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Odd check out behaviour

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wowfudge · 22/01/2015 14:17

I'm beginning to think I must attract 'em at the check out after this lunchtime.

I put my few items of shopping on the conveyor behind the shopping of the woman in front and the 'next customer' sign she had already placed there. After a couple of minutes while the actually person at the till faffs over packing and paying, the woman before me in the queue takes a 'next customer' sign leans over my shopping and puts the sign behind my stuff. There is nobody behind me. Why would someone feel the need to do this? I think she might be the kind of person who thinks her younger neighbours need to open their curtains.

A few weeks ago the person behind me in a check out queue picked up my sushi from the conveyor, turned it over to read what was in it and asked the lad on the till where in the shop the sushi was on the shelves. She didn't ask me about it, or in fact say anything to me; just picked it up and turned it over!

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AlfieMoonOnaStick · 22/01/2015 19:55

Oceanpurple.... the conveyor belt thing (putting a next customer sign behind the purchases of the proceeding customer) is like a woman's ex putting a condom on the current boyfriend!

hoobypickypicky · 22/01/2015 20:02

"hooby he is fun, and the best of husbands. He still has a poor command of English though. The village football team have taught him some bad words and he comes out with some awful stuff. The lift doors in M&S took ages to open and he grumbled loudly "Wanker door!" People were not happy."

HateSpiders, I'm cackling with laughter and the cat's looking at me like

BTW, your DH was probably right about the lift!

TessTackle · 22/01/2015 20:19

Fuck knuckles

missnevermind · 22/01/2015 20:35

Hatespiders. Is his leg better? I lost that thread.

Dionysuss · 22/01/2015 21:04

A man in morrisons put his filled basket onto the conveyor and put a divider behind it. When he reached the till he picked it up to chest height, and tipped it upside down to empty it.

fluffyraggies · 22/01/2015 21:30

I worked on a till for a few years when i was younger and the thing i hated about it more than anything else at all were men people who just dump the flipping basket on the conveyor for you to scrumage around around in with your arm up in the air to unpack and scan

fuckmeblindiknowthatcat · 22/01/2015 21:54

I was behind I guy in Lidl last week, he had a bulging trolley-load of stuff which he laboriously loaded on the conveyor belt while I stood behind him with my tub of Greek yoghurt hoping he'd let me in in front of him. He caught my eye but made a point of ignoring me so meh, never mind. I silently put a curse on him and as the belt started moving his six bottles of pop (which he'd placed upright despite the checkout girl telling him to lie them down) fell off and hit the deck with a crash.

Oh yeah, I lol'ed internally as he scrabbled round picking them up and took great pleasure in imagining how much pop he'd lose to fizz when he opened the bottles later.

It's possible I have amazing check-out evil powers or I need to get out more

Hatespiders · 22/01/2015 22:09

missnevermind Yes, thank you, it's more or less healed over.
We rather miss poor old Billy though!

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 22/01/2015 22:11

fluffy I had never seen that till this last week-end in a Lidl late one evening. The man was really arrogant and bemused that he needed to empty it even though the rest of us had. I was very uncomfortable as he was old and white and the cashier young and non-white and I felt there was a hint of expecting a more servile response from her (she was pretty bolshy about it and very British born and bed! ).

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 22/01/2015 22:11

*bred

mushypeasontoast · 22/01/2015 22:33

Working a till I once had an older man place his shopping on the belt already bagged up. I unpacked it to scan through the till and placed it on the rear belt. He got shouty and demanded that I repack it and called me rude for raising an eyebrow.

Fucking arse.

FindMeAPixie · 22/01/2015 22:38

I often use the self service tills with a trolley. But only when it has a basket-sized amount of stuff in it. ducks in anticipation of sushi being thrown at my head

ethelb · 22/01/2015 22:54

I had someone behind me in the queue open up a carton of cold leek and potato soup, drink half of it straight out of the carton and then put it back on the conveyor belt.

I am no pearl clutcher but I was nearly sick! It smelt surprisingly strong.

BreconBeBuggered · 22/01/2015 23:01

Yesterday at the baskets-only checkout, the man in front of me, a perfect stranger, suddenly turned to me and glared silently into my eyes for a good half a minute. His face was about a foot away from mine. Not wanting to appear intimidated, I stared right back until he turned away.

I spent the entire walk home wondering what arcane checkout law I had disobeyed. I'm still clueless.

Coffeemonster1 · 22/01/2015 23:01

It was the cashier that made me last week. Got a few bits and had 2 year old DD with me. Dd was chatting away to the cashier, asking what she was doing and telling her the different items as they scanned through. Cashier asked "is she always this sociable? I wouldn't take her abroad if I were you!"
I said " oh why's that?" She replied "she would disappear, you wouldn't bring her back"..... I wasn't too sure what to say. Even the man behind me in the queue gave me a really uncertain look.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 22/01/2015 23:03

I proper roared at fucknuckles too.

Bumbiscuits · 22/01/2015 23:11

My first job was in a supermarket and I dreaded 'weird' fruit and veg coming through the tills

Me too. I used to put anything I was unsure of through as tomatoes or onions. The supermarket managers were very strict and expected us to know the price of decking everything off by heart. Back then the till receipt just said "fruit/veg" so I got away with it and my customers probably got a bargain (sorry Gateway).

Bumbiscuits · 22/01/2015 23:12

decking = fecking

frankie001 · 22/01/2015 23:14

Self service checkouts mean I now put "till experienced" on my cv

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wowfudge · 22/01/2015 23:27

Didn't Gateway go out of business Bumbusiness? It's all your fault.

If the proceeding customer putting a next customer sign behind their shopping is like an ex girlfriend putting a condom on your bf, what the hell is it when the customer in front puts a next customer sign behind your shopping???

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Dwerf · 22/01/2015 23:29

oh, I have a bizarre one. I was on a till at work with a colleague on the till next to me (they are in a line at the counter, not separate). This woman and her friend came down with a trolley load, saw that neither till was in use and so dithered for a moment saying she couldn't decide which to use. Then she divvied the shopping up between my till and my colleague's. I assumed half the shopping was her friend's, but no. All hers. And then she acted surprised when she had to pay at both tills.

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wowfudge · 22/01/2015 23:32

There's nowt so queer as folk! My first job was as Saturday staff on a till. One of my colleagues got a paper cut from a magazine. Our caring, sharing store manager yelled over, 'Don't bleed on the stock!'

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alsmutko · 22/01/2015 23:46

I was standing next to a woman's trolley looking at stock in the shelves nearby. 'That's my trolley' she said in an imperious voice. I looked at it said 'nice' or something innocuous. She took an item out of her trolley & dumped it in mine.
I suspect she thought I'd put something in her trolley. But I don't see what the advantage of that would be.

Selks · 23/01/2015 00:13

Convo with cashier in Tesco the other day -

Them: "what's this?" (Points to mango)
Me: "it's a mango"
Them: "ooh what do you do with it?"
Me: "well, you can (insert relevant brief explanation)"
Them: "ooh that sounds interesting. I've never had one."
Me: "oh, you should try one, it's really tasty"
Them: "oh no, I might not like it"
Me

wobblyweebles · 23/01/2015 00:13

DH was doing the Christmas grocery shop in a somewhat busy supermarket. Someone decided the contents of his trolley looked nice and walked off with it. In the end DH had to wait till the guy moved away from the trolley, then grab it and run to the other side of the store.

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