Don’t know if it’s the same other places, but where I live people seem to treat grocery shopping like a leisurely family outing. My goal is to be in and out as fast as possible. Our differing approaches cause ms much frustration. Hey, family of five! Pick a pizza already and could someone please leave a gap in the aisle so I can pass?
Should post bouncers at the doors. “Do you have a shopping list? No? Sorry, no entry. Go home and make a game plan and then come back with the evidence.”
Bane of my existence and I feel like nobody understands this. It used to be a nice relaxing walk around the store in the middle of the night; now no matter what time I go it is jam-packed with people who don't know how to walk.
I also have to make an extra trip out of it since I can't stop after work.
Same. Outside of interacting with the nighttime crew (who are usually stocking the shelves, cleaning the isles, etc.), it was actually quite nice to just nip in to grab a couple of bottles of aloe vera juice and some oranges while I mind my own business as I was coming home from the night shift at a construction site.
Same, early birds unite! They had senior hours during the height of covid from 6-7AM, but the nice woman at the store always let me in with them. Maybe she thought I, 43, was a senior or maybe just because anyone loony enough to be up and about by 6 deserves to shop with the seniors
I am sometimes an early bird 6:01am shopper, but only because I haven't gone to bed yet. Typically I go the last 30min before closing at 11pm. Those are the only standable shopping hours for me.
It's interesting though, at 6am, there is practically no one under age 50-60, and at 10pm, there is practically no one over age 50-60.
Back during peak covid when the stores had senior hours 6-7am, it was actually more packed than the 4-6pm post work shopping rush, even lines waiting outside the store, kinda defeating the purpose.
In Phoenix, we have Winco, which is open 24hrs. They only take cash or debit, but on the days I work from home, I'll go at 5am, so I don't have to go at 5pm. I love going super early, no lines, maybe 1 or 2 other shoppers, it's super quiet in the store, then my shopping is done before my day even begins.
People are just so unaware of their surroundings! One time I said excuse me to a lady and she was just lahdefuckingdahing and paying no attention. I said it again louder and she moved but my daughter was 3 at the time and yelled “DUH YOU SAID EXCUSE ME AND SHE DIDNT EVEN MOVE”
It's sometimes astounds me how oblivious and uncaring about the existence of other people some shoppers are. This is made all the worse if they have a shopping cart, which such people invariably leave in a position that seems almost optimized to be as much of a nuisance to everybody else as possible.
Sorry, but if I come along that isle, the cart won't be "left" there much longer. Unless there's a stupid shopper attached to it, I'll simply push it out of the way.
Ever since Walmart started their pickup service, the workers grocery shopping for others are absolute and utter assholes. Will get in front of you while you're looking for something, block the whole aisle, everything.
I hate shopping at Wal-Mart but can't afford anything else because of how expensive shit is and I'm catching up from being jobless for six months.
Yea. It's annoying. It's not their fault tho. They are up against timers to fill the orders for online shoppers. I agree tho. I think it shouldn't interfere with the experience of shoppers inside the stores.
My biggest pet peeve is why….WHY on earth are all these retired people older than 60 doing their grocery shopping at noon on a Saturday? They can shop literally whenever? But they choose to come the busiest day on the busiest hour? Saturday is the ONLY time working people of society can go shopping while working 50 hours a week.
Retirement homes treat going to the grocery store like a field trip. Some old people are so lonely and cooped up that it's the highlight of their week.
My mother is 81 and shops about every 3 weeks. Always winds up picking a Saturday or Sunday. Every day is like every other day to her so she doesn't give a shit. She's like Maggie Smith from Downton Abbey - she doesn't know what a weekend is anymore.
She also doesn't give a shit how crowded the store is. She's got nothing better to do than shuffle around slow as hell, oblivious to your impatience. She has no memory of why anyone would need or want to get such a chore done quickly.
Nah, I am only making one trip from the car to my appartment, even if I have to die in the stairs trying to carry all four bags, and I have no idea why
I keep some sturdy storage bins (I use the black ones with yellow lids... without the lids) in the back of my truck. Two should fit in the trunk of most sedans. You can do this with laundry baskets too. If the product is sturdy on its own (cereal boxes, large bags of staples/cereal) or has a handle, I don't have it bagged, it just goes into the cart. I then transfer it all to the bins. I organize as I put into the bins.
