Store Checkout

[Code_Monk]

Anyone that gets into a checkout line that is for "15 items or less" and has more than
15 items : They have to pay the bill of all the people behind them.
Same for a "10 items or less", "5 items or less" etc. line.

For checkers : If you buy 2 items that are on sale for "3 for $6", and they need a calculator (or have to call the store manager) to figure out how much to charge you, will be sterilized (this one has happened to me more than once).

[~wildangel~]

Thats a good one!I hate when i'm in the 10 items or less with about 2 or 3 things,and theres all these people infront of you with 11 or 12 items!I get so mad,"It says 10!Cant you read,10!"

[wendy66]

OMG I hate that, flagrant disregard for checkout rules, also, you should have to take a math quiz before getting a job that requires you to handle money.
w

[Serendipity]

Code, your punishment is a little too lenient. The store should announce over its PA "THE PERSON IN AISLE X HAS KINDLY VOLUNTEERED TO PAY FOR EVERYBODY'S GOODS! FILL YER BOOTS!" That'd sort 'em out.

[Code_Monk]

Well....I have been accused of being a nice
guy a few times, but I venemently deny that.
Serendipity, I like your punishment.
Hmmm...a few months of free groceries
would be nice. Then I could afford to
upgrade this beast.
I was actually just going to post my second
suggestion, having just come back from
K-Mart and had that second thing happen to
me. But the first one, is such a daily
occurance, I have almost become numb to it,
except when I wanna get home. Then I wanna
choke the living s*** out of them.

Read my next Fake Law entry http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif

[amr]

In WI, two women got into a fistfight over this very thing. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/eek.gif



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Justify my text? I'm sorry, but it has no excuse!

[Idnew]

What gripes me about that also is the **** cashier shouldn't even check them out. Questions to ask the idiots that have more than the required items. Like what part of 10 or less don't you understand? You failed in math class right?

Really amr? A fist fight.

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[amr]

Yep, a real fist fight.

I don't have the details in front of me (I'm technically supposed to be working, hee-hee http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif), but one woman saw that the customer ahead of her had more than 10 items in the cart and began a verbal confrontation. It soon escalated to a no-holds-barred fist fight that took a store manager and a couple check-out clerks to break up!

Moral of the story: don't break the rules in a SE WI grocery store!

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Justify my text? I'm sorry, but it has no excuse!

[saint]

one time late at night i was the 10items or less cashier and here come a lady with a shoping cart full saying are u open yes but i am 10 item or less and then the manager comes over and say to the lady come on trought i am like but sure this is ten items or less he said he would bag so i did not question it good thing this was like 5 mins after we where closed.(remebers that my store is not of the most sane minds)

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The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

[paulgro]

Signs are like locks, keeps the honest people out!

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[saint]

not realy signs r there so we can just ignore them lol j/k http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif (:§

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The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

[Lis]

WHoa whoa ppl!!!! Lets ease up on the checkout chicks/guys huh??? (being one myself) ...we're actually not allowed to turn down ANYONE who comes to our register....you could come up with four load of groceries and we'd have to serve you.....trust me it may piss you off being a customer, but putting up with stupid ppl ALL DAY is much worse!

[Serendipity]

But Lis, I thought the customer was always right". As in "Right pain in the..."

[saint]

we have to do the same at my store but if it is really busy we can turn them away
long as it is like 15 different items
if it is the same thing 50 times then we would expect them because 50 quanity then ring it rought
most of the ppl at my store do that kinda thing any ways
(:§

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The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

[paulgro]

What drives me nuts is after they bring the truck load to 10 items or less they spend the next 10 minutes searching for a penny!! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/mad.gif

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[saint]

lol
yes u know what i mean
the thing i hate as a cashier is a price check on express errrrrrrrr u have to close down pretty much


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[Lis]

*grrrz* don't get me started! The ppl who wait til your at the end of their stuff and go " oh hang on...I forgot something" then dissapear for ten minutes...OR the ppl who go "oh here I can give the exact change to make it easier" (as if we dont have any in the store) and spend ten minutes going through their purse/wallet/pocket....*grinz*

[Idnew]

How about the ancient old lady that gets out a check that she can't fill out to pay for $2.39 worth of stuff. If I'm going to write a check I start while I'm waiting in line then all I have to do is fill in the amount.

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[Lis]

*grinz* you can shop at my work anytime Id http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

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Originally posted by wendy66:
OMG I hate that, flagrant disregard for checkout rules, also, you should have to take a math quiz before getting a job that requires you to handle money.
w

Acctually I did have to take a math test. I'm not good at mental math, but I can do it if given a minute. I passed the test with a perfect score. (not shocking the hardest thing we had to do was two decimal places and I've had math classes up through Calculus I).

