Things I hate about the supermarket

tatabubbly

I hate it when your aimlessly trying to decide what to get for dinner, and if you pick up the cheapest item, the older ladies behind you looking down at you cos you picked out the cheapest item!! Chopped tomatoes is chopped tomatoes people!

BigBrownBear

'Have you a Club Card'
:mad:

stovelid

tatabubbly wrote: »

I hate it when your aimlessly trying to decide what to get for dinner, and if you pick up the cheapest item, the older ladies behind you looking down at you cos you picked out the cheapest item!!

Although I suspect it's in the mind, I get this too.

I had a craving to buy a few bags of Koka Noodles a while back but was too embarrassed to get them as I was only buying milk and wearing tracksuit bottoms. I kept seeing the equation forming in the minds of the people behind me: man in late-thirties + tracksuit + Koka Noodles = alcoholic| kicked out of house |not wanting to cut into drink money.

jokettle

My local tesco has been "restructuring" for the past number of weeks. Basically this means I can't find a bloody thing because nothing's where it should be! :mad:

But by far the most irritating consequences are a) the patronising signs dotted here and there with smiling face on them and captions such as "change for a better shopping experience". Put the apples back where they were last week and my shopping experience would be only bloody lovely!

and b) the employees wandering around wearing bright yellow tshirts and carrying giant lollipop sticks bearing the words "here to help". I do feel sorry for the poor b*astards, but I hate looking at them.

Mike 1972

jokettle wrote: »

and b) the employees wandering around wearing bright yellow tshirts and carrying giant lollipop sticks bearing the words "here to help". I do feel sorry for the poor b*astards, but I hate looking at them.

In Asda the other day there was this one walking over and back in front of the checkouts carrying a big arrow saying "this one free"

Corruptedmorals

BigBrownBear wrote: »

'Have you a Club Card'
:mad:

Beats 'You didn't ask me for my clubcard!! How dare you! RAGE RAGE' stands there going ape**** for a good while..every time.

I don't like Tesco Maynooth. It's intimidatingly big, bleughh.

phasers

I love grocery shopping. I go midweek in the evenings and it's great, really relaxing.

Saturday shopping sucks though, loads of smelly obnoxious people with their disgusting loud children getting in the way of my batch loaf

Paparazzo

Millicent wrote: »

Gah, it's a weighing scales! Why do people not get this?!

There's 3, one where you put your basket, one where you scan stuff and one where you put stuff into a bag. Put anything on any of these surfaces and the whole system crashes. You need the assistant to come over with a key. Too confusing for me

schween

Paparazzo wrote: »

There's 3, one where you put your basket, one where you scan stuff and one where you put stuff into a bag. Put anything on any of these surfaces and the whole system crashes. You need the assistant to come over with a key. Too confusing for me

There's no scale where you put the basket. There's one scale where you weigh you fruit/veg and a scale where you pack things to help prevent theft. Nothing confusing at all.

The scales at my local can be a bit temperamental sometimes but work fine most of the time.

Dudess

Just the usual: people waiting til the checkout girl/guy tells them what the total is before they take out their wallet and slowly count out their money...

Ah, fup it: middle-aged/elderly women waiting til the checkout girl/guy tells them what the total is before they take out their purse and slowly count out their money...

lissacahaluke

The women who count out all their coppers and end up being a few cent short so have to pull out a note.
And when someone is halway through scanning and the customer says have you got say heize beans in stock and the cashier has to walk down the isle looking for it then holding up the que:mad:

Millicent

Paparazzo wrote: »

There's 3, one where you put your basket, one where you scan stuff and one where you put stuff into a bag. Put anything on any of these surfaces and the whole system crashes. You need the assistant to come over with a key. Too confusing for me

Honestly (from too much bloody experience manning them! ), there's generally only a problem when people put stuff in the bagging area like their keys, wallet, handbag or even lean upon cos it's a scale. The scale for the veg shouldn't give too much hassle if you place anything on it and there's no scales on the basket side.

WindSock

Chewbacca. wrote: »

.The frustrated bitchs that run around through the aisles

That's me! Get the fk outta my way, shopping is not for amatuers.

Sam Kade

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Women who ignore the cashier when she tells them how much they owe, instead insisting on packing all their groceries before looking at the scanner to then rummaging around in their purse for change before finally handing over a fifty euro note.

Pay first, then pack, so the next person can be served quicker.

