to think this woman broke supermarket etiquette

[thestoker]

was in Aldi this evening, approached a checkout followed by woman with trolley of stuff, when the operator said she was shutting. We went to move to the next till, with me waiting to make eye contact and be waved in front as per social norms... but this woman pointedly swung her trolley round and avoided eye contact so she could jump the queue I only had two items! (ok it was curly fries and Haribo...)

Who does this, really?! Would anyone admit to it on here? Did she sit in her car reflecting on how much of a turd she just was, or are some people just oblivious?

Thank you marmalade for teaching me the correct procedure! I was thinking of doing that then chickened out and balanced all my things on top of each other in a quite spectacular food mountain...

I said nothing but used the power of angry stare to make them really uncomfortable. In waitrose that's practically a full on scrap.

Ime it's ALWAYS like this in Aldi

I hate when you're paying by card and the person behind comes so far forward they're practically breathing down your neck.

Some rude fuckers rudely pushed in front on me, ds and baby dd in a sling (she's mahoosive and weighs a ton) and our very heavy but not overly full basket of wine when another till was opened nearby. In Waitrose as well.

DS(4) very loudly said "why are all those people pushing in front Mummy?". "I don't know" I replied, eyeing them coldly and with unconcealed contempt "maybe they have somewhere of great and astonishing importance to be?".

"Or maybe they just be rude mummy?".

God love him if he hasn't inherited my arsey streak

Normally people are falling over us to open checkouts, carry shopping, pack and let us go first but we were unlucky enough to hit entitled bastard hour that day and ds was utterly baffled.

Oh and one I overheard in Waitrose when some people were farting about reading the whole receipt and what-not instead of moving off:

Child "Why are they taking so long"?
Man: "Dunno. Maybe they've never been in a supermarket before?"

I did laugh. But not nearly so much as when the cashier asked if the man wanted cash back and he said "yes, please" and put his hand out while the cashier explained that they didnt actually give away free money at the tills... I shit you not.

I learnt not to let people with one or two items in their hands go ahead of me in Lidl after the last time I did it. The git started emptying his bags of at least a trolley load onto the belt

bar steward . nice one!

I was near the front if the queue in tescos when a new till was opened and the closed sign put on the one I was at.
A the people behind me ran to the new till meaning I'd have been at the back.
Nine months pg I shouted "I hope you can all live with yourselves stitching up a pregnant woman" before insanely eyeing the till operator and saying "in not going anywhere, you will serve me"
She said that of course she would "Madame" before serving me with shaking hands as I twitched.

There is an alternative method to marmalade's for the more PA among us Henrietta. You let the cashier scan your stuff already on the conveyor belt and you pack it, leaving your trolley blocking the till. Then you go back and slowly hand over the remainder of your items one by one while explaining there wasn't room on the conveyor belt for everything and shooting pointed looks.

I asked someone with 2 items if the wanted to go in front in Aldi and they asked 'Why?'.

Oh my

I live overseas, we have no parent and child parking spaces, no divider thingies for the tills (you leave an appropriately sized gap - it's not hard) and sadly no mark downs, reduced items - no idea what they do with stuff past it's sell by date - probably change the sticker date and shove it back on the shelves.

Funnily enough - peace resounds throughout our supermarkets

Oooh that is good, Fandango!

Am I wrong here.......I go shopping with friends. I am reasonable pregnant and have SPD. One of my friends is 75 years old. The 3rd is a fit and healthy lady so we all share a trolley for the fit person to push.

We have used the "10 or less" checkout as we each only have a few items but it is all in one trolley so comes just over the 10 items. We are all paying separately for a few items its just that I struggle with trolleys at the moment as does the older lady in our group.

Are we wrong to use the 10 or less items checkout?

Thanks Marmalade I feel I have learned a lot about passive aggression during my time on mumsnet

Wickedgirl in your case you just do what you need to do and fuck what everyone else thinks.

wickedgirl - if you want to be very good about it, put 3 baskets IN the trolley and then you each empty yours onto the belt, therefore 3 people with 3 baskets of less than 10 items, just one person pushing them round. Or just glare at people who dare to have a problem with it seeing as far worse supermarket crimes are committed

Thank you....that makes me feel better. We have been told off in the past by other customers even though I'm visibly pregnant and the old lady is clearly old. Even once we've explained ourselves people are still arsey

Then they are unsympathetic twats, you don't need to justify yourself to twats.

Love it fandango!

i laughed frou

"Woman and man walking round Waitrose with twin boys. Both kids covered in chicken pox and merrily handling bread on the display. Staff looked appalled."

Ha! I refer to my posts on the thread about bread instead of cakes...

in Lidl I always let people in front when I am still unpacking my very full trolly. Except when they give me snidey horrible looks, sighs etc. before they even get to the checkout. In these situations I become very short sighted because life is too short to get het up about this sort of thing.

When the Waitrose opened here we popped in as we were passing to have a nosy. Twat in front of us unloaded his shopping, packed and paid and then just walked off, abandoning his trolley in the aisle between two checkouts.

That is the trouble with Waitrose - too many entitled people. I know he wouldn't have done it at Tescos because the Waitrose had only been open a week, so why does he think its OK in Waitrose.

I may have loudly muttered something about rude pricks thinking they own the place

Yes I've seen that in Waitrose here too but not recently. Unbelievable the nerve.

On Sunday we went to Aldi. We had a full trolley and went to the till. I always let people with a lot less than us go in front to be served. I was just about to tell a woman with 2 items to go in front when she said to her son "I'm not fucking queuing behind that! and joined another queue. I was quite bemused as I didn't get whether she meant the amount we had or that I'm fat and was offended by my ass? Anyway 2 more people joined our queue and she was annoyed to see me wave them on ahead. The queue she joined was at a standstill and I was halfway through being served when she dumped her purchases and dragged her son out of the shop. If only to think that had she waited for me to notice her rather than stropping like a petulant child she'd have been out of there with her tub of Love spread and bottle of Rose.