Top this for inconsideration
 

Fat old broad has about $150. worth of groceries.

Cashier checks them through fairly quickly and they accumulate at the end of the belt until the entire area is completely filled.

Fat old broad begins the slow process of bagging said groceries............one item at a time.

Cashier is just standing there because fat old broad won't let her bag...........she want's the groceries packed in the bags a certain way.

Cashier cannot take the next person in line (just ahead of me) because fat old broad has not yet paid.............and, apparently, is not going to pay until every last item is bagged.

Fat old broad suggests to whomever might be listening that she'll go even slower if anybody doesn't like it.

10 minutes later she finally waddles over to the credit card swipe box and begins the search for a suitable card. Two minutes later, she finds it and completes the transaction.

I must say that I did well.............watched this idiot and chose not to get into it with her...........because if I did, I would have had to dump all her crap onto the floor and the manager would have came out and took the side of the old broad...........etc...........etc.

Top that.

You sir had the patience of Job.

It must be my age creeping up on me.............never would I have believed that I could suffer 12 minutes in silence.

Was this in Manhattan? I'm surprised people did put up with it.

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Nah.........out here.

I was thinking of you while I was standing in line. In fact, that was the only thing that stopped me.............thinking of what you might do.:D

I can top that, a good friend of mine with the initials BC didn't get me anything for my birthday, that inconsiderate BASTID. :D:D:D

Brian...I didn't know you shopped at Walmart. :D

Someone found my iPad 2 tonight in a Kroger shopping cart and didn't turn it in ---- and this is a decent part of town & Kroger. As a comparison; last summer I left it in a shopping cart out in the middle of big Walmart and it got turned into Customer Service.

Oh....well....that lasted 18months.

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I do not know who is more idiotic, you or the old broad. Questions:

1) Only 1 line open?
2) Longer wait at the other lines?
3) Can you do without the groceries and leave?

It would never happen to me. That is why I never post trivial stuff.

I'm buying you a Windows 3.1 computer.

1) Two lines open
2) You never know the length of the wait until the wait is completed.
3) Sure...........a return trip to the store would take way more than the lost 12 minutes. This would be the height of stupidity.

It would never happen to you because you'll spend twice as much time to avoid it because you haven't considered the consequences of your actions.

This broad is the poster child of Wal-Mart.

Ya'll ain't got self check out:eek:.

A little story. I live in a very rural area with two WalMarts, both being approximately 35 miles away in opposite directions. One of them has self check out and the other doesn't. Seems there was too much stuff being stolen at the store that no longer has it:rolleyes:. It amazes me the number of ppl that can't operate a self check out.

Really?? I have. Look at my signature.

This specific store is quite small and doesn't have them.

I rarely use them when available simply because the time factor is generally more than the cashier. If there is no line, I can bag and pay in less than two minutes ($45 typical order). This can never be done at a self-checkout.

It does not amaze me.

At least the fat old broad didn't forget anything.

Trivial stuff? That sounds like a major PITA event to me.

I'm not sure what I would have done, but I could not muster that much patience in such circumstances.

Brian done good.

I am guilty of grocery store line profiling. I can normally pick out the people in line that would have a higher chance of some problem in line. You know who they are.
Pick the other line.

Guilty as well.

However, this broad wasn't immediately apparent as to her actions (because of her location at the far end of the belt) until it was a fait accompli.

You did good. At that point, all you can do is put on the ole fake smile and get through the ordeal without an altercation. Life is easier that way.

Yep. I commiserated with the cashier and the woman in front of me after the old broad departed. The fact that this woman had a young girl with her also weighed heavily on not making a situation.

I pity your simple life. If you think this is a 'major PITA event' in life then you ain't seen nothing yet.

Blasphemy I say .... Blasphemy... :D

Out "east" on Lawn Guyland?

Honestly, if I were home in NYC, I'd have walked out and had the groceries delivered or just gone somewhere else. Life's too short to put up with numbskulls. This being said, the local Fairway isn't bad since it generally has quite a few cashiers open, and a hyperactive little lady directing traffic to the next open register on busy pre-holiday nights. So rather than individual lines, you end up with an semi-amorphous blob of people being passed wherever it's fastest for them to go -- works pretty well.

This is why Amazon is the best place to shop. You don't have to deal with annoying people.

...........the milk and the roast beef might not travel all that well.............wonder if they give free shipping?

Actually, it's Blue Point, but I understand that you can't spell.

Going someplace else will consume way more than 12 minutes. Another action without consideration of the lost time.

Amazon is getting into the grocery business out in CA, if it does well they will roll it out nation wide.

I just bought an Iphone charger on Amazon, vs running down the road to an electronics store. Two clicks and in two days its on my front porch...not having to deal with morons...priceless.

I don't have that kind of patience to wait two days :)

Not sure if I'm down with ordering groceries either. At least as far as fruits, veggies, and meats, I like to see and smell what I'm buying. Plus sending out for a bottle of OJ when I ran out and want some OJ, beer, or whatever now, runs into the patience thing. Nor do I have the sort of planning ability.

And I pity your desire to belittle someone over something like this.

