Supermarket Slobs
Damsel in dis Dress
disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic bottle
of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
These people have no class, and they're thieves!
The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean up
after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
happening.
Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon
jmcquown
> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of
> Rolo candies. These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
what you steal, dammit! (just kidding)
Jill
davin...@earthlink.net
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.
>
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
I don't see too many slob scenes at the market, fortunately. Every so
often I spot a package of a perishable (e.g., cold cuts, pkg of meat,
ice cream)left on a shelf...always disturbs me that someone is
perfectly willing to waste food to save him-/herself a walk of maybe a
100 feet. One of my pet peeves is trash left in a shopping cart for
someone else to pick up and throw away....shopping lists, empty sample
cups, used napkins, candy wrappers, etc. My other favorite pet peeve
involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.
Mac
Dee Randall
"Damsel in dis Dress" <dam...@mailblocks.com> wrote in message
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> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.
>
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
My pet peeve is what I perceive as dirty carts. Do these carts ever get a
good scalding after kids with wet diapers or worse sit in the seats where
eggs and creams are put? Or the bottom of the cart where kids have stood
that have also stood on restroom floors rife with urine.
Another pet peeve is when I'm looking at a product and always-a-woman comes
up beside me and speaks in a loud voice and says, "EXCUSE ME!" and I know
she expects me to get out of the way of her shopping -- and fast! She may
know what she wants and she wants you out of the way so she can get it NOW!
Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.' They must wait?
dee
Stark
<davin...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I don't see too many slob scenes at the market, fortunately. Every so
> often I spot a package of a perishable (e.g., cold cuts, pkg of meat,
> ice cream)left on a shelf...always disturbs me that someone is
> perfectly willing to waste food to save him-/herself a walk of maybe a
> 100 feet. One of my pet peeves is trash left in a shopping cart for
> someone else to pick up and throw away....shopping lists, empty sample
> cups, used napkins, candy wrappers, etc. My other favorite pet peeve
> involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
> they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.
>
> Mac
>
Hmmmmm. This must partially explain the Cart Wipes I encountered on
entering my local Kroger. I asked the manager whether I was supposed
to use them before or after I used the cart. Laughingly he said that
depended on what I did with the cart. Guess he's seen lots of
atrocities.
Nancy Young
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!
I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup, that kind
that's in a styrofoam cup, and when she was done, just put the empty
back on the shelf. I thought that was just unbelievable, so much so that
I went back and checked for the empty, thinking, my eyes must have
deceived me. Gross, too, imagine the next person who wants that
soup and picks up someone's trash. Yuck.
nancy
Nancy Young
"Dee Randall" <deed...@shentel.net> wrote
> Another pet peeve is when I'm looking at a product and always-a-woman
> comes up beside me and speaks in a loud voice and says, "EXCUSE ME!" and I
> know she expects me to get out of the way of her shopping -- and fast!
> She may know what she wants and she wants you out of the way so she can
> get it NOW! Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.' They must wait?
Are you an aisle hog? (laugh) I have done the polite excuse me thing
plenty of
times, after waiting patiently for the person to choose whatever it is to
find *the*
perfect can of tomatoes, sometimes it has no effect whatsoever. After what
feels like a few minutes (unlikely), I'll either turn around and shop for
something
else or say louder, Excuse Me. I don't yell it.
But when you really need garlic and someone is using their body and their
cart to block the entire garlic display forever, that is annoying because
you
just have to wait. And wait.
nancy
Sheldon
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!
These kinds of misdeeds (partially eaten products) are much more apt to
have been commited by the store employees... typically most shelf
restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
suppervized, if supervized at all... mostly they are itinerate temps,
and not paid very well... and in fact in order to recruit them the
store management often offers the 'all you can eat on premises' perk.
> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
must require that all retail establishments contract with private
sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
pick up thereof.
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.
Not the entire world, only those in charge... how those pinheads become
in charge is the true sorry state of affairs.
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
wanna know.
Sorry, but I can't place the blame on the public.
jmcquown
Let's don't even talk about those people who bring their 5 kids and their
cousin and their cousin's kids and use those annoying carts that are
designed to look like small cars (and probably should require a license
since they take up as much room as my car does in the parking lot). Heh...
I'd like to look at the selection of pork or perhaps the squash in the
produce aisle - but NO - two small car(t)s filled with kids and the
chattering cousins are blocking whatever. "Excuse me" is about the *only*
polite thing I could possibly say.
Jill
The Ranger
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[Snip-O'-Matic buzzed through non-edited post]
> "Excuse me" is about the *only* polite thing I could
> possibly say.
It's the *only* _necessary_ thing to say.
The Ranger
Food For Thought
>restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY
Every supermarket has a BATHROOM. Where the hell do you think the
employees pee? In your cole slaw? Don't answer that.....but anyway
don't make blanket statements. **Every single Shop Rite and Aim and
Pee in my NYS stomping grounds has a public restroom and it's usually
quite clean.**
>suppervized, if supervized at all...
Spell much?
jmcquown
Actually, no. I *could* say get the F*** outta the way and if you want to
stand around and chit-chat take it to the parking lot. But I was raised
better than that. Just as I was raised not to block the aisles whilst
shopping.
Jill
The Ranger
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[snip]
> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup, and when she was done,
> just put the empty back on the shelf. I thought that was just
> unbelievable, so much so that I went back and checked for
> the empty, thinking, my eyes must have deceived me. Gross,
> too, imagine the next person who wants that soup and picks
> up someone's trash. Yuck.
I'm not so much worried about what the next person thinks as much as the
norms that type of "parent" is passing on to her child. "Stealing is
a-okay... As long as you don't get caught." I say something to people like
that -- especially when my three are present -- because food-theft costs me,
both directly and indirectly. Her feelings, or problems, aren't my concern.
