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Back when I used to live near a WinCo i'd do my shopping around midnight or sometimes a little afterwards because there were less people. Sure sometimes the stockers were out and there were boxes all across the aisles, but this generally-young age group was hyperaware of their surroundings. If you were agile and quick on your feet, you could fill up your cart and be out of there pretty fast. In the early mornings however, you'd get your Helens and Geralds cruising down the Hispanic/Salsa/Asian/Oil aisle right in the middle of it, seemingly oblivious to the world around them as they park their cart in a diagonal manner which closes down all through traffic. I no longer live near a WinCo and have to test my mettle at the local grocery stores, trying to overtake old people with my cart and avoid the unmasked, potbellied men in compression socks or have someone get a little too close to me in line because the concept of a personal bubble is lost to them, and whatever partial lesson they had learned about spacing in the pandemic is already lost. There's also this Smart and Final next to me that has impossibly narrow aisles that can only accommodate one cart, and the register lines run parallel with the aisles so sometimes you can't access an aisle because a third of it is filled with people in line waiting to be checked out. I've often thought about submitting a complaint about bad store design but I would rightfully be mocked for assuming they'd care or that it would be even remotely profitable to redo the store layout so i stop bumping into people and deciding to just go to the neighboring Target instead. Share your grocery store nightmares and experiences or just vent about how much it sucks. I've tried to ascend past the level of shopping in person and instead doing those park-and-carryout things, but Target wont deliver their bread outside the store for some insane reason. This isn't one of my better threads but these struggles are near and dear to my heart.
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I will destroy WinCo for you Bug even tho you are super straight
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Oct 3, 2021 01:00
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The first and last time i went to winco i didnt know you had to pay cash or debit and the old lady at the checkout got all mad at me and was all THIS IS A WINCO YOU CANT USE CREDIT It hurt my millenial feefees ):
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Oct 3, 2021 01:21
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Nooner posted:The first and last time i went to winco i didnt know you had to pay cash or debit and the old lady at the checkout got all mad at me and was all THIS IS A WINCO YOU CANT USE CREDIT drat, crazy to hear how it went down seconds before thT WinCo disappeared in a nitrogen bomb haze
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Oct 3, 2021 01:25
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I once bought hamburger buns from a grocery store and they had mold on them two days later
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Oct 3, 2021 01:40
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once an old lady yelled at me for taking too long picking out the bread I wanted and i told her to gently caress off and I think it ruined both of our days
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Oct 3, 2021 01:51
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i saw a kid pick his nose while his mom was doing self checkout and then she yelled at him and he loving put the booger right back in his nose. it was wild.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:08
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I'm tall and I mostly shop with a handbasket so when I see men blocking an aisle I make sure to say excuse me as I walk past them with the basket hoisted over their head and they always give such a spiteful glare it's really funny.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:21
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I always use my checkbook at the grocery store.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:25
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ArbitraryC posted:I'm tall and I mostly shop with a handbasket so when I see men blocking an aisle I make sure to say excuse me as I walk past them with the basket hoisted over their head and they always give such a spiteful glare it's really funny. how tall are you also what color panties are you wearing
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Oct 3, 2021 02:27
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ArbitraryC posted:I'm tall and I mostly shop with a handbasket so when I see men blocking an aisle I make sure to say excuse me as I walk past them with the basket hoisted over their head and they always give such a spiteful glare it's really funny. You're actually extremely short and pass the handbasket beneath their legs as they give you a sensual glare
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Oct 3, 2021 02:29
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I read this thread in a supermarket.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:31
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I'm at the supermarket sucking off any toes I see not clad in sock, flip flops and sandals and heels im suckin them toes up, better cover up them piggies hee hee!!
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Oct 3, 2021 02:34
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'm at the supermarket sucking off any toes I see not clad in sock, flip flops and sandals and heels im suckin them toes up, better cover up them piggies hee hee!! This is worse than just blowing up the shop.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:38
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I always use my checkbook at the grocery store. Ok genesplicer
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Oct 3, 2021 02:40
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Any grocery store that has that fuckin Marty robot. I hate Marty so much, I wish I could shove a three feet of Hanzo steel right up his stupid robot rear end!!!
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Oct 3, 2021 02:58
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I was your grocery person at the register. Hey, old lady, paper or plastique?
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Oct 3, 2021 03:01
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Once the store didn't have the brand of butter I usually get, so I got another brand instead of making a hassle. It was pretty intense.
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Oct 3, 2021 04:27
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I used to work at a grocery store known locally as the "murder Kroger." I quit that job in 2014 but sometimes I still have nightmares that I'm back there. The nightmares have nothing to do with the murders, they're all about the eternal hell that is grocery retail. Every day for four years was a bad grocery store experience.