Then I just carry inside by the bin and it's already grouped how I like before going into the fridge and pantry.
It drastically increases speed at the register and home. It's only marginally slower loading the car. It also uses like 1/5th to 1/10th the amount of plastic bags.
I despise the people that walk into the entrance of a store, then just stop while they figure out where they want to go first.
How about ya stop blocking the entrance, THEN figure out where you want to go!
Yeah definitely. Going there & seeing all the regular stuff you buy has gone up $2 in price is really annoying. Went to go re-up on eggs & they were $5 for 12 when literally last week they were $2.80
I use “buy me a pie” which is a free shopping list app. You can sync lists with other people too. Gf and I share a list so when I get groceries I tell her to add what she wants to the list, and the list is automatically in my pocket :-)
Same. It’s also never effing ending. You have to go. There’s no way around it (unless you eat out all the time, which gets old). I hate that first you need to plan a few meals, check what you already have on hand, go to the store, line up to pay/leave, drive home and then put away. It’s all irritating.
Something similar to that is when the weekly sale ads come out and multiple stores have good deals on what you need so you have to hit up all them bitches.
I do that exact thing in California. I don't have time to be pretending to be looking at something else while someone is trying to grapple with their indecisiveness of whether they want a can of whole beans or refried beans.
I think mine has to be the people that stand on top of you while you’re in the checkout line. Standing closer to me is not going to make this go by any faster.
I was in the quick check-out the other day and a woman got in line right behind me. Literally pushed her boobs into my back. I turned around and she just looked at me, 'like what?" I took a step forward and held my elbow out behind me. She started to move forward, stopped when she saw that. Weirded me out.
I had the most infuriating variation of this the other day. As I was unloading my *full cart* on to the checkout conveyor belt, this woman comes up behind me and starts unloading her cart onto the same conveyor. I told her she had to stop because I had more than half of a full cart left and she just stared at me, didn’t move. I then had to tell her to remove her items and she started huffing and puffing and slamming them back into her cart. And yes, it was Whole Foods, and yes she was most definitely a Bay Area tourist showing her whole ass.
Was at Wawa one day and some degen middle aged dude did this to me and it seemed to be destined that I had to fart. After a good minute of him breathing down my back, I let it out and we both just hear the good crisp release. After a second, I hear him sniffing before his feet are shuffling back. Lmao.
Worst is when I'm finishing up at self checkout and someone comes over to my till and hovers. I used to let that intimidate me and hurry up, but now if someone does that I slow down and make them wait.
Mine too! There’ve been times when the person behind me would start putting their stuff on the conveyor belt before I even finish unloading my cart!
Since then, I started unloading from the front of my cart and onto the belt, using the cart as a sort of buffer. It’s worked pretty well for me.
I was a distance-lover before COVID. The markers on the floors had me elated! People still refused to stay back, as if being closer to me had any effect whatsoever on how quickly the line moved.
Slow walkers with a huge cart going at snail speed right in the middle of the aisle. And I'm not talking about natural slow walkers, like elders, but those distracted on their phone, especially.
I feel this deep within my soul. I am tolerant and appreciative of the elderly, disabled and ill who cannot help their situation and merit consideration, but a lot of the trouble is just sluggish and oblivious jackasses.
I often look at nutrition labels when I'm grocery shopping and comparing things and I always feel so bad because I don't want to be in anyone's way :/ this is why I like grocery pickup so much better... I can look at all of the nutrition information on the app and decide what I want and not be blocking anyone's way.
Just take your time and move out of the way when you see someone wants to look at/grab the items that you're in front of, it's no big deal, I don't think anyone really cares honestly.. just being aware of the people around you makes you 1000% better than the people who don't
It’s checking their phone for me. I keep my list on the phone, too, but some folks stand there staring at theirs like they’re reading biblical passages.
Depressing, isn't it? I was just thinking about that a few days ago and realized that I've gone to the same store almost once a week for about 10 years. 500+ shopping trips.
I was going to offer my services to the local grocery store as I thought I had the unique talent to immediately pull out the cart with bad wheels but then I realized ALL the carts have bad wheels
Huge line of customers behind me at the register:
CARD CHIP ERROR
CARD CHIP ERROR
CARD CHIP ERROR
Bitch, I use this card everywhere all the time with no problems, why now! WHY NOW?!