The messages she's broadcasting are.
I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even though
there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away but please use
clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods display at being called on
their gauche behavior is sadistically entertaining.
Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
impression.
The Ranger
The Ranger
> and I was so disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found
> a nearly empty plastic bottle of Mountain Dew. Later,
> we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.These
> people have no class, and they're thieves!
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
The hit-and-run eaters are not too big a problem where I live. When I've
seen it, I call them on it. It can drive SWMBO nuts at times because she's a
very passive-aggressive Gandhi type; you enact social change through
non-violence. I'm more, call them now and handle the consequences quickly
and (in many cases) painfully. Make them fear the reprisals and they'll not
do it again.
Have you brought this up with the manager? He might be blissfully ignorant
hiding away in his office all day/night.
The Ranger
The Ranger
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> The Ranger wrote:
> > jmcquown <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> prattled on in message
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> > [Snip-O'-Matic buzzed through non-edited post]
> >> "Excuse me" is about the *only* polite thing I could
> >> possibly say.
> >
> > It's the *only* _necessary_ thing to say.
> >
As you prove, it's the *only* _necessary_ thing to say.
> Just as I was raised not to block the aisles whilst
> shopping.
Hmmm.
The Ranger
Sarah
I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as fast as he
could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no shame even
when my 3 year old pointed out that the man was stealing grapes!
Sarah
jmcquown
> Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
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> [snip]
>> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
>> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
> I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even
> though there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away
> but please use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods
> display at being called on their gauche behavior is sadistically
> entertaining.
>
> Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
> impression.
>
> The Ranger
Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup? I believe Nancy was
referring to something like that Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a
buffet.
I do, however, agree with your basic message. Don't teach your children to
shoplift. Uh uh, you can't have a handful of grapes off that bunch. We
*all* pay for theft in the long run.
Jill
The Ranger
> The Ranger wrote:
> > Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
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> > [snip]
> > > I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a
> > > cup of soup, that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
> > >
> > I've also seen people sample the soups with the
> > same spoon, even though there are six dispensers
> > with signage reading, "Sample away but please
> > use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these
> > clods display at being called on their gauche
> > behavior is sadistically entertaining.
> >
> > Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so
> > you leave a lasting impression.
> >
Safeway. That new marketing display is right there. There are mini-cups
(2-oz souffle) available, but I've yet to see someone actually use them.
> I believe Nancy was referring to something like that
> Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a buffet.
Ah. My misread. I've never witnessed that level of laziness _in_ the store.
It's usually outside at the jerk's car where he empties his week's-worth of
trash into the basket and quickly drives away.
> I do, however, agree with your basic message.
It's a shame the tide's currently going the other way...
The Ranger
Lena B Katz
No shame? You're the one with no shame, lady.
Growing up in a small town, you see a lot of people who can't afford food
for their kids... I've known people who worked at grocery stores, who
deliberately turned a blind eye to people they knew couldn't afford
produce for their kids.(to the point of putting out almost-rotten produce
for them to take) I mean, you've got a consistent customer, who
buys what they can afford, when they can afford it, and who occasionally
takes food. This isn't the person who steals because they want to. It 's
not the person who steals cars for a joyride. It's a person who finds
that they can't afford enough to feed their kids.
I can hope that that old man was suffering from some form of dementia, and
didn't realize where he was.
Lena
Nancy Young
"jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>> Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
>> news:d40aqu$r15$1...@news.monmouth.com...
>> [snip]
>>> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
>>> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
>
>> I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even
>> though there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away
>> but please use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods
>> display at being called on their gauche behavior is sadistically
>> entertaining.
>>
>> Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
>> impression.
> Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup? I believe Nancy was
> referring to something like that Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a
> buffet.
Oh, definitely, I didn't realize there could be any confusion, I meant a
packaged product on the soup aisle. I'm now thinking she must have
come prepared with a spoon or did she steal a plastic one from the
disposable plates aisle?
At any rate, it wouldn't have even struck me as strange if she'd taken
the container with her to pay for it. I've opened stuff in the store if I
*really* needed to eat or whatever, but I paid for the product.
Honest, I never heard of being able to sample the soup at the salad
bar. I wouldn't like that.
> I do, however, agree with your basic message. Don't teach your children
> to
> shoplift. Uh uh, you can't have a handful of grapes off that bunch. We
> *all* pay for theft in the long run.
I'm with you. I only think of one place where it's common to see people
eating the whole time they shop, pisses me off. Produce market. I don't
mean just test one grape. I mean the whole bunch.
nancy
George
> I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
> many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
> restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
Maybe you don't get out much. I know Price Chopper, Wegmans, Grand Union
and a regional chain we visit (Asian Food Market)which probably have 50
locations among them have public restrooms and are in New York State. We
recently visited some friends in Queens and there was a public restroom
in the Pathmark and there were public restrooms in the Asian markets we
visited out in Flushing.
Lena B Katz
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, jmcquown wrote:
> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
>> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
>> bottle of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of
>> Rolo candies. These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>>
> And they don't know how to dispose of the evidence! Eat or drink *all* of
> what you steal, dammit! (just kidding)
seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn food_.
don't leave half of it somewhere.
Lena
George
> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.
>
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
> Carol
The worst market in my area used to be one of a chain. It is on the
border between the good and bad part of town. It was open 24 hours and
was plagued with people coming in during the night hours for "dinner"
and left open packages and partially eaten stuff. They gave up and now
close at 10 PM.
The Ranger
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==> Cell Phone Jerk <==
> [She] told me I was rude and said "Can't you see I'm
> on the phone."
