To not understand why people act this way in the supermarket

[Emerald31]

Hi tell me if I'm wrong here but has anyone else noticed how strange people can be in the supermarket? I did my usual food shop today and I had people literally leaning over me and bumping into to me to get to an item, ramming there trollies past me in a rage because I've stopped to look at something they clearly wanted to. This one woman felt like my own personal shadow and seemed to reach for everything I did then continued to walk with her trolley parallel to mine which started to make me feel uncomfortable.

I got to the till and the same woman came up behind me and started to load her items on to the belt whilst I was still trying to load mine. There wasn't enough room for my stuff in the end as she packed her stuff within a miliemetre of mine so I had to pack my food high. It was a long queue and I'm stood there waiting patiently but decided I needed another bag so turned back to get one. This woman was stood right behind me to the point were I've bumped it's her and she gave me a strange smirky look. I've reached down for a bag then got back in the queue. I moved up slowly as other shoppers in front of me did but this woman again was stood that close behind that I could practically feel her breaking on me.

I finally get to the front and start loading my items into the trolley and again she's stood right up close watching me pack. I've gone to pay with my debit card and she's moved up again and this time I lost it telling her she won't get served any faster by standing closer to me and she should wait her turn. She's then shouted saying she's in a rush but I'm sorry I don't care if she was in a rush. What is the need to invade people's personal space? Thinking back I've experienced similar before were I've had people standing too close and the more I've moved away the more they move closer. I've also had people slam down those shopping separator things and it's like they're panicked incase one of my items is mistaken for theirs and they might be charged for it. Seriously why do people act this way?

once a man started to unload his shopping while i was still unloading mine, but i put it down to the fact that he was just ignorant

I’ve had a lot of it when I was in my 20s. I guess I look scarey now being in my 40s!

I had a man go up close to me when I was in my early 20s. I moved, he moved. Eventually it got to paying and I couldn’t reach the card machine. I moved to the machine and this guy was breathing down my neck. For some reason I turned bolshy and said “I want to enter my pin, move back” he started getting arsey, I stopped and waited for 5 minutes . He moved back making the comment that he wasn’t a thief, and didn’t care what my pin was.

The other weird moment was someone pushed my pregnant bump out of the way to get at Brussels sprouts. I nearly fell over backwards. The thing is there were loads of the damn things.

Always unload from the front of the trolley using the trolley to create a gap between you and the person behind and it removes the issue of having your space crowded , if that fails just politely ask them to wait until you have your shopping on the belt before they start loading theirs

I had someone load their shopping on to the conveyor when I was still loading mine in front so I just let them, then I handed each item from the trolley to the checkout operator one at a time it took ages not my fault

OH has a sort of rule about staying about 6 feet away from someone in the queue, especially if they're using the card machine.
My pet loathe is groups who use the aisles for a long 'catch up', I make a point of 'needing' something they're blocking, I even told one group, 4 trolleys and pushers, that the coffee was very nice in the cafe.

It depends on which supermarket I am in whether I use a basket or trolley. Mostly I use just a basket, as it is easier to get around, but if I am ever in Waitrose I always use a trolley, to stop the person behind me from crowding me. So many times in Waitrose some snotty middle class couple behind me would smirk at each other then one of them go and stand in front of me, close to where you enter your PIN, smirking at their partner who is standing very close behind me. Putting the trolley behind you seems to work to stop that. I don't understand why they can't wait until the person in front of them has finished, why they have to split up and surround them? This has never happened to me in Aldi, where people seem to treat each other with respect. A while ago in Waitrose I had my trolley behind me and the older woman behind me seemed to be in whimpering mode, sort of passive aggressively making her displeasure felt, I kept having to straighten my trolley against the checkout to stop it getting in the way of the people in the adjacent queue, and every time I looked back somebody had pushed it out again and she was giving me a whimpering look. Also only in Waitrose, I have had the experience several times of women actually grabbing items out of my basket or trolley, and a couple of times people aggressively commenting on items in my trolley. One time a woman in the Waitrose queue behind me lifted a carton of Quark out of my basket and showed it to her friend and was talking about it, I abandoned the queue and left her to it, went without the Quark and found another queue.