Shopping Pet Peeves
 

**Reading the WAL MART thread got me to thinking and remembering the things that piss me off when I go shopping**

1. Stores that have say 40 lanes but only say 6 are ever open and only one is an express lane that moooves SLOW AS HECK. :mad: :mad:




QUESTION: What bothers you about stores, shopping, etc.?

parents that refuse to keep their kids on a leash (figuratively i mean). i hate it when kids are running up and down aisles or screaming the whole time.

marissa

*Whenever there's like a row of 5 people walking at 1mph and you can't pass them.

*Bad @$$ kids!

*Whenever people push their carts aggressively.

*Whenever I go into a grocery store, and all of the lanes are blocked, so I have to walk to the opposite side of the store in order to get in the back.

*Whenever cashiers throw my money back at me.

*Whenever I buy an embarrasing personal item alone, they ask me "Do you want a bag?" :rolleyes:

People who have to take their entire family shopping, and then spend the whole time fighting with each other, threatening to beat their children, and blocking the aisles.

Those fat people rollin' around on those lil' cart things. They act like they don't care if they hit you.

The old ladies who stand in the middle of the isle. Don't ask them to move. They will give you all kinds of attitude. Look at you like you're crazy. WTF!:eek:

You know what, speaking of kids in stores, they may be annoying, but it is :D as h*ll when they get "disciplined".

The "oops" I have one item, so can I cut you?
HELL no! I"ve been waiting, so YOU HAVE TO ALSO!


The kids that do not get disciplined and the parents who act like there isn't anything going on.

The people who come in the stores with hair rollers and run down slippers.

The little babies that do not have on pants, only diapers. :mad:

The parents who come to shop and their kids are dirty as all get out.

The people who take the shopping baskets back to their apartments or as close to the bus stop as possible. Why?


When something is advertised, you go there and you cannot find it.

When you purchase something and the next day or week, the crap is on sale AFTER you have worn it. :mad:

That makes me so mad!:mad: To see someone beating their child in public that is so wrong. You desciplined you child at home not in the stores. Train your kids at home. That way they will know how to act.

Disciplined, not beaten.

I agree with a lot that has been said but I have to speak up about these horrible children that you all hate !!!!!LOL As a mother of two who considers herself pretty strict, I can tell you that little kids just act up. Granted, it is obnoxious when parents ignore them and let them tear up the place, but when my kid is being a normal toddler and I try to handle the situation and STILL get looks and comments from others, I always come up with a retort that leaves them blushing. (One time my daughter was having a typical two-year-old tantrum at the mall and I was escorting her out. This old man made some comment about why she was screaming like that and I looked at him and cooly said "Because she hasn't had her daily beating yet....." and walked away. This teenage boy standing there looked at the old man in disgust and said "Hasn't he ever seen a toddler before???" and smiled at me.)

Well, I agree that they should be desciplined.

I am annoyed by the people at B.J.'s Wholesale Club who keep going up to the free sample tables so they won't have to buy lunch.

I can't stand the Stroller Brigade Mamas with those biga-- strollers that are the size of a Miata who think they always have the right of way because they have a baby stroller.

Thud as biga-- stroller runs over old lady..."Oh dear, did I run something over? I hope it didn't wake Taylor up from her nap!"

I have two kids so of course I've used a stroller in the past and I'm happy to say I've never caused bodily harm to any innocent onlookers!

Also, people who choose to pay by check and then don't even get their checkbook out until the clerk gives them their total (whereas I have everything filled out but the total and signature) and then fumble around in their purse looking for their driver's license. "What, you want to see ID? How unusual!" :eek:

Pet Peeve
 

When you run into Wal-Mart at 11pm on Saturday night to pick up one or two items and there are 2 checkouts open and about 1 million people in line

People who still write paper checks!!! It's soo damned slow! Get a check card and jump into the 21st century already!

If you save your reciept, a lot of stores will offer you a price adjustment on the item. The length of time varies from store to store, but its usually 7 to 14 days.

I was in a furniture store today, and there was this baby running around screaming. I heard the dad say to the mom "let him wear himself out." Yeah, at the expense of the other shoppers.

If you have to take a test to drive a car, get licenses for professional things, you sure as hell should have to take a test to be allowed to reproduce!

speaking of dirty children...
 

Is there anything on earth that says low-class trash quite like this does??!