Ok so a woman has a trolley of shopping you say she should twiddle her thumbs while her items are being checked out then pay and then pack. Pack while your items are being checked out then pay.

Giselle

stovelid wrote: »

Although I suspect it's in the mind, I get this too.

I had a craving to buy a few bags of Koka Noodles a while back but was too embarrassed to get them as I was only buying milk and wearing tracksuit bottoms. I kept seeing the equation forming in the minds of the people behind me: man in late-thirties + tracksuit + Koka Noodles = alcoholic| kicked out of house |not wanting to cut into drink money.

I've always hoped the occasional irrational self-consciousness I've experienced would go as I got older.

My hopes are dashed.:(

tatabubbly

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Beats 'You didn't ask me for my clubcard!! How dare you! RAGE RAGE' stands there going ape**** for a good while..every time.

I don't like Tesco Maynooth. It's intimidatingly big, bleughh.

Oh i love that tesco, loadsa cash registers and a cheapie aisle!!

bnt

I don't have a supermarket on my doorstep, and I don't drive, which makes shopping a slog, and presents a new problem: I need to pack the bags for the trip home. The stuff needs to go in safely, in the right order (cold & heavy stuff on the bottom) i.e. do it myself. The process ideally takes a bit of space and time.

The worst has to be the Tesco on Baggot St. after the remodelling: the new tills have no space for your bag and the groceries, so I ended up doing it on the floor. (It was just a once-off, thankfully, since I don't live near there any more.) The Lidl/Aldi method, with a separate packing bench, suits me better these days.

flag123

I hate seeing the sterotypical African women yelling at there many childern whilse they hang and swing around the ailses!

owenc

Mike 1972 wrote: »

In Asda the other day there was this one walking over and back in front of the checkouts carrying a big arrow saying "this one free"

that would be halarious...

owenc

schween wrote: »

There's no scale where you put the basket. There's one scale where you weigh you fruit/veg and a scale where you pack things to help prevent theft. Nothing confusing at all.

The scales at my local can be a bit temperamental sometimes but work fine most of the time.

Theres no scale to weigh anything, unless you ask for it... theres a place for the bags, where you put your stuff down to pack the bags and it says unexpected item in baggage area.. which is really annoying because you canny pack the bags.. without it moaning.

owenc

lissacahaluke wrote: »

The women who count out all their coppers and end up being a few cent short so have to pull out a note.
And when someone is halway through scanning and the customer says have you got say heize beans in stock and the cashier has to walk down the isle looking for it then holding up the que:mad:

Well, they're well treated up your way, your ment to get it yourself!!!

Millicent

owenc wrote: »

Theres no scale to weigh anything, unless you ask for it... theres a place for the bags, where you put your stuff down to pack the bags and it says unexpected item in baggage area.. which is really annoying because you canny pack the bags.. without it moaning.

There are scales to weigh stuff where the scanner is and the bagging area is also a scales. Trust me.

stovelid

flag123 wrote: »

I hate seeing the sterotypical African women yelling at there many childern whilse they hang and swing around the ailses!

As opposed to our own rigidly-controlled population of mute children?

owenc

Millicent wrote: »

There are scales to weigh stuff where the scanner is and the bagging area is also a scales. Trust me.

Yea but you have to tell the machine if you want to use it.

schween

owenc wrote: »

Theres no scale to weigh anything, unless you ask for it... theres a place for the bags, where you put your stuff down to pack the bags and it says unexpected item in baggage area.. which is really annoying because you canny pack the bags.. without it moaning.

Millicent wrote: »

There are scales to weigh stuff where the scanner is and the bagging area is also a scales. Trust me.

Millicent is correct. The is a scales where the scanner is to weigh things and a scales where the bagging area is.

When you put something you shouldn't on the bagging area, it's the scales that detects it and sets it off.

CrazyRabbit

In Tesco's (Roselawn, Blanchardstown in Dublin), there's about 10 shopping baskets in total. I guessing at this since there is never any at the entrance, and I usually have to walk to the last till to find one sitting amongst a small stack of 4 or 5.

Other pet hates..
1. People looking for donations in exchange for badly packing your shopping bags. And they usually have the packing abilities of a 3 year old.

2. They way they have 200 of specific item using up an entire shelf, instead of just giving us more choice by stacking 50 of four different products.