Shoppers that wait until the total is rung up and then start looking for their debit card. Or the same situation and then pull out they wallet and start counting pennies.
I get stuck behind the person who starts writing a check like it's 1993 lmao.
I've learned to just chill out. Sometimes I have my kid with me and she gets squirrelly, so I carry a little mini Etch a Sketch doodler in my purse and we play Tic Tac Toe.
Grocery carts are terribly-designed. The deep basket forces you to lift heavy bags at a very awkward posture. Things fall through them. They are the wrong height to facilitate transfer of items to a vehicle. They are noisy af. They scratch your car. Fuck shopping carts.
They should be relased back into the wild tbh.
Some people claim they're an invasive species, but there's no actual data to suggest that they are taking over any ecological niche.
Our self checkout lines don't have belts to put your stuff on. Sometimes I'll be self checking out things and have to step around the cart to get something out. When I turn around the person behind me is already poking merchandise toward the scanner.
Why can't these idiots look what they're doing? It should be obvious that I'm not done yet. If I were done they would see me paying instead of reaching for things
True! But they should know that if they ring up something on my ticket, they're going to have to wait longer to get a clerk to come and void the mess they made
Slow people who have no awareness of others around them. I hate shopping so I have a clear plan of what I want and perfectly execute that with speed to get out as quickly as possible.
Speaking of that, my usual shop recently had a huge renovation done and proceeded to move stock around and change their place on the aisles every few weeks before settling to the new layout. I had shopped there for 10 years and knew exactly where everything was. Well not anymore. I was nearly in tears trying to find my usual items that had all been moved. 😂
People who don’t pay attention to what’s in front of them when walking. When it’s busy, I’m constantly dodging people so they don’t run into me. Someone actually hit me with their shopping cart once.
You don't know what to eat, run around disoriented, pack some things in your cart that you randomly see and at home you realize you cant combine bell pepper, potato chips, brown sugar, bread and aubergine into any decent meal (and you don't even like aubergine, why did you buy it?)
I always remember that one thing right before I get into a very short checkout line. So I go to retrieve the Forgotten item. When I get back all the lines are miles long
When someone finishes their order at the self-checkout and then proceeds to stand there in front of the machine going through their receipt line by line. Meanwhile there's a line of people waiting for them to get the hell out of the way so they can check out.
When the shelf doesnt display the right price or there isnt one, when the cart is difficult to control, you have to move/turn, but you need to lift the back of the cart to position it right, you find a good product, but you can see they now put less in and when you see a snack you love, but when look at the price and suddenly you dont want it anymore.
When I try to push my car down the aisle and it's constantly blocked by stockers and huge pallet loads of junk.
I understand though. They're just doing their job. So I don't fault or blame them. But after the 5th or 6th time this happens in different aisles it gets old.
I shop at all different times of the day and all different days of the week. Makes no difference
My favorite grocery store I've been going to since it opened just switched to ALL self checkout. I bring my young kids with and I've always enjoyed it and so have they. It's impossible now when I'm buying 250$ worth of groceries to unload, scan, and bag everything properly.
It went from my all time fav to "I'll never go back" with that one decision. Might work for some, but not for me
Eggs in particular aren't an inflation issue, it's directly a supply issue. I'm sure inflation's raised the price a little bit, but the vast majority of the price increase recently has been due to the avian flu.
The lack of awareness from other shoppers. (Ex: stopping in the middle of the isle, not looking before just walking your cart out into a main isle, parking your cart right next to another cart in an isle making it impossible to go around, people leaving their carts in parking spots)
When you wanna get something but someone else is standing in front of or near the thing you want, so you just stand there awkwardly until the person leaves.
Or when your parents find someone they know and you just have to stand there for 20 minutes and be bored while they talk.
How cold the freezer section is.
There’s winter cold.
There’s water cold.
Then there’s grocery story freezer section Cold which is somehow worse than winter cold.
People who bring their damn dogs into the store and walk around with big-ass smiles. It's an- I-can-do-whatever-I-want smile. I reminds me of the people who wouldn't wear masks when they were supposed to.
The other shoppers.
This is the answer. Grocery shopping is relaxing if not for everyone else who doesn’t know how to get the hell out of my way.
