Grocery Store Mystery

[DRIVEWAY]

Why are the shortest people always staring at items out of reach on the top shelf?

[upthecreek]

Why do they always wait to get their money out of their wallet/pocket book instead of having it ready? Annoys me to no end

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by DRIVEWAY

Why are the shortest people always staring at items out of reach on the top shelf?

That's where they put the good stuff to keep it out of the reach of kids. They figure if you can't reach it, you are't mature enough to use it.

[OntheRail]

Another

Why do people park their cart on the left side of the isle while shopping from the right side.... thus blocking the whole lane?

[TJDave]

Why do clerks not put the receipt in the bag? Every friggin time they try to hand it to me. WTF?

[thaskalos]

Why are some customers such pigs? I was shopping at a Whole Foods...and watched a customer who apparently had changed her mind about an expensive ice cream cake that she initially intended to buy. Not only didn't she return it to the freezer where she found it...but she didn't even have the decency to leave it somewhere where it could be spotted, and returned to its rightful place by someone else. Instead...she stuffed it under a display case where no one could see it. Classy-looking lady too.

[LottaKash]

Waiting for the floor manager to do an "override", because I was purchasing some Carburetor Cleaner (could be used as an inhalant, I suspect)..I am 70...haha...

[whodoyoulike]

Originally Posted by TJDave

Why do clerks not put the receipt in the bag? Every friggin time they try to hand it to me. WTF?

Just calm down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receipt

A copy of these documents would be handed to the customer. In many countries a retailer is under a legal obligation to provide a receipt to a customer which shows the details of a transaction and the store and other information, so that the tax authority can check that sales are not being hidden.

I believe in my city, it is also required that a merchant provides a receipt.

[TJDave]

Originally Posted by whodoyoulike

Just calm down.

It would be nice if once, just once, someone would ask, "can I put your receipt in the bag?"

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by TJDave

Why do clerks not put the receipt in the bag? Every friggin time they try to hand it to me. WTF?

Because if they didn't hand the customer the receipt, the customer would want to know where it is.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by TJDave

It would be nice if once, just once, someone would ask, "can I put your receipt in the bag?"

In my experience, they do more often than not. Probably a function of local culture. Or lack thereof.

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by boxcar

Because if they didn't hand the customer the receipt, the customer would want to know where it is.

Yeah, I want mine handed to me.
Which of the 6 bags did she put it in?
Or get home 30 miles away and there is no receipt at all.

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

Why are some customers such pigs? I was shopping at a Whole Foods...and watched a customer who apparently had changed her mind about an expensive ice cream cake that she initially intended to buy. Not only didn't she return it to the freezer where she found it...but she didn't even have the decency to leave it somewhere where it could be spotted, and returned to its rightful place by someone else. Instead...she stuffed it under a display case where no one could see it. Classy-looking lady too.

I recently was shopping in a major grocery chain and noticed a fresh expensive steak jammed in the section that sells toilet paper and paper towels. I alerted a worker, maybe the steak was still cold and not too late to stick it back....one thing i do when im shopping is i always dig way in the back (even if all the born on dates are the same) and never take the first item because those items could have been in someone's cart for 30 mins thawing and then went back, one in the back will be much safer to purchase.

If i saw the woman leave the the cake i would have totally said something to her, and i wouldn't have been nice about it.

[thaskalos]

My first ever job was at a tiny family-owned grocery store when I was 16 years old...where I worked with a crusty old man named Sam, who had been in the grocery business all his life. Wavy white hair combed back, black bushy eyebrows, thick-rimmed glasses down to the tip of his nose, an unlit cigarette usually dangling from his lips...and always a scornful look on his face.

One day, a customer asked Sam to serve her at the deli department:

Customer - "Would you please give me a quarter pound of feta cheese and eight olives?"

Sam - "Sure ma'am. Would you like me to wrap it, or will you eat it here?"

That old man made those days unforgettable...

[thaskalos]

Originally Posted by DRIVEWAY

Why are the shortest people always staring at items out of reach on the top shelf?

You always stare longingly at the stuff that you can't have.