Shopping pet peeves that make you angry.

[megomania]

Nobody's perfect

[Gorn Captain]

People who bring their kids to the store and use it as a playground. You get swamped by a herd of screaming playing kids, while the parents spend their time talking to someone they met in the store. Feel free to bring the kids, but keep them under control. That's the way I went to the store with my parents, not "total mayhem".

Pensioners who have the whole week to shop when it's not busy, but insist on coming on saturday morning, then complain "that's it's way too busy", and cause traffic jams in the aisles. I have respect for the elderly, but why pick the busiest day? Maybe if they came to the store with one of their kids? That's possible...

Store staff who say "please try our selection of fine Belgian Beer!" and offer you a taste...at 08.30 AM....("It's never too early, sir!")
That was this weekend. The woman behind the counter just kept insisting to try them. I resisted saying "can I have some crack and a hooker with that?"

[apes3978]

I can see being peeved about something like that if the lot's packed and parking is scarce, but I think it's better that they're looking for their cigs, talking on their phone, etc. in the parking lot instead of when they're on the street and driving...

The other types that irritate are the ones who get their cars loaded, turn them on, then just sit there for ten or fifteen minutes either looking for their cigarettes, talking on their phone or doing whatever else it us they do! OY!!

[LordMudd]

People who walk in a group 3+ side by side slower than normal traffic flow so you can't get past them, employees, mainly stockers, that run you over/ don't get out of your way, clerks asking for your phone #, new lane opens after you make it up to be next in line so you can't get over there and then the clerk takes people from the back of your line while the person in front of you has a problem that requires a manager who isn't available- regardless of which lane you get in, people who use the power carts because they are fat and lazy. That is NOT a handicap!

A clerk at TRU once ask for my #. I ask why. She said it was a survey to see where their shoppers lived to determine where they needed more stores. I said "They need to concentrate on fixing and maintaining the stores they have." Now I just tell them it is unlisted.


CCC.

[Hedji]

These are all first world problems, you realize.

I may be angering some people by reading ingredients for a long time, but my daughter has life-threatening food allergies. So I read.

[MIB41]

There are really just two gripes I have to the general shopping experience - First, stores not having enough checkers to get you out of the store. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a major chain and seen only two or three lanes open while 10 sit empty. Even the self-checkout's are down. Nothing says "We shouldn't exist" more than that. If a store is packed with people on a day that is typically busy, they should have them staffed properly to handle the traffic. The last is not having the price scanned in properly or at all. If you're in a brick and mortar store, your first objective should be to provide service so people who DO want to buy your product can actual achieve that and get out. I know... makes too much sense.

[Gorn Captain]

These are all first world problems, you realize.

I may be angering some people by reading ingredients for a long time, but my daughter has life-threatening food allergies. So I read.

Same here. My wife is allergic to aromas and flavor enhancers, so I read like I'm in a library. But I do try and keep out of the way when reading. If they didn't make the ingredients list microscopically small, I'd read faster.

[EMCE Hammer]

Well...Dublin is "new money" and drags along some of the associated attitude & insecurities (obviously just my opinion), but there are plenty of nice areas & people in central Ohio. In general, I consider this area to be more polite than areas on the east coast where I've lived. People here seem to be genuinely offended when I blow my horn at them or flip them off, and they're uncomfortable when I 'boo' the home team or politicians...stuff like that. So, as for the 'Excuse me' thing - I've concluded that they must not think it's rude. I could understand that logic in the NY subway or somewhere that people are packed in. That environment requires a different social norm. But on a Tuesday night in the grocery store when there are only three of us in an aisle? I don't get it. I really think that they don't consider it to be rude.

I always say excuse me, but I have noticed that a lot of people don't. What gets me is people who stand in the middle of the aisle while scanning the selections, in such a way that I am forced to walk between them and what they are viewing. Just scoot up a little closer, and then I can walk behind you. I always try to be aware - and make my knucklehead children aware - that we're not the only people in the store.

[Mikey]

I hate going to the local super-Walmart food section and they have stuff on pallets at the end of the isles to make you think it's on sale but it's really not.

Also on the subject, what burns me up even more is people (mostly late teens) like to sit on these.

I'm not going to buy a jar of Mayo or case of water after they've literally been up somebody's ***.

[Rallygirl]

I hate "sales" that are not really sales.
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[Operation:Mego]

^^^ That one is pretty funny.

[emeraldknight47]

Man, that one from MEIJER really IS a faux pas!!! Here---it's on sale! Pay MORE for it!!! LOL!!!

[Duncan]

What gets me is people who stand in the middle of the aisle while scanning the selections, in such a way that I am forced to walk between them and what they are viewing. Just scoot up a little closer, and then I can walk behind you.

Well...if I'm not wearing my bifocals and I get up too close, I might be looking for Prego and come away with a pregnancy test.

[Operation:Mego]

^ yeah, I always say that is the ultimate in laziness. people are such slobs, they can't even bother to get dressed before they go out

Well excuuuuuse me!!

[Mr.Marion]

A few years ago, buying a Captain America figure for my collection:

cashier: "Oh, who's this for?"
Me: "Me, I collect them."
cashier: "We have grown men here all the time asking about stuff. They're weird." Then she proceeded to tell me about MLP Bronies.

Another of the many reasons I make every effort to avoid Wal-Mart.

Yeah a guy can't even wear his Dracula cape and blood fangs while he buys monster DVDs and action figures without getting Snarky remarks from the cashier.