primitives discuss people in grocery stores

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Archae (27,321 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:21 PM

People in grocery stores can be INCREDIBLY lazy! (Updated)

I was grocery shopping yesterday, and saw that someone had put a carton of ice cream on one of those wire racks near the end of an aisle.
 
You got it, it had melted onto the floor and the stuff on the racks.

I mean, people just leave stuff they change their mind about buying scattered at random in grocery stores.

And when it's something frozen, it melts and sometimes like what I saw ruins other merchandise.
 
I got the attention of a store clerk, he cleaned up the mess.

But he sure was disgusted.

I bet usually it's someone's spoiled brat who grabs a visually enticing something off a shelf, and then Mom and/or Dad says no and they just leave it.
 
On edit: What really pisses you off that other people do in grocery (or other) stores?
 
For me, when someone drives a cart like a maniac or lets their kids drive the cart like maniacs.

Been a few years now, but I still have battle scars from being rammed by reckless cart drivers.

madville (1,484 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:25 PM

3. Cleaning up spills and others' messes

Creates a job for someone, i wouldn't leave ice cream out to waste though. I always leave my buggy out in the parking lot, if I walk it back to the store that's less work for the employees. Always go through the checkout with people as well, those self device checkouts are job killers.

^^^the deal about this is, the only people I've ever seen acting rudely and trashing stores are what are, obviously, 0bama voters.

treestar (44,526 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:25 PM

4. Then someone else will come along and slip and fall on it

Making some lawyer very happy.

Good for you giving them notice of it! You may have saved some court time!

Koko Ware (9 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:26 PM

5. I literally had to get my kid to decide (he's 4)

on which ice cream popsicles he wanted - both of them are lime flavored, but one is a name brand, and one is off-brand (and is cheap)
 
he wanted both. We had to play a trick on him to get the ice cream popsicle off our hands and into the grocers by giving it to him while my kid wasn't looking.
 
The cashier appreciated the fact we made an effort and immediately took the popsicles and gave us a void for the ice cream, and put the ice cream in the nearby icebox while he called another guy to put it back (it's at the other end of the grocery store)

Major Nikon (10,942 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:30 PM

7. The rub I have is when people are too lazy to put up their buggy

When I lived in El Paso the city is quite hilly in areas so carts left in the parking lot would often roll down the hill and bang into your car. I was sitting at a traffic light one time and saw a buggy from the Home Depot break loose and head straight towards my car (which always seemed to be a magnet for them). I was blocked by traffic and couldn't go anywhere. Fortunately I was in the inside lane and another car pulled into the outside lane just as the cart crashed into his vehicle. I wanted to thank him, but I figured it wasn't a good time.

Prism (3,529 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:35 PM

8. Drives me crazy

Just last week with this nonsense. There's a grocery store across from my gym. I live in the Bay Area (East Bay), so hilly terrain is just how everything is. As gym buddy and I walked to our cars after a work-out, I glance over and see a grocery cart rolling quite determinedly down the parking lot - towards a busy street. We watched amused for a few moments, but as soon as we realized it was about to go into traffic, we ran at it.
 
Jesus H. The corral is right there.

Beaverhausen (20,651 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:40 PM

9. People standing in the aisles reading texts and won't get out of the way of those trying to shop

seriously? And yes, I have texted people from the store but I make sure to get out of the way of others before I do it.

Prism (3,529 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:43 PM

11. I'm that asshole ;/

I don't read text-texts, but I keep my grocery list on my phone, and sometimes I'll have to text my boyfriend and ask "Which Mac and Cheese did you want? The Lancashire cheddar, gluten-free, low calorie, styrofoam?" And I get so absorbed/stressed, I start aisle wandering with furrowed brow, glaring at my phone for an immediate answer, because I just want to get out of there.
 
I'm sorry

KamaAina (47,110 posts)   Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:43 PM

10. I was once in line behind a guy who paid for his groceries with CHANGE

Not even quarters. Nickels and dimes, mostly. I stood there staring holes in the back of his head for several minutes while they counted it all up.

Warpy (71,324 posts)   Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:47 PM

13. Poverty sucks

I've had to empty a piggy bank for change to buy enough food to keep my stomach from hurting.
 
That sort of thing doesn't really bother me.

Warpy (71,324 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:45 PM

12. I've worked in food retail

and every time the register wasn't busy, we'd either be restocking shelves, taking a hike with a broom at the bulk bins, or doing a quick patrol for anything frozen some clod had left out to melt and rot.
 
It's a lot more widespread than you think. And yes, some of our fellow humans aren't worth the oxygen they breathe.
 
They are a tiny minority, however, or I'd have retired to a cave years ago.

liberal_at_heart (5,554 posts)   Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:47 PM

14. I've seen that too. I always just tell the cashier I've changed my mind at the counter. They put it

aside and have a bagger take it back where it belongs.

^^^why doesn't the primitive go and put it back himself?