I disagree with the suggestion of punishment for going over on the express lane. There are times when it is perfectly legitimate. All the lanes are full you have a couple items over and the express lane is completely empty. Why not? The cashier is probably bored anyway. (I'm speaking as a cashier who has run express lane many times.) You want to buy 24 cans of Shasta soda and they are all the same flavor, but the express only allows 20 items, come on through. It takes less time to ring that up than 20 different items.

Originally posted by Lis:
*grrrz* don't get me started! The ppl who wait til your at the end of their stuff and go " oh hang on...I forgot something" then dissapear for ten minutes...OR the ppl who go "oh here I can give the exact change to make it easier" (as if we dont have any in the store) and spend ten minutes going through their purse/wallet/pocket....*grinz*

My favorite is the people who walk up to the front of the store, see there is about one person in each normal lane about 20 in the express lane, get in the express lane, and then get angry that that they have to wait in line and that they are not out of the store in under 30 seconds. People get angry with me and sometimes I just want to look at them and go "duh!!" All in all though I love my job. Or how about the people that walk up as you are closing to go home. The lane light is off, the this lane closed sign is out, and they get in line anyway. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/mad.gif

[DumbLawBreaker]

Whenever I see someone who gets in the express lane over the limit I ask them if they are an English major who can't count or a math major who can't read. I saw that one in the comics. Another annoyance is when a group of people getting the same thing all pay separately. It once took 5 minutes for a group to buy snacks for their vacation, it could of took around 1 and a half. Sometimes I hate people.

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Breaking dumb laws is a ... um ... dumb job but somebody's gotta do it!

And that's another law broken.
SO ARREST ME!

Being a former cashier myself, I really hated it when people would go thru my checkout lane and decide they didn't want half the stuff in their shopping cart, or didn't have enough money to pay for it all. If there were any refrigerated/frozen items, I'd have to leave my cash register after cashing them out and put everything back where it belonged. This annoyed me as well as other customers.

[Lis]

Originally posted by CecileLeRouge:
Or how about the people that walk up as you are closing to go home. The lane light is off, the this lane closed sign is out, and they get in line anyway. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/mad.gif

*LMAO* nah the ppl who shop at my work are much more polite....light off, sign up, counting my draw and every night without fail someone manages to walk up to me and go "are you open"......*grrrz* DO I look like I'm open???? Although I desperately want to serve you, even though I have two minutes before I go home, you see this money I'm counting? It isn't allowed to be used anymore because I'M CLOSED!!!! GOOSE!!!

Really though, I'm sure it's an honest mistake....I guess after doing the same thing for hours on end gets ya a lil edgy http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif



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[saint]

that is stupid taking frozen things back yes but not u let a bagger do it
like i was watching a cashier on her line some one braeks some thing and she stay open and starts cleaning it up her self with to baggers bagging for her
she is still cleaning it up
they some one got a good idea yes finaly they closed her off by then it was all clean up
my thing cashier should have to do little as positable while customers are in there line.
close off get the ppl out of there and then the cashier helps
errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr some ppl just don't know how to do there jobs
i was a bagger a cashier and now a stockmen
stupid things happend around there alot

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Originally posted by Lis:
*LMAO* nah the ppl who shop at my work are much more polite....light off, sign up, counting my draw and every night without fail someone manages to walk up to me and go "are you open"......*grrrz* DO I look like I'm open???? Although I desperately want to serve you, even though I have two minutes before I go home, you see this money I'm counting? It isn't allowed to be used anymore because I'M CLOSED!!!! GOOSE!!!

Really though, I'm sure it's an honest mistake....I guess after doing the same thing for hours on end gets ya a lil edgy http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif




We don't count our money at the lanes we go up to bookkeeping for that. They usually get in the lane when I'm ringing up the last person in the lane. I usually just tell them "Sorry, I'm closed." and it's not a problem, but it is so frusterating when you just want to get out of there.

Originally posted by saint:

my thing cashier should have to do little as positable while customers are in there line.



My store is great about this. We just call the stockers or the CSAs or someone from another department. They pick up frozen and cold stuff, do the price checks, clean up if there are people in the lane. Customers have to bag their own groceries so we don't have baggers, but the stockers are just an intercom call away.

