AIBU to think that a cashier shouldn't comment on personal items you're buying?

[catlover1987]

Just home from the weekly shop at Asda. The cashier gave a running commentary on all of my shopping. Oh that looks nice, oh aren't those ready meals handy, oh what is that, I'll need to try that. Mildly annoying but I'm sure she was just trying to be friendly. However, where I think she really crossed the line was when she seen my pregnancy test and said, oh I hope it's a yes! I didn't know what to say!

I was in Asda in St Austell with now exP about 10 years ago and he bought a box of 12 condoms, a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine. Cashier looked at me and winked, then said in a conspiratorial whisper 'hope it's the wine you like'. I was totally too much so to say anything, which is very unlike me.
The flowers and wine were for his bloody mother who we were down visiting.

YANBU- though I would be tempted to remind anyone buying the Daily Mail that it is the paper that supported the Blackshirts.

I bought Canesten. The cashier said 'oh, yes, I saw that was on sale!'
I totally deadpanned and said 'Um. I didn't buy it because it was on sale...'
She did have the grace to realise what a dumb fuck comment it was though.

This is why I love Aldi. And for anything not available there, Amazon.
I want my stuff to be flung at me without a second glance, let alone a banal conversation.

I've just thought, the best things are the crazy add-ons the staff are forced to push to customers too- I once bought a baby bottle brush in Superdrug and was asked if I wanted a book of stamps to go with it

I'm laughing inside at the comments a 'foot in the mouth' cashier could make about some items........condoms, Imodium, sanitary products..........

But actually the woman was (too) friendly ( annoying?) but thoughtless and someone needs a word with her about boundaries...
Sorry op

Tiger Couldn't agree more!

I am currently in a cycle of IVF. If I bought a pregnancy test and anyone made any comment, no matter how off the cuff, they would have to deal with me in floods of tears due to the stress I am under and the amount of hormones I am injecting into myself daily. You should never assume to know how someone is feeling

Amazon are good for pregnancy tests, they have bargain ones. No one should feel they have to shop online just to avoid cashier comments though.

I'm massively pregnant and whenever I buy wine, beer or cigs I ALWAYS get a weird look. It's never for me, normally on the way to someone's house and they have asked me to get them some bits as I'm clearly driving, but it's soooo judgy! I've stopped saying "They aren't for me!" Which I used to...I don't care what they think now!

Oh, and slightly off topic a woman working in Tesco who, upon seeing I was pregnant, decided it was a good idea to tell me all about her friends baby who had just been born at 23 weeks and 'they hoped she'd make it'...I nearly burst into tears there and then.

I once had a substitution on my Tesco delivery...the condoms. They usually read it out and say "we've swapped X for y, is that ok?" Not this time, he just pointed to the paper and fled, poor bloke!

You're not BU - and how did she know you want a yes???

YANBU! Hate it when cashiers do this- in my local Tesco they used to casually flick through your newspaper or magazine- infuriating !!

Mole just wondering what the substitution actually was- based on some of my experiences before I opted out of them, had they substituted a pack of pampers?

I was buying cat food in Asda. Young cashier asked what type of cat I have. There followed a nice conversation about our respective cats ( she has one too ) and an amusing anecdote from her about a customer trying to return some cat food which their cat disliked. Cashier did not slow down checking out my items while talking - I hate that, and finished chatting when all the shopping was through. She got it right.

YANBU about the preg test though. I would not appreciate that.

She was just being friendly and didn't say anything nasty. Why don't you use the self check out instead?

The cashier should have used her brain and realised that commenting on pregnancy tests is too risky.

Dh once bought an armful of flowers from Asda. The cashier made some comment about dh apologising for something with all those flowers.
He was actually buying them to put on the graves of his mum, nan and great aunt. He wasn't amused.

I went to a morrisons recently and done a normal weekly shop for a family of 4. The cashier on the next check out had nothing to do and kept going on about how much stuff I had, how it wasn't Christmas yet etc etc. It was a completely normal shop, not like I had a trolley full of booze and choccies. So it was very annoying. YANBU

Personal items are different to everyone it seems on here.
Apprently commenting on booze and diet meals are also a big no no.

cake retail staff can't use their brain if they've been told they have to talk about the products.
It's policy in all majority of the supermarkets by me now.
If it's talk about the products or get be trouble then i don't blame the staff.

acat i love that site!

YANBU

Once had a very awkward chit chat with the cashier who asked whether the Femfresh I was buying was any good as she had always thought about buying some and needed to try something ...

I just got back from big weekly shop with my dh and the male cashier decided to comment on the bra that I was buying. It was a balconey bra and he was joking about builders and his wife wanted him to get her a balconey bra once so now he is an expert. I thought it was creepy but my husband just saw a lonely older man making the most of a boring job!!

We have both noticed that people tend to avoid his till, probably due to his familiar approach but it was strange to get home and read this - could not pass without commenting!!! = cnpwc

I like the human touch when a cashier engages in idle chit chat. It must be a welcome break from their study and writing of dissertations .

Tiger bread addict - I'm confused as a fellow addict - you can't buy tiger bread in Aldi - or Amazon so how do you manage your addiction!!??!!

It's only happened to me once, and that was last week when I bought a load of Halloween tat and a bottle of gin. 'Is that for after?' said the cashier (correctly). Made me smile/grimace! Never had anyone comment on any other shopping, ever (although the local chemist gave me a very sympathetic look once when collecting a prescription for Acyclovir, mainly used for HS2).