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So I was called ignorant.....

76 replies

SaraRyder · 18/05/2019 16:11

By a man

What was my crime you ask......I dared go to the self service check with a trolley and be in the queue before him.

He tried to get me out of queue, by "helpfully" pointing out that trolleys should be in the manned til queues.

Then again, he pointed out, it was for people with baskets. (It's not, I go there every week.)

When I made a "hmm" sound, he called me ignorant.

We got to a till each within seconds of each other. He then proceeded to complain to the young lad manning tills about lack of staff, london (didnt catch the rest of that) How it should be baskets only.

He then finished off by telling the lad, he'll be making a complaint. (As if the lad cares)

So that's me going hell. Ah well, atleast I'll be warm.

OP posts:
TheWernethWife · 18/05/2019 16:46

And I prefer "staffing" the tills as they are nearly all women on them, not men

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 18/05/2019 16:46

Yes tali/sara like i said your right theres nothing to stop you but people will find it annoying and i wasn't suggesting actually that you were doing a full shop people however do and its annoying as many people use the self check out like the fast lane.

Two people (grump and fippit) have given very good reasons to why use trolleys in the self service.

Really you'd jave allowed him to cut in....really???
i dare you to try that "excuse me do you mind if i cut infront of you im in a rush" i suspect you would be given very very short thrift and if you were unlucky a thread to appear on here going "wow a woman in the supermarket just wanted to queue jump because she was in a rush" i think he was probably trying to be subtle and hoping you'd go oh i see you've only got a few things go a head you really can't ask to go a head

Original poster
SaraRyder · 18/05/2019 16:49

Actually, Naught. If he asked, then yes I would have. I'm not an arsehole.

OP posts:
ThumbWitchesAbroad · 18/05/2019 16:50

Tchuh, he's just a whinger.
We have self service tills in Australia as well - I prefer to use them because I like to bag my own stuff (cashiers mostly bag for you here). I'll often take a big trolley through the self-service tills, but so do lots of other people.
No one has whinged at me yet!
But if anyone did, I'd be asking them to show me the sign that says I can't - because there isn't one.

lboogy · 18/05/2019 16:52

I use self checkout because I hate talking to the cashier, plus they always push the items down the packing area too fast . The guy was a dick

Boysey45 · 18/05/2019 16:54

He obviously is a sad man with no life to be complaining about such twaddle.At the supermarkets here theres no discrimination between baskets, trolleys shallow or deep or people just with items in their hands. As long as you pay you can go to which checkout you want.

Flavabobble · 18/05/2019 16:55

The unloading bit on Morrisons self checkout is set to a level where the shallow trolley will fit nicely over it.
The larger self checkouts' packing area is designed to take a whole trolley's worth of shopping. (You have to play a bit of Jenga)

Clutterbugsmum · 18/05/2019 16:56

Shame you didn't thank him, telling now he told you, you are no longer ignorant. He on the other hand is still a twat. With a smile.

CaMePlaitPas · 18/05/2019 16:59

Ignorant? Ignorant of what?

I wish people would stop using words they don't know the meaning of.

Don't worry about it OP.

ClashCityRocker · 18/05/2019 17:00

The ones in my local tesco seem to be designed so the small trolleys fit nicely.

I always get a small trolley for bits if I'm getting more than I could carry in my hands.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 18/05/2019 17:03

No idea what he meant by Ignorant.

It's rare that strangers target me. Although I did have a lady in the same shop compliment my dress. That was sweet.

vintanner · 18/05/2019 17:03

I usually take my trolley to the conveyor self-service but it depends where there are most people.

If the 'supposedly basket' self-service only IS for baskets why does it show you where to put your trolley as well as your basket?

Plus, I've been heading towards the conveyor self-service and been told to go to the 'supposedly basket' only area.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 18/05/2019 17:03

I give up on the name change. I'm clearly no good at it.

CalamityJune · 18/05/2019 17:05

Urgh, people like this are so annoying. Don't have a problem with trolleys going through the self scan but there's usually only room to weigh 1-2 bagfuls, so a full weekly shop would have been a bit excessive

INeedAFlerken · 18/05/2019 17:09

The shallow carts fit right over the shelf in self-service checkouts. By design.

YANBU, OP. He was.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 18/05/2019 17:13

He's a twat. The little shelf is specifically designed to fit under a shallow trolley... unless they decide to store boxes of bags and other stuff under there, Sainsbury are really bad for that.

I'd have laughed at him and told him he was wrong. I'd have taken great pains to apologise to the staff member for having set him off on a rant about nothing... having done that once I can report it really infuriates a certain kind of complainer.

NewMum293 · 18/05/2019 17:13

I had a shallow trolley in Lidl recently, went to go to a till and was instructed by a member of staff to go to self-service!

EvilMorty · 18/05/2019 17:16

Our self checkouts are enormous, I can get all three kids in the packing area! They are defo for trolleys!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 18/05/2019 17:17

I've been told use self service in Lidl. I think they like to keep their staff on the shop floor instead of being on the til.

ManchesterBorn · 18/05/2019 17:24

meh, I always have a trolley. If I have my kids there's usually a kid or 2 in the trolley, their scooters, I am not carrying all of that.

As long as you don't go with a full trolley, but the equivalent of a basket in goods, everybody does it. At worst, if someone does their monthly shop, go to another till. The man is a moron.

ManchesterBorn · 18/05/2019 17:25

I take "basket only" as meaning the content of a basket, if I have a trolley and 2 items, I still go there. What's the difference?

Bluerussian · 18/05/2019 17:27

Next time put a basket or two baskets in a trolley for going around the shop and then take them out for the self check out.

ineedaknittedhat · 18/05/2019 17:31

I've used them before when I've needed to avoid social interaction. If the checkout operators didn't insist on talking at me and asking obtrusive questions to get me to interact I wouldn't feel the need to do it.

Lookingforpizza · 18/05/2019 17:35

I’m sorry but it’s common sense not to use the self scan for a trolley of shopping.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 18/05/2019 17:42

You can be as sorry as you like - there's no "common sense" about it. HmmYou can use them for a trolley of shopping if you want to.