"Yes and I can see you're as big as ass on the phone as in person. I've told
you once politely to finish up. Now I'm telling you to move on."
> First time in my life I've told someone in a supermarket
> to fuck off. The check out person was pleased at my
> response as well as the lady behind me.
LOL.
The Ranger
zxcvbob
block the entire aisle with her cart -- she'll park it sideways if she
has to -- while she chats with another shopper or looks for something.
Old couples are sometimes nearly as bad, but I cut them some slack. I
usually just go to the next aisle and come back 5 or 10 minute later
after they are done, or if the aisles are short I'll go all the way around.
Bob
The Ranger
=> "Excuse me" is the *only* _necessary_ thing to say. <=
> After 2 or 3 times of being polite, my patience wears thin.
> Some people seem to think they are the only people in
> the store.
I don't seem to have a problem (generally) after the initial "Excuse me."
I'm hoping that it's my manners but it could be my mannerisms[1].
The "Axe-Murder" Ranger
Nancy Young
"George" <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote
> recently visited some friends in Queens and there was a public restroom in
> the Pathmark and there were public restrooms in the Asian markets we
> visited out in Flushing.
(laughing!) nuff said. nancy
Food For Thought
I once wheeled my cart too close to a teething baby, turned ny back and
when I turned around he was chewing on my branch of brussells sprouts!
Funny sight to behold..but gross. I get infuratated when I see people
making a salad at the salad bar, and then walk around the store eating
and "shopping." Then they put the empty clam shell case in the cart
and leave. I've seen well dressed, clean people doing this. I report
them. Does no good. And I want to see those lazy SOB's who can't hand
a package of meat they don't want to the CHECKER rather than tuck it
into the feminine hygiene products DRAWN AND QUARTERED.
Melba's Jammin'
<zxc...@charter.net> wrote:
I just say "Excuse me. Coming through, please."
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performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.
Sarah
"Lena B Katz" <l...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
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Hey no shame I'm a nurse working 75 hours some weeks to look after my
family, with self respect and knowing right from wrong. Not all old people
are little old dears, who wouldn't cheat you out of your well earned wages.
Just ask a no win no fee attourney!
notbob
> Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.'
Rarely do you deserve one ....and anyone saying 'excuse me' is obviously more
considerate than you are.
nb
notbob
> Safeway. That new marketing display is right there. There are mini-cups
> (2-oz souffle) available, but I've yet to see someone actually use them.
Around here, I think maybe too many were using them. Safeway has
suddenly ceased making the cups available. Maybe it was just an
introductory thing.
nb
The Ranger
[snip]
> It all depends on which market I'm in. The most hilarious thing
> I've seen was in a drug store. Thanksgiving day was a hoot at
> Walgreen's. There were 3 guys in the food aisle yapping on
> their cell phones picking up gravy bottles and packets of dry
> mixes and relating what Walgreen's had in stock to the other
> party on the phone. You could tell these guys were NOT
> happy. Obviously someone had forgotten to buy something
> and Walgreen's was the only game in town.
Not in my case. I had just gone to two Long's, and another Walgreen's trying
to find Scalloped Potatoes because the from-scratch batch my MIL made
shattered as she took them out of the oven. Can you believe not one place
had a box of scalloped potatoes? I found a box of sour cream spuds and
potatoes au gratin that I was going to make work when I got back to the
house. I called up to let SWMBO know but got one of my SIL (BQfH). She
wouldn't put me through and then proceeded to argue with me. I'm sure my
temple veins were pulsing just beautifully by the time I got to the
register.
The Ranger
Damsel in dis Dress
>I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup, that kind
>that's in a styrofoam cup, and when she was done, just put the empty
>back on the shelf. I thought that was just unbelievable, so much so that
>I went back and checked for the empty, thinking, my eyes must have
>deceived me. Gross, too, imagine the next person who wants that
>soup and picks up someone's trash. Yuck.
Next time you're an eyewitness, think about calling for a manager before
she has a chance to leave the store. She's teaching her kid some excellent
values, isn't she?
Dave Smith
> By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
> working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
> wanna know.
My sister in law was at the meat counter of her favourite local (family
run) grocery store. The girl who was waiting on her sneezed into her hand
and could not understand why my SIL would not accept the meat she had just
wrapped for her or why she insisted on someone else waiting on her.
Dave Smith
>
>
> Actually, no. I *could* say get the F*** outta the way and if you want to
> stand around and chit-chat take it to the parking lot. But I was raised
> better than that. Just as I was raised not to block the aisles whilst
> shopping.
Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk to
someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of the
aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the shelves
from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize that they are not the
Dave Smith
> seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn food_.
> don't leave half of it somewhere.
It's more than just hunger. Some people get a cheap thrill out of getting away
with things like that. Many people who steal can well afford the items they
take.
Jeneen Sommers
> => "Excuse me" is the *only* _necessary_ thing to say. <=
The problem I've noticed about "Excuse me" these days, is that
it's said _after_ someone has barged right on through.
Say "excuse me", and then give the person a chance to respond
before pushing through.
Jeneen
Dave Smith
>
>
> I don't seem to have a problem (generally) after the initial "Excuse me."
> I'm hoping that it's my manners but it could be my mannerisms[1].
>
>
My first "excuse me" is always polite. My second one is more abrupt. There is
no third one. I just force my way through. :-)
Damsel in dis Dress
>I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
>many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
>restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
>don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
>putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
>and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
>garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
>that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
>the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
>commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
>facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
>must require that all retail establishments contract with private
>sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
>pick up thereof.
Move to Minnesota. All restaurants are required to have a public bathroom.
I'm not sure if the grocery stores are required to, as well, but they all
do. Actually, any of the larger stores (like hardware stores, etc.) have
public bathrooms. The diaper incidents happened at Super WalMart. They
definitely offer public accommodations.
