Open letter to lady in the grocery store

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Boybert

Cathlete
Dear Passover lady,

I did not realize until I emptied my cart onto the belt that you were going to start screaming at the cashier over a package of gefilte fish you swear was on sale. I think my toddler was startled someone could be louder than him.

Even though the cashier (patiently) went back and checked for you, AND looking in the flier, it was apparent it was not on sale. Yet you kept yelling about wanting to talk to a manager and wanted the fish for free. I wholeheartedly believe they gave you the discount just to get you the hell out of the store. I almost gave you the three dollars myself.

Here's an idea for you. Next time you want to argue over something so ridiculous, please take off your uber cool Chanel glasses so you can actually read the print and not make an ass of yourself. Secondly, please stop and take a second to realize there are more important things in the world.

Not so fondly,


Debbie


I'm not gaining weight. I'm retaining food.
 
Oh jeez, that's almost as bad as the 90 YO woman who got in front of me in the express line Tues night with a cart FULL of groceries. After a 9 hour workday & 1.5 hours at the gym I was tired & wanted to get home ASAP. Was it really mean of me to say "excuse me, this is the express line, please move one cashier over?"

She moved over & after I checked out I heard her asking the cashier if he'd check her out anyway. There were still 2 people behind me w/a handfull of items.

Debbie, I'm betting she also didn't help bag her groceries so you had to wait while the cashier did that too. x(
 
LauraMax- at least she was nice to you. Some woman in front of me in the express lane at Target had WAY more than 5 items and when I nicely asked her did she realize this was the express line and please move- She told me to "get a life"! I had no response for that!!

Debbie- I'm sure the manager was happy to give the lady the discount and get her out of the store!! Some people live for arguements!

Deanie
 
I was behind a very overweight woman with a very full cart the other day. She was huffing and puffing as she tossed things on the counter. After everything was tallied, she counted her money, counted it again, then told the cashier she was a dollar short. She wanted to run(run?!!? I think not) out to her car to borrow a dollar from her sister. I knew it would take forever to wait for her to come back, so I just leaned over a laid a dollar on her pile of change. She almost started to cry as she explained that she had hepatitis C from a medical procedure done years ago, was waiting for a liver transplant and didn't have enough money to make ends meet. After she left, the woman in line behind me confirmed the story (I live in a small community.) I was glad I swallowed my annoyance and helped this woman out.

Of course, she wasn't yelling or wearing Chanel sunglasses. LOL
 
Another grocery store coniption:

I encountered a woman at the checkout line at Aldi. (In case you don't know Aldi, they are a discount, no frills grocer. You pay in cash, you bring your own bags, you pay a quarter to rent a cart, there are no fancy display, there are no shelves. I visited the other day to get some veggies on the cheap.) She was extremely rude to the cashier and the conversation went something like this:

B!tch from Hell (BFH): Hey you! Do you have an Advantage card (the name of a another grocery store's savings card)? Your a heavy weight, aren't you?
Cashier: Excuse me?
BFH: You heard me! What's the matter? Do you need a hearing aide? Aldi is a heavy weight, isn't it?
Cashier: Looks to me to say without speaking "Do you have any clue WTF she's talking about?!"
Me: Shaking my head to say without speaking "No clue but she sure it a beeeeyyyotch"
Cashier: (as polite as could be) No ma'am. We don't have that card.
BFH: Well fine! Be that way then. You people are all the same.

I almost had a chat with her but decided that perhaps her issue was due to medication, or lack thereof as she seemed quite irrational. BTW, I never thought about grocers being "heavy weights" Intersting...
 
I cannot stand the people who buy lottery tickets stand then scratch off then want to get 3 more with their 5 dollar winning and 2 bucks in cash. Plus they have to tell the cashier their specific numbers for the powerball. Sometimes, I'd like to say a few mean things but I patiently wait, ok usually not so patient!;-)
LD
 
This story came from a book about computers...

In a 24 hour grocery store, late at night. There was a geeky guy with glasses buying a half gallon of ice cream. As most 24 hour stores overnight, only one lane was open. The man paid the cashier and started feeling his pockets for a coupon he said was worth 50 cents.

