How to not suck at shopping at a grocery store.

gee, thanks for the pointers, cuz i'm about
to move up to cashier.....

[quote name='antwill' post='2942138' date='Jun 26 2010, 02:28 AM'][quote name='bnwchbammer' post='2942107' date='Jun 26 2010, 05:44 PM']3-If you're wrong, I am highly satisfied, because "The customer is always right" rule is stupid.[/quote]
Except they don't mean it literally like that, they mean that you'll bend over backwards for them as their business means the most to the store.

This whole post came off as a bitter employee who feels like ranting about their job and minor pet hates because it somehow helps them feel better about their poor choice of a career. Please explain to me what makes you think you somehow have a right to overcharge, not saying you do, but saying "i said i could" implies that you believe that doing so is still not wrong.

Also in America they have people who's job is to bag the groceries? Here the person working the register does it too.
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Calm down, it's like saying people in restaurants can spit in people's food.

[quote name='thegame07' post='2942212' date='Jun 26 2010, 03:56 AM']Part of being a cashier is to interact with the customers and greet them and sometimes even have a nice conversation with them. If you don't like it I think it's time to find a new job. If I had your job and some old lady started talking to me I would make her day by talking to her , it's not hard.[/quote]
I'm glad you brought up that point cuz I do actually have an old lady customer that I've known since my first week when I was a bagger. She's cool as hell, we talk, I have a bit of fun at my job. And there are plenty of customers who are awesome.

[quote name='Sinkhead' post='2942398' date='Jun 26 2010, 06:38 AM']I have a job similar to yours, and deep down, I dislike it.

I get through it by actively trying to enjoy what I'm doing, or at least to smile.

Try it sometime. It makes the time pass faster, at least.[/quote]
I do, it's fine, again, I just felt like kinda venting, ya know?

[quote name='Leamonde.Halcyon' post='2943539' date='Jun 26 2010, 04:49 PM']This is the kind of list that belongs on Retail Hell Underground.
I feel your pain, I worked briefly in retail and it feels like walking in the door of a store turns perfectly normal people into mentally deficient fuckwads with privilege sticks up their asses. The arrogant sneers. The superiority complex of being a -customer- there to be -served- by the retail slave. The circular logic and refusal to be denied that which they want and therefore believe is their right as -customers-. The temper tantrums. The orders. The demands. The insults. The chants that every customer marches out in your face, treating you like a retarded child that doesn't know their place.

A large portion of the world treat retail slaves like slaves, there to scrape and bow and kiss their asses just so they'll buy $5 bullshit items there instead of *competitor store*. It's ridiculous and demeaning.

And I've seen people I know who are normally perfectly nice people make this bizarre behavior transformation upon entering a store. It's embarrassing to admit knowing them when they suddenly turn into raging foaming-at-the-mouth i-want-it-now divas.

I don't know, maybe it's more pronounced in the U.S., but being a retail slave means being subject to the worst of almost every person that walks through the door.[/quote]
Heh, I haven't "transformed" per say. I keep chill, it's never really an issue like many of you have interpreted my rant as.

It's not a huge issue, I just wanted to get everything off my chest for once, as I can't exactly say this to anyone's face.
I'm not an asshole in real life, nor am I at my store, I just kinda wanted to say some stuff.
Caaaaaaaaaalm down people.

At Target, it's the story policy to honor reasonable price challenges (please don't tell the USA or my boss)

[quote name='George Dawes' post='2942198' date='Jun 26 2010, 02:29 AM'][quote name='antwill' post='2942138' date='Jun 26 2010, 07:28 AM']Also in America they have people who's job is to bag the groceries? Here the person working the register does it too.[/quote]
Here we do it ourselves. Bit of a 1950s department store thing, to have your bags packed for you.
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We bag our own groceries ourselves in Canada too, except for some stores. However, large grocery stores such as Superstore and Safeway require you to bag your own groceries.

And yeah, being a cashier is NOT hard work. Quit bitching about it. If you don't like it, quit and go flip burgers at McDonald's, because that's about the only job lower than being a cashier.

[quote name='Skyline969' post='2944375' date='Jun 26 2010, 09:27 PM'][quote name='George Dawes' post='2942198' date='Jun 26 2010, 02:29 AM'][quote name='antwill' post='2942138' date='Jun 26 2010, 07:28 AM']Also in America they have people who's job is to bag the groceries? Here the person working the register does it too.[/quote]
Here we do it ourselves. Bit of a 1950s department store thing, to have your bags packed for you.
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We bag our own groceries ourselves in Canada too, except for some stores. However, large grocery stores such as Superstore and Safeway require you to bag your own groceries.