<<<always puts things back.

spinbaby (11,090 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:48 PM

15. The ones that drape themselves on the cart

I wonder about those people who can't seem to stand up on their own and drape themselves across the cart as if they need a nap or something.

[Dori]

3. Cleaning up spills and others' messes

Creates a job for someone,

And makes my groceries more expensive.  But what would a DUmmie know.  They probably get food stamps.

4. Then someone else will come along and slip and fall on it

Making some lawyer very happy.

And some DUmmie's happiest day of his life.

10. I was once in line behind a guy who paid for his groceries with CHANGE

Not even quarters. Nickels and dimes, mostly. I stood there staring holes in the back of his head for several minutes while they counted it all up.

That's how I feel behind DUmmies loaded with coupons and food stamps.

[ChuckJ]

Warpy (71,324 posts)    Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:45 PM

12. I've worked in food retail

and every time the register wasn't busy, we'd either be restocking shelves, taking a hike with a broom at the bulk bins, or doing a quick patrol for anything frozen some clod had left out to melt and rot.
 
It's a lot more widespread than you think. And yes, some of our fellow humans aren't worth the oxygen they breathe.
 
They are a tiny minority, however, or I'd have retired to a cave years ago.

Is Warpy using 'minority' in the numerical sense or is she trying to slide some racism in?

You never can tell with a DUmmie. Just ask Clarence Thomas, Herman Caine, Candi Rice, etc.

[thundley4]

I hate people that are shopping with a friend and pushing their carts side by side and blocking the whole aisle, yet are oblivious to people wanting to get past them.  When you say "excuse me" they give you a dirty look like you are imposing on them.

These same people sometime share their grocery list, one has the items that get paid for with cash and the other pays with an EBT card.

[BattleHymn]

Cleaning up spills and others' messes

Creates a job for someone

You primitives are dumber than a damn bag of hair.

[marv]

Only two...

DUmmies that leave their carts behind them in the checkout aisle, and otherwise well dressed DUmmies paying with stamps or EBT cards.

[Delmar]

People who let their little kid swipe the credit/debit/EBT card.

If the day ever comes that I lean over the shopping cart on my forearms as I push it along, that is going to be the day that I go home and leave the car running after I shut the garage door and take a dirt nap.

One time in a grocery store, a lady dashed ahead of me to a checkout line with a single item in her hand with her husband/SO following with a full cart a short distance behind.  She beat me to the checker but her husband was behind me.  She said that she was ahead of me.  I acknowledged that that was indeed the case, her and her can of cream style corn had beat me to the checkout, but I pointed out that I was ahead of her husband and their cart.  She was ticked off and didn't want to back down but her kid was embarrassed and talked her into backing off.  The husband didn't say a word as she made the walk of shame around to join him at their cart.  I will never forget that victory over a woman in a grocery store.

[thundley4]

People who let their little kid swipe the credit/debit/EBT card.

If the day ever comes that I lean over the shopping cart on my forearms as I push it along, that is going to be the day that I go home and leave the car running after I shut the garage door and take a dirt nap.

One time in a grocery store, a lady dashed ahead of me to a checkout line with a single item in her hand with her husband/SO following with a full cart a short distance behind.  She beat me to the checker but her husband was behind me.  She said that she was ahead of me.  I acknowledged that that was indeed the case, her and her can of cream style corn had beat me to the checkout, but I pointed out that I was ahead of her husband and their cart.  She was ticked off and didn't want to back down but her kid was embarrassed and talked her into backing off.  The husband didn't say a word as she made the walk of shame around to join him at their cart.  I will never forget that victory over a woman in a grocery store.

2 bongs.

[GOBUCKS]

Warpy (71,324 posts)   Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:47 PM

13. Poverty sucks

I've had to empty a piggy bank for change to buy enough food to keep my stomach from hurting.

Well, now, whose fault is that?

Ugly DUmmy Warpy was a registered nurse, one of the most in-demand professionals in America, until she lost her job and her registration for taking narcotics from her hospital.

She shipped herself off to exile in the arid, flea-bitten wilds of New Mexico, to a life of poverty and addiction.

She could be making over $100K and living anywhere she chose were it not for those twin democrat traits of thievery and affinity for drugs.

You'd think the oxycontin, or methadone, or whatever she's on these days would take the edge off that hunger, though.
 

[98ZJUSMC]

Kinda funny,......

As I read through the primitive comments, I can't help but think:  This is the world you cumstains have created.  This is what you want.  Gimmes and "Help me, I am absolutely useless" types.  They are everywhere.

A pathetic school system of faulty knowledge, everyone rates a passing grade and there is no right answer.

Yes.  Yes, there is a right answer and you retards haven't the slightest clue.

I have to laugh whenever the primitives talk about "Wal-Mart" people.....

....they are you, asshats.

Warpy (71,324 posts)   Mon Sep 9, 2013, 06:47 PM

13. Poverty sucks

I've had to empty a piggy bank for change to buy enough food to keep my stomach from hurting.

...and you have no phucking idea why that is, do you?

Useless piece of shit.