Customers behind the man were getting upset about the delay and one customer put 2 quarters on the belt saying "here's your f---ing 50 cents."

At that point the geek found the coupon, handed it to the cashier and palmed the 50 cents. He retrieved the change from the cashier grabbed the ice cream. He looked at the "donor" and said "thanks".

Another customer was laughing and the "donor" customer asked what the h--l his problem was. The laughing customer said, you just gave 50 cents to Bill Gates.
 
OMG! I think I have helped that woman before when I worked at an outlet store! LOL! I swear, when I was working cashier I had at least one of those women a day.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by them.

Kathy
 
Folks, remember this thread when there is a thread complaining about customer service at store XYZ. These poorly paid workers put up with a lot!:D
 
I was 2 people behind a woman at Walgreen's a few weeks ago, and she had all change to pay for her bill...and was counting it out very slowly, not even getting it right. She gave the cashier something like $2.45 when she owed him $3.68 or some such thing.

Instead of waiting for her (whom I found annoying anyway because she was buying a pack of cigarettes!), I went over to the cosmetics counter, where 3 people (including me)got checked out and on their way by the time she was done! (And the two people in front of me asked if the woman was still there, so obviously THEY had previously been in line behind her and decided to move).
 
Heres a flip side. My husband has was told by a head cashier, while carting 20 plus items - "You can go through the 10 items or less, sir." He refused knowing the looks and words he would get from other customers coming up behind him! I think his words where "Thanks, but I'd never make it out of the store alive!"

Diane
 
<Folks, remember this thread when there is a thread complaining about customer service at store XYZ. These poorly paid workers put up with a lot!:D >

I too have to put up with a lot of crappola working in a service industry but I do not consider it an excuse for bad service, poor attitude, or snotty words and frankly, I think being negative is a drain on my own energy.
 
Nor is it the customer's right to treat these poor people like crappola. That is my point on my post. They put up with a lot, and when I see people rant here, I picture a big ranting scene and do not have much sympathy. I have worked customer service and always gave good services even to people who did not deserve. But I also try to treat people serving me how I would like to be treated!
 
People are just weird! I swear. I once had a full load of groceries and was half way done with unloading them and putting them on the belt when a woman came up behind me, put the divider down and put HER stuff on the belt. I looked at her as if she had just landed from Mars and said, "Excuse me, I'm not done yet." Her response, "Oh, I'm just taking up a little space." She did not get it. I swear some people are so wrapped up in themselves that they don't notice their impact on other people. This was someone my age, too - not a snotty teenager.
 
One Friday night I was waiting in a long line along with other folks at the grocery store. Another cashier started to open, and I paused because I was going to let the lady in front of me move first because she had been there first. Out of nowhere zoomed this man from way back in the line. He shouldered past me declaring AHA and rushed ahead. The other lady looked at me, I looked her, the cashier looked at us, and we all just shrugged. What can you do with rudeness! It only caused me to be a little later.
 
I was at Joann's Fabrics one day and this woman purchased something for .99 cents and was upset because the cashier didn't apply her 10% off coupon.

Do the frigging math, lady - that's like .10 cents.

So, the cashier had to call her supervisor to cancel out that transaction and ring it up again.

I really should have given that woman .10 cents and told her to get her @ss out of line.
 
I was at Meijer with my 6 week old, 2 year old and 4 year old. I had a HUGE cart full of groceries. I unloaded everything and then went to help bag it when I suddenly noticed I was in the 15 item or less line. I looked at the cashier and said I was so sorry. Then I looked at the poor 4 people behind me each holding 2 or 3 items in their hands and very panicky started apologizing like crazy. At the same time they all said,"It's okay."

I must have looked pathetic--hair pulled back in a nasty ponytail, no make-up on,racoon eyes. I'm sure I had spit up somewhere on the maternity shirt I was still wearing, a crying baby and two whining toddlers.

They all could have let me have it but they all probably figured I was already living so far on the edge that keeping quiet was their good deed for the day. Plus it was an honest mistake. Not like the doofus(sp?) at the end of the line who says "AHA" as he passes people in front of him to go to the open cashier or the nasty lady fighting for 3 bucks off the fish.
 
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