Damsel in dis Dress
>I'm not so much worried about what the next person thinks as much as the
>norms that type of "parent" is passing on to her child. "Stealing is
>a-okay... As long as you don't get caught." I say something to people like
>that -- especially when my three are present -- because food-theft costs me,
>both directly and indirectly. Her feelings, or problems, aren't my concern.
>The messages she's broadcasting are.
You're GOOD! I need you to be my official shopping assistant.
Andy
news:42640634...@sympatico.ca:
> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
> to someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side
> of the aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to
> view the shelves from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize
> that they are not the only people in the store.
>
The aisles at Trader Joe's are so narrow, it almost seems they had every
intention to make it single-file shopping!!!
Andy
--
"Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!"
- Ed Sullivan (1964)
Damsel in dis Dress
>Damsel in dis Dress <dam...@mailblocks.com> wrote in message
>news:9jo66156t4k842bi5...@4ax.com...
>> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night,
>> and I was so disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found
>> a nearly empty plastic bottle of Mountain Dew. Later,
>> we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.These
>> people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
>Have you brought this up with the manager? He might be blissfully ignorant
>hiding away in his office all day/night.
No, not that night. But I have to call them about something else anyway.
Might as well mention it.
Damsel in dis Dress
>Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup?
You get itty-bitty spoons, like they use for ice cream samples. Usually,
the demonstrator puts soup in tiny little paper cups for sampling.
They don't give samples of foods at your store, Jill?
-L.
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
The worst I have seen was a guy casually walking by a bin of candy in
the bulk food department, scooping out a handful with is BARE HAND and
popping it in his mouth. An adult. I had just selected some bulk
foods so I turned them into the register and refused to purchase them,
and I told them why. Never again.
>
> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
Ugh. that's why I use a cart cover for DS. people smirk and remark
nastily at me but I don't care. Way too many diseases transmitted by
poop, spit and snot.
Take a walk on and CA beach on an early Sunday morning. You will see a
sea of poopy diapers people have left behind from Saturday. Absolutely
unconscionable.
>
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.
I fear for the future.
-L.
(cloth diaper user)
cam....@beer.com
checkout in over 30 years, and I do the shopping. Someone else always
grabs one and tosses it in between my stuff and theirs.
Cam
Dave Smith
I have had a few incidents in the last year when people have started
piling their stuff on before I have unloaded mine. The first time it
happened I turned and told the guy that he could wait until I was
finished. He got all huffy. The next time it happened I didn't bother
saying anything. When the stuff caught up to the things I was still
unloading I just grabbed the divider and swooshed everything back. But I
did that a little too forcefully and some of her stuff fell off onto the
floor :-)
PhotoMan
<davin...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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My other favorite pet peeve
> involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
> they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.
Or have a meeting with friends, parking carts three abreast in the aisle.
Or - not keeping to the right traveling the aisles. Damn!
tuppy
news:1113832248.3...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> > Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
> so
> > disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle
> > of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
> candies.
> > These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> have been commited by the store employees... typically most shelf
> restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
> suppervized, if supervized at all... mostly they are itinerate temps,
> and not paid very well... and in fact in order to recruit them the
> store management often offers the 'all you can eat on premises' perk.
>
> > The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
> up
> > after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>
> many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
> restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
> don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
> putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
> and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
> garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
> that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
> the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
> commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
> facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
> must require that all retail establishments contract with private
> sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
> pick up thereof.
>
> > happening.
>
> in charge is the true sorry state of affairs.
>
> > Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
> working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
> wanna know.
>
I make my living in the retail grocery universe as a field manager. And
while all retailers will tell you that the "shrink" (unaccounted loss of
products due to a variety of reasons, theft, grazing, poor accounting,
damages, etc.) are mostly due to employees, that doesn't mean it is all the
results of employees. However, it is pretty evident by our surveillence
cameras that the employees who graze, steal, call it what you want, don't
consume their product in the aisles. on the sales floor because they know we
are watching there. If you see half consumed products on the sales shelves,
displays, etc. they have been left there by our "guests."
Our night stocking crews are permanent full time staff, paid at the market
rate (are you going to shop our stores if we charge more to off-set higher
paid employees. Consumers are unwilling to pay more for the same thing that
they can buy for less elsewhere). We catch employed "grazers" all the time
and they are immediately terminated without regard. Again, the vast
majority of these thieves are careful to try to dispose of any evidence of
their stealing and seek areas in the store that are away from our cameras
(back room areas).
Many people whether company employees or customers are just selfish pigs,
with no regard for anyone else besides themselves. Our company and ALL of
our competitors have restrooms available to the public; I have never seen
one of our competitors, and I shop them daily, without a public restroom.
We clean our restrooms, empty trash, sweep the floors hourly (log the action
and then there are three redundant checks to make sure it happens). And an
hour later, the users have left a mess that makes me wonder how these folks'
homes must look. In the bathrooms, daily we find feces on the walls, urine
on the floor, water spigots left running (we are going to a photo-sensor
system to put the end to that expense), used bathroom tissue stuck to the
seats, walls, floor...sometimes even the ceiling. This is not the image we
wish to leave with our customers hence the hourly cleaning details and
dedicated cleaning teams. We steam pressure wash our shopping carts daily.
This is a huge, overly unproductive expense that we see as a necessity. And
unfortunately, the customer pays, and then pays again.
Worst of all, there is no solution to this problem. Children run throughout
our stores unsupervised while parents shop. Our records show that we
apprehend 4.7 children PER DAY throughout our 478 stores for "eating and
dumping" as we call it. Easily, a quarter of the parents who are required
to pick up their children from us after apprehension argue that they
children would never have done such a thing. And due to our surveillence
system and the way we apprehend, we now have a 98.6 conviction rate. So
what. The same thieves are back on the street that same day.