I know this is about shopping, but this is a peeve from a former food service person (Subway). One day a couple brought in their child and LET THE CHILD STAND ON THE COUNTER. :eek: You know, the counter we serve the FOOD on?? To keep from offending them by saying "get your rug rat's gross dirty feet off our counter" I said "oh please don't let him stand there, he could fall and hurt himself." The parents proceeded to SIT the child (in diaper only) on the counter. :mad: Oh, thank you, that's much better. You can bet that counter got an extra cleaning before they were even out the door. GROSS!!!!

Oh let me tell you grocery shopping just ticks me off!

I absolutely LOVE it when someone is walking on the wrong side of the lane with their big ass cart and you have to then move because they're coming full force at ya and aren't aware that this isn't England and that they should be walking on the other side of the isle...period!
Second, I hate it when I go to the fast check out lane and it's slow. Once I was baffeled at how it took the kid forever to swip everything and then in the meantime another lane opened up and some lady with a bazzilion things got on her way faster than me.
OR WORSE YET, is when you go to a lane that is taking forever, then swith to another lane you think will be faster, but ends up being slower. How frustrating!

As far as other shopping goes, I just get annoyed at peeps who don't bring their account number but want to charge...like at Blockbuster the other night this guy didn't even have his card and was going to a Blockbuster he didn't frequent so he had to have them call all the other stores and look under two different names. At least TRY to come prepared!:rolleyes:

ttt^^^

Re: Pet Peeve
 

You hit the nail on the head. I drove by wal mart at about 1 a.m. and I swear it would have taken at least five mintues to find a parking place. The lot was as full as it could be on a saturday afternoon!!!
Something I really hate about grocery stores: when you cant decide which line is shorter, then you choose one and then the other line picks up. You realize you could have been out the store 10 min. ago if you went in the other line.

Or...
When you finally get towards the front of the line and the person in front of you has an item with no price. So now you gotta wait for the bag boy to go look for the item with a price.:rolleyes:

Or...:D
When walking at the mall feels like driving in rush hour. You tail somebody so you can get an opening to go around them. Or when a huge family takes up the entire walking area so you gotta go around the big penny dropping pond to get in front of them.

One more...At the grocery store when the parking aisles only go in one direction (due to angle parking). Someone comes down the wrong way blocking you, but they look at you like you're the problem..WTF:mad:

Shopping pet peeves... pretty much any whiny children. Even though I know I was one too (I was pretty spoiled, I admit).

It's the parents fault, IMO. Most parents are either too permissive or too strict. They can get just as annoying

Sounds familiar?

Parent A:
Jeremy put those cookies down. Please. I beg you. If you don't put those cookies down I won't take you to the ice cream shop afterwords. I'm giving you a time-out...1...2...3. *Jeremy ignores his mother and runs away the box of cookies*

Parent B:
Jermaine if you don't put dem cookies down I'll whoop yo :eek: ass! *She knocks the cookies out of Jermaine's hands and grabs a phone cord or house shoe and whips him*

I love to shop, so I can think of a million pet peeves. Here goes:

Children: I do not like children, do not pretend to like children, and probably will not like children until they are my own. Until then, if a child is in my way, I will run it over like a speed bump if I have asked them nicely to move several times (hey, it's the parent's fault for not keeping them on a leash. Dogs get hit everyday with cars because they escaped. Why not stupid, bratty children?)

People with cell phones: Now we are in the 21st century and cell phones are a must have. However, if you are checking out with the cashier, and your cell phone rings, unless the call is majorly important (ie. emergency or business call), tell the person you will call them back. The cashier ringing you up has to wait for you to shut the hell up and pay her/him, which in turn holds up the line.

The parcel pick-up station at grocery stores: It's just what it's called..a parcel pick-up station. Not a "park your car in front of the grocery store while Susie runs in a does all of her shopping" station. I HATE people who sit in their cars infront of the grocery store. Now, if you are just running in to grab a few items, it's not that big of a deal. But when I enter the grocery store and exit the grocery store in 45 minutes and your car is STILL in the parcel-pickup station, you need to park your A$$ in a real spot and stop being such a jerk!:eek:

That being said, I think I am going to run out to the store and see what else I can't stand. Oh, and the part about the children being speed bumps, I was just kidding, even though I am tempted to run their little A$$ES over sometimes.

Jadey:cool:

Poorly behaved preschool-aged children and parents who just let them run amuck. Babies I can excuse, they don't have control over their actions.