3. They sell out of popular items/flavours quickly and don't restock them for a week. Horrendous stock management.

4. Customers who take 5 mins to pack their shopping bags. No doubt at some stage they worked for charities packing other people's shopping bags.

5. Entire areas with nothing but polish food. I don't even know what 95% of it is meant to be since all the labeling is in Polish. This is Ireland, and we speak English not Polish!

6. They way many of them only sell the cheapest brands available. I want good quality stuff, and I don't mind paying extra.

owenc

stovelid wrote: »

As opposed to our own rigidly-controlled population of mute children?

Yes, my sister has an african-scottish baby and, her mother- inlaws etc don't have tons of children..

Millicent

owenc wrote: »

Yea but you have to tell the machine if you want to use it.

Not on the ones where I work. You just select the weighed product and leave it sit on the scale. Maybe the ones you use are different.

Red Alert

Superquinn's self-scans will weigh fruit & veg, but they don't seem to advertise the fact. It's only if you go looking then the products are in there.

And what's with supermarket manager's awful music taste? I mean the Lighthouse Family are not exactly "new" anymore.

ICE HOUSE

CREDIT CARDS :mad:

Sorry if I offend those who use them but their is a certain breed who spend a while going through a few different ones and different pins and arsin about. JUST BRING CASH !!!

Paparazzo

What about the ones who go to the checkout and then decide they forgot something and go off looking for it. Meanwhile the check-out person is finished scanning all their shopping and just sitting there looking around and the entire queue are looking angry. When the person finally comes back they have 5 or 6 items in their hands.
I murdering these people was legal

owenc

Millicent wrote: »

Not on the ones where I work. You just select the weighed product and leave it sit on the scale. Maybe the ones you use are different.

The ones i have are out of tesco, yours are most likely not out of tesco.

MickShamrock

Chewbacca. wrote: »

I fcuking hate:

.The frustrated bitchs that run around through the aisles

.The fcukers that stand behind you when you are looking deciding which item you are going to get

.The ignorant gob****es that barge down infront of you and gawk at stuff that they don't even want, I feel like kneeing them in the head

.People that leave their trolley in the middle of floor and walk off, I feel like swinging the trolley 360 degrees and smashing it off their back

I'm glad I'm not alone! :pac:

applesock

mainly hate people who try skip me in the queue. also my local tesco seems to be always full of mad people, last time some crazy lady infront of me & OH i was looking at her thinking crazy, OH took the nest customer sign she moved her had so the sign hit her finger ( not hard ) she started going mad saying we were lucky we didnt break her nail because she would have jumped us !!!

Plowman

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Corruptedmorals

All Dunnes (and Tesco did..not sure now) play horrendously bad unreleased music so they don't have to pay IMRO. It's very depressing to shop with it, soul crushing to work with it.

df1985

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Beats 'You didn't ask me for my clubcard!! How dare you! RAGE RAGE' stands there going ape**** for a good while..every time.

I don't like Tesco Maynooth. It's intimidatingly big, bleughh.

im the opposite, i love tesco in maynooth, biggest one in the country, it sells everything.

my main gripe with supermarkets is women with kids who seem to think they have some kind of extra privileges because they have children-that because they have kids they dont have to consider other people.you dont, now get out of my bloody way.

And i cant find haagen dazs vanilla caramel brownie anywhere.tesco lucan,maynooth (the one thing it doesnt have!),celbridge, superquinn lucan, and loads others.they sell every other flavour though! if anyone sees it in that sort of area let me know!

wmpdd3

df1985 wrote: »

im the opposite, i love tesco in maynooth, biggest one in the country, it sells everything.

my main gripe with supermarkets is women with kids who seem to think they have some kind of extra privileges because they have children-that because they have kids they dont have to consider other people.you dont, now get out of my bloody way.

And i cant find haagen dazs vanilla caramel brownie anywhere.tesco lucan,maynooth (the one thing it doesnt have!),celbridge, superquinn lucan, and loads others.they sell every other flavour though! if anyone sees it in that sort of area let me know!

http://www.haagen-dazs.com/company/new_look.aspx


can't place that one..... sounds like one of the limited edition ones that came last nov when they were 33% off. not in stock now anyway.

Corruptedmorals

df1985 wrote: »

im the opposite, i love tesco in maynooth, biggest one in the country, it sells everything.

my main gripe with supermarkets is women with kids who seem to think they have some kind of extra privileges because they have children-that because they have kids they dont have to consider other people.you dont, now get out of my bloody way.

