people at supermarket checkouts!

[staffylover]

What is it with people at the supermarket checkouts. All the shopping goes through, they slowly get there card out, as if in slow motion. then slower, if possible, put the card back. Slowly pick up there shopping and then wander off. FFS Feck off!

Yeah it's so rude when they don't stop for a twenty minute chat about their piles with the checkout staff

I very slowly pay, after I have caught up with my packing, I ask the cashier to go slowly as I only have 1 pair of hands and they race off like a sprinter.

The only way to draw breath is to pay slowly, feel free to tell me where to go, I will do likewise

People at supermarket checkouts are weird. You'd never catch me there .

Today I had an elderly couple ahead of me who had positioned their trolley so that I couldn't start unloading until they were at the paying stage. Then the man pushed the trolley sideways. The checkout woman asked if they had a car park ticket, they said no, she said "just the trolley then", and they said "No, we haven't used a trolley". Truly bizarre - an odd thing to choose to lie about.

staffylover - you aren't one of those annoying people who jam their shopping trolley right up to the person in front to try and make them move it along now are you?

I have to say, when folks do that I invite them to pay for my shopping if they are going to stand by the till.

my pet hate is when people are buying 1 or 2 things, and look really surprised when they need to pay and then spend 5 minutes looking for purse/wallet.
I'm a quick fire at the checkout (few items only). Purse is ready in hand, minimum delays!.

you intolerant buggers

whomovedthecholate.....No

It's the ones who are only halfway through their slow & methodical packing when the cashier has finished, and then go on slowly & methodically packing the rest, and then get the card out, that make me boil over.

If the person behind me in the queue tries to hurry me up or tuts at me I go really slowly just to piss them off. I hate it when they do that, i go as quickly as I can but I see no reason why i should stuff my goods in my bags anyhow to get home and find it all crushed and buggered. just because some impatient twonk can't wait a couple of minutes!!!

Crikey, didn't realise I felt so strongly about it!!

they spend £1.32 and pay by card or put money in purse and sort their bag out get a move on your in my f in way

Oh agree - using a card to pay for items costing a couple of pounds - PITA.

If its PMT week I'll even store a couple of 10p off vouchers to use aswell!!!

Oh god - just remembered once was at a checkout and the woman in front was giving her dd 'rides' on the conveyor belt - as soon as the child reached the cashier she was moving her to the back again to get another ride. Cashier said nothing - I went to another checkout that I hoped hadnt been contaminated with dirty shoes!

Good job you weren't behind me today then - took my grandmother shopping today. She had to go and sit down whilst I unloaded onto the till and packed, but I took my time.

She had a stroke 2 weeks ago so paying was slow. She's exceptionally nervous so likes to put everything back in her bag and do it up whilst standing by the cashier... doesn't bother me. What bothers me is people huffing and getting arsey about people going slower, because waiting all of 2 more minutes will ruin their whole day, won't it?

Maybe Im just intolerant but I get furious at people going through the ten (or whatever) items or less with loads of stuff.

Whomovedmychocolate - I must remember that one LOL

I'm very considerate at a checkout. I always ask the person behind me 'do you want to go first, as I have a lot of items?' and if they say no, I take my time, and have a chat with the cashier also, when packing my bags carefully - who wants squashed food after all!!

That way everyone's happy - and a lot of the time the person behind me (who bizarrely isn't in the express queue.. DUH) will only have a sandwich and a bottle juice, so they will go ahead.

And then I'll take my time and pack my hard-won groceries carefully whilst having a lovely chat with the cashier

If I get one of those super ahem.. 'efficient' cashiers (usually young) who fling the groceries down the chute, I'll tell the young cashier to take it easy, and I'll also (if s/he's flinging my fruit and veg about - to 'get rid of his/her queue') ask him/her - do you eat bruised, broken and mangled food? No? neither do I, so stop throwing my food around please or I'll just have to delay everyone here while I go and get some fresh stuff again.... and we don't want that? Do we?

I tend to do only one shop a week now, but I fill a trolley.

My bug-bear is someone who 'oops, forgets' the marscapone / whatever as their shopping is being checked out, and holds the queue up for ages whilst everyones' frozen stuff gets warmer.. oi vey!

ooops zazen - that's me forgetting something and dashing off to get it

I have also in the past paid for something that's only a couple of £'s with my card - if my wallet is empty, and I have less than £10 in my account, and I need to buy something I tend not to have any other choice.

The paying by card thing is a misnomer btw.

Believe me, it's much quicker for me to whip my card through the machine than ferret in my handbag for my change purse. How long do you think it takes for you to key in four figures rather than count out change to a checkout assistant who then quite often needs the help of the till to work out how much to give you back?

Everyone has to shop. Everyone does things in supermarkets which piss people off. My pet peeve is those people who greet others at the end of the aisles, straddling the gaps with their trolleys and exchanging their life stories, but hey, you say 'excuse me' and they move, it's not the end of the world.

And we've all done it too. Maybe tomorrow it'll be your turn to be an annoying twunt. For now be grateful, as you can feel superior.

Sorry, whomovedmychocolate, got your nickname wrong!

How about the people that leave all their clubcard vouchers attached in one sheet and leave the checkout assistant to go through and see if they match anything they've bought.

Nah. None of this bothers me. You're all weird.

i love the people who watch the cashier check and pack all their stuff for them and then watch with a kind of curiosity as she/he looks at them and says
"that will be £xx please"
then with brilliant yet studied air of suprise they start looking for their purse/wallet as if they had simply no idea this would be required.
they are the same people who look so thunderstruck when asked for their passports at checkin.
I want to be that person as soon as I stop needing to do things on the same day.
I also intend to queue for ages to buy one tin of cat food and battenberg cake - and then hold up the queue to go and get the thing I forgot. Another tin of catfood.

When I eventually get really really old I will leave the queue to return with extra catfood and several packets of ribbed condoms.

( i won't have cats though. can't stand them).
I think it is important to plan ahead.

If it's any of you lot behind me at the tills next time i am shopping (packing all my bags efficiently and tying the handles cos i can't stand my shopping rolling all over the taxi, and AFTER, and only after i have finished packing the lot, will i get my purse out of my bag and pay (by cash) - ffs when am i supposed to pay? When i am in the middle of packing so you still have to wait while i finish anyway?) i am going to have to scowl ferociously and say 'FECK OFF'.

And then i will slowly put my purse back in my bag, and zip it up (my bag is a rucksack since i do a lot of walking) before leaving the checkout, backwards, doing the middle-finger signal

actually godzilla I think i saw you in sainsburys yesterday.......

then with brilliant yet studied air of surprise they start looking for their purse/wallet as if they had simply no idea this would be required>> That's the ones!. You can't throw tins at them, but it's ok to fantasise about it (and you have plenty of time to do so)

Honestly, take all the time in the world if you need it, but don't stand there doing nothing at all. You can do that at home.

Oh and if you must discuss Aunt Ethel's operation with the checkout girl I shall feel free to join in. If you find that disturbing then save it for later.

I'm the guy behind you who doesn't push, doesn't stare disapprovingly at your shopping (women do this!) and will say with a smile "oh no rush" as you sort your tins into alphabetical order.

I'm the one who leaves a big gap between your shopping and his. I leave a gap behind me too and put that little bar a foot further back than it needs to be. Then the next shopper will shove it up against my stuff since apparently every inch counts.

Oh and feel free to shove your trolley into my legs if I'm not moving forward promptly when the six people ahead shuffle forward. It's not dangerous to do so providing that you're not standing behind it when I lose patience and shove it back - HARD!