Rand
Damsel in dis Dress
>seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn food_.
>don't leave half of it somewhere.
Better yet ... go to the food pantry.
Puester
A few years ago I watched a seafood clerk who was in the back room. He
was on the phone and running his vinyl-gloved hand through his greasy
hair, over and over.
When he finally came out I ordered two pounds of scallops. He proceeded
to stick his hand (in the SAME glove) in the bin of scallops and
transfer handsful into a plastic bag. When I told him I no longer
wanted the scallops because he had contaminated them with dirty gloves,
he looked incredulous and angry.
I reported the incident to the public health department and the
store management, but I doubt it made any difference. I rarely shop in
htat store any longer and never buy meat or seafood there.
gloria p
Wayne Boatwright
It probably happens where you now shop, as well, though you haven't seen
it.
--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974
Puester
Actually the clerks in my Alberston's in the deli and
"butcher block" departments change gloves before every
transaction. I've watched.
gloria p
Wayne Boatwright
You're lucky. I should probably be more observant.
PhotoMan
"-L." <gent...@peacemail.com> wrote in message
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> Take a walk on and CA beach on an early Sunday morning. You will see a
> sea of poopy diapers people have left behind from Saturday......
......not to mention the used condoms.
jmcquown
> Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote in
> news:42640634...@sympatico.ca:
>
>> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
>> to someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side
>> of the aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to
>> view the shelves from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize
>> that they are not the only people in the store.
>>
>
> The aisles at Trader Joe's are so narrow, it almost seems they had
> every intention to make it single-file shopping!!!
>
> Andy
Not to mention those product displays that prominently block the aisles in
every store. Maybe it's just me, but I can't ever recall a big cardboard
display prompting me to buy whatever.
Jill
jmcquown
>
>> Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup?
>
> You get itty-bitty spoons, like they use for ice cream samples.
> Usually, the demonstrator puts soup in tiny little paper cups for
> sampling.
>
> They don't give samples of foods at your store, Jill?
>
> Carol
Rarely. When they do it's usually not something I'm interested in trying.
Jill
Sheldon
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
Restaurants in NY are required to maintain restooms, but they are not
public, (for patrons only), but not stupidmarkets. All the major
department stores, large chain hardware stores, and many other retail
stores maintain restrooms too but not stupidmarkets, at least not those
I've patronized in the past and those I patronize now... perhaps some
do have facilities for the patrons but the two Grand Unions (two
separate towns) where I now shop do not. Those I shopped at two years
ago on Lung Guyland did not, not the Pathmarks, and not the ethnic
markets... perhaps things have changed from two years ago but I
wouldn't know, I've not been back. And from all I've seen around here
I would only rate the ones at Walmart and Lowes adequate... the few
Home Depot restrooms I've been to are disgusting.
Sheldon
Petey the Wonder Dog
>In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic bottle
>of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
>These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
>The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
>happening.
You should have seen what I found at Victoria's Secret!
Petey the Wonder Dog
>restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
>suppervized,
Suppervized? As in, they did'nt eat enough supper?
Damsel in dis Dress
>Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk to
>someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of the
>aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the shelves
>from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize that they are not the
>only people in the store.
Happens in the parking lot, too. Two cars (or one car and a pedestrian)
sit side-by-side and the people have lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng conversations and
block the entire parking row.
ms. tonya
==> Cell Phone Jerk <==
[She] told me I was rude and said "Can't you see I'm on the phone."
"Yes and I can see you're as big as ass on the phone as in person. I've
told you once politely to finish up. Now I'm telling you to move on."
First time in my life I've told someone in a supermarket to fuck off.
The check out person was pleased at my response as well as the lady
behind me.
LOL.
The Ranger---------------------------------------------
RESPONSE: Here in the Detroit metro area you make comments like that to
any one even if it's called for you just might get a bullet in your
behind.
Here you learn to keep comments to your self and hit the floor at the
slightest sounds of disturbances.
-L.
Dog3 wrote:
> My pet peeve is seeing people in the produce section squeezing the
hell out
> of tomatoes and fruit. If they do not like the way it squeezes, they
just
> throw it back on the pile. Said tomato and fruit, needless to say,
are
> badly bruised and some have broken skin. These people, IMO, are
complete
> assholes.
>
> Michael
Or the GD people in California who find it necessary to break open the
yams - why the F would you need to do that? I stood there and watched
one day while this older guy stood there and broke open literally 8 or
9 yams. I was dumbfounded. I said "Ya know, you are ruining those for
other customers." He just looked at me - I don't think he spoke
English.
-L.
(Who is really good at giving dirty looks and telling people to stop
doing things.)
The Ranger
news:26283-426...@storefull-3313.bay.webtv.net...
> > > ==> Cell Phone Jerk <==
> > > [She] told me I was rude and said "Can't you see I'm on the
> > > phone."
> > "Yes and I can see you're as big as ass on the phone as in person.
> > I've told you once politely to finish up. Now I'm telling you to move
> > on."
> >
> any one even if it's called for you just might get a bullet in your
> behind. Here you learn to keep comments to your self and hit
> the floor at the slightest sounds of disturbances.
I don't live in fear of might-have-beens or could-be's. Call jerks like that
cell phone abuser Jackasses. Use any method in communicating that his/her
boorish behavior is unacceptable; just get the message across. If the
majority would stand up and be counted, all this brash, abrasive,
dysfunctional behaviors so obvious today would vanish overnight.
