Arguments in the Supermarket
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This is what happens to me whenever I have more than 5 items at the self checkout.
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Where's the Awesome button when we need it!?!5
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Cassandraw3 wrote: »This is what happens to me whenever I have more than 5 items at the self checkout.
OMG yes....i accidently put my little bag with prescription meds on it yesterday when i was out...i think i broke the system...4 -
I think they've changed the ones at my local store. They used to yell at me all the time. Now they're all like, "Yeah, whatever."3
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I think they've changed the ones at my local store. They used to yell at me all the time. Now they're all like, "Yeah, whatever."
They do seem a little better about lighter items. I can set them in the bag now instead of chucking them in like I did before to get the scale to register. When I'm feeling mature, I would press them into the bag so the scale could register something.0 -
I love shopping alone. However, I too have moved to the order online and pick up at store feature. Definitely keeps me from impulse buying.1
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Perhaps I'm just becoming a grumpy old man (and that's OK with me), but I truly despise when entire families go shopping together. There's really no need. Just this past weekend I noticed families....BIG families all shopping. Of course, really there's only one person who is doing the actual shopping...the rest are tagging along behind staring at their phones, fighting over who gets to sit in the cart and the rest are touching everything with the little germy hands. LOL
Yea...I order as much as possible online and pickup. However, I still go inside to purchase fruits/vegs and meats. I just don't trust someone else to pick the best items. When I have ordered meat online, they always give me items that are just about to expire.3 -
Perhaps I'm just becoming a grumpy old man (and that's OK with me), but I truly despise when entire families go shopping together. There's really no need. Just this past weekend I noticed families....BIG families all shopping. Of course, really there's only one person who is doing the actual shopping...the rest are tagging along behind staring at their phones, fighting over who gets to sit in the cart and the rest are touching everything with the little germy hands. LOL
Yea...I order as much as possible online and pickup. However, I still go inside to purchase fruits/vegs and meats. I just don't trust someone else to pick the best items. When I have ordered meat online, they always give me items that are just about to expire.
I don't mind when people treat grocery shopping as a family activity, but I get annoyed when I see people with young kids at the grocery store at 10pm doing their shopping, and the kids are screaming because they're tired. Like, what.0 -
Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
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RelCanonical wrote: »Perhaps I'm just becoming a grumpy old man (and that's OK with me), but I truly despise when entire families go shopping together. There's really no need. Just this past weekend I noticed families....BIG families all shopping. Of course, really there's only one person who is doing the actual shopping...the rest are tagging along behind staring at their phones, fighting over who gets to sit in the cart and the rest are touching everything with the little germy hands. LOL
Yea...I order as much as possible online and pickup. However, I still go inside to purchase fruits/vegs and meats. I just don't trust someone else to pick the best items. When I have ordered meat online, they always give me items that are just about to expire.
I don't mind when people treat grocery shopping as a family activity, but I get annoyed when I see people with young kids at the grocery store at 10pm doing their shopping, and the kids are screaming because they're tired. Like, what.
10pm could be pushing it, but I will say that my toddler's bedtime and ability to handle activities like grocery shopping varies depending on how well he napped that day and his general desire to *kitten* with us. There have been times we thought he was wide awake and would do fine, then halfway through the store, MELTDOWN. Of course, this inevitably happens when my husband is price-comparing EVERY SINGLE TINY ITEM.2 -
Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.5 -
Thank goodness for grocery delivery. It stops me from impulse buying and I get to stick to my list. If it's not on my list then I don't buy it (usually!).0
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I usually do the shopping for myself and my husband, but today I sent him with a list.
I literally JUST got a call from him...no “hello”, just opened with “THE YOGURT AISLE IS AN F’ING JOKE!”
This is why I do the shopping.7 -
RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.1 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I usually do the shopping for myself and my husband, but today I sent him with a list.
I literally JUST got a call from him...no “hello”, just opened with “THE YOGURT AISLE IS AN F’ING JOKE!”
This is why I do the shopping.