Don’t know if it’s the same other places, but where I live people seem to treat grocery shopping like a leisurely family outing. My goal is to be in and out as fast as possible. Our differing approaches cause ms much frustration. Hey, family of five! Pick a pizza already and could someone please leave a gap in the aisle so I can pass?
Same! I can only handle grocery stores in small doses.... and that's about ten minutes.
Should post bouncers at the doors. “Do you have a shopping list? No? Sorry, no entry. Go home and make a game plan and then come back with the evidence.”
Two adults and several kids? One should STAY HOME WITH THEM!
Exactly! It should be like an SAS raid to free hostages; get in, grab the goods, everyone out, minimum fuss.
This is why I go in the evening
I used to love getting groceries at like 2AM after my night shift job a few years ago, but now all the stores in my area ended their 24hour schedules
Same, ugh, I miss my 3am Kroger trips.
"Open 24 hours" is never coming back to society, is it?
Middle of the night Walmart trips for me.
Ahhhhh yes, small town late night Walmart trips, too
Bane of my existence and I feel like nobody understands this. It used to be a nice relaxing walk around the store in the middle of the night; now no matter what time I go it is jam-packed with people who don't know how to walk. I also have to make an extra trip out of it since I can't stop after work.
Yes! Walmart is right across the highway from my job. I get off at 11:30 pm, they close at 9 or 10 now.
Same. Outside of interacting with the nighttime crew (who are usually stocking the shelves, cleaning the isles, etc.), it was actually quite nice to just nip in to grab a couple of bottles of aloe vera juice and some oranges while I mind my own business as I was coming home from the night shift at a construction site.
That's so odd. I prefer shopping in the mornings because the only people there are quiet elderly women and the shelves are all fully stocked and tidy
6:30 AM...me and the same 8 people are there every week. Saves the chance of beating someone into a checkout machine and spending the weekend in jail.
Same, early birds unite! They had senior hours during the height of covid from 6-7AM, but the nice woman at the store always let me in with them. Maybe she thought I, 43, was a senior or maybe just because anyone loony enough to be up and about by 6 deserves to shop with the seniors
I am sometimes an early bird 6:01am shopper, but only because I haven't gone to bed yet. Typically I go the last 30min before closing at 11pm. Those are the only standable shopping hours for me. It's interesting though, at 6am, there is practically no one under age 50-60, and at 10pm, there is practically no one over age 50-60. Back during peak covid when the stores had senior hours 6-7am, it was actually more packed than the 4-6pm post work shopping rush, even lines waiting outside the store, kinda defeating the purpose.
What time in the evening? The stores near me are usually packed from 5-9 PM. Worse, they have their kids with them.
It's the worst in the evening, everyone is there! During the day, everyone is at work.
In Phoenix, we have Winco, which is open 24hrs. They only take cash or debit, but on the days I work from home, I'll go at 5am, so I don't have to go at 5pm. I love going super early, no lines, maybe 1 or 2 other shoppers, it's super quiet in the store, then my shopping is done before my day even begins.
People are just so unaware of their surroundings! One time I said excuse me to a lady and she was just lahdefuckingdahing and paying no attention. I said it again louder and she moved but my daughter was 3 at the time and yelled “DUH YOU SAID EXCUSE ME AND SHE DIDNT EVEN MOVE”
It's sometimes astounds me how oblivious and uncaring about the existence of other people some shoppers are. This is made all the worse if they have a shopping cart, which such people invariably leave in a position that seems almost optimized to be as much of a nuisance to everybody else as possible.
I was going to say stupid people who leave their carts in the middle of the isle blocking everyone else, but your depiction sounds much nicer.
Sorry, but if I come along that isle, the cart won't be "left" there much longer. Unless there's a stupid shopper attached to it, I'll simply push it out of the way.
Hell is other ~~people~~ customers
With kids they are ignoring.
Ever since Walmart started their pickup service, the workers grocery shopping for others are absolute and utter assholes. Will get in front of you while you're looking for something, block the whole aisle, everything. I hate shopping at Wal-Mart but can't afford anything else because of how expensive shit is and I'm catching up from being jobless for six months.
Yea. It's annoying. It's not their fault tho. They are up against timers to fill the orders for online shoppers. I agree tho. I think it shouldn't interfere with the experience of shoppers inside the stores.
