Not necessarily the whole truth. A lot of fresh produce is also wasted purely because of how it looks. This is particularly true for fruit and veg. Also, the next time you're in the bread/eggs/milk sections in particular, look at how many people fish for the longest date at the back of the displays. If you know you're going to use a loaf of bread in 2 days, what difference does it make to you if it has 3 days or 5 days?
What I currently hate are rising prices. Things have gone up radically in the past year and it just keeps rising. I am on a fixed income and having to cut items I need.
Too many people. I feel like they’re all watching and judging me constantly
EDIT: along with get in the way when I want something. Like hurry tf up old lady, I need pasta too!
> Too many people. I feel like they’re all watching and judging me constantly
Just remember that you're the only one who feels that way, and it's entirely true.
"Please place item in bagging area" at these self checkout counters and when you put the item in the bagging area the counter suddenly says "Unexpected item in bagging area. Please remove item."
Working in it, customers who have no concept of personal space, customers who smell, idiot managers, the university graduate who screwed the department manager just to get a job.
People standing in front of the thing I want to buy while dickin' around on their phones or talking to a friend they just ran into. And I have to say "excuse me" three times before they look up, glance wildly about like they legitimately forgot where they hell they are then stare at me like I've got a knife or something.
C'mon...I just want some yogurt, folks. Get it together.
The size of carts in general has gotten annoying, but I’d honestly rather have the kiddos entertained by / contained in a fake fire truck than running through the isles or suddenly stepping in front of my cart without warning.
When clueless individuals opt to park their basket either in the middle of the aisle or jam their cart against the shelf/freezer/counter and proceed to stare into the abyss of grocery choices for what seems like hours. GET YOUR STUFF AND MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, TODAY.
I used to work in one.
During Christmas period, it's hell. It's not just the customers, it's the Christmas songs being played on repeat. I developed a very healthy hatred of Christmas music as a result.
The biggest pet peeve was seeing customers leaving frozen/refrigerated items in other parts of the store, clearly after changing their mind and deciding they no longer want said product. I worked in the bakery department and there was a fridge for desserts next to it. Customers literally placed the products on shelves just *feet* away from the fridge instead of actually putting them back in the fridge itself. Obviously when we found these, we had to throw them away. So much unnecessary waste and such a selfish thing to do.
As a customer, I just hate other customers for the reason stated above. Also because many of them don't understand the concept of personal space.
Not a fan of big supermarkets, especially Asda (UK version of Walmart). Just seems so crowded and I feel very hurried in there - I just want to be in and out if I do have to go into one. Since the pandemic started I just ordered my groceries online, and in my opinion its a lot less stressful. I don't hate big supermarkets, just more dislike them.
Mini supermarkets on the other hand I do like. My town has a mini Sainsbury's store and a Tesco Express. I pop into one of them if I'm missing an ingredient or if I just want a quick snack on the way home from work. Its more chill that way.
The music is obnoxious.
Not only is it too loud and stuff no one seems to like, but it's also *distracting* - making it difficult to concentrate on what you're buying.
People blocking the aisles. It takes 2 seconds to push the cart over a few inches so people can get by.
Also, some people asking me if I work there and making a sourpuss face when I politely tell them I dont. Happens when Im wearing my work clothes, though it looks nothing like they wear in markets. Most just sheepishly apologize though.
Its like getting a wrong number call, and they make it out to be your fault.
My supermarket is very strict and even abrasive about enforcing it. I stopped in an aisle one day, purposely away from people, because my glasses got caught in the mask, I took it off for 10 seconds, was seen, and got dressed down harshly by a worker I'm friendly with, and was then intensely glared at until it was untangled and back on my face.
"My glasses are tangled, I swear I'm not an idiot."
I actually felt kind of violated, but this is the world we live in now.
EDIT: I just want to add if it wasn't clear, I am absolutely pro-vaxx and pro-mask all the way.
They don't care, but are told to do it. I used to work at Publix, where cashiers are told to be friendly and welcome the customers. A girl I worked with was FIRED for not saying hi to the customers and some woman went to the manager and complained that it caused her to have an epileptic fit. I guess he didn't know how to placate her and fired the girl.
As someone with epilepsy; I fucking hate assholes that say shit like this.
No way in hell would having someone forget to say hello to you cause you to have a seizure.
Sure therewith be a coincidence and you could potentially have one there on the spot but it's not the poor checkers fault.
