Cassandraw3 wrote: » This is what happens to me whenever I have more than 5 items at the self checkout.
pinuplove wrote: » 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."
KD0BIK 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.
RelCanonical wrote: » KD0BIK 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.
RAinWA 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.
RelCanonical wrote: » RAinWA 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.
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.
pinuplove wrote: » RelCanonical wrote: » RAinWA 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.
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.
RelCanonical wrote: » pinuplove wrote: » RelCanonical wrote: » RAinWA 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.
kazminchu wrote: » 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.
pinuplove wrote: » RelCanonical wrote: » pinuplove wrote: » RelCanonical wrote: » RAinWA 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
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.
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.
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!
JennJ323 wrote: » kazminchu wrote: » 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!