And i cant find haagen dazs vanilla caramel brownie anywhere.tesco lucan,maynooth (the one thing it doesnt have!),celbridge, superquinn lucan, and loads others.they sell every other flavour though! if anyone sees it in that sort of area let me know!

I think it's like Walmart or something. The really big wall of soft drinks freaks me out. And I hate the fact that bread is Aisle No. 39. Great that's it's huge obviously, but yeah I find it a bit freaky. Superquinn Lucan, now there's a nice supermarket

df1985

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I think it's like Walmart or something. The really big wall of soft drinks freaks me out. And I hate the fact that bread is Aisle No. 39. Great that's it's huge obviously, but yeah I find it a bit freaky. Superquinn Lucan, now there's a nice supermarket

yeah it is essentially a walmart. yeah the wall of fizzy drinks is strange. the club orange looks manky because the bits have all settled at the bottom, they been up there so long, covered in dust too!

bread in last aisle-make you walk through the entire store in the hopes you will pick other things up.

df1985

wmpdd3 wrote: »

http://www.haagen-dazs.com/company/new_look.aspx


can't place that one..... sounds like one of the limited edition ones that came last nov when they were 33% off. not in stock now anyway.

it exists, easily the nicest flavour. seen it in drumcondra the other day but would have been all melted by the time i got home.:(

eightyfish

My local shop is Lidl. There's a halting site a few minutes down the road. Bad combination. Some halting site young wans come in and they smell a bit... unshowered. They stop in the toiletries isle and drench themselves in body spray and cheap perfume. They take every bottle, one by one, and spray themselves seven or eight times. Standing behind them in the queue they are surrounded by a big plume of pungent artificial smells and BO. Makes me literally want to vomit.

We drive to Superquinn... bliss compared to this.

plein de force

two old gasbags stopping in the middle of the aisle to have a good old chat while everyone else trys to navigate around them

the old people who take forever to count out the money for their shopping while a ben hurr proportion queue forms behind them

and those people wondering "would you like to try this new chilly sauce" and other such delicacies and then when you do they proceed to tell you how buying 10 cans of the stuff will save you 25 if you use the special coupon they give you

crossmolinalad

People who cant find a parking space and then park they're car in front of a petrol pump and going inside to do they're shoppings

CorsetIsTight

robbie_998 wrote: »

I hate old hags standing in the isle blocking up the whole place just to talk to each other and don't move out of your way.

brummytom wrote: »

I hate people who stand in front of me when I'm trying to look for something.

Say, biscuits. I know I want a box of Jaffa Cakes but some ignorant twát has to stand in front of the whole biscuit section with his wife perusing all the different types, having a chat about what they should get while I'm stood behind for 10 minutes waiting.

Thanks to you, I have discovered my super power...!

I simply say "Excuse me please" and that sort of person moves out of my way. :eek::eek::eek:

Now to decide whether to use my power for good or evil...

nlgbbbblth

People emptying the contents of their basket at the checkout and failing to stack it properly. All it takes is one basket to stacked arseways and all the rest are just thrown in on top of it. I always end up sorting them out before I stack mine.

Absurdum

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Superquinn Lucan, now there's a nice supermarket

dats wat I'm talkin bout!

That one and the Pavillions one have the hottest milfs

fonecrusher1

I hate herds of scummers or scummer couple's behaviour in supermarkets.

Occasionlly when i go to my local tescos it makes me sick to see these things constantly clinging/kissing each other & not realising that not everyone wants to see such a stomach churning display of affection. What is it with knackers just doing whatever the fcuk they want in public.

Herds of scummers that talk in their usual load pigeon english as they investigate every item within a foot of them & then cackle away at eachother.

This is what i heard one scut roaring to another scut today at the crisps section; here mikey...mikeeey - (mikey)Whaaa?? .....dey dont have da tescos onion rings ataaaallll....(mikey)- fcuk em sure just grab da cheeez bals, der luvleee...:rolleyes:

Scobes. I hate them.

Teutorix

The thing I hate most is all the desperate single mothers that come on to me every time i go to buy a loaf of bread. I know i'm sexy but its damn ridiculous :pac:

fonecrusher1

Teutorix wrote: »

The thing I hate most is all the desperate single mothers that come on to me every time i go to buy a loaf of bread. I know i'm sexy but its damn ridiculous :pac:

Christ that is desperate alright.