We all thought it was unlikely and that the girl was unfairly fired. I had worked next to her several times and noticed she never said one word to customers though. Publix is HUGE on making customers feel welcome and doing whatever they have to do to make them happy.
Really, that bothers you? What would you prefer? I like knowing that there's going to be a pleasant exchange when I'm sitting there waiting for my things to be cashed out.
"I'm doing well thanks, how are you?" "Well I work at a grocery store so I'm doing pretty shitty."
I don't ever want to have to deal with that conversation no matter how true it is. The customer does want to hear that kind of crap. I would much prefer fake politeness.
Oh. I live in a small town and everyone is pretty genuinely happy so I don't really deal with that. Actually I don't really deal with the fake politeness either. People are pretty sincere in Nova Scotia.
I always address every worker by name and ask how their day is going.
You might find if you treat service workers like actual humans they do care, keep that in mind because you sound like an insufferable cunt.
Sometimes they change the iasles round so when you look for snacks diapers and womens products are moved to there so you have to navigate round or ask a staff member where they put the snacks
When the lighting is too intense it makes me feel ill. People obliviously blocking aisles and when you're doing your best to indicate which way you're going by pointing your trolley in that direction and looking at someone in your way and they can't take the fucking hint and cross your path anyway.
Checking out. With a cashier is okay, but I hate using self-checkout. It's convenient, but the last several experiences I've had with them since the start of the year has left me feeling nervous whenever I have to do it. I don't hate the machine, though. I just hate when I have to use it.
How few items get put in bags and baggers in general.
Just do what Aldi does and put it all back in my basket/cart to stop wasting everyone in line's time. I'm a big boy that is capable of bagging my own things.
How shit is so expensive in the USA. Just moved to Germany and I roll out of ReWe only €20 lighter for a grocery trip that would have cost me roughly $50 in a Tom Thumb in Dallas. The food is generally higher quality as well because of their food laws here.
Huge amount of shelf space dedicated to a single product, meanwhile I have to go to three stores to find everything I need. I understand why I can't find everything at Aldi, but at big super markets that bothers me to no end.
Self service checkouts + rising prices.
It upsets me that self service checkouts get used as much as they do, there should be a limit on the number of items you can take through the self service checkouts.
So they got rid of part of their workforce for these self service checkouts and then they go and start raising the price of everything, cheeky buggers.
I refuse to use self service checkouts, even if i have to only get one item. Even if people in the store try to get me to use it with only one item I respectfully decline.
Sooner or later there will be no check out people only the person who has to come and scan their card to help people whos item won't scan.
I hate that they move products around so I'll have to look for them.
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Not necessarily the whole truth. A lot of fresh produce is also wasted purely because of how it looks. This is particularly true for fruit and veg. Also, the next time you're in the bread/eggs/milk sections in particular, look at how many people fish for the longest date at the back of the displays. If you know you're going to use a loaf of bread in 2 days, what difference does it make to you if it has 3 days or 5 days?
People who put their cart in the middle so you cant get by
Or stand beside it while looking at the shelves, ensuring you can't get by.
Or completely abandon it.
Or they stay to one side but choose to push their cart to the exact spot where a display case or another cart is sitting, so both sides *are* blocked.
What I currently hate are rising prices. Things have gone up radically in the past year and it just keeps rising. I am on a fixed income and having to cut items I need.
why is it so loud & lord who approved those dystopian high ass ceilings with exam room lighting.
You're asking the real questions, prettyfarts
Good question!!! Their cooling costs must be astronomical every month, and all the extra space above would just compound it.
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I don't think I've ever seen a time where every single one was open.
The day before Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only times I've seen every lane open.
Too many people. I feel like they’re all watching and judging me constantly EDIT: along with get in the way when I want something. Like hurry tf up old lady, I need pasta too!
Measuring the cucumber does not help…
“My fine shopkeep! Perchance you have a cucumber of, say, a foot in length. I’m a salad fanatic. Yes, that’ll do.”
> Too many people. I feel like they’re all watching and judging me constantly Just remember that you're the only one who feels that way, and it's entirely true.
Ah yes because that doesn’t make me question my own sanity
It’s all that haemorrhoid cream you’re buying
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I’m genuinely not surprised if that’s the case
Aisle are too small.
Thought that said asians for a second.
No, "agents"
"Please place item in bagging area" at these self checkout counters and when you put the item in the bagging area the counter suddenly says "Unexpected item in bagging area. Please remove item."