The Ranger
Sheldon
Lena B Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
> >
> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
fast as he
> > could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no
shame even
> > when my 3 year old pointed out that the man was stealing grapes!
>
> No shame? You're the one with no shame, lady.
Sarah is no lady.
> Growing up in a small town, you see a lot of people who can't afford
food
> for their kids... I've known people who worked at grocery stores, who
> deliberately turned a blind eye to people they knew couldn't afford
> produce for their kids.(to the point of putting out almost-rotten
produce
> for them to take) I mean, you've got a consistent customer, who
> buys what they can afford, when they can afford it, and who
occasionally
> takes food. This isn't the person who steals because they want to.
It 's
> not the person who steals cars for a joyride. It's a person who
finds
> that they can't afford enough to feed their kids.
>
> I can hope that that old man was suffering from some form of
dementia, and
> didn't realize where he was.
>
> Lena
Agreed!
Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!
Sarah is probably under 30 (talks like she's 12), she'll change her
tune when (if) she reaches 80. The poor soul was obviously hungry, he
wasn't hiding anything, and he was not stealing, those were his
grapes... NO ONE in America should ever need to go hungry, not ever.
America feeds the entire world and literally throws away more food each
day then all the rest of the world eats. There is no shrotage of food
in the US, in fact ALL that food at the market belongs to the taxpayer,
yes it certainly does... kinda like Universites, anyone thinks the
tuitions cover expenses, not even a very small dent... those
institutions belong to the taxpayer too. Next time your doctor tells
about all it cost to get that degree, call him/her a pinhead, the
taxpayer FULLY funded their education, that tuition doesn't pay to mow
the lawn... the tax payer footed the bill for every brick and
everything else. That old man paid for that food, many, many times
over... and for all we know he fought a war so the rest of us can
eat... odds are if at 80 he's got enough going to get himself to the
store and recognize a grape he did, perhaps at his age more than one
war. Sarah needs her ungrateful infantile butt spanked, and sent to
her room without dinner... I'm absolutely positive Sarah has never
earned a morsel she's ever eaten, or she'd not be talking her selfish
hooray for me and fuck everyone else spoiled brat trash.
Sheldon (the US harbors some real sickos, who would castigate an old
man for eating grapes but elects officials who support rights for child
molesters... Sarah is the one with dementia)
Damsel in dis Dress
Come to our cook-in, and you can inspect all of our stores while you're in
town. :)
Damsel in dis Dress
-L.
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
Not many of us around these days...do you currently have a wee one?
Mine is 15 mos.
-L.
Andy
news:ErX8e.80719$f%4.5...@bignews1.bellsouth.net:
Jill,
Isn't there some unwritten law that allows you to bulldoze those
blockades with impunity?!!
Andy
-L.
> I make my living in the retail grocery universe as a field manager.
<Snip.>
What chain? I want to shop at a chain where they wash the carts daily.
-L.
Damsel in dis Dress
>Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>> A little birdie told me that "-L." <gent...@peacemail.com> said:
>>
>> >-L.
>> >(cloth diaper user)
>>
>> Me too.
>>
>> Carol
>Not many of us around these days...do you currently have a wee one?
>Mine is 15 mos.
Naw, my little darling is 26 years old. So I guess I should have said I
*used* cloth diapers.
Crash and I aren't old enough to need them.
Terry Pulliam Burd
>I don't see too many slob scenes at the market, fortunately. Every so
>often I spot a package of a perishable (e.g., cold cuts, pkg of meat,
>ice cream)left on a shelf...always disturbs me that someone is
>perfectly willing to waste food to save him-/herself a walk of maybe a
>100 feet. One of my pet peeves is trash left in a shopping cart for
>someone else to pick up and throw away....shopping lists, empty sample
>cups, used napkins, candy wrappers, etc. My other favorite pet peeve
>involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
>they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.
One of my pet peeves is people who leave their shopping carts in the
parking lot, strewn all over the place, rather than walk a few feet to
put them in the space alloted for carts. How many times have you
started to pull into a parking space to suddenly find you can't get
into the space due to carts left willy nilly? And these are the same
people, I suppose, who circle the parking lot at the gym looking for a
close in parking space.
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
-- Duncan Hines
To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"
-L.
Dave Smith wrote:
> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
to
> someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of
the
> aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the
shelves
> from a distance.
Some people can't see. I know it's no excuse...
> Heaven forbid they should recognize that they are not the
> only people in the store.
What I can't stand is the family with 6 kids, Uncle Harry, Grandma and
cousin Alberto. I mean, do you ALL really *need* to go to the store?
They act like it's a freaking party or sumpin.
I bitch if I have to take DS, and when DH wants to go with, we split up
so we are outta there, pronto.
-L.
Damsel in dis Dress
>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
>> >
>> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
>> > fast as he could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no
>> >shame even
>
>Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!
Boy, do I understand that one! Low blood sugar makes you ravenous. It's
also very frightening. When I had that problem from a medication they'd
given me to lower my blood sugar when I was first diagnosed. Horrible!
Curly Sue
<deed...@shentel.net> wrote:
>Another pet peeve is when I'm looking at a product and always-a-woman comes
>up beside me and speaks in a loud voice and says, "EXCUSE ME!" and I know
>she expects me to get out of the way of her shopping -- and fast! She may
>know what she wants and she wants you out of the way so she can get it NOW!
>Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.' They must wait?
>
>dee
One of my pet peeves is when someone blocks the aisle with their cart
and is standing there intensely involved in examining some product,
pretending to be oblivious to the fact that there are other people in
the world. So much so that they won't acknowledge anyone else. We
are supposed to say "Excuse me" with a pleasant affect. I don't think
so :>
How difficult is it to consider other people and move the cart to the
side *before* getting lost in the label? That way, one can read the
label to their heart's content and other people can get on with their
lives as well. Problem solved and everyone is happy.
Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
maxine in ri
<dam...@mailblocks.com> connected the dots and wrote:
~Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
so
~disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
~of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
~These people have no class, and they're thieves!
~
~The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
~after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
~
~The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
~happening.
~
~Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
~
~Carol
I ran into the most amazing aisle hogs today. Usually there's one or
two, but today, every freaking aisle I went down had not one but two
people with their carts in the middle and themselves blocking the rest
of the aisle. No wonder I left the house at 9:30 and didn't get back
til after noon!
My other pet peeve (ok it's not gross, usually) is when you leave your
car with no carts around it, and come back to find some dingbat has
left their cart behind yours.
maxine in ri
Food For Thought
Sheldon uses an outhouse so he wouldn't recognise a proper bathroom if
it bit his sagging ass.
Dave Smith
> > Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
> to
> > someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of
> the
> > aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the
> shelves
> > from a distance.
>
> Some people can't see. I know it's no excuse...
It's not their inability to see that bothers me. I joined the bifocal club
a few years ago myself. The problem is that the tend to park the cart in
one place and stand beside it. Needless to say, the people who do that do
not park the cart to one side. They usually manage to situate their carts
and themselves so that no one can by in any of the three small spaces
left. There is certainly nothing wrong with standing behind the cart while
you scan the shelves. If you absolutely must park the car, park it at the
side of the aisle to leave the maximum open space.
>
> What I can't stand is the family with 6 kids, Uncle Harry, Grandma and
> cousin Alberto. I mean, do you ALL really *need* to go to the store?
> They act like it's a freaking party or sumpin.
I must be lucky. I don't see that sort of thing. Maybe it is more common in
the bargain stores where people feeding that many mouths have to shop.
However, I have seen it in airports. I once landed after a long overseas
flight with a stop on the way. It was late and we were exhausted. After we
finally cleared customs and made it to the exit gate we were held up by
another line up because there were thousands of people standing there to
great some of the passengers. It looked like entire extended families.
They were blocking the exit gate and would not move. I jostled my way to
the front of the line and said "Follow me", held my suitcases at a angle
and used them like a cowcatcher. I then proceeded to push my way through
the crowd. I got a lot of dirty looks from the people that got pushed
aside, but I had a line of my fellow passengers following me.
Scotty
"Dave Smith" <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Lena B Katz wrote:
>
>> seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn
>> food_.
>> don't leave half of it somewhere.
>
> It's more than just hunger. Some people get a cheap thrill out of getting
> away
> with things like that. Many people who steal can well afford the items
> they
> take.
Winona Ryder?
Scott.
Scotty
"Damsel in dis Dress" <dam...@mailblocks.com> wrote in message
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>
> I was looking at some VERY ripe pears the other day. Even my tiny, short
> fingernails kept piercing the skin. I bought a lot of pears. I wasn't
> about to leave them so the store would eat the loss.
>
You don't think the supermarket has some responsibility not to leave rotting
fruit in their bins? If it's so over ripe that it splits at a light touch,
it's no longer food, it's compost.
Scott.
Nexis
"jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> The Ranger wrote:
> > Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
> > news:d40aqu$r15$1...@news.monmouth.com...
> > [snip]
> >> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
> >> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
>
> > I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even
> > though there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away
> > but please use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods
> > display at being called on their gauche behavior is sadistically
> > entertaining.
> >
> > Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
> > impression.
> >
> > The Ranger
>
> Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup? I believe Nancy was
> referring to something like that Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a
> buffet.
>
> I do, however, agree with your basic message. Don't teach your children
to
> shoplift. Uh uh, you can't have a handful of grapes off that bunch. We
> *all* pay for theft in the long run.
>
> Jill
Von's has a new soup bar and they do let you have samples. The chicken and
wild rice is actually pretty good, though a little too salty IMO.
kimberly
>
>
Scotty
>
> Happens in the parking lot, too. Two cars (or one car and a pedestrian)
> sit side-by-side and the people have lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng conversations and
> block the entire parking row.
>
Happens on the street, too, sometimes. Some people just don't seem to have
any respect or consideration for the fact that other people exist.
Scott.
Nexis
>
> "jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:cnQ8e.79893$f%4.4...@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> > The Ranger wrote:
> >> Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
> >> news:d40aqu$r15$1...@news.monmouth.com...
> >> [snip]
> >>> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
> >>> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
> >
> >> I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even
> >> though there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away
> >> but please use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods
> >> display at being called on their gauche behavior is sadistically
> >> entertaining.
> >>
> >> Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
> >> impression.
>
> > referring to something like that Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a
> > buffet.
>
> packaged product on the soup aisle. I'm now thinking she must have
> come prepared with a spoon or did she steal a plastic one from the
> disposable plates aisle?
>
> At any rate, it wouldn't have even struck me as strange if she'd taken
> the container with her to pay for it. I've opened stuff in the store if I
> *really* needed to eat or whatever, but I paid for the product.
I've done that as well. A few times, when my blood sugar was too low and I
knew I wasn't going to be able to either wait for check out or leave and get
something somewhere else. Especially when I was first diagnosed and we were
still trying to find the right dosage...hypos could just hit me out of
nowhere! It's a kind of one track mind panick-y feeling. But I did take the
empty juice bottle or whatever to the check out with me and pay for it.
>
> Honest, I never heard of being able to sample the soup at the salad
> bar. I wouldn't like that.
When Von's first put in the soup bar, the samples did alot to get people to
try and then buy the soups. They supplied spoons and small souffle cups.
>
> > I do, however, agree with your basic message. Don't teach your children
> > to
> > shoplift. Uh uh, you can't have a handful of grapes off that bunch. We
> > *all* pay for theft in the long run.
