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My personal favorite - the dumbasses who just stop when they enter the store, and block the main entry.
Most Annoying Things at the Grocery Store
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I hate it when I see an item that should be refrigerated, like steak, abandoned in, say, the detergent isle. You just know some clerk is going to put that steak back in the meat case for sale while it sat who knows how long at room temerature.
That’s my biggest peeve at a store as well. Lazy consumers. I would feel so guilty just leaving something in a different area because I was too lazy to return it. I mean, just give it to the cashier at check out and they will make sure it gets back to it’s proper place if you are that friggin’ lazy. Also people that do not return their carts, lazy lazy lazy.
My pet peeve is people who pay with checks. I know there are people who don't want to have credit cards, but c'mon, that's what debit cards are for.
And there's a circle of hell dedicated to the ones who wait until the total is up before they even pull their checkbook out, and then proceed to get extra cash back, just to gild the lilly.
posted by joshwoodward on Aug 07, 2008 at 01:07:45 pm #
I'm with #7 - pay procrastinators - but I would take it a step further to include any payment by check period - forget about waiting too long to start filling out the check. Just the use of checks is annoying. I would be a huge fan of any grocery store that stopped accepting checks.
I would also add 7a - requiring a signature for authentication on electronic transactions. This is almost as inefficient as writing checks.
So we have this near instant method of transacting money and the whole thing has to grind to a halt while two pieces of paper are printed out and one is scribbled on with a pen!?!
oh man...i have a list. but #1 on my list are the people that insist on pushing their cart down the middle of the driving lane in the parking lot when going back to their vehicle.
^Please. It’s not like anybody on here is seriously upset about any of this.
I better not see you complain about anything anywhere. rolls eyes emoticon if one was available
Ah, you're right. I see you're not seriously upset about all the laziness in the world.
Lighten up. I realize we all need to vent. I had to wait at the post office three minutes this afternoon. Totally ruined my day.
Like I lose sleep over it. I actually laugh at most lazy slobs.
Chillax.
Why so serious?
What bothers me the most is when people come in the store wearing their pajama's. I mean talk about lazyness can't even bother to dress?
Or how about the people that come in with thier kids having on shi*ty diapers that stink up everywhere they go.
Wasn?t it Eddy Murphy who asked ?why do parents bring their kids to the grocery store to beat the shit out of them??
#263: When the store expands from an already annoying 60ksf to a totally unusable 90ksf.
How about the people that stop abruptly in fromt of you, or the ones that camp out in front of the item you want. Other than that I love the grocery store and all of its wonderful food filled greatness!
posted by hunkytownsausage on Aug 07, 2008 at 04:38:48 pm #
Several of those pet peeves could be summed up as a simple lack of common courtesy.
Just the other day I am leaving Kroger, and these 3 people decide to stop and chit chat in the only exit door open.
Thats another thing, one of these days I'm gonna contact the Toledo Fire Department to ask why it seems to be normal procedure for Kroger to close half of their entrances after 9pm. In the event of some type of emergency, now people have half as many ways to exit the store. Thats got to be illegal.
Another annoyance, is when you know just where everything is, they re-arrange the store. That way they figure you'll do more "impulse" shopping while looking for what you really want.
Whiny, bratty, noisy kids. I try to catch the little bugger's eye & glare at him - he shuts right up, looks scared of me. If he starts up again, I'll do it again - shuts right up.
What is it about this generation of parents who feel their kids need to be in huge carts designed like cars, etc. - are kids today so horribly behaved that the parent needs this 'crutch' to entertain them for 30 minutes?
I hate the PIN pads we have to sign our names to - the 'pen' won't work right, the name you write is illegible anyway, so what's the point - who's it protecting?
I have no gripes with the electric carts - if they are needed. But more often than not, the users are obese people buying lots of fattening junk food.
Items on shelves so high I can't reach them without climbing the shelves.
Finding frozen or refrigerated products on non-frozen or refrigerated shelves. Makes me wonder it the store just puts them "back" - and who knows how long it's been left out?
Crazy ass long receipts with coupons I never use, or the ones I may, aren't actually usable coupons (they have to have the bar code on them or they're useless).
Cell phone users - just flat annoying. Don't try to justify them as business calls - don't do your business at the grocery store.
