To hate supermarket tillers commenting on my groceries

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I know they are being kind but I always seem to have them pick up stuff Im buying, look ate me with a raised eyebrow and question how much it costs.

This morning I was buying a bag of cherries and the lady picked them up and halted proceedings with a "These are five pounds" "Are you sure you want them?"

Cue me feeling like I was in some onscure game show, while two of them gathered with shocked faces afore me and in back of me in the queue while, against the clock, I had to decide.

"Will I? , Wont I?. Oh my god, is £5 a lot for cherries? Will I look cheap if I say no? Will I look frivolous if i through caution to the wind and buy these gold plated cherries?"

Really its too much. Anyway I bought the cherries.

I've just remembered when I popped into a clothes shop in north London, heavily pregnant with DS. The woman on the till actually stood up to get a good look at me and said something along the lines of "enjoy your freedom while it lasts" to which I replied I've already got a 2 year old DD. Then she pulled a face at me and said "Ooooh you don't look old enough." When I told her I was 28 she said I looked 14!!! I went bright red, paid my money and ran out.

I am usually an antisocial git, but I quite like chatting to checkout staff. I can't remember anyone ever commenting on my shopping in a way that pissed me off.

They are not machines scanning your stuff - they are people after all.

I remember spending about £300 on alocohol and food one New years eve in Sainbos (we were having a load of people round) and they checkout woman said 'crikey what's going on in your house tonight' and asked me if I had got some stock of paracetamol and resolve (and waited whilst I ran and got some)

heidicat OMG thats almost exactly how mine played out

They also gave a "oooo thats a lot" wince when the total cost was £111

The last comment I got from a cashier was over my 6 pint bottle of milk. He said he'd never seen one before..

I did answer back once.

After the till person huffed and puffed through my shopping ( which was a bit big), she asked 'do want any help packing?' without even looking up. I answred "Yes please, I'd like Claudia Winkleman, if that's okay?". Cue the blank stare.

I remember one of the first times I bought a pregnancy test, the lady at the till asked what result I wanted! I was a bit but then we had quite a nice chat about how I had no idea.

I was less amused when I was out with two friends at the supermarket, there was a deal on multipacks of alcohol so we decided to buy them and split them between us for the next few weeks/month. We got a lecture about how dangerous it would be to drink it all in one night!!

I had a checkout girl ask me if the huge pile of shopping was my main shop - and when I said Yes, she pointed at my dc's and said REALLY LOUDLY - "aw your poor kids - you really should be buying fresh fruit and veg and you do realise that young kids need milk to drink. " -Cue tuts all round and a load of old biddys queuing customers craning to look at my trolley. ffs we live on a dairy farm and grow our own veg - anyway its none of her business, for all she knew the milkman called and we went to the farmers market for our veg.

Claudia Winkleman?

Blank stare from me too.

farming4 we live on a dairy farm and grow our own veg

Did you tell her that?!

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I brought a pair of tights once that make you look slimmer. As they were bleeped the till girl looked me up and down and said, 'you dont think they will work do you'?

!eragon! Please tell me you swiped her round the head with the tights?

I quite like chatting to checkout operaters if they're genuine and not following the company line e.g 'Ooh that's a lovely colour' sort of thing.
I had a nice chat yesterday in M&S about Madagasan prawns as opposed to the wonderful fresh Scottish prawns we have up here, I suppose because she wasn't following the script and was just naturally friendly.

eragon

The correct response would have been "don't wory chuck, I need the control panel to distort my facial features when I do a job on the bank later tonight"

I'm a cashier and I always ask about the cherries even on self scan as lots of people don't realise just how expensive they are this year. I do it with loose jersey royals as well after an old boy nearly keeled over when his total came up.

I also talk for England

Alexandra, where were you when I bought cherries (Back home so in swiss franc) at 3CHF for a 100g and I thought it was 3CHF a kilo! Costed me 30 odd CHF! (about £12) years ago. I bet they are twice the price now!

Our local supermarket has several people on the tills that I always chat to, and one in particular comments on the awful rudeness of some of the customers - I get the impression that they very much regard him and his colleagues as 'supermarket tillers', ie not quite human.

However, I have to admit that sometimes I'm standing in the queue, in a rush, and the relaxed conversation with the person in front does get somewhat trying - there can definitely be a lack of awareness that not everyone has the time to stand around exchanging family news all day, nice though that would be. Also, the supermarket in question never has enough tills open, so you're completely at their mercy.

Gorionine, I grew up with a massive cherry tree in the garden They are about £13 a kilo I think

I always question people with a big shop >£250 because I'm nosy and if they do a big sigh and say no, it's normal I always ask if they have teenage boys. 9 times out of 10 they do.

I love this - it is a massive pet peeve of mine.

When I went to buy a test to confirm my first pregnancy, I picked up two different brands. No idea why, I guess I stupidly wanted different types of tests to tell me the same thing. Shop assistant chimes in loudly with "Don't you trust them then?".... and grinned around at the rest of the customers in the pharmacy...

Even worse is the teenager who comments on my film selection at the local DVD store. When DH is on call for an entire weekend, yes, sometimes I just want to get out a trashy chick flick. And no I don't care that it isn't well reviewed.

This thread reminds me of a trip to Asda before the Royal Wedding weekend.
I was planning a bbq and had bought a bottle of half price cava, some bbq coals, alcohol and other things.
The cashier asked me if the cava was nice as she was thinking of buying some. I replied that I had never had it before. She then continued to look at me with it in her hand as if waiting for me to explain myself so I told her we were having a bbq. She then said oh I was thinking of having one, I will now that I know the weather is going to be nice!!!!
I told her that I didn't know for definate that it would be nice and that we would be in the conservatory if it was bad. She nodded at me I felt enormous pressure for it not to rain that day!
She then picked up the body lotion I was buying and asked me if it worked, again I had to admit that I had never used it before.
Finally she asked me how to cook something I was buying.
I too felt like I was on some weird game show.

There is one young girl in our local Sainsbury?s that never shuts up, never and you can hear from the other end of the shop. I will leave my shopping rather than go to her till, she?s not nasty or nosey just constant, and says things like ?Oh I?m crazy me? etc. Even thinking about her makes me shudder.

But my friends son also works in the store and says that in the morning the Little old ladies/gentlemen will ignore all the other tills to go to her, they love her.
I don?t mind a bit of a chat if I have time, but they need to get better and picking up peoples cues

I actually think the cherry thing is helpful. It's the sort of thing where the price could have crept up on you. The is either "That's fine." or "Oh, I think I'll leave them then." Don't see the problem.

However, a lot of the other comments, especially re pregnancy tests, are rude.

Also agree tillers is not the right word. Think they us tellers in the US though.

its not like the girl at the didnt have a bum that was dripping of the seat.

what was really worse, she was right, i couldnt walk up stairs with them on, and didnt look thinner at all.