Along with the fact that, you are not seeing poverty.  You are just seeing that which someone else has and you don't.....

die, assholes,.......just die.

[vesta111]

Had this happen a time or two in my life.    I have a full cart and stand at the back of a line with others with full carts.     No one is in the 10 items only line, the cashier signals me to come to her/his empty line.

Soon as I begin to unload customers jump out of the  isles [bushes] with 6-7 items.   Lots of muttering behind me, "Can't she read , the nerve of that woman"    Now if I can hear them I am sure the cashier can too.    Does the cashier smile and try to make piece for me as eye balls dart death threats at me ?     Hell No, I just have to walk out and hope to heavens I do not run into any of these people in another store. 

Old folks, those that dither over finding change in their pockets or purse, no problem, if they need a dime or quarter, I have the change at hand-----I will donate it to keep the line moving on.  The elderly may only get out of the house once a week to shop and dress as though they were going to Church.      This generation is the proud and would not think of going into public unless all spiffed up.

Unruly kids, ah now one must have patience as little ones get tired and cranky, some are manipulators from Hell.    Darn if they act like this at home, say a prayer for the parents.   I find it easier to just back up and hit that isle after they move on.   

Shopping is a very human activity and should have to have some rules of deportment and conduct. Unfortunately to days shopping has become a rules of engagement.   Shopping has gone from a social scene, meeting long lost friends to full ahead let's get my aggression out on someone that cannot or will not fight back.

Seems I have seen more aggressive people bullying folk in a grocery store then in a biker bar.   

[AprilRazz]

I tend to avoid grocery stores the first few days of the month. Full of Obama's children and family. Misbahaving children and arguing why certain things are not covered by food stamps. Only go come out and see that even though I am parked 2 stalls away from the cart corral someone has left a cart right behind my jeep.

[marv]

Ah yes! those carts left outside the store close to the doors or loose in the parking lot. Customers would walk past an empty cart at the door, and take a cart from inside the door.

When I retired twenty years ago down here to Shell Knob, there were a lot of them. I would collect the empty carts and push them back into the store. Lots of thanks from employees who would otherwise have to do it. When I was a kid, and bagged groceries in Kansas City, collecting carts was the most onerous task I had.

Can't do it anymore due to age and arthritis, but over the years there have been fewer carts left outside, and more carts pushed back into the store.

[Vagabond]

Having worked in a grocery store...
1.  Pickle jars.  I swear those things are coated with grease.  I spent more time cleaning broken pickle jars than anything else.

2.  The lady that comes through my line that weighs 300lbs. most of it fat, and buys everything on food stamps with six obviously malnourished kids in tow... I'll let you guess what race.

3.  The razor blades that the night shift tossed under the gondola.  They always get swept out at the wrong time.

4.  The customers at Thanksgiving or Christmas, nothing brings out the jerks like those two holiday.

[vesta111]

Having worked in a grocery store...
1.  Pickle jars.  I swear those things are coated with grease.  I spent more time cleaning broken pickle jars than anything else.

2.  The lady that comes through my line that weighs 300lbs. most of it fat, and buys everything on food stamps with six obviously malnourished kids in tow... I'll let you guess what race.

3.  The razor blades that the night shift tossed under the gondola.  They always get swept out at the wrong time.

4.  The customers at Thanksgiving or Christmas, nothing brings out the jerks like those two holiday.

Ha-----Mom carry's those clear gloves one can buy for 75 for $5.00 at the drug store and refuses to touch a grocery cart unless wearing them.  Oh the lectures I have gotten from her about handling the
push bar after some sick kid just wiped their nose on it, or their diaper over flows into the cart. 

Those grocery carts are really filthy, almost as bad as the grab handles on a bus or the Metro.   

 

[BattleHymn]

2.  The lady that comes through my line that weighs 300lbs. most of it fat, and buys everything on food stamps with six obviously malnourished kids in tow... I'll let you guess what race.

She must be related to the woman my wife saw in a store once.  She had some cigarettes and cough syrup, and a small child who was whooping and coughing in line with her.  The total came up for more than what she had, so she just bought the cigarettes. 

[I_B_Perky]

I hate people that are shopping with a friend and pushing their carts side by side and blocking the whole aisle, yet are oblivious to people wanting to get past them.  When you say "excuse me" they give you a dirty look like you are imposing on them.

These same people sometime share their grocery list, one has the items that get paid for with cash and the other pays with an EBT card.

No shit. I was raised to be a polite person. I call people sir and ma'am no matter what. Unfortunately anymore when I am in the food store I say excuse me sir/ma'am and when the dirty look comes I take my buggy and knock theirs out of the way. Then I smile and say: "Oh, I'm sorry!".

Did I mention we have open carry here?   

[Chris_]

I hate people that leave their carts in the middle of the aisle blocking everyone else while they slooowly stare at the shelves.  I usually leave my cart in an out-of-the-way place while I do my shopping so I don't block anyone else.

I did have one over-eager twat at Publix empty my entire cart and disappear with it once.  The employees at Kroger don't care that much.