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Oct 3, 2021 04:59
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Stalizard posted:I used to work at a grocery store known locally as the "murder Kroger." I quit that job in 2014 but sometimes I still have nightmares that I'm back there. The nightmares have nothing to do with the murders, they're all about the eternal hell that is grocery retail. Every day for four years was a bad grocery store experience. Someone murdered you?
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Oct 3, 2021 05:03
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'm at the supermarket sucking off any toes I see not clad in sock, flip flops and sandals and heels im suckin them toes up, better cover up them piggies hee hee!! man you are like EXTRA horny in this thread today, i wonder what the subject correlation is
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Oct 3, 2021 05:13
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Floodixor posted:man you are like EXTRA horny in this thread today, i wonder what the subject correlation is Im at your local grocery store
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Oct 3, 2021 05:14
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Stalizard posted:I used to work at a grocery store known locally as the "murder Kroger." I quit that job in 2014 but sometimes I still have nightmares that I'm back there. The nightmares have nothing to do with the murders, they're all about the eternal hell that is grocery retail. Every day for four years was a bad grocery store experience. I imagine every retail worker’s life to be like Dane Cook’s hit movie Employee of the Month.
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Oct 3, 2021 05:20
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A few months ago I went to Smart & Final to buy some alcohol and the cashier, who appeared to be in his early 20s, asked to see my ID. "Dang dude, you're rockin it for 1984!" he exclaimed, to which I naturally blushed and responded thanks man. I walked out of the store with my head held high, feeling a newfound confidence in the fact that I am still, at least visually, a healthy young man. About a week later I went back to buy more alcohol. The cashier was a different person, but he fed me the exact. same. line. I think the whole thing was just a customer engagement campaign thought up by the store manager. "If they look like they're in their 30s and they're buying alcohol, tell them they're rockin it." It worked the first time, but the second time was pretty demoralizing.
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Oct 3, 2021 05:53
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sometimes the cashier tries to start up a conversation about my purchases. i know your job sucks, but still, gently caress you!
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Oct 3, 2021 07:07
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:sometimes the cashier tries to start up a conversation about my purchases. i know your job sucks, but still, gently caress you! So did you find everything you were looking for?
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Oct 3, 2021 07:18
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:sometimes the cashier tries to start up a conversation about my purchases. i know your job sucks, but still, gently caress you! Maybe they just want to know what your plans are for the night when you're buying condoms, bleach, and duct tape?
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Oct 3, 2021 07:22
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I worked the closing shift at a Safeway in an affluent neighborhood next to a few restaurants with bars. I've seen the weirdest rich people North Scottsdale had to offer. One guy tried to buy a single beer from a six pack, which was virtually impossible for me to ring up. I told him he had to buy the whole six pack, scanning the single beer did nothing. During the ensuing argument he showed me that he had thousands in hundreds on him but he refused to pay for a whole six pack when he only wanted one. During his rant he attracted the attention of a wandering security guard who tried to calm him down. The guy instead tried to run away with the whole six pack and the rent-a-cop tazed him, which was harsh but I thought it was funny at the time. On the other hand was my favorite customer. He was old as hell and was always covered in dirt and wore cargo shirts/band t-shirts and always bought hundreds of dollars worth of groceries that filled two carts. One day he asked for help out to his car, something Safeway employees were obligated to do at the time, and I brought out his groceries. This dirty old man was driving a ruby red Ferrari that could barely fit the groceries in both the meager trunk and passenger seat. He'd always insist on tipping 40+ dollars despite us not being allowed to accept tips. And honorable mention to the old ranch guy who would come in and buy all our manager special meat to feed his dozens of dogs and the mean old lady who bought all of our soda to fill her vending machines because we offered buy 2 get 3 free 12 packs (Yes, buy 2 get 3 free)
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Oct 3, 2021 07:32
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Maybe they just want to know what your plans are for the night when you're buying condoms, bleach, and duct tape? And a whole bunch of english cucumbers. I usually make small talk with customers because if the only things i say to them is "would you like a bad" "do you have a rewards card" "would you like to donate to charity" "how will you be paying" make me feel like a cop and I don't like that. "good looking steak" or "That's my favorite Ben and Jerry's" breaks it up. Though some people you can tell yuo don't want to say anything to outside of what you need to because either they're pissy jerks or lonely old ladies who are desperate for human contact and we are not allowed to run away. The worst, the absolute WORST though are customers who don't understand the concept of by weight. Fruits, Vegetables and meats for the most part have been sold that way since the dawn of time. In the year of our lord 2021 how do you not know that that pack of chicken thighs is 1.99 a pound, not 1.99 for the whole thing. Is this the first time you've ever been grocery shopping in your life and you have only discovered the concept before you walked in? I can understand misreading a sign and thinking that this package is that price when its really this other price, because honestly, for the amount of money grocery store workers are paid and the amount of work we have to do you should be thankful things aren't just thrown randomly onto shelves and into coolers. The worst guy like that I ever had decided that saying he was a lawyer would help his case. If you are a lawyer and don't understand a basic concept of the world, I feel sorry for any client you've ever had. I'm kinda enjoying just being a regular cashier right now because I'm not the one who has to deal with the problem customers like I did when I was rear end Man of the Front End at my last store. And because I closed the store, i got all the pissy assholes and people who thought 5 minutes to close was a good time to come in and try to return their entire order.