Grocery shopping is a huuuge pain when you're new to it, haha. I get absolutely frustrated when all I do is switch stores because the layout is different and I can't find the bread or somethin'. In the new-ish Meijer they opened, the bakery section and the "regular" bread section are on two different sides of the store. What the heck.0 -
There is nothing quite as awesome as going shopping after work (also after picking your kids up from daycare). It's busy, the kids are exhausted and tired and crabby. I think I did it twice or so due to outside circumstances and then decided it would be better if we all just went home and ate whatever we could find in the house even if it was just stale soup crackers.
When I was little my mom did the grocery shopping. She HATED doing it, so her goal was to get out of the store with some food as fast as possible. Later in the week she'd find a can of asparagus or something and wonder where it had come from. What always happened was she'd fly by the canned food and frozen food so fast she'd grab something that had a picture on it that was the right color but not necessarily the right item. Thus canned asparagus instead of canned green beans or frozen spinach instead of frozen peas.
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RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.
I can't keep up with aldi scanners, lol. I just feel the pressure from them to hurry up. Could be that's just my aldi, though.1 -
WJS_jeepster wrote: »There is nothing quite as awesome as going shopping after work (also after picking your kids up from daycare). It's busy, the kids are exhausted and tired and crabby. I think I did it twice or so due to outside circumstances and then decided it would be better if we all just went home and ate whatever we could find in the house even if it was just stale soup crackers.
When I was little my mom did the grocery shopping. She HATED doing it, so her goal was to get out of the store with some food as fast as possible. Later in the week she'd find a can of asparagus or something and wonder where it had come from. What always happened was she'd fly by the canned food and frozen food so fast she'd grab something that had a picture on it that was the right color but not necessarily the right item. Thus canned asparagus instead of canned green beans or frozen spinach instead of frozen peas.
I've had to go to the grocery store after picking up my son from daycare. On those days, I try to have a snack ready for him. Makes those trips much more bearable.0 -
At my local bag your own store, they often have high school kids volunteering to bag your groceries to raise money. I always feel like a crabby witch when I decline as I am super-picky about how things are bagged.1
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RelCanonical wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.
I can't keep up with aldi scanners, lol. I just feel the pressure from them to hurry up. Could be that's just my aldi, though.
They don't just throw it in the basket (sometimes a bit roughly, IMO) and leave you to the bagging shelf where you can bag at your leisure? Because they are SERIOUS about getting stuff scanned, for sure. One once told us they have a standard of items scanned per minute to meet, but that might be BS
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I shop on my own because I do 95% of the cooking and I like keeping track of our stocks. My husband is awful at shopping, in that he will only buy branded things for 2x/3x the price because he shops at eye-level only. He also buys ridiculous convenience foods for stupid amounts. He's a supermarket designer's dream shopper. When we moved in together and I took over the shopping his bills actually went DOWN because I shop frugally and sensibly.
YES! This is my husband, he will only buy brand name (even if generic is several dollars cheaper and we KNOW it tastes the same.) Or buy tons of junk that he'll eat a little of and then the rest goes to waste. He rarely comes shopping with me, and when he does it's like having a toddler with me, "No honey we aren't buying 4 bags of chips this week, no we don't need 17 yogurts for one week." I spend $25+ more when he's with me!0 -
RelCanonical wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.
I can't keep up with aldi scanners, lol. I just feel the pressure from them to hurry up. Could be that's just my aldi, though.
They don't just throw it in the basket (sometimes a bit roughly, IMO) and leave you to the bagging shelf where you can bag at your leisure? Because they are SERIOUS about getting stuff scanned, for sure. One once told us they have a standard of items scanned per minute to meet, but that might be BS
No, they have a little spot where they plop all the stuff in mine. Perhaps I should just pretend I'm entering Europe when I go in and I'll tolerate it better "because it's just a foreign custom" lol.1 -
RelCanonical wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.
I can't keep up with aldi scanners, lol. I just feel the pressure from them to hurry up. Could be that's just my aldi, though.
If you look at their products there are huge barcodes on almost every side so cashiers can scan faster. No need to flip things around looking for a barcode. But at mine they throw things in baskets so fast they don't give me time to get my stuff before the next person's stuff comes flying in.0 -
RelCanonical wrote: »Am I the only one who despises the self-checkout? If I have to ring up and bag my own stuff I should get a discount. I don't mind for a couple of things, but when I'm doing a large shop it's a serious pain and things won't ring up right and I can never find the code for the bag of ice I'm going to grab on the way out.
