Who'd like to join me in a supermarket checkout experiment?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Anyone?

It's quite fum...

You are a legend :o

I tried it earlier in Aldi. The customer behind me just picked up another divider and put it down the correct way behind my 'wrong one'.

I'm quite disappointed.

I wanted to try it today but they didn't have dividers and the person behind me didn't start unloading their trolley till I had packed my bags and paid.

I did it in sainsburys and got a kinda WTF are you doing look from the lady behind me and she moved it around.

Chaos, read coconutty's posts. This is only the very start. You have created a virus of awkward, this is the pre-mutagen of a hemorrhagic fever of internal unease and disgruntlement.

Just say stop and everything will go back to nice orderliness.

Persist and it will only end in bloodshed.

How about trying to balance it on its point? Have I taken it too far?

That's too far, if you want an advanced option steal a divider from one supermarket and use it at another one.

Has anyone done the alcohol and nappies?

You put a pack of nappies and some cans of beer (or bottle of wine) pretend you cannot afford both and ask the check out operator to put the nappies back,

You WON'T BREAK ME, Slubs...

The show must goon.

Thus is proving rather excellent.

[inordinatelysmile]

Chaos dearest - have you tried balancing it on end? With a satsuma atop, like a merry flag?

I often build an impenetrable corral at the arse end of my shopping - a Berlin Wall of Fruit and Fibre and Shredded Wheat boxes that shield my more secret purchases from the prying eyes of Mr or Mrs Behind-Me-In-Queue. If I see them craning to look over, I can just add a balustrade of Crackerbread.

Ah bollocks. Cross post and all that.

OP, you're an evil genius. I'm loving your work

I am so going to do this next time I shop and should any twitchy fingered fucker move it I will give them a dead eyed stare as I move it back into position. Your move fuckface oh yes your move. I may look a little disturbed I think the risk is worth it.

this is great! i wish i lived somewhere with supermarkets with conveyor belts!

I will be going to Sainsburys tomorrow. So will see if I get a different reaction from Lidl shop the other day.

Little things eh.. ;)

Did it in sainsburys! Crap photo as my phone is buggered but woman behind me moved it back without so much as a by-your-leave. Cheeky mare.

I've just done it with the dividers both in front of and after my shopping in Lidl and nothing happened! The checkout assistant just picked up the one in front and put it on the slidey divider shelf and got on with her scanning, and the woman behind me just placed all her stuff after the longways divider and went back to staring into space.

Ha ha! gotta try the booze/nappies game. I could get judged on neglect of my none existent DCs .

OTOH, pissing about with the minds of poor, hardworking supermarket staff seems a bit mean.

It's not aimed at the staff, OnIlkley, but the crowdery shoppers.

I've just done it in Sainsbury's. I got a wtaf look from the woman behind. She swapped it round, so I nonchalantlt twisted it back.

Then I wussed out when she moved it again

Gah.

I got three and made an equilateral triangle in Asda.

GUFFAW

None of my customers did it yesterday, I was most disappointed!

I love the equilateral triangle idea though!

Oh I am so going to try this, but here's a question. Whose responsibility is it to place the divider, the customer in front to end their shopping, you at the beginning of your shopping or do you do both, front and back of shopping?

This thread is the highlight of my day :-)

I've just caught up with this thread, I love it! Have been to sainsburys today before reading but will defo try it next time
I sometimes put the divider at the end but not on the conveyor belt so some people avoid the checkout as they think it's closing