#$%^*& Supermarkets

[Patricia]

Why.......

Why do we always choose the trolley with the wonky wheel?

Why do we always choose the check-out line that is the longest...or the one that closes just as I get into the line?

Why is the product we want either out of stock or so high on the shelf that a short #$%^ like me can't reach it?

Why does the EFTPOS machine we use at the check out refuse to recognize our card?

Does anyone else have the dreaded supermarket curse as well :P:P

[MissieK]

Oooh, don't get me started!!!

Why does DH always insist that it's "fun" to go to the supermarket with 2 kids in tow, because "they enjoy it" x(

That's my BIGGEST one atm.

Melissa

[Pam]

Oh dear, I'm about to head to the supermarket right now! Gotta beat the all the mums and their school kids!

I hate doing the groceries. I agree with all your gripes! I might have a few more to add when I come back LOL

Catch you all later :waves:

[capricorn]

I hate shopping during School holidays because it seems like 'every man/woman and their dog' are there :faint: This is particularly hard at Christmas and Easter x( I try to go early to miss the kids who are probably still asleep (where I should be-LOL) :P And yes I have to find a trolley that doesn't have a mind of it's own x( Have you seen the way the Trolley Services handle the trolleys though :faint: It's no wonder they are !@#$%^&* :P

[Naomi]

My supermarket gripes (get a cup of tea - I hate supermarket shopping and this will be a long list) :
* people who take FULL trolleys through the '12 items or less' checkout
* check-out operators who pack the bags badly (this really only happens occasionally, at one particular place we shop at)
* people who treat supermarket shopping as a tourist outing, and stand still in the middle of aisles gazing around them, making it difficult for everyone else to get past them. Especially when it's several people.
* Shelf packers who act like you are getting in their way. I know that with 24 hour opening, they still need to pack the shelves some time but if they do it in the middle of the day of course there will be more shoppers around. Yet they still leave huge pallets of groceries sitting in the middle of the aisle (such a safety hazard!)
* Waiting for AGES at the deli counter to get served
* Not being able to find a product and getting a blank stare when you ask a staff member where it is. Or being told "Aisle x", and when you get there, of course it isn't there, but the staff member has miraculously disappeared.
* check-out operators who don't know what the fresh produce is, and even when you tell them, they don't know the code.
* One particular supermarket who don't put razor blade refills on the shelf so you have to go to the service desk for them, but you have to pay there as well so you end up doing two transactions - one for the blades and one for the rest of your groceries, and when you ask why this is their policy they LIE and tell you it's the LAW (how stupid do you think I am??) but the same supermarket in the next suburb has the blades on the shelf.
* trolleys that don't steer straight
* trolleys with mangled seat belts in the baby seat section (this is most trolleys because the trolley collectors use the seatbelt to hold each trolley to the next one. Really smart).
* Having only one trolley bay in the whole car-park, and it's right next to the entrance of the store so I have to go all the way back to my car, unload the groceries, walk all the way back to the store to return the trolley and then carry Hugo back to the car because I'm not leaving him in the car when I take the trolley back that far away.
* Running out of a product I want, or worse - stop stocking it altogether

I'm sure there are more, this is just what comes to mind right now.

[floria]

Oh, supermarket rage.

I fess up and I don't mind supermarket shopping. Mind you I have no kids and usually go shopping at 8am or 8pm.

While on holidays in USA one thing I enjoyed was going to their supermarkets and checking out all the different stuff they sell. :)

[capricorn]

Another thing that bugs me is when you get a full trolley in the queue and NO-ONE is with it :faint: So you dutifully wait till the Invisible man/woman come back and then wait some more :faint: This is also annoying if you get someone standing in a vacant park that you want and they say "Oh I'm waiting for so and so to bring the car around" :faint:

[Pam]

I'm back.

I stubbed my toe on the $%^& Trolley wheel and it took all my strength to keep walking normally like nothing happened. It took 3 isles before the throbbing subsided!


Oh yeah, the annoying group of people standing around having a catch up chat and they wont *%$# move out of everyone's way.

And in the deli section (when everyone has 15 mins to decide what they want because the queue is so long) when they finally get served ..Ummm.. Ohhh... 250g no, no, make it 275g of leg ham.. no ummm... ohhh make it salami and ummm... Hmmm... :roll:


I hate carrying in the groceries and putting them away too LOL.

[MissieK]

I just went to the supermarket with 2 little boys & a pram. Why don't they have anywhere you can park a pram & get a trolley???? It would make shopping so much easier. And what happened to the days when someone would help take your shopping to the car....

Melissa

[Naomi]

Another thing that bugs me is when you get a full trolley in the queue and NO-ONE is with it
Oh yeah, this burns me up, too. Although it happened to me on Saturday and I just hopped in front of it, then the owner came back and it was a (VERY heavily pregnant) friend of mine - she'd left the trolley there because she didn't have the energy to push it around the store.

Or you get behind someone in the queue and they've got a couple of things so you think the wait won't be too long then their partner-in-crime shows up with a full trolley and hops in front of you.

[Ness]

Ha I know how you all feel and funny enough it happens to people who have worked there for the last 11 years as well!!!!!!! its not customer sesative it happens to the best of us

[Patricia]

Looks like I have really hit a nerve with this post huh? :P:P LMAO LMAO

[Barbara]

LMAO I can just see you all typing your posts with gritted teeth.

I hate grocery shopping but I usually do it first thing on a Monday morning after dropping my boys off at school. That way, I have no rush and can be one of those people who stand there in the middle of the aisle with a blank look on my face reading the packets :Hehe:.

Seriously, there are a few things that really *&%# me but I try not to let it get to me. If I need to go when I have my boys, I usually give them a basket and they help. If I keep them busy, they don't muck around as much x(

[Leigh]

I don't mind shopping, I go in and do what I have to do and pretty much ignore what everyone else is doing. I do enjoy it much more when it is just Katelyn and I. Other wise it's still only the extras that are pissing me off, not the shopping itself LOL.

What I really hate, is the door lady at Big W. I have not seen it at any other stores. I am actually planning on ringing and complaining. She stands at the door, and is for ever trying to sell chocolates, lollies, raffle tickets or shaking a tin in your face. Charity is fair enough. But not when it is rammed in your face every time you go to walk in the bloody store.

[mel35]

The thing that annoys me most about supermarket shopping is taking DH who spends about an hour checking out the seafood, then complains coz I am taking too long getting everything else we NEED- Then when we get home he complains there is nothing to eat x(

[Denise]

I usually don't mind the shopping. Lately a friend and I have been going on a Friday morning and end up having lunch somewhere. We make a day of it and get home just before the kids get home from school. I usually take my youngest with me, he's pretty good, especially when he knows he'll get something special for lunch.
Denise

[Carrie]

I don't mind shopping - just hate spending money on food!!!!!!!
My kids like shopping! Much to many parents disgust LOL We go Friday mornings & it isn't too bad (except school holidays!). Our Coles & Dewsons (the 2 supermkts I use) have new trolleys *YAY!* so no wonky wheels here :D

one thing does annoy me thou - the electric shocks you sometimes get every time you touch anything! I am sure it has something to do with what I am wearing, but haven't figured that out yet as often I will be wearing all cotton??? maybe my shoes? never thought of that!!!!!

[Supa]

I always took my kids shopping & they used to love it. The thing I hate is one supermarket that has a bottle shop near it & all the drunks hang round the doors makes me wanna puke