I tend to shop really early in the morning on Saturdays and none of the checkout lines are open, you have to use the self-checkout. Fortunately the cashier tending the self-checkout is very nice and does it for me.
This person extroverts.
I dislike talking to people more than I dislike using the self-checkout.
This. Also, I'm picky about how things are bagged. I love Aldi because I can have the best of both worlds. Their cashiers aren't chatty, and I get to bag my own food.
Aldi has spoiled me-whenever I go somewhere else now I mentally time the cashier I can't stand chatty clerks, drives me nuts! Exchanging of pleasantries is one thing but I do not want to have to explain the items in my cart, nor do I care about your boyfriend/grand kids/dog. Aldi clerks get me in and out of the checkout area in 2 minutes flat, love them so much 
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rickiimarieee wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »I just want to say that I'm terrified of running into people I know at the grocery store. I'm the definition of awkward turtle and nothing is more awkward than trying to say hello and make short conversation with a work colleague that you're not really friends with but are on somewhat nice terms with. I'm just awkward in general.
I’m the same way, I don’t know how to short conversate and I have a terrible memory so whenever people I use to work with come up or old friends and I don’t remember I stare blankly because I have no idea who it is and they’re like you remember me? I’m like no sorry. So it makes it all the more awkward.
I have a theory that really shy people suffer from some kind of psychological disability remembering faces and names, and it just kind of builds on itself. It’s truly a “thing”.
I got stopped by a woman today who greeted me warmly, and I was absolutely frozen. I mean I went total Deer in the Headlights. I couldn’t remember if she was the director of the museum I’ve volunteered at for years, or a neighbor who is in a group I see fairly often. It’s even worse trying to keep men straight. At least women have relatively consistent hairdos to identify them.
It’s like absolute social paralysis. I live in fear of sticking my foot in my mouth because I’m always calling people I know well by the wrong name, or worrying “was that so and so I just walked past, will they think I’m snubbing them if I don’t say something”, and by the time I’ve decided either the moment is past or it IS the wrong person.
It’s like Name & Face Dyslexia.
And my husband, bless his heart, is even worse than me. Thank God we found one another!3 -
springlering62 wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »I just want to say that I'm terrified of running into people I know at the grocery store. I'm the definition of awkward turtle and nothing is more awkward than trying to say hello and make short conversation with a work colleague that you're not really friends with but are on somewhat nice terms with. I'm just awkward in general.
I’m the same way, I don’t know how to short conversate and I have a terrible memory so whenever people I use to work with come up or old friends and I don’t remember I stare blankly because I have no idea who it is and they’re like you remember me? I’m like no sorry. So it makes it all the more awkward.
I have a theory that really shy people suffer from some kind of psychological disability remembering faces and names, and it just kind of builds on itself. It’s truly a “thing”.
I got stopped by a woman today who greeted me warmly, and I was absolutely frozen. I mean I went total Deer in the Headlights. I couldn’t remember if she was the director of the museum I’ve volunteered at for years, or a neighbor who is in a group I see fairly often. It’s even worse trying to keep men straight. At least women have relatively consistent hairdos to identify them.
It’s like absolute social paralysis. I live in fear of sticking my foot in my mouth because I’m always calling people I know well by the wrong name, or worrying “was that so and so I just walked past, will they think I’m snubbing them if I don’t say something”, and by the time I’ve decided either the moment is past or it IS the wrong person.
It’s like Name & Face Dyslexia.
And my husband, bless his heart, is even worse than me. Thank God we found one another!
Seriously, it must be why I hate it. Just a couple weeks ago, I was walking in the mall and someone called out my name. I turned around and they were a bit far away but should have been close enough to recognize. It took me a minute and I recognized them more by their voice than how they looked. It was my coworker, who I had just been talking to MINUTES before I left to go walk at the mall. Seriously, I'm horrible with faces out of context. It's always the other person who recognizes me.2 -
Anyway back to topic.
