Supermarket Sod's Law

Originally Posted by Geodude

People who leave their trolley in the middle of the isle and walk off if it happens near me i put things in the trolley they dont want

That is brilliant!!! Must try it

[DarrenSV650S]

Why do they never have ben & jerrys on half price when I'm in?

People who leave their self checkout station to go and get something they've forgot, pay for the stuff you've scanned, and go back in afterward.

When something is reduced, more than a few times they whack the sticker over the bar code but don't replace it with a new one.

While re-stacking the selves they leave those massive cages in front of the stuff I want, then get moaned at when I move it out the way.

When I buy Alcohol there's no one around the put the 'Age Restriction' code in, but ever other time...

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

two employees standing by the self checkouts chatting

[BanannaMan]

People with a trolley so overloaded they can barely push it in the "10 item's or less" line, and the stores could care less.
Excuse me, 395 fricking items is more than 10.

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

SELF CHECKOUT--If I wanted a job as a checkout person I would apply for one

PMSL
Nice one mate!

Originally Posted by Destruktor77

People who leave their self checkout station to go and get something they've forgot, pay for the stuff you've scanned, and go back in afterward.

Counterpoint: Here in the Wales, we now have to pay 5p per bag as per Assembly law. This means the self-service ones don't have bags, they're carried around by the little tart who monitors the checkouts. She was nowhere to be seen, so I turned to the immediately adjacent proper checkout to grab a bag for life so I could scan it (to pay for it!) and put my stuff in. I turn back to see some guy fiddling with my screen wondering what all these items are because he wanted to start scanning his.

"Pardon me, but... I'm not done here yet!"

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

People with a trolley so overloaded they can barely push it

You don't know the half of it. UK shopping carts have all four wheels pivot, not just the front ones. Heavy cart, you try to turn it... oh, the cart itself rotates, but momentum keeps it going in a straight line.

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

"10 item's or less" l

This annoys me. The sign should read "10 items or fewer".

A sign in Asda displayed "about 10 items or less" for the self service checkouts. Yes, what about them? Argh!

Checkout girls who can't talk nine to the dozen AND scan items at the same time, multitasking my ar$e...

Rude people who can't take two seconds of their time to pop a "next customer please" divider after their items on the conveyor belt.

Got to love a traditional Brit rant thread

Originally Posted by Geodude

People who leave their trolley in the middle of the isle and walk off if it happens near me i put things in the trolley they dont want

That thought amuses me a lot.

Originally Posted by Geodude

People who leave their trolley in the middle of the isle and walk off if it happens near me i put things in the trolley they dont want

This works better if you can pile in an array of embarrassing items, condoms, cucumbers, anusol, etc etc


I hate people who dawdle around the supermarket as if they have all day.
Or who stand right in front of the stuff I want.

But thats generally a people rant and not specifically a supermarket rant.

[Geodude]

I have chucked in the above quite a few times they will learn not to leave an unattended trolley

[Dave20046]

Multipack items being more expensive than them bought individually.
Baskets/trolleys only being available at the entrance so if you decide you want to buy more than what you originally went in for or want to stock up you either have to get tackled by a security guard or ditch the stuff and come back to it - but you still look like a shoplifter.
Dawdlers / ignorant people.

And of course self service checkouts, mostly because they never ever get the weight right so constantly need an assistant to come over. It's always awkward about the weights if you pack it in the bags as you go along, assistants always tell me to bag it up after but then you get a queue of eyes on you while you frantically try and seperate their superglued bags!

100% agree about the oldies too, it doesn't help a lot of supermarkets have cafes now and friendly staff to humor them.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

Pet hate, do you need any help with your packing, well i managed to put it in the trolley, i recon i can put it in bags.

Agree! But they've told me before they're instructed to ask everyone in case someone has a disability which isn't immediately visible or something.