Posts tagged ‘grocery store’

January 12th, 2010

Cart Dispenser? Are You Fucking Kidding Me?!

Thank you Shop Rite  for installing a shopping cart dispensing contraption (à la airport) that is not credit-card-friendly. Not only are the groceries ridiculously priced, but now I gotta pay a quarter for a cart? Are you fucking kidding me? Will you be charging for parking next? For bags? (or do we already pay for bags? i gotta check my receipt) I have enough trouble finding a quarter every time I encounter a meter, now I need change to do my groceries? Un-fucking-acceptable! read more »
May 2nd, 2009

10 Items of Less

...perfect example of the average adult’s lack of basic arithmetic proficiency, as some lady tries to justify her cart full of soda bottles as one item... I count at least twenty. The half-asleep clerk does not “count” at all... and rather than count the bottles and key in the quantity and scan one item* proceeds to scan each of the 2 liter Mountain Dew bottles individually. FML.

Lessons Learned:

  • The express lane is always staffed by the least competent cashier with lacking arithmetic skills and slothlike tempo... A predicament that results in the “express” lane being the most time consuming (at least at 7:30am).
  • The lady that is holding one item and a stack of coupons does not realize that none of the coupons are for the item she has selected. The cashier will point this out. A small argument will follow. A manager will be read more »