Stores like Meijers who decide it's a good idea to move ALL personal care products (shampoos, toothpaste, aspirin, vitamins, etc.) clear to the opposite side of the damned store. I've spent 40 minutes filling my cart from my list & I do not feel like having to walk across the entire store (through women's & kids clothing) just to buy a tube of toothpaste. That's why I rarely go to Meijers anymore. Bad enough the cashiers there are painfully slow, which is why I rarely went before.
posted by starling02 on Aug 07, 2008 at 08:13:20 pm #
what about placing all the high cost, sugar cereals with their comic book packaging at eye level of little kids.
Shop at the Phoenix Earth Food Co-Op.
I'm sure Meijer's moved their personal care items to the opposite side of the store for the same reason stores put candy & comic books at eye level to kids (and all the junk near the cash registers) - they are hoping you'll buy more on impulse & that you'll cave in to your kid's demands.
posted by starling02 on Aug 07, 2008 at 11:44:25 pm #
Im with Babbleman and Starling - the size of the neighborhood grocery store is just growing to freakish proportions!
I get my meat at a meat store, I get my produce at monettes, so the grocery store for me is for what's left.
I hate having to walk thru the friggin FURNITURE section to get from the food to the dry goods section. (Kroger and Meijer)
A few weeks ago I was having to go thru Phys Therapy semi regularly for a bum knee. After the PT, my knee HURT!! One day I had to go pick up like just 4 items at Meijer on the way home - unfortunately, three were food items, and the 4th was a bottle of rubbing alcohol...
Just like Starling said - One end of Meijer to the other... Major pain in the... Knee...
(BTW - 3 parts water to one part rubbing alcohol makes the best home made ice pack ever. It turns into the consistency of slush, and that's as frozen as it gets. You can wrap it right around the knee, or shoulder, or whatever needs iced!)
I cannot stand people on the "I'm too fat too walk carts"
and frankly the entire kroger parking lot. I love when people just dart through the parking spaces and you have to stop for them to cross!
-Out of 100's of available shopping carts, I always get the one with the wobbly wheel.
-The person ahead of you in the 12 item or less "express" lane with 53 items and the cashier saying..."that's OK, I will take you". Meanwhile all I have is a lousy gallon of milk to be checked out. Hurry Up and Wait!
-The person who brings in their jar of coins and has to count out to the penny $12.36 in one cent increments to pay their bill.
- Having to use Grocery Store restrooms!
Having to use Grocery Store restrooms!
HAVING to??
Go Pee-Pee before you get into the car-car, and buy your super hoocha mocha lacha latte on the way home instead of on the way TO the store!
He billy, you ain't never been a lady - it's different. Plus when we are out shopping we are OUT SHOPPING, as in an all day affair.
"He billy, you ain't never been a lady-it's different."
Just for the record...AGAIN! KK is a TOMCAT. I know, I know. People are going to say that the KK cartoon represented a female cat but truth betold the gender was never determined.
That being said, Billy may have a point. God I love Starbucks and Biggby's. LOL.
It would be nice if the grocery store carried food like it used to back when my grandparents were kids. Now it's all processed shit that makes people have all sorts of stupid nervous pet peeves.
Eat some real food. Take up gardening.
There's a reason why Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, etc. have pharmacies.... their food makes drugs seem healthy.
If you're dumb enough and negligent enough about your health to shop at a grocery store, you deserve to be annoyed and fat and tired and depressed and uptight and boring. LOL amirite? toosoon?
It would be nice if the grocery store carried food like it used to back when my grandparents were kids. Now it's all processed shit that makes people have all sorts of stupid nervous pet peeves.
Eat some real food. Take up gardening.
There's a reason why Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, etc. have pharmacies.... their food makes drugs seem healthy.
If you're dumb enough and negligent enough about your health to shop at a grocery store, you deserve to be annoyed and fat and tired and depressed and uptight and boring. LOL amirite? toosoon?
It would be nice if the grocery store carried food like it used to back when my grandparents were kids. Now it's all processed shit that makes people have all sorts of stupid nervous pet peeves.
Eat some real food. Take up gardening.
There's a reason why Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, etc. have pharmacies.... their food makes drugs seem healthy.
If you're dumb enough and negligent enough about your health to shop at a grocery store, you deserve to be annoyed and fat and tired and depressed and uptight and boring. LOL amirite? toosoon?