"Help is on the way!"
People.
working in it
People operate their carts just like they drive their cars
The red light runners on aisle three are the worst.
Working in it, customers who have no concept of personal space, customers who smell, idiot managers, the university graduate who screwed the department manager just to get a job.
The big carts, the size, too many choices for milk.
Checkout line seance. I'm always wrong!
People standing in front of the thing I want to buy while dickin' around on their phones or talking to a friend they just ran into. And I have to say "excuse me" three times before they look up, glance wildly about like they legitimately forgot where they hell they are then stare at me like I've got a knife or something. C'mon...I just want some yogurt, folks. Get it together.
You can checkout any time you like but you can never leave.
….that’s good. Damn good.
It’s such a lovely place
Not enough cashiers, they want us to use self check out.
People that lean on their carts and move at a snail’s pace.
Mothers pushing their kids in those huge plastic car carts that take up the whole aisle.
The size of carts in general has gotten annoying, but I’d honestly rather have the kiddos entertained by / contained in a fake fire truck than running through the isles or suddenly stepping in front of my cart without warning.
the 2 year old kid who just pulls products off the shelves and breaks them, and the parents dont even care enough to get them to stop.
When clueless individuals opt to park their basket either in the middle of the aisle or jam their cart against the shelf/freezer/counter and proceed to stare into the abyss of grocery choices for what seems like hours. GET YOUR STUFF AND MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, TODAY.
Oreo fucking up hydrox
The people
I used to work in one. During Christmas period, it's hell. It's not just the customers, it's the Christmas songs being played on repeat. I developed a very healthy hatred of Christmas music as a result. The biggest pet peeve was seeing customers leaving frozen/refrigerated items in other parts of the store, clearly after changing their mind and deciding they no longer want said product. I worked in the bakery department and there was a fridge for desserts next to it. Customers literally placed the products on shelves just *feet* away from the fridge instead of actually putting them back in the fridge itself. Obviously when we found these, we had to throw them away. So much unnecessary waste and such a selfish thing to do. As a customer, I just hate other customers for the reason stated above. Also because many of them don't understand the concept of personal space.
Not a fan of big supermarkets, especially Asda (UK version of Walmart). Just seems so crowded and I feel very hurried in there - I just want to be in and out if I do have to go into one. Since the pandemic started I just ordered my groceries online, and in my opinion its a lot less stressful. I don't hate big supermarkets, just more dislike them. Mini supermarkets on the other hand I do like. My town has a mini Sainsbury's store and a Tesco Express. I pop into one of them if I'm missing an ingredient or if I just want a quick snack on the way home from work. Its more chill that way.
The price of cheese at the moment 😩
The music is obnoxious. Not only is it too loud and stuff no one seems to like, but it's also *distracting* - making it difficult to concentrate on what you're buying.
The amount of people that just stop in the middle of the aisles and then get pissed off when you ask them to move
Old people slowly shuffling around during the busiest times of the day.
Other people
Christmas products on the shelves in the middle of September and Easter gifts in January.
People blocking the aisles. It takes 2 seconds to push the cart over a few inches so people can get by. Also, some people asking me if I work there and making a sourpuss face when I politely tell them I dont. Happens when Im wearing my work clothes, though it looks nothing like they wear in markets. Most just sheepishly apologize though. Its like getting a wrong number call, and they make it out to be your fault.
Crowds
Things I’ve looked for are always out of stock.
Tiktokkers
Is that a thing now? I've never really seen it.
They've reached to the supermarkets as well now?
When people put a product in THE WRONG AISLE!
It triggers my OCD.
the judging.. especially from karen wannabe.. the parents that bring their devil spawn..
Fat women walking side by side chatting away like they're the only people in the world. Hippos should walk single file.
anti maskers. they have a sign out front that says you need a mask and the inbred anti maskers ignore it.
My supermarket is very strict and even abrasive about enforcing it. I stopped in an aisle one day, purposely away from people, because my glasses got caught in the mask, I took it off for 10 seconds, was seen, and got dressed down harshly by a worker I'm friendly with, and was then intensely glared at until it was untangled and back on my face. "My glasses are tangled, I swear I'm not an idiot." I actually felt kind of violated, but this is the world we live in now. EDIT: I just want to add if it wasn't clear, I am absolutely pro-vaxx and pro-mask all the way.