Two things for me. My husband is a retired market research manager for a large beverage company. Going shopping with him is torture. One of his jobs was to study the competitors packaging and why they chose certain new designs, sizing (different areas of the country prefer different sizes of his product, believe it or not), display designs etc. So he likes to take his time in the store seeing what’s up in product packaging. He’s like an old woman in an antiques market who has to stop and look at everything, pick it up, look it over. Seriously!!!!!!
Lidl just opened up a store near us which is OMG amazing, right down to the European style bakery in the front with REAL soft German pretzels. They are open bins and you are supposed to pick the things out want up with wax paper tissues.
I wanted to publicly out the woman with the runny nosed snot fingered kid who was grabbing cookies out of the bin. She would scream at him “put that down!” So he would, and then he’d pick up another one, and repeat, repeat. By the time he got done, he had fingered every daggone cookie in the bin and half the pretzels and they walked off buying nothing.
So I buy only from the highest bins now, and even then it still gives me a public grossness check.2 -
To avoid the children meltdowns my husband and I either shop together when the kids are at school or one of us goes with a shopping list. He's pretty good about getting only what is on the list, I try to meal plan as best as possible with 3 picky children and an two indecisive adults lol2
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I shop on my own because I do 95% of the cooking and I like keeping track of our stocks. My husband is awful at shopping, in that he will only buy branded things for 2x/3x the price because he shops at eye-level only. He also buys ridiculous convenience foods for stupid amounts. He's a supermarket designer's dream shopper. When we moved in together and I took over the shopping his bills actually went DOWN because I shop frugally and sensibly.
YES! This is my husband, he will only buy brand name (even if generic is several dollars cheaper and we KNOW it tastes the same.) Or buy tons of junk that he'll eat a little of and then the rest goes to waste. He rarely comes shopping with me, and when he does it's like having a toddler with me, "No honey we aren't buying 4 bags of chips this week, no we don't need 17 yogurts for one week." I spend $25+ more when he's with me!
Lmao this is my husband as well. He only buys brand name too. Wonder if it’s like a majority of a man thing. When my husband and I went grocery shopping we spent 600-700 but now that I go by myself I spend 250 lmao.2 -
springlering62 wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »I just want to say that I'm terrified of running into people I know at the grocery store. I'm the definition of awkward turtle and nothing is more awkward than trying to say hello and make short conversation with a work colleague that you're not really friends with but are on somewhat nice terms with. I'm just awkward in general.
I’m the same way, I don’t know how to short conversate and I have a terrible memory so whenever people I use to work with come up or old friends and I don’t remember I stare blankly because I have no idea who it is and they’re like you remember me? I’m like no sorry. So it makes it all the more awkward.
I have a theory that really shy people suffer from some kind of psychological disability remembering faces and names, and it just kind of builds on itself. It’s truly a “thing”.
I got stopped by a woman today who greeted me warmly, and I was absolutely frozen. I mean I went total Deer in the Headlights. I couldn’t remember if she was the director of the museum I’ve volunteered at for years, or a neighbor who is in a group I see fairly often. It’s even worse trying to keep men straight. At least women have relatively consistent hairdos to identify them.
It’s like absolute social paralysis. I live in fear of sticking my foot in my mouth because I’m always calling people I know well by the wrong name, or worrying “was that so and so I just walked past, will they think I’m snubbing them if I don’t say something”, and by the time I’ve decided either the moment is past or it IS the wrong person.
It’s like Name & Face Dyslexia.
And my husband, bless his heart, is even worse than me. Thank God we found one another!
Yeah I don’t know if it’s like a spur the moment amnesia where I’m like caught off guard and my brain just shuts down or I truly don’t know who it is. Lmao I stand there all awkward. I actually seen a girl that I Use to be extremely close with. We seen each other everyday, we knew every aspect of each other’s life and we worked together too. A year later after I quit my job she walks up to me and says “hey Ricki! It’s been so long.” And I’m standing there like how does this stranger know my name. But after staring blankly for an awkward minute and asked if I remembered her I replied no and she reintroduced herself and I remembered her but now the conversation was really awkward so I was slowly try to scoot away lol.2
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