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Supreme Allah posted:once they were out of fruity pebbles. how does that happen. This is why Jesus created Fruity Dyno Bites.
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shame on an IGA posted:at last I feel seen I don't know what your beef is with the fedora-wearers but I respect it. EDIT: they do wear the fedoras in the USA right? Pekinduck fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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Oct 4, 2021 17:02
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Luna posted:This is why Jesus created Fruity Dyno Bites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X7IwtPTsc
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Oct 4, 2021 17:13
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My old boss texted me today telling me Gross Santa got banned from the store because he poo poo himself while walking around and it dribbled down his leg out of his cuff. It literally took that to have him banned. The goon above talking about being not knowing how to pay, that really upset me. People who insist on using cash but want to make sure they don't get any change back, so you end up waiting for them to dig up a nickle so they don't get any change back. Or the older people who are incredibly confused by the machines, refuse to get cards that tap to pay and struggle to punch in the multiple prompts the pinpad gives them. Tap is fantastic for people with poor eyesight or motor control problems, but people all panicked about people walking around stealing everyone chip info event though i can't find any cases of this happening that wasn't actually someone physically taking the card and running it through a reader. But nope, ignorant people were imaging someone just walking behind them and stealing all their money. Or just the people who are surprised that they have to pay. It's like they're so intensively watching things being scanned in making sure the prices are correct that they forget that they have to pay. Though there are people that are a bit to eager to pay, they have their card or their cash out before I've finished with the previous customer. Also its a bit funny watching people tapping as if its going to shock or bite them. The thing is tapping has been around for nearly 2 decades in Canada, and some people act like its a extremely new and unique thing.
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Oct 8, 2021 07:43
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The smiths by my house shut down the 6 self checkouts for about 6 months and installed 10 more. Since that project was completed, they run 4 of them on at a time. They added 10 checkout counters and then reduced the number that are running at any given time by 2. Needless to say, this is not an efficient system!
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Oct 8, 2021 08:24
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This isn’t strictly a grocery story. One of my favourite books was “The boys from Brazil” by Ira Levin. I discovered there was a Gregory Peck/Lawrence Oliver movie and eagerly rang my local blockbuster to see if they had it. They did and held it for me. Turns out that’s also the title of gay porn.
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Oct 8, 2021 11:59
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When I lived in China, sometimes people would follow me around and scrutinize what I put in my basket. Occasionally, they'd take something out and put it in their own. I remember one time at Ito Yokada when a lady plucked an avocado out of my basket and asked me what it was. Ma'am, if you don't know the word...
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Oct 8, 2021 12:44
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Way back when I was a kid I was walking around an Albertsons with a friend of mine, for whatever reason we were smoking in the store. In the soda aisle we passed by a woman and she was visibly irritated that we were smoking in the store but she didn't really say anything to us, just kind of scowled and did the little fake cough thing. Anyway we kept walking and when we were about 20 feet from her one of the 2 liter soda bottles on the shelf right next to her just loving exploded and I poo poo you not she blamed us! She was like "goddammit how dare you!" etc. In our logical minds we knew we had nothing to do with it but for whatever reason it made us both really nervous so we split as fast as we could walk out of the store. Once at that same store I walked out into the parking lot with a couple of my friends and we got jumped by a carload of dudes who beat on us and stole our 12 pack of beer. The store staff called the cops and they took our report but nothing ever came of it.
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Oct 8, 2021 13:12
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Local Weather posted:Way back when I was a kid I was walking around an Albertsons with a friend of mine, for whatever reason we were smoking in the store. Lol
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Oct 8, 2021 14:39
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Local Weather posted:Way back when I was a kid I was walking around an Albertsons with a friend of mine, for whatever reason we were smoking in the store. What was the Great Depression like, grandpa
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Oct 8, 2021 15:03
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rotinaj posted:What was the Great Depression like, grandpa You know I always think of myself as being a pretty cool and normal dude but sometimes I look back and realize that I've been involved in some stupid poo poo.
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Oct 8, 2021 16:11
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Once I was in line at the register not really paying attention to anything when the cashier turned to the old lady behind me and said "oh, you've got someone else with you today, have you" and I didn't realize until she started scanning the lady's groceries with mine that she thought I was her, I dunno, caretaker or something I guess. We sorted it out, no big deal. As I was packing in I heard someone loudly complain "MY WIFE ALMOST HAD TO PAY FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S STUFF". Turned and there was the old lady looking harried with her husband, who looked positively livid and was getting in an employee's face as best as a frail 80something man can do. "SHE ALMOST HAD TO PAY DOUBLE", he spotted me and pointed straight in my direction, "CAUSE OF THAT GUY!" I decided this was not actually any of my business and headed out, and the last I heard of it was the employee very calmly replying "that's 'because of this gentleman', not 'that guy', sir" and I wish that man all the best in the world
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Oct 8, 2021 17:27
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My Lovely Horse posted:Once I was in line at the register not really paying attention to anything when the cashier turned to the old lady behind me and said "oh, you've got someone else with you today, have you" and I didn't realize until she started scanning the lady's groceries with mine that she thought I was her, I dunno, caretaker or something I guess. We sorted it out, no big deal. As I was packing in I heard someone loudly complain "MY WIFE ALMOST HAD TO PAY FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S STUFF". Turned and there was the old lady looking harried with her husband, who looked positively livid and was getting in an employee's face as best as a frail 80something man can do. "SHE ALMOST HAD TO PAY DOUBLE", he spotted me and pointed straight in my direction, "CAUSE OF THAT GUY!" Jfc, old people really suck sometimes. “Let’s make this poor retail employee’s day miserable over a minor mistake that was caught immediately and resulted in literally nothing wrong occurring”.
