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.

[Growlithe]

Well would it help you to imagine if all those customers were visible then. So instead of me doing my dad's shopping, I brought him along. He'd be very slow round the aisles as he was no good on his feet. He would ram you and your children with his trolley, not deliberately. He would take ages to load the conveyor belt because he'd find it hard to keep leaning into the trolley then getting back up to the belt. He'd FAFF about packing and goodness knows how long he'd take paying. Then he'd shuffle out of the shop.

Take my word for it, you'd rather be behind me then him, even if I was paying separately for his stuff.

[Sparklingbrook]

No Growlithe it helps me to use Click and Collect, and leave all the customers both visible and invisible to their queues.

[Growlithe]

Which is an option for anyone who doesn't want to come across anyone else while shopping. But then I suppose the member of staff going round picking your order might annoy me with their massive trolley getting in the way in the aisles.

[KellyElly]

I did this the other day - one batch of cards for work (needed a receipt for accounts), my shopping and DD's sweets she wanted to be a big girl and buy and pay for herself. It didn't take much longer than if I'd paid for them all together. Don't see the big deal myself. Much less annoying than when the person in front of you decides they've forgotten something and everyone has to wait while they go looking for the item.

[BooCanary]

Thanks to those who have realised that I was expressing mild annoyance, and I am not intending on going postal in the middle Asda. Freewee your post sums it up completely!

Aaaahhhh, I haven't had such an enjoyable roasting on AIBU for ages.

As it turns out, I've had a particularly annoying day at work, and my supermarket gripes have paled in comparison.

[Sparklingbrook]

Growlithe. I have always thought there must be an easier way of doing it than trudging those massive trollies around the actual supermarket.

[Sparklingbrook]

Printer toner. I know what you mean Boo. Where I used to work no bugger ever used to change it except for me. It involved going to the stationery cupboard and everything.

[Growlithe]

Sparking it's the only way of guaranteeing they are giving you the stuff that's just about to go out of date.

[Sparklingbrook]

Don't say that Growlithe, I will have to venture back into the supermarket.

[MurderOfGoths]

I used to work 12 hour shifts from midday to midnight, used to drive me loopy when the toner would run out at about 10pm and the day staff hadn't ordered any to replace it, and of course at 10pm I couldn't order any either.

[SilverApples]

'But then I suppose the member of staff going round picking your order might annoy me with their massive trolley getting in the way in the aisles'

Unlikely, DS was quite keen on the job of being an online shopper assistant for the local supermarket, until he saw the start time. 5am.

[Growlithe]

Silver they do it all hours round here. I guess it's to service all delivery/collection time slots.

[SilverApples]

Probably, Growlithe, I was too busy crying with laughter at DS's response to think further.
His ghast was well and truly flabbered.
All the shifts started at 5am.

[Latara]

I once worked as an online shopping picker while at uni, it was exhausting because yes, the shifts started so early - not ideal with the student lifestyle!
I soon got a job working as a bank HCA instead - still exhausting but I could pick my shifts and start times.

Yesterday was a nightmare at the supermarket, all went well until I booked my taxi home (couldn't carry all the shopping) - my frozen fruit n veg defrosted because the taxi took so long to arrive. Arrrghhhhh....

[Sparklingbrook]

I was an expert in paper jams by the time I left MurderI was a dab hand with a pair of tweezers. Toner replacement/paper jams you name it. I could have left and become a photocopier engineer.

[MurderOfGoths]

Haha oh yes. I used to run a Jessops minilab and spent less time sorting those machines out than bloody fax machines and photocopiers!

[flamingtoaster]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!)

[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.