Of course it doesn't rise to the level of losing your job or your house burning down, but as a day to day event it definitely qualifies as an irritating PITA event.

There is always a little good in everything though. In this case it gave you an opportunity to be rude and belittle me. Glad you got your satisfaction.

I'm an idiot when it comes to picking the best line at the grocery. I seem to get stuck behind similarly aggravating shoppers fairly regularly, and end up painfully watching the next lane over clear out quickly.

I'm quite sure you could summon the Lord to bless that new computer and it will work fine for you for the next 10 years. He's got quite a bit of power you know.;)

I was at the grocery store the other day where in the aisle next to me an impatient man started ringing up his stuff in the self check line before the fat old broad before him had started bagging hers. I'm not sure what his plan was, but the woman started bagging his stuff as well and putting it in her cart I guess to teach him a lesson. This provoked an incident I was fortunate enough not to wittness past the initial exchange of words.

Took my loaf of bread and GTFO of there quickly. Good move not calling her out, it doesn't pay to provoke a fat old broad, they are always ready to finish whatever is started, like a rhino taking a defensive stance

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I commend you on your patience Brian.
At least she wasn't driving around in an electric shopping cart!:eek: Talk about.......ahhh.... it's not worth getting into.:rolleyes:

I always use the self checkout....anywhere. But sometimes that gets to be a challenge. Taking orders from a talking machine!!! :mad::mad::o

I'm torn both ways. I like the independence of the self-checkout and will always take it in HD because it's empty.

But, I rarely take it at the grocery store because it is definitely slower than the cashier, provided the cashier has no line or is just finishing with a single customer. Vegetables at the self-checkout take forever...........you must lookup the code.

Where I shop 4046 is vine ripened tomatoes & 4664 is Gala apples. ;) Or is it the other way around? :confused::o
Like you, at HD & WM always self checkout.

He is the ONLY One who could make a pc last for 10 years. :eek::eek::eek::D

Robert, I do hope you're wearing that shirt with pride.

Having worked in a market and other retail, this thread story happens every hour of every day. Cringe at these:

"oh, wait. I have a penny."

"I have to hang up now"

"Where did my checkbook go? Oh, there it is, what's today's date . . ."

"I think I have a coupon."

In Walmart a couple weeks ago. Fat old lady with an O2 tank in a scooter attended by her husband who was using a walker had completely blocked an aisle. The item I needed was just beyond them, so I put my cart well to the right and walked around them. I had to say excuse me to get Mr. Walker to stagger a bit so I could get around him. As I was picking out my item they decided to move upstream and Mrs. Scooter literally pushed my cart halfway up the aisle with her scooter before figuring out how to get around it.
I always use the self checkout even with large buys as checkout lines give me the willies and I don't like WM's system of putting only a couple items in each bag. Sure enough, up behind me comes Mr.Walker and his well oxygenated crone. Mr. Walker actually starts bumping my cart with his support structure. I look at him and he says these checkouts are for people who only have a few items. He's got six giant bales of grownup diapers in the Mrs.' cart. I smiled and pointed and said you can stand there and wait and piss yourself some more or you can go to THAT machine RIGHT THERE that nobody's using, but bump my cart one more time and we'll be in a jackpot. They moved. People are rude and getting more so.

I pay in exact change if I can, don't like keeping coins around. If people whine about the extra 10 sec, it still takes less time than cretin card authorization and signature ;)

What people?

Are these people still walking around in NYC............or cowering in a corner?:D

Wait, you've met a New Yorker who didn't kvetch about something at least 20x a day?

I actually have a story that tops my own story.

I walk up to an open register with the light on and the cashier says that he's closed. I state that it is impossible for him to be closed because the light, above the register, indicates that the register is OPEN. "That's the purpose of the light............the light means that you are OPEN". "Why would you have a light when you are not open?"

He stammers that he is open but someone else is at the checkout.

"Where is this person? I don't see any person"

He tries to explain that the person will be back "in a moment". There is a fairly large set of groceries way down at the end.

Fk this............I find another register right adjacent to him.


Now, this is where the fun begins.


As I'm checking out, another old broad (not quite as fat) returns to his register and now explains to him that she cannot find her credit card. Apparently, she headed out to the car to find said card and cashier is stuck waiting for her to return (unbeknownst to me).

She then proceeds to tell the cashier that she will return TOMORROW to pay for her groceries and the cashier explains that he cannot simply let her take them tonight and hope that she returns tomorrow.

This escalates a bit and now she's verbally abusing the cashier and demanding to speak to the manager.

Well, it's 9:00 at night and you can be damn sure that no manager is on duty at that hour that could possibly make a decision to allow her to take an estimated $100 worth of groceries and not pay for them. One of the senior cashiers comes over and explains it all over again to her, without any success.

I'm now done with my checkout and I don't see any resolution to this any time soon and decided that the show wasn't worth any more of my time so the outcome isn't perfectly clear, but I'd bet that she went home without any groceries and the store had to restock all of it.

Rarely............!

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Funny you say that, I found an iphone with a shopping list on the checkout shelf at walmart last night. My first thought was to call someone in it that might have a way to get ahold of the owner, but sadly there was a pin required to open the screen.

Ended up giving it to the manager on duty

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