>
> I'm with you. I only think of one place where it's common to see people
> eating the whole time they shop, pisses me off. Produce market. I don't
> mean just test one grape. I mean the whole bunch.
>
> nancy
I'm glad you clarified, because there is, IMHO, a difference between eating
a grape, or cherry or whatnot to see if they're good and eating a handful or
a bunch. Heck, the produce guy at my local store often asks people if they'd
like to try a grape or a cherry or strawberry.
kimberly
>
>
Nexis
"Food For Thought" <ri_c...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1113837073.9...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> > I've never seen a public
> >restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY
>
> Every supermarket has a BATHROOM. Where the hell do you think the
> employees pee? In your cole slaw? Don't answer that.....but anyway
> don't make blanket statements. **Every single Shop Rite and Aim and
> Pee in my NYS stomping grounds has a public restroom and it's usually
> quite clean.**
>
> >suppervized, if supervized at all...
>
> Spell much?
Heh...READ much? He said *public* restroom. Meaning, the public is allowed
to use it freely. Having a restroom for employees does NOT mean they have a
public restroom.
Kind of funny how you nitpick the spelling, yet don't read thoroughly before
replying. Ironic, really.
kimberly
>
Puester
>
> What I can't stand is the family with 6 kids, Uncle Harry, Grandma and
> cousin Alberto. I mean, do you ALL really *need* to go to the store?
> They act like it's a freaking party or sumpin.
>
> I bitch if I have to take DS, and when DH wants to go with, we split up
> so we are outta there, pronto.
>
> -L.
>
For some people, shopping is the only time they get out,
practically their only social outlet. When you consider
how expensive most activities are, it's not surprising
that many families can't afford to go anywhere but grocery
shopping.
gloria p
Nexis
> >many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
> >restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
> >don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
> >putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
> >and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
> >garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
> >that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
> >the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
> >commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
> >facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
> >must require that all retail establishments contract with private
> >sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
> >pick up thereof.
>
> Move to Minnesota. All restaurants are required to have a public
bathroom.
> I'm not sure if the grocery stores are required to, as well, but they all
> do. Actually, any of the larger stores (like hardware stores, etc.) have
> public bathrooms. The diaper incidents happened at Super WalMart. They
> definitely offer public accommodations.
>
> Carol
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon
Do they have the liner papers in the restrooms yet? I've been out here in CA
so long, I didn't realize that they weren't everywhere until my mom and I
drove back to MN for a visit. Once we got past Vegas, almost none of the
public restrooms has them.
Personally, I prefer the bathrooms where everything is automated: automatic
flush, automatic sinks, automatic paper towels. The less I have to touch,
the better.
kimberly
Damsel in dis Dress
For compost, those pears tasted pretty good. But you're right, they were
way over-ripe.
Nexis
> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
bottle
>
>
>
> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon
Lately, much of what I have encountered that's grossed me out has been the
fault of the store moreso than it's customers. For example, 3 times I've
seen pineapple (the peeled, but variety) in the produce department that has
a date 2 weeks away, yet is clearly past it's prime. I'm talking white fuzz,
bubbling juices.
Then, my mom was showing me the new pillsbury biscuits that are individually
wrapped so you can make 2 or 4 or whatever you need. She picks up a box to
show me and they are all covered in a thick layer of mold. Yuck.
Then, in the dog food aisle, I moved a bag of food to check the date and the
bottom was alive with meal worms and moths.
Eww.
kimberly
Ruddell
wrote:
Oh yeah. Fruit, that reminds me. Once there were these guys arguing
over bananas in the grocery store and well, they continued on out the
door. Wait, no...that was Trailer Park Boys :-)
--
Cheers
Dennis
Remove 'Elle-Kabong' to reply
Damsel in dis Dress
>Do they have the liner papers in the restrooms yet? I've been out here in CA
>so long, I didn't realize that they weren't everywhere until my mom and I
>drove back to MN for a visit. Once we got past Vegas, almost none of the
>public restrooms has them.
Some places have them, but it's relatively rare.
>Personally, I prefer the bathrooms where everything is automated: automatic
>flush, automatic sinks, automatic paper towels. The less I have to touch,
>the better.
Same here. If the trash container is close enough to the door, I open the
door with my paper towel, then throw it away.
skoonj
"jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:cnQ8e.79893$f%4.4...@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> The Ranger wrote:
>> Nancy Young <qwe...@monmouth.com> wrote in message
>> news:d40aqu$r15$1...@news.monmouth.com...
>> [snip]
>>> I was shocked to see a woman feeding her kid a cup of soup,
>>> that kind that's in a styrofoam cup
>
>> I've also seen people sample the soups with the same spoon, even
>> though there are six dispensers with signage reading, "Sample away
>> but please use clean utensils." The shock and dismay these clods
>> display at being called on their gauche behavior is sadistically
>> entertaining.
>>
>> Hit them one person at a time but hit 'em hard so you leave a lasting
>> impression.
>>
>
> Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup? I believe Nancy was
> referring to something like that Campbell's 'Soup at Hand' thing, not a
> buffet.
>
> to
> shoplift. Uh uh, you can't have a handful of grapes off that bunch. We
> *all* pay for theft in the long run.
>
>
When I was a teenager I worked in a supermarket. I remember one time a child
(about 6, IIRC) came up to my co-worker at the service desk to return a
candy bar he had stolen, and said he was sorry. When my co-worker asked
where his Mom was, the boy pointed to a lady standing about 20 yards away.
So the child probably took the candy bar when in line, the Mom found out in
the car or something, and then walked the kid back in and had him return it
and apologize.
Pretty cool.
-T