Odd check out behaviour

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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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A long time ago (back when there were no barcodes and credit cards had to be swiped with carbon paper) I used to work as a Saturday girl in a small independent supermarket in a small slightly touristy town. 2 incidents stand out for me.

1. Couple come in, I put everything thru the till as they pay, they ask for a carrier bag...... "I'm afraid that will be 2p" I say. Bloke goes nuts, has a huge rant about how unfair it was and how I should let them off (cos as a 15 yr old I have the authority ) and after what seemed like forever, he stropped off leaving their shopping declaring that they'd go to the spar instead (who also charged for bags incidentally). The lady looks really sheepish and follows.

30 seconds later, he comes back to take his ten pound note that he'd left me holding

1. August Bank Holiday sunday circa 1990. Big craft festival in town, just across the road from the shop, notorious for drinking and other stuff. As it's the old days we can't sell alcohol except between 12 and 2. It was basically a long, long day of explaining to very drunk people why we cant sell them booze (such fun). One woman in particular, was very, very drunk and was very, very insistent that I sell her brandy. I explain that I can't due to licensing hours and she curses and goes off to dob me in to my manager. The manager comes over and sells her the brandy (illegally, basically). The woman then walks out, but fails as she tries to walk out of the full length front window instead....... bounces off it, and then staggers off back to the festival.

and then at the end of the day, they underpay me by about a fiver (so considering all the adults got double time, I was dirt, dirt cheap) I refused to work August Bank Holiday weekend for the rest of my time there.

Slightly embarrassing rather than odd...

We (me, DS1 and DS2) live in a really small flat and have a tiny fridge and very little cupboard space. So I tend to shop little and often - mostly with DS2 while DS1 is at school. DS2 has curly blonde (wild) hair so gets lots of comments.

We were in tesco in the run up to Christmas the year before last so DS2 would have just turned 1. The place was absolutely rammed and queues were going down the aisles. So staff were going round giving out chocolates and biscuits to apologise for the wait. Staff member comes up and asks if DS2 would like a biscuit. I take one for him and thank her. She then turns to the lady on the til and says 'it's ok -

My own DD has embarrassing checkout behaviour. I always do self checkout because the basket only queue is always huge and the proper checkouts are stacked with people doing a 'real' shop (we do our real shop online and I just top up shop) Anyway. She must have heard the self checkout so often that she now says "Have you swiped your Nectar card Mummy?" She's not even 2 yet and they've indoctrinated her!!! Checkout supervisor chuckled the other day when she said it

I saw a big family (5+kids) do a massive family shop and ran it through the self checkout. I got there as they were paying but I did wonder how much time that would really have saved?? Unless they had their kids in a production line!

Cadbury's chocolate doughnuts are beautiful! Tesco and Asda sell them:)