And yeah, being a cashier is NOT hard work. Quit bitching about it. If you don't like it, quit and go flip burgers at McDonald's, because that's about the only job lower than being a cashier.
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except for maybe cleaning bathrooms at McDonald's lol

[quote name='syko5150' post='2944384' date='Jun 26 2010, 11:32 PM'][quote name='Skyline969' post='2944375' date='Jun 26 2010, 09:27 PM'][quote name='George Dawes' post='2942198' date='Jun 26 2010, 02:29 AM'][quote name='antwill' post='2942138' date='Jun 26 2010, 07:28 AM']Also in America they have people who's job is to bag the groceries? Here the person working the register does it too.[/quote]
Here we do it ourselves. Bit of a 1950s department store thing, to have your bags packed for you.
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We bag our own groceries ourselves in Canada too, except for some stores. However, large grocery stores such as Superstore and Safeway require you to bag your own groceries.

And yeah, being a cashier is NOT hard work. Quit bitching about it. If you don't like it, quit and go flip burgers at McDonald's, because that's about the only job lower than being a cashier.
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except for maybe cleaning bathrooms at McDonald's lol
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So true.

Also I am a cashier at 27, I considered myself a failure my whole life but thanks to some surgery I want to succeed and LIVE

[quote name='Skyline969' post='2944375' date='Jun 27 2010, 12:27 AM']We bag our own groceries ourselves in Canada too, except for some stores. However, large grocery stores such as Superstore and Safeway require you to bag your own groceries.

And yeah, being a cashier is NOT hard work. Quit bitching about it. If you don't like it, quit and go flip burgers at McDonald's, because that's about the only job lower than being a cashier.[/quote]
I know, it's not hard, but I'm allowed to bitch at annoying customers.

Also, sorry yupyup, I'm just saying what I think. Though I'd have to know ya personally to actually think you suck at life.

Holy crap, I have worked many jobs, and cashier at a grocery store is one of the easiest...

Everything you said all I took is this:

tl;dr: I hate my job, and anyone that doesn't make my job absolute cake, I hate their guts.

[quote name='dudeonline' post='2944463' date='Jun 27 2010, 01:57 AM']Holy crap, I have worked many jobs, and cashier at a grocery store is one of the easiest...

Everything you said all I took is this:

tl;dr: I hate my job, and anyone that doesn't make my job absolute cake, I hate their guts.[/quote]
Why can't I complain about things?
It's not that bad, and I'm blowing it out of proportion, I know, but why not?

[quote name='bnwchbammer' post='2944467' date='Jun 27 2010, 09:00 AM'][quote name='dudeonline' post='2944463' date='Jun 27 2010, 01:57 AM']Holy crap, I have worked many jobs, and cashier at a grocery store is one of the easiest...

Everything you said all I took is this:

tl;dr: I hate my job, and anyone that doesn't make my job absolute cake, I hate their guts.[/quote]
Why can't I complain about things?
It's not that bad, and I'm blowing it out of proportion, I know, but why not?
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Because you just sound like a whiny kid with no coping skills.

[quote name='dudeonline' post='2944463' date='Jun 27 2010, 04:57 PM']Holy crap, I have worked many jobs, and cashier at a grocery store is one of the easiest...[/quote]
I'm still a student and the only job I've worked as is a baker. It is terrible. I really hate spending my Sunday mornings getting up at 5:30 to bake a fucking shitload of bread. The tiny bit of work out the front as a cashier is 10 times easier than baking.

how to not suck at shopping at <insert any store here>

have a woman do it for you

[quote name='somedrunkenidiot' post='2944474' date='Jun 27 2010, 09:07 AM'][quote name='dudeonline' post='2944463' date='Jun 27 2010, 04:57 PM']Holy crap, I have worked many jobs, and cashier at a grocery store is one of the easiest...[/quote]
I'm still a student and the only job I've worked as is a baker. It is terrible. I really hate spending my Sunday mornings getting up at 5:30 to bake a fucking shitload of bread. The tiny bit of work out the front as a cashier is 10 times easier than baking.
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One of the hardest jobs I worked at was Dunkin Donuts. The manager had no idea what the hell he was doing, and he had a "it's everybody's job" attitude, so we really didnt have any set stations, so most of the time I found myself baking, cleaning and tending the till up front as a cashier also. Not to mention Dunkin Donuts customers (or coffee shop customers in general) are some of the rudest people I have ever encountered.

My hardest job ever was working in a call center. Ask anyone who has worked that job, and they will tell you why.

The easiest job I ever had, actually, was selling Hoover Vacuum Cleaners. The product pretty much sells itself, but due to medical reasons, I had to quit. The job required too much "canvassing" in 110 degree heat, haha.