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Oct 8, 2021 17:48
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it's important to remember that you have incredible power as a customer, specifically you can't get fired for telling other customers to piss off and die in a fire.
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Oct 8, 2021 18:05
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MrQwerty posted:The smiths by my house shut down the 6 self checkouts for about 6 months and installed 10 more. And heaven knows you're miserable now?
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Oct 8, 2021 18:08
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This is someone else's bad experience. I worked at rite aid when I was a teen and someone asked me where the profilactics we're. Well I had never heard condoms called that before. So Infront of a couple little old ladies I asked him what they were used for. The guy very upset said "condoms, I was trying to be polite." I just told him sorry haven't heard them called that before and told him right I front of the pharmacy. Then when everyone was gone I laughed my rear end off at my stupid teenage self.
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Oct 8, 2021 18:48
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Never seen Blues Brothers, eh?
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Jfc, old people really suck sometimes. “Let’s make this poor retail employee’s day miserable over a minor mistake that was caught immediately and resulted in literally nothing wrong occurring”. Oh yeah especially when they’re bored and decide to cosplay a manager and wander around the store trying to find things that are wrong. “Well I can read this sticker with a warning, but it’s at such a high level what if my short daughter were here? Then what would she do?!” Holy cow libraries exist and are free and have lots of activities, go there dude
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Oct 8, 2021 19:00
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Local Weather posted:Way back when I was a kid I was walking around an Albertsons with a friend of mine, for whatever reason we were smoking in the store. In the soda aisle we passed by a woman and she was visibly irritated that we were smoking in the store but she didn't really say anything to us, just kind of scowled and did the little fake cough thing. Anyway we kept walking and when we were about 20 feet from her one of the 2 liter soda bottles on the shelf right next to her just loving exploded and I poo poo you not she blamed us! She was like "goddammit how dare you!" etc. In our logical minds we knew we had nothing to do with it but for whatever reason it made us both really nervous so we split as fast as we could walk out of the store. In the 80's and very early 90's it was considered very normal to walk around everywhere and have a smoke. Grocery stores were no exception, there would be the odd cigarette butt on the floor and small sand ashtray pedestals at the corners of almost every aisle. your story just reminded me that that was a thing, to smoke everywhere. Most of my issues at the grocery store stem from old/stupid people whining about 10 cents or a coupon or something and holding up the line for 15 minutes. About once every 3 years or so I'll want to get moving so I'll pay a dollar or whatever just to get the loving rear end in a top hat moving. They are never thankful but frankly, since I'm giving them major attitude I don't blame them for being grumpy about it.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:29
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah especially when they’re bored and decide to cosplay a manager and wander around the store trying to find things that are wrong. “Well I can read this sticker with a warning, but it’s at such a high level what if my short daughter were here? Then what would she do?!” Goddammit, don't send those people to me! 
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Oct 8, 2021 19:36
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I went to a grocery store one time and all they had were green bananas! I asked to see the manager and ended up in a yelling match cause he was trying to tell me they would turn yellow on their own but if you leave fruit that long they would just go bad. I see through your lies produce manager, not gonna unload your unwanted green bananas on this guy.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:40
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My Lovely Horse posted:Never seen Blues Brothers, eh? Nope. Not my genre. Back then it was ( and to a good extent today) is bad horror movies and super hero movies/shows.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:42
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One time a customer asked for rizlas and being a nonsmoking nerd I had no idea what that meant. Asked him to repeat a couple of times and finally he just chuckled tiredly and waved his hand. Sorry dude.  Also another customer found in the freezer section a rabbit that had passed its best before date by a year. Whoops. Doll House Ghost fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 8, 2021 20:06
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Xun posted:I was trying to buy a cheese and some guy was standing in front of it. I kind of moved off to the side to wait for him to move and instead he decided that meant it was time for him to try to hit on me??? In the cheese isle??? While blocking the way to the cheese I wanted??? Anyway he followed me around the store for a bit afterwards. After I graduated/moved I started talking to women who seemed unhurried in grocery stores, to work on my crippling shyness, since that was where I saw the most women aside from work. Although I learned a lot about favorite chocolates and spice blends, it was unsuccessful because my wife says I was still v awkward when we met online. I had a coworker who married a man who hit on her in a grocery store! He said she was beautiful and handed her a post-it with his phone number. Just hitting the Kroger’s with a stack of post-it notes and a dream!
