Do you want elitist grocery stores in LA? Because that’s how you get elitist grocery stores in LA.
Put lines on the floor like m’roads
I remember when we did that during COVID. I wish it stuck.
Nonsense, shopping at Costco is riotously fun just like it is.
I do my grocery shopping at about 7AM on Sunday. I cruise through the aisles, slowing down to grab what I want. A full week’s shopping done in under 30 minutes, including checkout. I’m sure it also helps that I choose not to live in a big city.
I suppose if I had an online following of any kind, I might shop at a time that gave me something to complain about.
“15 items or less” lanes should charge extra for going over. 0-20 no charge, 21+ = $1 per extra item. That money goes towards whoever uses the register after you.
I’ll do one better.
Every extra item gets to be used against the customer to harm them.
The extra item is a can of tuna? Well, we’ll beat you with the tuna. The extra item is a hammer? Well, apologies my good man, but you know the rule.
We shouldn’t jump straight into violence, so how about after 5 minutes we’re allowed to beat them with anything from their cart, our cart, or the complementary whiffle ball bat?
I remember my days as a cashier when a guy in his 50s came up to buy something and was just like “I don’t know how this works my wife does the shopping”. I just scanned his items and gave him the total. Once again he couldn’t understand.
I had to give this grown man step by step instructions on making a purchase. Including how to use a card for payment.
It was wild. Even in a world where his wife does the shopping has he never ran into a gas station for a snack or gone to lunch on his own?
Working retail, or any job with the public, is wild.
Even in a world where his wife does the shopping has he never ran into a gas station for a snack or gone to lunch on his own?
When you willfully reject responsibility, you don’t think clearly. Human capabilities like pattern recognition will be ignored.
I miss social distancing
I don’t. Not for shopping. I had to wait outside in line, in the freezing cold for an hour, when my state decided to limit the number of customers allowed in at one time. Sucked balls. That didn’t last long, fortunately.
Oh yes. It was great. People forced into distance. It’s all forgotten now.
how fucked up is our world that the pandemic was actually better?
I think they should have a separate grocery store for those doing pick up orders. The traffic created from pick up orders drovea me insane.
I’ve almost never felt this, same with other comments here saying people can’t handle self checkout. Here in Sweden, at least in my city, people behave like you’d expect normal functional adults to behave. The only people who can be an annoyance are groups of kids/teenagers, and it’s very much not all of them either.
I live in the USA and it fine? Maybe its a walmart thing though I never go to walmart
Sounds like sweden might have a higher average IQ amongst their population
Maybe they just have less lead in the water and better education.
pretty sure the average iq is always 100…
Couldn’t think of a way to go out of business faster than having a competent-customers-only policy.
Only if we build similar airports. I understand not everbody is a regular business traveler, but somehow the people in front of me always seem fascinated with the novel concept of flying and airport security, spending 10 minutes emptying the pockets and putting their stuff on the conveyor belt.
Fly out of smaller airports if you can afford it. That’s the differentiator, is cost. Business travelers are (anecdotally) more likely to fly out of the closest and most convenient airport, whereas your regular broke joe (that’s usually me) will absolutely make the 1-2h commute to get myself to a hub airport to save a couple hundred bucks.
'cause your plane would take off earlier if only these lame ducks in front of you were less lame. Also you’re going to miss valuable waiting time at the gate because of them. I feel your pain, but would you mind reading a little bit faster, I don’t have time ALL FUCKING DAY, please.
Rather sit at the gate for an hour than wait and stand in line for an hour to get through security
For me, I just hate standing in a queue for long periods of time. Also, in my town, queues can get up to ober an hour in security, propmpting peeple to potentially miss their flight or planes being delayed.
Flying and grocery shopping are a bit different on the needs scale, don’t you think? Solid idea application though.
Split queues for casual groceries and ranked competitive groceries
Speedrun ALDI Any%
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i worked at a grocery store for a few years, you want to go after 7pm and all your wishes will come true
I love to go as early as possible. There are only old people around me and everything is calm and chill.
I’m one of those old people. We know what’s up.
God forbid you need to check out (only one checkout lane open bc it’s so early) right behind one of those old people as they take about 65 centuries to pull exact change out of their asses
Good thing many stores in Germany have self-Service checkouts. Easy and quick!
They’re very common in the U.S., too, in the past six years.
At first, I was against them, because of fewer people being employed, and I’d be “working for free”, but the much shorter wait convinced me. Also, Walmart employs a bunch of people to do the pick-up shopping, so, I think the number of people employed has stayed the same. Although, I suspect they pay the pickers less.
I refuse to use the pick-up shopping because half of my shopping is fresh vegetables, and I don’t trust anyone else to choose them for me. Yeah, I want two onions, but I want big ones, and ones with no mold or bruises. Food is expensive, and I don’t want to pay for poor quality. Yeah, I want a bunch of celery, but if the organic looks better than the normal, I might pay a bit extra for that this time. Paid pickers can’t make those choices for me.
The other day I went shopping with my parents and my mother proceeded to pull out a whole lot of coupons. Clearly they are not long for this world.
Although I will give her credit, they were all actually in date
lol. But in all seriousness I don’t mean any disrespect just venting my frustrations as it seems time slows to a halt when checking out. So even if it only takes them a couple minutes to get their shit together it feels like 30 minutes.
We need to also test your ability to spend money. I swear people at self checkout act like they have never used a credit/debit card in there life.
I used to work at this kiosk which was inside a café. A customer wanted to pay from the inside, which can happen, but it’s rare. Since the reader was cable wired to the plug at the window, I had to bring it to where he was standing, but the cable wasn’t long enough. I pulled it out as much as I could, and waited for him to step forward and reach out with his card in his hand.
He was just standing there, waving his card at the machine from ~3-4 feet away. Like, I don’t know, at one point the card reader would go “HEY, that card is Larry! Hi, Larry, how are you doing, you old sonofabitch?”
But also at regular checkouts.
You’ve just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.
How is it that JUST NOW is the time you’ve decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?
I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.
There’s one bird in their head that’s half alive just bouncing around like the DVD logo.
I think it’s very neighborhood dependent.
The worst places are in rich neighborhoods where all the bored middle managers act like queens and kings of the grocery store.
