To think you should not get in a checkout queue if you don't have have your shit together

[PookieDo]

Massive queue in a fairly small but very rammed shop today

Woman queuing at till in front of me gets to the front and cashier calls out 'next!'

Woman realises she doesn't have her husband or small child with her or the basket with the shopping in. So she calls out to them and neither react. Small child is hanging around In the doorway getting in everyone's way. So she gets this basket off child and starts to process this. Husband then takes another 2 mins to stroll over to wife with more shopping. Woman then sends small child over to something else to pick up, which they can't see due to the MASSIVE queue of people patiently waiting so more faffing ensues while she tries to point and give directions, the child can't see it so in the end someone nice in the queue hands it to the child.

Cashier patiently stands and waits while likely dying inside at the needless arseache this is causing

Is this a new thing, joining a queue before you've actually finished the shopping and then continuing to shop while standing at the till?

Grumpy rant over

[EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans]

On the flip side...

I went into Aldi the other day to buy a couple of bars of chocolate, joined the queue behind two or three full trolleys. Perfectly prepared to wait my turn, but one by one the people in front of me waved me in front of them.

I thought that was extremely kind & would do the same thing for others in future.

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

Artemisia I would indeed be unemployed, because if every single person behaved like that I would voluntarily jack the job in. Luckily they are in the minority.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Artemisia

No, I'd just have a different job. Supermarket workers can get other jobs, you know.

[AnneElliott]

I agree with all of these! And I used to work in retail so am also a checkout ninja!

My other pet hate though is people who come right up behind you at the checkout, and either press their trolley or their body up against you. I told that last bloke that did that "any closer and we'd have to get married" never saw a man move back as quick as he did!

[saltandvinegarcrisps1]

This would tip me over the edge. I get what i call payment rage. You stand in a queue for ages then the person in front gets their shopping through and the cashier says "That's 80 pound 40 please" . Shopper then has to then take more time locating purse/wallet, looking for cash/card etc. Why not have the purse/wallet/card out and ready whilst waiting? It's like - what did they think was going to happen? I loathe shopping though so am probably extreme!

[ArtemisiaGentilleschi]

Yes, I know. I worked the tills in a shop for several years when I was younger.
But thanks for the patronising.

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

Oh I believe you, shall we say queuejumped when it came to being patronising, Artemisia!

[Teutonic]

The ones who drive me insane are the petrol pump shoppers.
You know the ones. They put fuel in their vehicles and go to pay, except while they're in there they decide to browse the shelves for snacks. Meanwhile their vehicle is blocking the pump.
A couple of weeks ago at a supermarket, a car was blocking two pumps as it was parked at the rear pump and no one could get to the empty pump in front due to lack of space to drive past it.
a woman came swanning out of the shop with not one, but two bags of shopping as though she was the only person there! Then she proceeded to put the bags in the boot, rearranging stuff in boot as she does so.
Then she gets into car, faffs about putting handbag on the seat, faffs about in handbag, checks her hair in mirror, puts seatbelt on and FINALLY drives off.
If you want to do your shopping, go into the bloody supermarket and not the petrol station, then get your fuel after FGS.

[WhatALoadOfOldBollocks]

Cherry it seems pretty obvious that the "stupid" man as you called him was probably using the self-scan for the first time. How the hell is he supposed to know what to do? I certainly wouldn't as I've never used one and would be as confused as him probably.

My pet hate is when a passenger gets on the bus and looks astounded when the bus driver says £2 please and they then faff around with their purse or wallet, sorry but bus tickets are not fucking free you imbeciles
Onion, of course people know they have to pay, but with my local bus stops there are no fares mentioned so on the rare occasion I use them I have absolutely no idea how much I have to give the driver. It doesn't help that you have to give them the right money either. If the fares were mentioned in advance it might help stop the faffing.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

@ Lady

Yes indeed. "The people without whom you would be unemployed" is a bit of a straw man argument only ever used when referring to people who work in the service industries. As if solicitors (by way of example) would somehow remain in gainful employment if all the firms clients went off elsewhere.

[WhatToDoAboutThis2017]

Unfortunately, it is very common.

In a similar vein, I work in fast food, and the amount of people who have been queued up for the last five minutes then get to my till and go "oh I don't know what I want"

I have four other orders to complete here! Hurry the fuck up so I can get them all out!!!

[Christinedaae17]

I do my fortnightly shop in Aldi so always have a trolley full, I get everything on to the belt and back into the trolley as quick as possible and if anyone comes behind me with less stuff I always let them through first

[OnionKnight]

Onion, of course people know they have to pay, but with my local bus stops there are no fares mentioned so on the rare occasion I use them I have absolutely no idea how much I have to give the driver. It doesn't help that you have to give them the right money either. If the fares were mentioned in advance it might help stop the faffing.

That's fair enough but I was aiming my ire at the regulars who I see on the bus every week.

[SheGotOffThePlane]

Shit like this drives me nuts. I have my purse to hand, card I'm using partially pulled out, ready to go. And bags positioned in trolley to pack shopping immediately.

Faffing people make me stabby

Oh and on another note if dh is driving at the weekend, locks the car then puts his keys back in his pocket resulting in a scrabble for them when we get to the front door to unlock it I actually want to kill him.

[NurseButtercup]

I'm reading this thread scratching my head wondering why haven't I witnessed this poor till etiquette.

I'm now wondering if I'm guilty of the poor till etiquette, hence me not noticing.

I'm going to Aldi shortly, I'm on alert to ensure I'm well behaved at the till. And will be on the look out for perpetrators of not adhering to till etiquette.

[Lelloteddy]

Whattodoaboutthis DP used to be guilty of this. Until I cured him

[WhatToDoAboutThis2017]

Whattodoaboutthis DP used to be guilty of this. Until I cured him

Oh good! Because there's nothing worse. It was annoying when working in retail, but now I work in fast food it's ten times worse, because in retail you're only dealing with that customer at once.

In fast food, you have multiple orders on your till at the same time, all these people staring at you waiting for their food, and if it comes in while someone takes a decade to decide what they want, they are not happy they have to wait for this person too!

I have even had some point out to me that their food is there, and it's like, yeah, I know, this person is annoying the shit out of me too, but I can't just leave them half way through to sort your order out!

So yeah... please people, especially in fast food, know what you want before you get to the till!

[HannahGlasgowGal]

For people asking why the cashier didn't intervene, I used to work in a supermarket and we had to have a supervisor authorise a cancelled transaction. If the cashier had already started scanning items it would have taken longer to have a supervisor come over and sort the till so they could serve other customers

[Chloe84]

Whataloadofoldbollocks

Onion, of course people know they have to pay, but with my local bus stops there are no fares mentioned so on the rare occasion I use them I have absolutely no idea how much I have to give the driver. It doesn't help that you have to give them the right money either. If the fares were mentioned in advance it might help stop the faffing.

I think you could make an educated guess that bus fare is going to be a couple of quid or so. Just have a few coins ready?