Checkout fuss

[veritata]

I was approaching the checkouts at the supermarkets today, and saw one with two people - one, a man, was loading his trolley having paid, and there was a woman standing there who I assumed was with him. I joined that queue and started getting my stuff out when the woman said "Excuse me, I'm first". I was confused and said "Come on, you haven't got a trolley", whereupon she gestured to a lad who had come up behind me with a trolley and said "There it is". I said "Yes, and it's behind me". She got into a huff and stropped off muttering "Don't panic, it's only a queue" to which I just answered "Precisely". I was perfectly calm throughout - if anything, I was just confused - and in fact was about to move myself rather than get into a stupid stand-off.

WIBU? Has reserving your place in checkout queues become a thing that no-one's told me about?

[MrsArchchancellorRidcully]

Ah this thread is interesting. Never really experienced this as I get all mine online so avoid queues generally.

[CocktailQueen]

And all this is why I do internet shopping and home delivery!!!

OP - YANBU.

[dustarr73]

jessieMcjessie i know you were agreeing with me.

[GreenShadow]

Maybe we're lucky where I live, but I don't think I've ever come across rude/pushy/unreasonable shoppers here.
The only thing that annoys me at the checkout is slow or chatty customers and operators but that's only a mild thing.

Maybe we are lucky in that there is rarely a long queue in our supermarkets - almost never more than one person in front of you so there is rarely a reason to get worked up or pushy.

[Noideaatall]

How about if there's one queue for lots of tills? What do you do if someone comes & stands behind one of the people at one of the tills and makes a new queue - one where they are next. How it went -
"Excuse me, there's only one queue here"
"No there isn't."
"Not now you're here"

[Flossish]

Am I the only person who looks for a fair bit of stuff on the conveyor belt so I don't end up having to rush loading it up?!

[mum11970]

No Floss, you're not the only one. I like at least half a belt full infront of me or I'm still filling the belt as my shopping is being checked through.

[cowmop]

Floss I'm with you, especially in Aldi. Talk about panic!

[MrsMook]

I was in Aldi with a basket of about 5 or 6 items and just got pipped by a woman also with a basket. Fair enough so far. As I start loading up, her children appear with a basket each, so basically, she had a fair sized trolley load of stuff by stealth. A tad cheeky I felt.

[Sunna]

I have the rage for people who smuggle more items than they are allowed through the fast track tills. Quite often it's a couple who have a basket each, both with more items than officially allowed, who ask for them to be added up together. snarl

DC1 used to be the queue police counting loudly how many items people had in their baskets, then commenting that he thought only 5 were allowed, with a reproachful look at the offenders.

[EvansOvalPiesYumYum]

I usually favour scan and shop, at either Waitrose or Sainsbose. A couple of branches of Tesco have just started introducing the system, but our local one just down the road hasn't yet. Scan and shop is brilliant, where available, but not always available! Then you do have to deal with the whole gamut of people breaching queuing etiquette of various descriptions.

As to baskets left in the middle of aisles for someone to potentially break their neck over, surely that's not the supermarket's fault, 70isalimit. It is the stupidity of an individual person. I agree, though - twerpy person, it has happened to me on many occasions!

Also very annoying is where two people meet at a narrow point in the aisle (usually because of a pillar or shelf-stacking person blocking access). You give way to the other person to come through, then they stop to choose something in that narrow passage, therefore blocking the aisle, and leaving you to wait. If they knew they wanted to choose something on that shelf, why didn't they let me through first. And nine times out of ten they won't even say "Thank you"!!

And if you are choosing something (not taking ages) and someone reaches across you to get what they want. Can you not wait a minute until I've finished? If someone is making a choice, I wander off to get something else and come back to that shelf. I never, ever, reach across someone else. How incredibly rude!

Hate supermarket shopping

[EvansOvalPiesYumYum]

Sunna

[dustarr73]

Sunna kids are great for that,they have the neck to say what us adults are only thinking.

Hate people leaning over you as well,just ask me to move.

[DecemberRain]

Online shopping peoples!