Checkout frustration

[abstibus]

Does anyone else belong to that unlucky group of shoppers who always finish up at the slowest supermarket till?
You know what I mean - the cashier does the job efficiently, shoppers pack their bags in a very leisurely way, and then, oh my goodness - they have to pay! Then they start hunting in their pockets, purses, handbags for the money, and count it out as slowly as possible, using all their pennies or asking their shopping partner to hunt for theirs.
Or in Lidl - they stand and wait for their bags to be packed.
The checkout operators must want to strangle them sometimes - I know I do.

[cazzz1975]

I dont suffer from checkout frustration, if I am waiting I normally get stuck into the newspaper until the people in front have finished.

[shaneystar2]

Don't cry Starbuckone.
I let Sainsburys take the strain too .Can't stand being pushed and shoved round supermarkets these days by impatient people who haven't got a minute to live . Can't drive either and certainly can't lug bulky stuff anymore .
Odds and ends are bought locally where the staff are pleasant :)

[carrust]

Top real ale pub 5 deep @ the bar. Woman decides to try every beer that they sell. After taking what seems a lifetime she decides on one.

She says "Can I have this one with LIME!!!!" .....Arrgghhhhhhhhhhhh

[SKA]

Self service check outs should DIE!!
I always go to tills with a man infront because men just pay and get it over with!

[LoftyLottie]

If I didn't drive I would order on line too. I can't carry huge amounts and we have no buses so I would have to walk 4 miles to the supermarket!!
Nothing wrong with ordering online. I used to do it when I worked. Nowadays I have more time and like being one of those people who annoys others in supermarket, by taking my time, stopping to chat in the aisles, fumbling with my purse at the checkout and barging into disagreeable impatient people with my trolley!!!!

[nannybooby]

I love it when you gat behind someone who looks at each purchase like its the second coming drives me insane

[emmie]

sorry but it's mostly the blokes who mess things up, they can't seem to get their heads around the fact that you can pack your own shopping, instead of letting the harrassed assistant do it. They stand there, hands in pockets waiting, instead of doing it themselves, lazy devils. A woman behind me in the queue, shoved me in the back with the trolley so many time the other day i was going to squish her, but instead i gave her a look, and she finally got the message. I hate shopping.

[joeluke]

Top tip - the shortest supermarket queue is not always the quickest, as I have found out to my cost

Annoyances - checkout operators who carry on chatting to people they know who they have just served even after customer has paid for their shopping........shoppers who carry on packing their shopping even after it has all been scanned and checkout operator has announced total to pay, then go in their bag for purse/wallet - why don't they pay then finish packing, some of us have got lives and things to do and don't want spend any longer than we have to waiting in queues?

[Barmaid]

I'm amazed you need to go to the supermarket JoeLuke. Doesn't the "little woman" do it for you?!

[Euphemia]

It gets to me when I rush to the "basket only" till only to find a huge trolley being unloaded...

[cazzz1975]

"why don't they pay then finish packing, some of us have got lives and things to do and don't want spend any longer than we have to waiting in queues? "

but surely you will just moan that they are still packing after they have paid and you have lives and things to do :o

[cazzz1975]

I always find it amusing that some people with baskets try their luck and queue behing a person doing a big shop, praying and hoping that the person will let them go ahead.

[joeluke]

Barmaid.....If I go to the supermarket I can buy nice goodies that normally wouldn't find their way into my little womans trolley

[sherrardk]

You should all count your blessings that you are unlikely to be behind me in a queue, I dread to thi what people say about me and the brood.

[Marijn]

Chuckfickens, why do you hand over 44.15, when the bill is 33.15?

[askyourgran]

Yes I do quite often - something usually has to be taken back and another item brought to the checkout by the 'runner.' The bag rummage for cash or card to pay is regular. Or the checkout girl knows the customer so we have a blow for blow weekend. I like the ones who help you by starting to pack while you are still unloading the trolley.

[Craftypig]

Self service checkouts will be the death of the checkout operators. When the big supermarket retailers see how much use they get it will only be a matter of time before they outnumber the checkout operators completely. On that principle I refuse to use them.

[abstibus]

I really enjoyed the responses -they livened up a wet and windy Wednesday.
Many years ago I lived in the Soviet Bloc, and when automatic tills were introduced in the very few 'supermarkets', the cashiers used to double check the till totals using an abacus.
This always amused me, so I bought one (an abacus). I would really love to go around a supermarket with an abacus and then, when the cashier has given me the total, push a few beads back and forwards on the abacus and say 'That's right'.
So, apologies, everyone, if you happen to be behind me in the queue when I'm doing this.
(I just can't help thinking that that would be the time the cashier got the total wrong, so I'd have to have a calculator as well.)

[emmie]

annem, i suspect there would be abacus beads all over the shop.....