manager came out and started waving and shouting that the self checkouts were open. Everyone looked at her and then just looked forward.

Our local grocery stores don't have them at all.

Doesn't surprise me with this town though. Our bank actually reissued the old regular swipe debit cards because people didn't want the chip, and they were slower and holding up lines, even businesses were swapping out to older machines that didn't take chip

>>9566016
I write about 4-5 checks a week. I usually prewrite all I can of one though before I go to the grocery store

>>9567670
>i also hate that annoying voice
Every time I go through I turn the volume to 0. Its on the bottom. You're welcome.

>work at grocery store
>actual retard does carts for 3 hours during the week
>called over to help bring them

I wish they'd fire this guy but it's never gonna happen.

>>9568379
hey buddy, fuck you. A room of goddamn sofas and mattresses and I'm not supposed to nod off in one of them?

>>9565329
To this day a large portion of my brain cant accept that people in burger land actually do this.

>>9567245
would your managed actually be mad if you jsut told the person to go back in the store

>people complaining about self checkouts
Why would you complain about the "steal whatever you want, we won't stop you" machines? Do you not like free shit?

>>9568849
He's one of those literal "The customer is always right" and "It must have been your fault" kind of guys.

>>9567155
>girls leaving bloody tissues in trash that is not the mini trash next to toilet in stall

Conversely:
>women using the sanitary bag dispenser next to the toilet as a miniature trash bin
>women just leaving the used tampons on top of the TP holder

>>9567987
>Live in south
>Snowstorm of 2011
>Biggest snowstorm in south
>Wife asks me to go to the store and buy what we need
>Come home with a with few packs of water and multiple different canned goods along with a few packs of ramen for cheap snack
>"anon wtf is this how are we going to cook with this we need milk and eggs and bread"

>>9568966
Dude fuck this this happened in hurricane Irma
Milk and bread were sold out for weeks and so was bottled water
Thank fuck we got power back after like 2 days off it being off
>>9568704
That sounds fucking dystopian dude fuck that
Every business that I go to now except like mom+pop shops have the chip
Even some small businesses have it too, like they use the square card readers
I love the chip

>>9568704
>people didn't want the chip

wat

not wanting the tap&go radio thing I get, but what's wrong with chip and PIN?

>>9565340
where the fuck do you live?

>>9569013
Fuckhuge security problems

>>9569107
>Fuckhuge security problems
Explain?

>>9567907
they have to card everyone

>>9569115
While your card is active a card scanner just needs to be nearby to use it. You can get all the confirmation numbers off a phone video of a person using their card. Is why i cover my numbers in tape and made chip useless, so i have to use strip.

>>9569129
Is also why i can if want to buy 200$ jacket on poverty level paygrade.

>>9569129
>While your card is active a card scanner just needs to be nearby to use it

... that's the tap and go, not the chip and pin.

>park cart and go to grab something from aisle
>someone has stolen my bundle of black canvas bags, thinking it was a purse
>find them on the ground a few aisles over

this has happened three times now

>>9569013
Old people don't like technology.

>>9565346
>takes her young children shopping in the middle of the night to avoid the shame of going at a reasonable hour

Kids need their sleep man, not cool.

>Park pallet jack on sales floor to move a display.
>Literally standing three feet away from it as I remove the plastic pallet guards.
>Within seconds a grown ass adult has his feet on the forks of the jack and is "riding" it.
>mfw

>>9565329
>wait or go around

>OP too autistic to just say "excuse me" so they move to the side

When the store has their forklift out on the sales floor and they drive it at one mile a year,
And the damn thing is being escorted by like five employees waving their arms at you to stop like you can't see the giant beeping machine that won't get out of the way.
It's not a fucking bomb you retards.

>>9569346
>And the damn thing is being escorted by like five employees waving their arms at you to stop like you can't see the giant beeping machine

Bruh that's health and safety regulations and you know damned well there's always that one oblivious retard who actually needs this shit to not hurt himself.

>>9569013
>Insert card
>Wait five minutes
>Approved
Fuck your Euronigger schemes, we aren't lazy fucks who nap half the day.

>>9565329
Parents that let their toddlers run around like mad men in the aisles screaming and yelling and getting in the way of people trying to shop.