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Devils Affricate posted:A few months ago I went to Smart & Final to buy some alcohol and the cashier, who appeared to be in his early 20s, asked to see my ID. "Dang dude, you're rockin it for 1984!" he exclaimed, to which I naturally blushed and responded thanks man. I walked out of the store with my head held high, feeling a newfound confidence in the fact that I am still, at least visually, a healthy young man. About a week later I went back to buy more alcohol. The cashier was a different person, but he fed me the exact. same. line. I think the whole thing was just a customer engagement campaign thought up by the store manager. "If they look like they're in their 30s and they're buying alcohol, tell them they're rockin it." It worked the first time, but the second time was pretty demoralizing. If you think there's "customer engagement" metrics at grocery stores you've never worked retail. Enjoy your youth dawg
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Oct 3, 2021 08:01
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kazr posted:If you think there's "customer engagement" metrics at grocery stores you've never worked retail. Enjoy your youth dawg You have no idea how wrong you are and I envy your innocence.
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Oct 3, 2021 08:07
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My first job at 18 was at a local 24/7 grocery chain that's now dead as far as I know. I worked graveyard stocking shelves and our night cashier was a meth head named Larry with a crippled arm. One night Larry finishes his shift, buys a six pack of beer and leaves. A few minutes later he comes back in with his beer, walks over to the beer/wine area and grabs a bottle opener off the rack and pops open two of them and walks back out. Larry drove an old manual truck.
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Oct 3, 2021 08:13
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PinheadSlim posted:You have no idea how wrong you are and I envy your innocence. Eugh that sucks and I'm sorry. I did 4 years of retail pharmacy so don't envy too much kazr fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Oct 3, 2021 08:15
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I was a manager at Safeway for a few months before the merger with Albertsons and back then there were about 10 things a cashier had to do in every transaction, and forgetting any one of them could get you written up. One of those things was to say something to personally relate to the customer, and another was to ask if they had any plans coming up. Except they didn't tell you how to do it, they told you to ask other cashiers for tips on how to personally relate to customers. This led to entire stores repeating the same lines like "Getting ready for the game?" regardless of whether there was a game for any sport coming up. It didn't matter if it was genuine, it just mattered that you said it.
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Oct 3, 2021 08:17
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kazr posted:If you think there's "customer engagement" metrics at grocery stores you've never worked retail. Enjoy your youth dawg Yea, literally they only care about your average transaction amount, thats about it. They don't want you to steal from the till or mouth off to customers, but no one is going to tell you that you need to say certain things to certain customers. There's too much work to do to worry about that poo poo, plus again, no one making minimum wage is going to have enough incentive to do poo poo like that.
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Oct 3, 2021 08:21
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Every trip. More than half of my shopping list is out of stock. I heard this is supposed to get even worse by Thanksgiving - Christmas. The ONLY port for Asia-Pacific ships to dock in the USA is in LA. The LA port's normal number of ships waiting to dock is 0 - 1. (That's pre-covid.) A few months ago it was over 30. It was hoped it would slowly start to come down. Instead, the opposite has happened. It's now at 68. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ports/87/USA_port:LOS%20ANGELES The government is going to have to step in and relax a LOT of regulations to speed things up.
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Oct 3, 2021 08:32
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I once lost all of my reusable bags and didn't realize it until I was at self-checkout. 
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cashiered for a bit at a BiLo a lady came in visibly having some sort of episode, demanded her items go in paper bags, and then when her items began being placed in paper bags, she picked up a can of fruit and threw it at me, screaming manager offered me weed after she was escorted out of the store, he was a nice fella it isn't grocery store related but I also worked as a front desk clerk at a fairly nice hotel and when confronted with the fact that I could not fully comp her stay for the room she was checking out of, she threw her teacup yorkie at me over the desk. there was nothing wrong with the room, she just got dog-throwing mad about having to actually pay for it
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Oct 3, 2021 10:15
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'm at the supermarket sucking off any toes I see not clad in sock, flip flops and sandals and heels im suckin them toes up, better cover up them piggies hee hee!! I think I've told this one in another one of these type of threads before, but when I was a grocery boy about 20 years ago a woman wearing sandals made me put a band-aid on a cut that she had. Somehow this managed not to develop into a foot injury fetish, thank god.
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PinheadSlim posted:One guy tried to buy a single beer from a six pack, which was virtually impossible for me to ring up. I told him he had to buy the whole six pack, scanning the single beer did nothing. This is very foreign to me because all our liquor stores have really punitive singles prices (as if six pack prices weren't punitive enough!) to punish the truly desperate.
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