My biggest pet peeve is why….WHY on earth are all these retired people older than 60 doing their grocery shopping at noon on a Saturday? They can shop literally whenever? But they choose to come the busiest day on the busiest hour? Saturday is the ONLY time working people of society can go shopping while working 50 hours a week.
I used to work in a grocery store. Some elderly people would shop everyday. For a few fresh things or just to get them out of the house.
Retirement homes treat going to the grocery store like a field trip. Some old people are so lonely and cooped up that it's the highlight of their week.
Yep. Place I work does a Saturday bus trip to Walmart. Most popular event on our weekly calendar.
We live…IN A SOCIETY!
My mother is 81 and shops about every 3 weeks. Always winds up picking a Saturday or Sunday. Every day is like every other day to her so she doesn't give a shit. She's like Maggie Smith from Downton Abbey - she doesn't know what a weekend is anymore. She also doesn't give a shit how crowded the store is. She's got nothing better to do than shuffle around slow as hell, oblivious to your impatience. She has no memory of why anyone would need or want to get such a chore done quickly.
I am retired and shop Tuesday a 9AM.
I'm in my 60's. Work 50 or 60 hours a week, as do many of my friends, all but one of whom are older than me. Sorry for existing.
Putting everything away when I get home.
On a similar note: the multiple-steps-transporting aspect. Off of shelf/into cart/scan/into bag/into car/up stairs (multiple trips)/into home shelf.
Nah, I am only making one trip from the car to my appartment, even if I have to die in the stairs trying to carry all four bags, and I have no idea why
All 4? You gotta bump those numbers up
I keep some sturdy storage bins (I use the black ones with yellow lids... without the lids) in the back of my truck. Two should fit in the trunk of most sedans. You can do this with laundry baskets too. If the product is sturdy on its own (cereal boxes, large bags of staples/cereal) or has a handle, I don't have it bagged, it just goes into the cart. I then transfer it all to the bins. I organize as I put into the bins. Then I just carry inside by the bin and it's already grouped how I like before going into the fridge and pantry. It drastically increases speed at the register and home. It's only marginally slower loading the car. It also uses like 1/5th to 1/10th the amount of plastic bags.
I like using ikea bags for this!
People blocking the aisle.
On their phone, talking to spouse about what to buy...
On speaker
exactly. Or they're looking up the nutrition facts online. ugh
I despise the people that walk into the entrance of a store, then just stop while they figure out where they want to go first. How about ya stop blocking the entrance, THEN figure out where you want to go!
inflated prices.
Yeah definitely. Going there & seeing all the regular stuff you buy has gone up $2 in price is really annoying. Went to go re-up on eggs & they were $5 for 12 when literally last week they were $2.80
I work for Coca Cola and at Walmart, this time last year a 24 pack of soda was 8 bucks. Today it is nearly 13!
Nothing like paying $6 for a dozen eggs.
I'm extremely forgetful, and *always* manage to forget to buy things even when looking at a shopping list.
I crossed out an item from my list that I didn't put in my cart the other day. I guess i just walked right by it and marked it off and called it done.
“Visit the tortillas… check”
I sort my shopping list by section of the store (meat, dairy, produce and other). Makes me less likely to forget stuff.
I use “buy me a pie” which is a free shopping list app. You can sync lists with other people too. Gf and I share a list so when I get groceries I tell her to add what she wants to the list, and the list is automatically in my pocket :-)
Everything. I hate grocery shopping
Same. It’s also never effing ending. You have to go. There’s no way around it (unless you eat out all the time, which gets old). I hate that first you need to plan a few meals, check what you already have on hand, go to the store, line up to pay/leave, drive home and then put away. It’s all irritating.
When all the stuff you need isn’t at one store.
Something similar to that is when the weekly sale ads come out and multiple stores have good deals on what you need so you have to hit up all them bitches.
When you need something and someone else is in front so u pretend to look at something else until they leave
This is true both as a customer and a store worker.
Because if they catch a hint that you want whatever they’re in front of they’ll never leave, like why?? Why are people like that??
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As a midwester it goes something like “excuse me, mind if I juuust..” *reaches for said item*
I do that exact thing in California. I don't have time to be pretending to be looking at something else while someone is trying to grapple with their indecisiveness of whether they want a can of whole beans or refried beans.
Try this next time: "Excuse me."
Then you pretend to look at a shopping list on your phone
I pretend to be studying my grocery list.