>>9569969
Fuck off, everyone knows blacks are the laziest race.

>>9569983
Nope, it's the Spanish and the French. Fucking frogs even made SEA people lazy. English would be lazy too, if they learned what productivity was.

>>9568937
Then your manager shouldn't be a manager.

>>9569969
>Wait five minutes

You should get some proper infrastructure instead of whatever wet piece of string and 80's computer you're using in America.

>>9570050
>Get infrastructure
Fuck you commie.

>>9570050
Never heard of hyperbole, anon?

>>9570035
Spanish and French are nationalities not races you fucking moron.

People who don't know where things are in supermarkets fucking boggle me hard, supermarkets have been around for decades and right now they're all copy pasted buildings. How the fuck do you just forget the layout.

>>9565955
Checking your receipt is fine I do it my self, I have literally never seen those other things

>>9570111
Tell that to their shit genetics.

>>9570119
They're not all the same. There are only general trends, like the dairy being at the back.

My favorite supermarket changed their layout about 6 months ago and it drove me nuts for the first couple visits after the remodeling because I had to re-learn where everything was. The only things they didn't move were the butcher/seafood counters and the deli. Everything else got rearranged.

>Women fumbling in their purse for half an hour in the doorway

>>9567245
I do that at homedepo but idgaf about dirt and chemicals.

>>9568704
>>9565340
self checkouts throw a bitchfit about my tote bags and the worker has to come and fix it like 3 times. I think that shit is like 3 years away from being reliable
>>9565346
Man it would suck to have to fill cartloads with food. I am a singlefag so i just pop in the store for 10 minutes if i need stuff

>>9568006
those thots with mulatto mistakes are funny

>>9568966
>Eggs
What wrong with that?
Chuck them in a bucket with lime and water, and they will last for months.

>>9569979
>getting in the way
Oh those weren’t speed bumps?

>>9570119
But they aren't though? Each store can be pretty different, even in the same chain.

>>9570163
hot thot

>>9565329
People who use self checkout for produce and shit that needs to be weighed and alcohol. It's faster to get a cashier to do it because they know how to weigh shit and they can ask for ID instead of the customer standing around at the self checkout waiting for an employee.

>>9570133
>Women going through the handbag to find their payment method after the cashier told them their total
>Not getting your money when you were standing in line for 10 minutes

>>9565329
>girls who chats/girlfriends boyfriend/families
Somehow they always manage to stand one behind another so the lane is full (quite narrow space)
>self checkout baskets not turned
It is basic courtesy but time to time people just leave it there
>picks up basket
>there's something in it
Trashes. If it's paper or receipts then maybe it is okay but once I found banana peel.

>>9565329
>total is over by a cent
>smallest denomination is five cents
>self checkout refuses to round it down
>having tons of coins for change as result
Also,
>get change of a dollar
>giving me five twenty cents instead of a dollar coin
>damn.jpg

>>9570532
>His country still uses coins

>>9570357
does anyone else find it odd how women carry around a giant fucking backpack everywhere just to end up paying with a card that could have been put in a billfold? like what else do they have in there?

>>9570577
They have tampons and shit

>>9570357
Like the people that wait for the bus everyday, yet they only decide to look for pass after they are the first one on the bus.

>>9570585
you can fit a tampon in your pocket
what else is in there

>>9566415
Then they can shut the fuck up and get done as fast as possible. I'm not interested in small talk, especially with a cashier

>>9570611
Girls pants don't have adequate pocketry

>>9570591
This shit used to drive me crazy when I lived in DC
>Person at turn style at metro is holding up line because she has to go through her shit to find the pass
Just get out of the way pls I'm in a hurry

>>9565329
Girls going shopping while wearing this.

grocery shops are no clubs you whores

>>9570636
why

>>9570611
tissues
snacks
chargers
hairbrush
makeup
wallet

>>9570646
you some kinda faggot?

>>9570655
>women carry around d food with them at all times

no wonder they get fat

>>9567432
I was drunk as fuck and clotheslined a dude who tried to run off with some champagne out of the liquor store the other day. Manager gave me the bottle as thanks.

>>9567463
At my old job we had a high score board for how long assholes would stay on hold before hanging up

>>9570658
Either a faggot or a jealous hambeast.