people who split their food shopping into 'batches' to pay for separately

[BooCanary]

How annoying is that?
Today I went to Asda and BOTH people in front of me at the till did this.

Person one paid THREE different times, one for the majority of the shop, one for a few essentials ( milk, bread etc) and a third time for an item of clothing.

Person two then proceeded to pay for their shopping in two sections.

I was waiting bloody ages, fuming and wondering why these people can't just pay once and then divide it up later based on the receipt if they happen to be buying for other people.

[Solo]

That's very sad ihear :( it's sad that we/you can't help someone out for fear of attack.

[ihearsounds]

I do it all the time. I regularly pick up things for others. After having the nob of a son banging on my door, threatening to break my hands for nicking of his elderly mum, and calling me some very nasty things, I no longer do a single recipt. He saw a single recipt and he couldn't get it through his thick head that his mum had only paid for her own stuff. And in fact she had saved money because of offers along with another person. Because of him I no longer even get stuff for the other people delivered with mine.

[Solo]

I had a lady in Asda do this to me yesterday. It didn't annoy me in the slightest!

[Solo]

Well exactly SamanthaB If we took our parent shopping, then they would either be in front of or behind us/me and therefore two people in front of the OP or another person in the queue!

[SamanthaB]

YABU. I do all the shopping for my housebound father. He & I prefer a separate receipt. The same amount of shopping is on the belt irrespective of whether it's divided or not. Some people have complained to me at the checkout. I don't feel it is any of their business, actually.

[Solo]

See, my Mums bank told her to do it this way! give me the CC's and I use that account for her purchases. I'd bet a million quid she doesn't know the PIN and it's the one the bank gave her, I've not changed it!
Oh yes and I've signed the card with my own signature as I once had to forge Mums! so when new cards came through, I signed!

[OhDearNigel]

I regularly have to divide my shopping 2 or 3 ways. Some is home shopping. The second is for a tuckshop i run at work. The third is for my cake decorating business. They all require separate receipts for accounting purpses. The alternative to doing this would be to go round the shop 3 separate times, dont see why i should be inconvenienced by a long time so that the shopper behind me can save 3 minutes

The moral of the story ? If you're aggravated by the shopper taking 3 minutes longer than anticipated perhaps it's time to start organising yourself better and leaving sufficient time to do your shopping

[BabylonReturns]

Did you manage to bag a parent & child parking space at the supermarket OP?

[IamSlave]

I have to split up my shopping onto different cards.
I cant and will not "tot it up later" I have to split it up, for myself.

[ZingWantsCake]

sorry YABU

I often shop for others and it is easier to hand over the receipt.
and some items I want to pay for with a credit card or cash not with tesco card.

I guess you were a bit unlucky, but I don't see why a few extra minutes waiting is such a big deal.

you could have used that time to MN - and be happy about your time well spent!

[Sparklingbrook]

It's not about stopping you splitting the shopping in two Satin, just about protecting yourself and your Mum from fraud.

You are happy with the arrangement so that's ok, I am just not sure what the bank would make of it that's all.

[SatinSandals]

If I am shopping with her I put her PIN in as she has a very shaky hand.

[SatinSandals]

I am not going to lose it. If the chip and pin failed I would pay for it. I don't do it as a regular thing so there is no need to have joint signatures. It also isn't going to stop me splitting the shopping in two as generally she gives me cash anyway.

[Sparklingbrook]

I get that Satin, but if you were to lose it and it did get used, the first question would be 'does anyone know your pin?' and it could put any investigation/refund in doubt as someone does.

Would it be better to make the account joint signatures and you able to sign on it and have a card with your own name on?

Also, sometimes if the chip and pin isn't working you would have to sign-what would you do?

[SatinSandals]

Her card is much safer with me than it is with her!

[Sparklingbrook]

It would be if said card was to go missing and someone steals money from the account Satin.

[SatinSandals]

I don't think it is 'dodgy ground' having someone else's card and PIN. I use my mother's for her, she is 91 yrs and it is much better than expecting her to do the supermarket shop. It is also a lot faster to have 2 lots of shopping.

[Justforlaughs]

No worries about people splitting their shopping into as many batches as they like, what i do hate is the customers who tut because they have to wait and then proceed to spend 10 minutes looking through a whole wad of out of date vouchers trying to match one of them "because I'm sure that I bought something off this list" instead of doing so while they were waiting! [bah!] (not saying that OP does this btw!)

[Tabby1963]

Does this person look like they are doing multiple shops for home/work or for other people?

My mum was a home help and wore a tabard when working. When she was doing a shop for a couple of clients, she would divide the shopping and pay for it separately. The tabard easily identified her as a carer.

I see women doing this regularly at my supermarket, I don't mind waiting a bit longer.

[sashh]

YANBU - you choose your queue depending on how many people are already in the queue so it's irritating when you find that someone is splitting their shopping up in this way.

Bad idea, pick on the speed of the person on the checkout.

I shop for my DM sometimes, and its very simple for me to add her bits up from the receipt afterwards. Not rocket science.

If you put mum's stuff through first and ask for a sub total you don't even need to do that and it prints on the receipt.


OP

Some kind people do shopping for neighbours. Some people are paid to shop for other people. But you need separate receipts, you can't allow one person to know what another has said.

[Sparklingbrook]

I learnt the hard way limited.

I remember being the junior that had to change the hand towel thingy in the loos too. The ones that hang down in a loop. There was a knack-I didn't have it. I got told off lots because I had been shown once and wasn't to be shown again. I cried.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

BooCanary - is the printer toner the office equivalent of the loo roll at home? I have never worked in an office, but am well, all too well acquainted with the fury that comes from walking into the loo and finding one sheet left clinging to the roll, because the teenager who was in there last thinks that absolves them from putting a new roll on - grrrr!

Aaaand breathe.

[limitedperiodonly]

sparklingbrook do you know nothing?

Never admit to being the person who knows how to work the printer. Much less how to fix it.

[SelectAUserName]

Oh Lordy, printer toners. Whatever you're going to post about them, YANBU.

I used to be responsible for ordering toner cartridges for the department. Somehow that equated in everyone else's mind as "also responsible for changing them". I developed a great line in saying "no, don't run off, come here and I'll show you how to change it so you know for next time" and not taking "no" for an answer.

[flamingtoaster]

If my friend has two £5 off £40 she will split her shopping in two so she can use both.