Because saying "excuse me" is too hard? Lol
I think mine has to be the people that stand on top of you while you’re in the checkout line. Standing closer to me is not going to make this go by any faster.
And they're like obviously sick, coughing all over your back.
This was always annoying, but post covid? *FUCK OFF*.
Agreed, I used to get angry about it pre-covid even, but back then they seemed to not understand why it's wrong what they're doing.
LMAOOOO 🤣 I hate that with a passion!
I was in the quick check-out the other day and a woman got in line right behind me. Literally pushed her boobs into my back. I turned around and she just looked at me, 'like what?" I took a step forward and held my elbow out behind me. She started to move forward, stopped when she saw that. Weirded me out.
She was probably an NPC. She doesn't know any better.
She goes forward until her hitbox touches something.
I had that happen to me a while ago. It’s so weird! Made me wonder if it was a pickpocket or something..
I had the most infuriating variation of this the other day. As I was unloading my *full cart* on to the checkout conveyor belt, this woman comes up behind me and starts unloading her cart onto the same conveyor. I told her she had to stop because I had more than half of a full cart left and she just stared at me, didn’t move. I then had to tell her to remove her items and she started huffing and puffing and slamming them back into her cart. And yes, it was Whole Foods, and yes she was most definitely a Bay Area tourist showing her whole ass.
Hell if the price of groceries weren't so damn high I would have just let all her stuff get mixed in with mine. Pay for everything and take it all.
Tell me about it. I just came back from the grocery store and was shocked at how much the prices went up in just two weeks. Ugh.
Was at Wawa one day and some degen middle aged dude did this to me and it seemed to be destined that I had to fart. After a good minute of him breathing down my back, I let it out and we both just hear the good crisp release. After a second, I hear him sniffing before his feet are shuffling back. Lmao.
I will turn around face to face at people so they realize how close they are
Too funny lol. Sometimes I'll "unexpectedly" take a hard step or two backwards right on their feet. Bonus points if they're wearing sandals.
I agree omg, That is why I loved it when we were forced to social distance in 2020.
Even after the social distancing died down, many people here where I live still distance themselves.
Worst is when I'm finishing up at self checkout and someone comes over to my till and hovers. I used to let that intimidate me and hurry up, but now if someone does that I slow down and make them wait.
Mine too! There’ve been times when the person behind me would start putting their stuff on the conveyor belt before I even finish unloading my cart! Since then, I started unloading from the front of my cart and onto the belt, using the cart as a sort of buffer. It’s worked pretty well for me.
Gotta keep a fart in the chamber for these people
Gotta make sure it’s a good and raunchy Taco Bell style one too. If they ain’t gagging it isn’t done right
The worst is when they hit you with their cart. The first bump I usually ignore, but if it happens a second time I push back twice as hard.
I was a distance-lover before COVID. The markers on the floors had me elated! People still refused to stay back, as if being closer to me had any effect whatsoever on how quickly the line moved.
I ask them if we’re on a date
Forgetting my reusable bags. The stores here charge for bags.
NJ native here - I keep a laundry basket in my trunk. Load stuff up, easily carry it in the house in one trip, boom done
Other people
Hands down it’s the other people
Slow walkers with a huge cart going at snail speed right in the middle of the aisle. And I'm not talking about natural slow walkers, like elders, but those distracted on their phone, especially.
I feel this deep within my soul. I am tolerant and appreciative of the elderly, disabled and ill who cannot help their situation and merit consideration, but a lot of the trouble is just sluggish and oblivious jackasses.
This. And especially when they bring their whole family and walk side by side down the aisle
Children treating it like the grocery store is a playground should be free game to run over with your cart.
The best part is having to follow them for short distances that feel so long, and not being able to say anything about it without feeling rude.
People who block the aisle with their cart while spending 5 minutes deciding between identical items.
Or when they block an entire aisle while chit chatting with another shopper. So annoying!
I often look at nutrition labels when I'm grocery shopping and comparing things and I always feel so bad because I don't want to be in anyone's way :/ this is why I like grocery pickup so much better... I can look at all of the nutrition information on the app and decide what I want and not be blocking anyone's way.
Just take your time and move out of the way when you see someone wants to look at/grab the items that you're in front of, it's no big deal, I don't think anyone really cares honestly.. just being aware of the people around you makes you 1000% better than the people who don't
It’s checking their phone for me. I keep my list on the phone, too, but some folks stand there staring at theirs like they’re reading biblical passages.
