to have slapped the waitrose till lady quite hard?

[EccentricaGallumbits]

for making a quip about seeing me in there every day and beginning to think i was a member of staff and how i must have loads of spare time on my hands.

I'm not in there every day. i pop in when passing for essentials, the occasional paper or wine on my way somewhere else, usually in a tearing hurry, perhaps 4 times a week maximum.

I don't work there. the uniform wouldn't suit me.

Spare time? what's that. I work very long hours, i study, i work extras to pay the sodding bills.

Daft cow.

When I was teaching most of my A level students worked on checkouts and they were always telling me how horrible it was serving rude and difficult customers. I always wondered what they meant - unless you have a screaming baby/tanteuming toddler, what would stop someone being polite to the person who was serving them? Now I see.
I was a little cynical about self checkouts, thinking they were a way of cutting jobs-perhaps they are partly to protect their staff from horrible customers.

'Tis a talent I have, Custy...though hoping to suppress it somewhat when caff is open...can't be killing of all my customers...(check out my profile for in progress caff piccies)

yes, I was pre barcode too, and always over or under...I think they were just grateful when I jacked it in....(My brother was head saturday boy ...woo oooh! and so I was a tad untouchable...)

Aw, I know where eccentria is coming from. Just....to say one had slapped is a bit harsh, wanting to is quite another matter....

I'm annoyed by this thread because the idea of anyone doing their whole shop at Waitrose rather than popping there occasionally for their very expensive luxuries irritates me.

so jealous of the caff - well done you, looking great.

not something i am able to take forward for a number of years - i will one day

I was a Booths checkout girl. Uber posh, and bar codes were far too noveau and declasse for us. We would just make up the price half the time.
And as 98% our customers seemed to be at least octogenarians wearing fur and with eyebrows drawn on in lipstick, looking for gentlemans relish and dubonnet, it never mattered much.

And all for £1.15 an hour.

Where can you vent a little if not in cyberspace? I don't agree with violence in reality and hate that people live with it on a daily basis. But I saw the funny side of this thread.

I just thought EccentricaG was exaggerating for humourous effect. It worked for me.

AF I know what you mean re Ally Beal.

Oh bugger, sorry Custardo, mistook you for AnyFucker.

I'll leave now.

OMG, I LOVE gentlemens relish.

And no need to be jealous Custy, as I am on my knees, emotionally and financially...

have officially run out of dosh.....ds on baked beans and pasta only...

Sorry, but I think OP YABU! Only because I am one of those people who enjoys a natter when packing my groceries, and hate the staring-into-space check out girl, who wouldn't care if I was bleeding from a ghastly headwound!

What's life without a bit of chat? Come on, next time you are in make a point of telling her about your Auntie Ivy who ran off with the family silver, or your medical problems. Live a little!

Wear a big badge saying 'No chatter please'

Carry a card and hand it to the checkout person informing her of how you feel
'Don't chat to me. I want to buy my stuff in silence'

I love the chat, and the way my local store is always civil to my boy even when he has difficulty fitting into the mainstream world. They have been polite and patient and listened to him trying to phrase a few sentences fluently to someone he doesn't know.

yabu. I struggle with small talk, and on a bad day wouldn't want to engage with a stranger whilst shopping - but that's my problem, not any thing the shop assistant has done wrong.

Gosh I like the Waitrose ladies. I am in there about every second day and am always up for a chat.

I like the staff in Waitrose too! Agree kitchensink - was it another 'occasional wine' you were in for? Were we inferring something in her chatter and getting a bit defensive?

The staff in Waitrose are great---cheers me up to go in there!!Just say "Oh yes one day I`ll get organised!"
I also like the way they move aside in the shop rather than barging past you and it is rare to hear them complaining.

Get a grip.

Maybe she was about to offer you a share of the partnership annual bonus which the staff get this month!

This thread is hysterical. Someone goes through the checkout, perfectly pleasant but thinking along the lines of 'please shut up I'm not in the mood' as EG has expained. She comes onto an anonymous forum to have a whinge and she's called a bitch?

Seriously, what is that about pots and kettles?

YABU. Sounds like you may be more suited to the sort of shopping experence that a more downmarket supermarket can offer you. One where nobody talks to you or even acknowledges you. What a touchy individual, lighten up love!

And the supermarket snobbery is something else. Asda = miserable and Waitrose = a Harrods like experience? FFS, get lives.

"And the supermarket snobbery is something else."

Well, my comment about Co-op near the start of the thread was based on my experience of miserable staff in several branches who can't even raise a smile let alone make small talk. Nothing to do with snobbery.

Wasn't you really Soupy, it was more the 'you sound too common to shop in Waitrose, try Iceland' nonsense. A shop is a shop is a shop. Everyone deserves a bit of respect, no matter what supermarket they work in. But equally, what goes on in your own head is your own business, as long as it doesn't come out in your behaviour, which the OP said it didn't. Therefore calling her a bitch is not on.

I love Waitrose. I knocked a pack of sponge scourers off the shelf this morning and TWO members of staff rushed forwards to pick it up for me.

Yes, everyone deserves respect...that includes ladies that work on the checkouts wherever that may be. I wasn't commenting on the checkout ladies, I was commenting on the OP!

runnybottom- my dear old gran is one of those octogenarian booths ladies! no fur though, or dodgy eyebrows..just plenty of blue eyeshshadow

she is most horrified that now she can't drive anymore she has to rely on the only supermarket that will deliver (i buy the stuff online for her) and that's.... ASDA