I don't want the fucking receipt in the fucking bag.

[HaveYourselfAMardyLittleXmas]

I want it in my purse. Otherwise I'll lose the fucker.

And yes, young lady in Debenhams, I will make a song and dance about fishing it out.

Thank you nice lady in Marks who gave me the choice.

Fucking shopping.

[rage]

I'm off to the supermarket myself in a minute.

I really don't think it's fair to rant at shop assistants and let them bear the brunt, so I'm going to yell insults at random members of the public from my car window as I drive by

Yes! Costs me a bloody fortune I always forget them.

You go Greeny.!

If people are going rant I think greens way is fairest.

Get a good cross section of the general public.

Oh. Some rather delightful carol singers have just started singing opposite my bench. Shit. I can't be bah humbug with these guys, can I?

What I mean, Alien, is most people in RL aren't bothered where the shop assistant puts receipt. It's only people on MN who want an official handover complete with fanfare and a round of applause, with photographers.

laundryfairy I wasnt as restrained as you. I used to work in Pharmacy, and I had a customer interaction that went like this
Customer: May I speak to the pharmacist
Me: Sure, (he is busy) He is a bit busy at the moment, you are welcome to wait, or is there anything I can help you with?
Customer (stroppily): No, I need to speak to someone with a degree
Me: I presume my law degree wont do it, oh and (turning to colleague) her biochemistry one wouldnt either?
Customer (very red) oh er no no I didnt mean that...sorry
Me: No I know you didnt, its ok.
It had been a long day!!!! I wasnt letting that one get away with it

I always give the choice about receipts, people would get stroppy either way. Working in a card shop at christmas was worse, when at 4pm on Christmas Eve, you get the stroppy ones when you dont have the card for you cousins best friends dog-Joy.
I sell swords and armour now, unsurprisingly not so many moaners

I dare you.

You sound like a woman on the edge. Call them cunts and run off shrieking and flapping your bags.

Yes yes! Repent.

they've even got a rather good male contralto.

I'll be seeing ghosts next.

I'll stick some money in their bucket, but I think Debenhams woman will think I'm a loon if I went back.

You know what I hate:

• When shop assistants give you the receipt then the notes on top of that then the change. I'm fairly nimble fingered but it takes me a couple of minutes to then get my purse sorted out. Give me the receipt separately, please

• Oh and when they say "Would you like a bag with that?" as if they are doing you some huge and massive favour by putting your shopping in a bag. Grr, yes of course I would like a bag, thank you.

I'm always polite though, hard job serving the public I would think.

Final onslought about to commence.

Blimey Mardy, I thought I was grumpy at all the Christmas malarkey!

you I'm with you on the original post though - receipt separately in wallet so I can sort the buggers later or they will get lost, scrunched or worse in bag.

Bandersnatch "why, though? Are you saying that customers actually tell you off for not doing that - what reason do they give for that?"

Oh yes, wish I knew why. You don't expect the kind of people who throw a tantrum about it to deign to explain to a lowly shop assistant do you?

FWIW I agree with you, it's odd.

The "would you like a bag" is funny, though. Sometimes you ask and they laugh as though it's the most stupid question in the world "Yes please, how do you expect me to carry it without one?"

And then sometimes you ask and they laugh as though it's the most stupid question in the world "No thank you, why would I want a bag?"

And no, it doesn't usually correlate to how much stuff they've bought - if I had to correlate it to anything it's usually middle aged British women who express scorn at the idea of not needing a bag, and young Polish men who laugh at the idea of needing one.

People are strange.

What annoys me far more than 'would you like a bag' is people who let you key in your pin, remove your card, and then say 'oh, it's 5p for the bag'.

If you are going to charge for the bags you need to tell me that before I pay you!

Er...I don't want a bag. Why on earth would I want a bag? Of course I don't want a plastic bloody bag to add to the world's existing environmental problems.

I want a receipt, no bag.

I want mine in the bag.

But most importantly, first give me the change, THEN the bloody receipt. I HATE when I am given receipt, notes and coins all together.

I'd like mine laminated and framed please.I'm sure the shoppers behind me won't mind waiting an extra half hour.

haha

I can't actually believe this would annoy people so much... I can't say I have ever really thought about it. I am nice to all shop assistants, mainly because they paid shit, and have to work shit hours like me
Unless... they talk about every item I am buying... then I just get out of there quickly.. just, creepy :/

YANBU OP, the very least they should do is ask. If they put it into the bag without asking despite the fact that I've been standing there with my hand out waiting for it I make them fish it out the bag and give it to me. Or I make an ostentatious point of fishing it out before moving away from the till

I often have my own bags, but I keep all my receipts in my purse and then decanted into old handbags waiting to be sorted - that way, I know that they're there somewhere