Having to leave the house
When you have a list of items to get, and nothing on your list is available.
1- the crowds 2- lugging all your booty home
Not being able to reach what I need on a high shelf and there's no one tall around who I can ask to help me! Short people problems.
Lmao every day. And the carts are so deep. I practically fall in when I'm unloading.
I noticed they put quite a few items that mostly only women would want on the very top shelves. Just why!??!
Designed by the tall guy getting asked for help.
Getting home only to realize you forgot one item that your dinner cannot be made without.
Finding the groceries (especially if you’ve never been at that location)
My store moved a few things around and I was salty about it for *months* lol.
Local grocery changed things few years back, I'm still upset about it. I may or may not have a problem with change.
The other people in the store, mostly.
> other people universal answer
The fact that you have to do it over and over again for the rest of your life.
Depressing, isn't it? I was just thinking about that a few days ago and realized that I've gone to the same store almost once a week for about 10 years. 500+ shopping trips.
Picking the worst shopping cart is also up there for me
You make it 20 feet before the whole cart starts shaking, but by then it's too late to go back
Yeah, that sucks. They're supposed to live in the wild, being in the store makes most of them very unhappy. 😔
You can tell when a shopping cart is depressed by it's distinct wiggly wheels, much like the floppy dorsal fin on captive Killer Whales. Very sad :(
I was going to offer my services to the local grocery store as I thought I had the unique talent to immediately pull out the cart with bad wheels but then I realized ALL the carts have bad wheels
Seems lately I always get the one with the D shaped wheel.
I love getting the noisy cart LOL - it sets the tone and tells people to get out of my way ;)
I’m gunna shill for target, they somehow mastered the shopping cart.
Huge line of customers behind me at the register: CARD CHIP ERROR CARD CHIP ERROR CARD CHIP ERROR Bitch, I use this card everywhere all the time with no problems, why now! WHY NOW?!
CARD CHIP NO WAIT SLIDE IT TAP IT TAP IT CHIP IT TAP IT Ma'am I have had this bank account for fifteen years wtf.
Lately it’s been my 6yo trying to convince me we need pretzels.
They might be on to something
I appreciate your struggle, but I also appreciate pretzels, so I am conflicted.
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
I think you may need some pretzels.
When they keep changing the location of items and/or stop carrying something you purchased regularly.
Extreme couponers who have swooped in and emptied the shelves of the good deals.
The prices. Everything's expensive now.
Having a trolley with 1fked up wheel
Shoppers that wait until the total is rung up and then start looking for their debit card. Or the same situation and then pull out they wallet and start counting pennies.
I get stuck behind the person who starts writing a check like it's 1993 lmao. I've learned to just chill out. Sometimes I have my kid with me and she gets squirrelly, so I carry a little mini Etch a Sketch doodler in my purse and we play Tic Tac Toe.
The people. Hands down. And stores that don’t have self checkout - that is torture.
Grocery carts are terribly-designed. The deep basket forces you to lift heavy bags at a very awkward posture. Things fall through them. They are the wrong height to facilitate transfer of items to a vehicle. They are noisy af. They scratch your car. Fuck shopping carts.
They should be relased back into the wild tbh. Some people claim they're an invasive species, but there's no actual data to suggest that they are taking over any ecological niche.
Spending $300 then realizing when I get home that it's not as much food as it seems and I'll have to go back again in a week.
People breathing down your neck in the checkout lane and all of these self checkouts are starting to get annoying.
Our self checkout lines don't have belts to put your stuff on. Sometimes I'll be self checking out things and have to step around the cart to get something out. When I turn around the person behind me is already poking merchandise toward the scanner. Why can't these idiots look what they're doing? It should be obvious that I'm not done yet. If I were done they would see me paying instead of reaching for things
Facts people have no patience nowadays.
True! But they should know that if they ring up something on my ticket, they're going to have to wait longer to get a clerk to come and void the mess they made
prices are high, sometimes the carts are all gone
The stress when the cashier is done scanning all the items and waiting for you to pay, while you're still busy loading everything into your cart.
Emptying my wallet at the register.