^What exactly do you eat? Because it seems to be causing you to have a seizure of some sort. :)
I think for women shopping ir more of a task and social event combined into one. For men, it's usually gtet in, get what you want and get out. Just my opinion...in general terms.
posted by angryconsumer on Aug 08, 2008 at 05:41:35 pm #
Its the person the other day, woman with 3 kids, 1 in seat, one hanging on cart, one knocking crap off the shelves. Talking loud on the cell phone, giving me dirty looks because Im in her way while WALKING down the aisle from the other direction. Whiles she has one of them monstrosity carts with room for the kiddies. Oh excuse me as I take up 1/3 of the aisle, while she was taking up the middle. Too bad they didn't have a sale of baseball bats in that particular aisle a the time. Well actually im sure Im lucky there wasn't. Oh and compared the width of the aisles between Meijer and Kroger. I could swear that Meijers has more room.
posted by Linecrosser on Aug 08, 2008 at 11:45:38 pm #
Im all for parental rights - you can raise your kids however you see fit, but screaming at your kids from one end of the aisle to the other is just plain trashy. And then chasing them down with your big ol' flip flop wearing, no bra bouncin' body so you can slap them in the head doesnt make you look like you're a mother to be respected because you control your kids - it just perpetuates the stereotype
Also, and this doesnt really bug me, because I really dont care, but Ive always thought that a good rule of thumb is if a child is big enough to crawl into and out of the shopping cart by themselves, they are a bit old to be riding. The other day I saw a kid in his mom's cart, and he was big enough that his back was against the front of the cart, and his feet were up against the back of it - but he was so big that his legs couldnt stretch out flat - he had to have his knees bent so he'd fit. meanwhile, mom was only putting groceries in the upper compartment where LITTLE kids are supposed to sit!
And this'll piss some folks off, but my 72 yr old mother pointed this out, and Ive since looked, and she's right. As far as the aisle hoggers? the ones who block the aisle with both their cart and their body, completely oblivious that anyone else might need to get past? Mom pointed out that for the most part, men dont do that - she said that with rare exception, men will pull their carts over to the side, and when someone comes, they move out of the way. She did point out that sometimes they do put their cart right up against the very product on the shelf that you need, but that they are always quick to move if you need. (dunno, maybe it's that ohio gentlemanliness that comes out in a guy when there's an older lady about...)
I thought it was funny when she said that, and pretty much blew it off, but Ive been watching since then, and sorry ladies, but she's right!
I had a lady blocking the aisle with her and her cart. She was examining something on the shelf. I excused myself, waiting for her to move her cart. She looked at me, then went back to what she was doing. I snugged my cart into the back of hers and just started pushing. Took her cart to the end of the aisle then pushed it aside, all the while she's following me and yelling. I ignored her, and went happily about my business.
posted by GraphicsGuy on Aug 09, 2008 at 08:51:06 am #
Like I said, a lot of it comes down to the sad lack of common courtesy in our society today.
Heck, I even say excuse me if I need to push my cart between someone and the shelves they are looking at.I told my sons while they were growing up, good manners are not difficult, and because so few have good manners anymore, using them will set you apart from people.
"good manners are not difficult, and because so few have good manners anymore, using them will set you apart from people."
Sound advice. It really will give them the edge in this world...
Was in Kroger at 4am. They turn the lights off in the organic section, nearly total blackness. Its the only place in the store where people are reading every label and they turn the freakin lights off. Then there was the illegal aliens cleaning the floor, they replaced the crew of guys I knew who were American citizens with families. Then when I got to checkout with probably $250 worth of groceries, the girl told me I had to go to U-Scan, and scan and bag the groceries myself. I left without groceries. LOL its funny but its not too. Guess I'll have to go on the day shift, or maybe to Phoenix.
What the hell store were you in? The one I go to closes to the public at 1 AM.
Kroger on Suder is 24-7, too bad they want to sell furniture and office supplies more than groceries. Did you ever notice that stores have gotten out of the public service business. I also find that since Kroger moved from Summit to Suder that they dropped a lot of brands and substituted "Kroger" brands in their place. Funny I would of thought with the store being so much larger they would have more brands. Guess they had to make room for the line of furniture they decided to try to sell.
posted by Linecrosser on Aug 12, 2008 at 12:18:53 am #
Our charmed lives. Our supermarkets are veritable bountiful cornicopias displayed before our very fingertips and we complain. Got hunger?
posted by Offshore on Aug 07, 2008 at 12:04:03 pm #