[CBranski]

In my particular neck of the woods, we have a problem with people who can't understand signs that say "cash only." Folks see this, and they seem to think it's an invitation to try to pay for their $3.50 pack of smokes with a check from the Bank of Trashcanistan (without any ID of course), or their Gold Card. Meanwhile, the rest of us who are in a hurry have to stand and wait because some moron decided that reading two one syllable words was just a waste of his valuable time

I think Dippy came up with a great idea-make these fools pay for everyone's groceries! (What I would do for free groceries-I'm out of beer again!) An alternative would be to tar and feather them in the parking lot.

[Lis]

Originally posted by CecileLeRouge:
Customers have to bag their own groceries so we don't have baggers,

Sounds like a luxury to me....we do it ALL ourselves http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/frown.gif scan, bag, lock stock and two smoking barrels http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

[~wildangel~]

As CB said, we tar and feather them in the parking lot! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

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Originally posted by Lis:
Sounds like a luxury to me....we do it ALL ourselves http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/frown.gif scan, bag, lock stock and two smoking barrels http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif


We have other things we have to do. Mainly clean. We also have to make sure there are plenty of bags out for customers. I swear there are paper bags on the bottom that have probably been there for 3-4 years at least. Also anything that is not cold, we have to take back en masse once or twice a day. That is a 3-4 hour job at least. (Of course we are not open then.) And they hide things in the oddest places. For example candles go in one place but if they are the kind that have chunks of fruit in them then they go in the produce department of course. Some of it makes sense, but some doesn't.

[Lis]

*groans* ohhh tell me about it! you have bags that have been there three or four years??? In our store room (well, one of them) we found a can of beans out of date in 92....that was an entertaining day! *lol*

Tar and feather sounds good to me http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Ada_Doom]

The people that got up my nose when I was a cashier were the ones who came with a big bag of apples and you were sure what sort they were "Are these Coxes?" "Dunno love I think they were 37p a pound" WHY don't you know????? You CHOSE the ruddy things!!!!!!!! This was only beaten ny people coming into the Chemists and asking for "perfume". "Any particular KIND of perfume? We do have a wallful!" "What do you think my wife would like?" I don't KNOW your sodding wife. How would I know!!!!!

Sorry. Ranting again.

We never had baggers either. Had to pack things ourselves, which made me the slowest cashier in the world, as I was always trying not to put peoples catfood on top of their eggs. Never mind!

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[Lis]

Originally posted by Ada_Doom:

We never had baggers either. Had to pack things ourselves, which made me the slowest cashier in the world, as I was always trying not to put peoples catfood on top of their eggs. Never mind!



*lol* but that's the best bit!

Originally posted by Ada_Doom:
The people that got up my nose when I was a cashier were the ones who came with a big bag of apples and you were sure what sort they were "Are these Coxes?" "Dunno love I think they were 37p a pound" WHY don't you know????? You CHOSE the ruddy things!!!!!!!!


It's the lettuce and cabbage that bugs me (although apples are a close second) It's all green and leafy, or red and leafy, And they don't put anything on them to tell them apart. The apples have stickers with numbers on them, you just put them on the scale and key in the number. Lettuce and cabbage you have to take out the nice little picture book and look it up.

[~wildangel~]

Well dippy ya see when It comes t opicking apples you just look for the sticker that says ~washington~ on it, cause those are the best apples!

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[Lis]

*ahem* Granny smith Wild http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif Granny Smith http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Ada_Doom]

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[~wildangel~]

I like those great big Washington Apples, there so juicy and good*mmmm* They crunch when you bite them

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Whenever I'm in my Waldbaums and I have 16 items or more, I always head for the regular checkout and get steered toward the express lane by a store manager or other employee.

[Ada_Doom]

This is because supervisors are ALWAYS right. It's unwritten law. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

I think I am far too intolerant for one so young. I've recently been getting excessively annoyed with people who don't move up once they've put their stuff on the belt, so that the next person can put theirs down. I think this only annoys me though, because I always forget to get a trolley, so I have all my stuff precariously balanced in my arms. I am turning into my father, and it worries me! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Originally posted by Lis:
OR the ppl who go "oh here I can give the exact change to make it easier" (as if we dont have any in the store) and spend ten minutes going through their purse/wallet/pocket....*grinz*
I admit to doing that, and the reason is simple. It makes the wallet lighter if there aren't loads of small coins cluttering it up.

[bi-blonde]

What I can't stand are the people that have to spend 10 minutes writing out a check. They have devices now where you can use your friggin ATM card! but NO they have to write the ENTIRE check out after their groceries are already bagged. Before paying with debit cards came out, I had my check already filled out (with the exception of the total amount) so I could sign it and go...