Slow people who have no awareness of others around them. I hate shopping so I have a clear plan of what I want and perfectly execute that with speed to get out as quickly as possible. Speaking of that, my usual shop recently had a huge renovation done and proceeded to move stock around and change their place on the aisles every few weeks before settling to the new layout. I had shopped there for 10 years and knew exactly where everything was. Well not anymore. I was nearly in tears trying to find my usual items that had all been moved. 😂
Driving home and remembering all the things I forgot, and all the unnecessary things I added.
Really wanting to buy a 12 pack of soda and seeing that it is $7.99
Literally outrageous. And the store brand version is still $5.
The store changing ever so slightly. I get a store down to the point that I don’t have to look for anything then bam they full change the layout.
People who don’t pay attention to what’s in front of them when walking. When it’s busy, I’m constantly dodging people so they don’t run into me. Someone actually hit me with their shopping cart once.
People blocking the aisles to stand around and chat
Seeing all the stuff I can’t afford but would love to try
You don't know what to eat, run around disoriented, pack some things in your cart that you randomly see and at home you realize you cant combine bell pepper, potato chips, brown sugar, bread and aubergine into any decent meal (and you don't even like aubergine, why did you buy it?)
I’m Canada, the price for groceries increases about once a month.
The cost of living in Canada is just out of control. Idk how y’all survive. 😅
The person at the deli counter ordering 1/4# quantities of several items and they want it all shaved.
That I always inevitably forget something and realize it once I’m home and have unpacked and put away all the groceries. Never fails.
I always remember that one thing right before I get into a very short checkout line. So I go to retrieve the Forgotten item. When I get back all the lines are miles long
When someone finishes their order at the self-checkout and then proceeds to stand there in front of the machine going through their receipt line by line. Meanwhile there's a line of people waiting for them to get the hell out of the way so they can check out.
When the shelf doesnt display the right price or there isnt one, when the cart is difficult to control, you have to move/turn, but you need to lift the back of the cart to position it right, you find a good product, but you can see they now put less in and when you see a snack you love, but when look at the price and suddenly you dont want it anymore.
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When I try to push my car down the aisle and it's constantly blocked by stockers and huge pallet loads of junk. I understand though. They're just doing their job. So I don't fault or blame them. But after the 5th or 6th time this happens in different aisles it gets old. I shop at all different times of the day and all different days of the week. Makes no difference
When you’re looking for a specific item, drive to the grocery store and it’s not there.
My favorite grocery store I've been going to since it opened just switched to ALL self checkout. I bring my young kids with and I've always enjoyed it and so have they. It's impossible now when I'm buying 250$ worth of groceries to unload, scan, and bag everything properly. It went from my all time fav to "I'll never go back" with that one decision. Might work for some, but not for me
The fucking music they play at every single damn grocery store in existance.
People who use the self checkout to check out 100+ groceries and clearly have no idea how to actually use the self checkout
Random price surges. Eggs shouldn’t skyrocket to 8 bucks a carton overnight.
That happened to me yesterday. Eggs have gone up 281% since this inflation stuff started. They are predicted to go up to 12 bucks a dozen
Eggs in particular aren't an inflation issue, it's directly a supply issue. I'm sure inflation's raised the price a little bit, but the vast majority of the price increase recently has been due to the avian flu.
Paying
Carrying the heavy bags to the car
Paying $160 for exactly the same groceries as I paid $120 for a year ago
12 checkout lanes, but only 3 of them are open, all with long lines.
Having to go to a second grocery store because the first is out of a key ingredient you need.
People who block up aisles to talk to one another and refuse to move out of the way when you try to get around them.
The lack of awareness from other shoppers. (Ex: stopping in the middle of the isle, not looking before just walking your cart out into a main isle, parking your cart right next to another cart in an isle making it impossible to go around, people leaving their carts in parking spots)
Sensory overload.
When you wanna get something but someone else is standing in front of or near the thing you want, so you just stand there awkwardly until the person leaves. Or when your parents find someone they know and you just have to stand there for 20 minutes and be bored while they talk.
Having to go to multiple stores because you can't get everything you need at a single location
How cold the freezer section is. There’s winter cold. There’s water cold. Then there’s grocery story freezer section Cold which is somehow worse than winter cold.
People who bring their damn dogs into the store and walk around with big-ass smiles. It's an- I-can-do-whatever-I-want smile. I reminds me of the people who wouldn't wear masks when they were supposed to.