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Oct 8, 2021 21:09
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deep dish peat moss posted:When the pandemic first started and everything was out of stock and being hoarded and groceries were hard to come by, I went to the local Sprouts and I walked around in shock at all of the shelves picked clean and the empty meat freezers. Everyone was in a panic, people were on their phones saying "They don't have it. What about [x] or [y] instead?", or grabbing entire armloads of whatever and shoving it in their cart. (Side note: All of the cinnamon applesauce was completely untouched despite the aisle around it being picked clean). I mean, I don't know if it's because of people avoiding that aisle or never thinking about what it might contain due to racism, but I'd like to think that this was an example of racism biting racists in the butt. E: FogHelmut posted:Moved to the west coast Rabbit Hill fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 8, 2021 22:10
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Doll House Ghost posted:One time a customer asked for rizlas and being a nonsmoking nerd I had no idea what that meant. Asked him to repeat a couple of times and finally he just chuckled tiredly and waved his hand. Sorry dude. hold up y'all just had a whole-rear end rabbit in the freezer at your grocery store? more on that please
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pnac attack posted:hold up y'all just had a whole-rear end rabbit in the freezer at your grocery store? more on that please I've seen whole rabbits sold at PCC and Uwajimaya.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:32
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There was also stuff like kangaroo, ostrich and horse. They weren't really bought that much (as you could probably tell from having one rabbit just chill for a year without anyone noticing), it was just to flex on the variety in the store.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:37
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shame on an IGA posted:it's important to remember that you have incredible power as a customer, specifically you can't get fired for telling other customers to piss off and die in a fire. Yea, I've had customers get after asshats for treating the staff badly. Like when some woman caused me to have a panic attack because she didn't respond to the 5 times i asked her if she wanted her receipt and started yelling at me and caused me to have a panic attack that I honestly thought was a heart attack, after i was taken to the staff room, a bunch of customers just cussed her out because i was literally on the floor crumpled up in a ball struggling to breathe and she was still yelling at me about her receipt that totaled less than $5. She had the audacity to play the victim but the people in line were not having any of it. Like i was literally taken away to the hospital on a stretcher but she didn't get her receipt, so clearly she was the one most wronged. Weird meat discussion, I once had a woman livid we were selling "lion chops" when I pointed out that the sticker said "loin chops"
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Oct 10, 2021 01:23
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One time I was in line at the register and noticed a $20 bill on the ground in front of me. I picked it up and said to the guy in front of me (who was at the register) “sir, I think you dropped this”. Before I was even done asking the guy behind me pipes up “oh, uh that’s mine!” It would have been physically impossible for it to belong to the guy behind me. Anyway the guy in front of me says, “thanks for being honest” and tells the cashier to put the $20 towards my order. I guess not really a bad experience but the guy behind me was definitely lovely.
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Oct 10, 2021 01:47
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King Vidiot posted:And heaven knows you're miserable now? it's a giant loving pain in the rear end because they have 1-3 of the 15 checkouts open at any given time along with the 4 out of 12 self-checkouts, but hey, loving pay people money and stop managing your store like poo poo and people might do work for you how's that, is that performative enough for you?
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Oct 10, 2021 18:35
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I work in the deli at a Walmart neighborhood market, so every day is a bad grocery store experience for me
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Oct 10, 2021 18:36
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Back when I was working as a cashier in a local supermart chain, there was a minor scandal about said chain charging new suppliers "hello money". Basically they were charging new suppliers an upfront fee before they'd stock their product. It was illegal, but they'd found some kind of loophole that they were abusing to get around the law. Anyway, an honest-to-god nationally recognized journalist started having a go at me, a lowly cashier, for the shady shenanigans of the owners of the company. Like, lady, I am on a till, I do not control or direct company policy.
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Oct 10, 2021 18:40
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Pookah posted:Back when I was working as a cashier in a local supermart chain, there was a minor scandal about said chain charging new suppliers "hello money". Basically they were charging new suppliers an upfront fee before they'd stock their product. It was illegal, but they'd found some kind of loophole that they were abusing to get around the law. you can't use your company's open door policy to go tell the ceo what some person told you? How strange!
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Oct 10, 2021 19:00
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rotinaj posted:you can't use your company's open door policy to go tell the ceo what some person told you? How strange! I know! And she wasn't even journalisting at the time, she was just doing her shopping.Which I was scanning for her. While she scolded me for what people I'd barely ever seen were up to.
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Oct 10, 2021 19:03
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Please tell me you're not Irish because if you are I know who it is and she's a nightmare person all day every day anyway.
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Oct 10, 2021 19:11
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Mormon Nailer posted:Please tell me you're not Irish because if you are I know who it is and she's a nightmare person all day every day anyway. Feck...
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Oct 10, 2021 19:13
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Pookah posted:Feck... Ah hell. She's given a lot of my other Irish friends poo poo (one who was the two decade caretaker at Rathcroghan, because "there's no cats here", as an example...)
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Mormon Nailer posted:Ah hell. She's given a lot of my other Irish friends poo poo (one who was the two decade caretaker at Rathcroghan, because "there's no cats here", as an example...) I can't for the life of me remember her name - I think it was something like Rosemary/Róisín Something but that's as close as I can get...
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