Supermarket conveyer belts.....

[caroline161]

So this really gets my back up but have never voiced it before. So there you are at the checkout putting your stuff from your large trolley load of stuff onto the belt and someone comes up from behind and starts putting things on the belt from their basket/trolley. You haven't finished putting your stuff on and before you know where you are their stuff starts moving along the belt. So AIBU and what pleasant comment can I utter when this happens to me again?

Lighthearted, I know there are worse problems but it just gets up my nose.

I've had this a few times. I just ask them to move their stuff back as I need more space. If they're snippy then I just smile nicely and then make sure when I'm at the checkout packing my bags that it's all packed properly. Sometimes it takes me a wee while (I don't do this if there's a queue, only if it's just the impatient eejits behind me).

I think the problem in Aldi is that they don't have that little shelf at the end of the conveyer belt to put your basket down.

Never had this but have encountered space invaders and two folk who have tried to nudge DD out the way with the trolley (she's 2).

I just LOVE putting the divider along rather than across.

If I'm feeling very mischievous, I wait until the next person has tutted and turned it round ... And then put it back wrong again.

I taught my very compliant PFB the game. He delights in that minor act of rebellion too.

Had this in Lidl. Never in Sainsbury's though. Once in Asda on the self serve for trolleys, my baby was screaming, oh was being annoying and the bloke was a prick muttering loudly that I was an incompetent bitch and taking too long. Paddington bear stared him and said just for that I'll go really slow you fucking prick, I'd swap lane if I were you. Oh turned round to work out why I was getting loud, bloke was in my face by this point looking like he was about to hit me. My fellas pretty built so the bloke backed down fast and went elsewhere.
Lovely lecture on the way home from oh telling me I've got too much of a gob sometimes 🙄

I just turn round, smile, and say 'excuse me, I haven't quite finished yet.' I think it is lack of self awareness, and if it is said nicely people usually respond well.

Hasn't happened in ages.

What is a Paddington Bear stare?

I've said to someone that I'm going to need more room in this circumstance. Didn't bother me. Or them I don't think.

Placement is definitely the key. Line your trolley or body at the very edge of the conveyor. Nobody can get to it then.

I used to work in Aldi and could spot it happening and would interject very politely on customers behalf saying "do you have enough room there "
Loud enough for rude customer behind to realise
Usually the rude customer was full of apologies and moved their stuff but we would get the odd twat who wouldn't move.

Happened to us recently. Glaring woman appeared behind me as I was still unloading, slammed the divider down and started thumping her shopping down. I said to her, I've not finished unloading my trolley and got another glare. My dh was up packing the bags. I was trying to cram the left over half trolley into any gap I could find. Dh called over, what are you doing? I shouted, well there's not a lot I can do as I have no room.
Woman started tutting and huffing about whilst still ramming her shopping on which was by this time pushing up against ours.
At this point dh marched down, grabbed the divider and shoved it and all angry woman's shopping back to the end of the belt.
She just stood there with this astonished look and her mouth a perfect o.
That set me off and I took fits of silent laughter for the rest of the time. Dh carried on packing muttering which made me laugh even more.

Who unloads the trolley in the middle of the conveyor belt?? Do that and you are inviting problems surely?

If you still have stuff in the trolley in the middle you could be one of those annoying feckers that are taking two shots to make two payments.

I had this once. Someone started unpacking while I was half way through. Took up loads of room. So I started moving their shopping into the ‘impulse buy’ part of the till. They looked a bit surprised but got the picture.

I had someone grab the divider, tap-tap it and then use it to sweep my shopping up the conveyer belt. I did get /feel the rage. I moved my stuff back.

This is why I always have my trolley behind me to stop encroachers and immediately put a couple of my light items at the end of the conveyor belt. Then I start at the far end of the conveyor and put the heavy stuff on first and work back towards the light stuff but as the previous customer's shopping gets scanned and therefore everything moves forward, I can just shove the couple of loaves of bread/bags of crisps back so that they are always at the end of the conveyor. That way there is no room for anyone to put anything on the end until I have got everything out of the trolley. Then if there is space between the rest of my shopping and my "placeholders" I can just slide them down to the end of my shopping.

If anyone dares try to shove my placeholders forward to start putting their own stuff down, I will just stop unloading, look quizzically at them and say something like "Please don't touch my things, I put them there for a reason and I'm not finished yet." and they usually get the message and back off.

"....Till 6 is now closed. We are happy to serve you at another checkout"

BorninaLighthouse ** I would have gone BATSHIT INSANE. I have a 2yr old DD. I'd have milked it and done accident report etc. Just to humiliate them and hammer home that that is fucking wrong

Iwasagirl I think it's just a deadpan stare. Paddington Bear doesn't have any expression does he?

Alloftheboys it appears you are the person im talking about. Please be careful, you know we won’t buy your shopping don’t you? And if we do, we’re keeping it, so you will have to go back around the shop. Try to relax. A gap is just as good as a divider, and it is certainly enough until we can reach the divider.

Let them carry on then hand your shopping to the checkout operator directly from your trolley one item at a time making sure you pack each item before handing up the next. They normally get the idea.

This happened to me last week in Lidl.

I was only buying 2 items, but the people in front of me in the queue hadn't finished unpacking their trolley and hadn't placed the divider yet, so I was politely standing back and waiting.

The woman behind me put her few bits on the conveyer, put a divider BEHIND hers - and pushed that and all her shit PAST me, into the space I was leaving for the people unpacking! Cheeky cow was virtually standing on my heels.

I grabbed a divider, banged it down in front of her stuff and pushed it right back. When I placed mine on the belt she kept shuffling up behind me and pushing hers and mine forwards, it drove me crazy with suppressed irritation.

I believe I may have tutted. You don't get this behaviour in fucking Sainsburys you know.

A little old lady looked at two conveyors yesterday and then began unloading her trolley ..... in front of me on my conveyor!! INFRONT!

I’m trying to get myself to not let the ‘oh she’s old and probably couldn’t see me’ mindset take over more now, but seeing as I look like a teenager people always think I’m just being disrespectful. I don’t know many teens buying Gressingham duck, a lamb joint, and bloody Cavolo Nero, grandma!

Somebody did this to me the other week but before I could say anything my toddler who was sat in the trolley seat started depositing her stuff from the conveyer belt on to the floor.
The checkout lady & I were trying very hard not to laugh, as I told my toddler not to throw things on the floor and suggested she wait until he was out of reach.

Never underestimate little old ladies. I swear I saw one seemingly frail woman ‘float’ at speed to the front of the queue in front of everyone else.

I’m quite looking forward to my powers later on in life