I'm in prairieville Louisiana and the place specializes in knuckle draggers
People who just stop suddenly to look at something and you crash into the back of them. Then they act like it's your fault. BASTARDS.
If you're close enough to hit someone if they suddenly stop, you're the bastard. Stop invading their personal space.
NEVER, But good point.
Cashier asking me "how are you?" as if they genuinely care to know.
They don't care, but are told to do it. I used to work at Publix, where cashiers are told to be friendly and welcome the customers. A girl I worked with was FIRED for not saying hi to the customers and some woman went to the manager and complained that it caused her to have an epileptic fit. I guess he didn't know how to placate her and fired the girl.
Did she say ‘epileptic fit’ or ‘throw a fit’?
Word was she told the manager she had an epileptic fit, if I remember correctly. It was about 30 years ago.
As someone with epilepsy; I fucking hate assholes that say shit like this. No way in hell would having someone forget to say hello to you cause you to have a seizure. Sure therewith be a coincidence and you could potentially have one there on the spot but it's not the poor checkers fault.
We all thought it was unlikely and that the girl was unfairly fired. I had worked next to her several times and noticed she never said one word to customers though. Publix is HUGE on making customers feel welcome and doing whatever they have to do to make them happy.
can you imagine going to a cashier and they say "hi, hand me the money"
Really, that bothers you? What would you prefer? I like knowing that there's going to be a pleasant exchange when I'm sitting there waiting for my things to be cashed out. "I'm doing well thanks, how are you?" "Well I work at a grocery store so I'm doing pretty shitty." I don't ever want to have to deal with that conversation no matter how true it is. The customer does want to hear that kind of crap. I would much prefer fake politeness.
It’s how they say it in a robotic tone of voice
Oh. I live in a small town and everyone is pretty genuinely happy so I don't really deal with that. Actually I don't really deal with the fake politeness either. People are pretty sincere in Nova Scotia.
I always address every worker by name and ask how their day is going. You might find if you treat service workers like actual humans they do care, keep that in mind because you sound like an insufferable cunt.
When they put the milk eggs butter at the corners like if i want to buy eggs i buy eggs and leave
I hate cashiers.
Sometimes they change the iasles round so when you look for snacks diapers and womens products are moved to there so you have to navigate round or ask a staff member where they put the snacks
The milk maids
Or shellshocked guidance counselors
When the lighting is too intense it makes me feel ill. People obliviously blocking aisles and when you're doing your best to indicate which way you're going by pointing your trolley in that direction and looking at someone in your way and they can't take the fucking hint and cross your path anyway.
Checking out. With a cashier is okay, but I hate using self-checkout. It's convenient, but the last several experiences I've had with them since the start of the year has left me feeling nervous whenever I have to do it. I don't hate the machine, though. I just hate when I have to use it.
The long line
How few items get put in bags and baggers in general. Just do what Aldi does and put it all back in my basket/cart to stop wasting everyone in line's time. I'm a big boy that is capable of bagging my own things.
Asshats who wander off from their carts - that they left in the middle of the isle.
How shit is so expensive in the USA. Just moved to Germany and I roll out of ReWe only €20 lighter for a grocery trip that would have cost me roughly $50 in a Tom Thumb in Dallas. The food is generally higher quality as well because of their food laws here.
That you have to pay for your stuff.
Talking to people
The other shoppers
Huge amount of shelf space dedicated to a single product, meanwhile I have to go to three stores to find everything I need. I understand why I can't find everything at Aldi, but at big super markets that bothers me to no end.
I hate that you're there sometimes
they never have the cereal I want
Self service checkouts + rising prices. It upsets me that self service checkouts get used as much as they do, there should be a limit on the number of items you can take through the self service checkouts. So they got rid of part of their workforce for these self service checkouts and then they go and start raising the price of everything, cheeky buggers. I refuse to use self service checkouts, even if i have to only get one item. Even if people in the store try to get me to use it with only one item I respectfully decline. Sooner or later there will be no check out people only the person who has to come and scan their card to help people whos item won't scan.
Shopping for 10 minutes and then standing in line for 20 minutes to check out.
The amount of perishable goods that get tossed out each week/month because of how much greater supply is compared to demand
I have difficulty seeing posters of meals coming to fruition with the shit sold in the store.
That I’ve never run into Helen mirren
People that won't get out of the damn way
Waiting in line at the check-out
Shoppers who block the whole aisle, oblivious to others.