In the express lanes at the supermarket, DON'T TRY TO ENTER IF YOUR CART ITEMS ARE OVER THE DESIGNATED NUMBER. And believe me, I've done some of this when it's happened : :rolleyes:

Difficulty in finding fashionable gear above a size 14. As I've said before, I dress in a basic/classic/country-club style. I don't want country cute or polyester sleaze clothes.
:mad: :mad:

Seems like there is a children theme going on here...;)

Not a shopping story, but a pet peeve nonetheless--Two summers ago I went with my boyfriend to Hersheypark and were waiting in a long line for one of the roller coasters. Up ahead of us was a couple with a baby and while one went on the ride the other stood across the platform and held the baby. When the one got back they switched and the other person held the baby while the other one went on the ride. The line was long enough!Who does this?! Who brings an infant to an amusement park?! :mad:

I hate that too. Especially if we've all been in a line a while and they basically have no excuse. Then again, I think everyone should just get a check card already b/c they're so much easier but that also makes it harder to track your expenses...

I just thought about the time when I worked at Chick-Fil-A. Sometimes when people come to the drive thru and I ask them for their order, they tell me to wait while they make a phone call. Or at the pick up window when I am holding the food, they tell me to wait until they get off the phone. Never mind the 10 cars behind them:mad:

This is called Baby Swap... and it's part of most amusement parks. It's actually a *perk*. I would have to agree though... IF you are going to bring a baby to an amusement park, it's a little silly to think that both you and your spouse will both be able to ride all the rides you want by cutting in line.

Well, if they both waited in line the whole time, it makes sense that they should both be allowed to ride. It would be a different story if they got to go to the head of the line, just because they had a baby.

Why didn't they just tie the baby to the front of the roller coaster?

Sorry, I know. I'm going to hell.

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LMAO
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Ditto to everything that's already been said. I hate the last minute check writing people without their ids, the bratty little monsters, and old people who use their age. One day I was getting gas and went inside to get some gum. The lady at the counter was getting ready to ring me up when this lil old lady just walked in front of me like I wasn't standing there!!:mad: The cashier looked at her funny but I guess since I didn't do anything (didn't wanna run the risk of going to jail for beating up an old lady, which I really wanted to do--I'll see you in hell 33girl;) ) she just went ahead and took care of her first.

Being a "professional" shopper I have learned to avoid a lot of stuff. Main piece of advice--NEVER get in what looks like the shortest line. It's a trap.

All of the above and....

People who don't push their grocery cart back to its appropriate place. I hate either having to pass up 10 good parking spots because they're occupied by carts or coming back out to the lot and finding that someone has left their cart behind my car or close enough that it could get scratched. PUT YOUR CARTS BACK, PEOPLE!

Guilty...this would be me. I like paper checks.

One of my biggest pet peeves comes before I even get in the store. I hate when I'm at the grocery store and I think I've found an awesome parking spot and then I find out it's a frickin' Cart Coral spot!!! Argh!

Bamboozled, we are on the same wave length! We just posted practically the same complaint at the very same time! ;)

I did that once at Costco. Sorry. It will never happen again. :o

I can't stand it when a group of people walk .000000001 miles per hour in a narrow area.

I guess I was more peeved that they brought a small infant to a place that the child won't remember anyway. They didn't have any other kids with them so I assume it was just them. I guess i have limited patience and might understand it more when I have kids. Who knows.

I just got back from shopping. Dillard's is having a HUGE sale this weekend where everything that was already marked down, is being marked down 25% more. That said, it was packed and with more than a few children. I do not care for ill-behaved children at all.

While in the dressing room, trying on clothes, a kid in the next stall over with his mom started screaming. Not just yelling, but screaming at the top of his lungs about how he wanted to go look at stuff for him, how mean his mom was, etc. He *would not* shut up. Did she leave? No. Did she spank him? No. Did she do ANYTHING? No! The clerk had to go and say something to her and even then, the mom dismissed it as a temper tantrum.

Yes, I realize that kids are going to have temper tantrums, but that is no reason that I have to hear them.

Ditto on the people who want to walk slow ahead of you, but who sure as heck do not want you to pass them. That annoys the crap out of me.

I'm usually pretty good now about putting my cart back. But when my daughters were younger, say newborn and 22 months, there was no way I was going to load my car then schlep two babies and a cart back to the store (or a cart corral several rows away) and back to the car!

HOLY COW that is HILARIOUS! :D :D :D

alright as a sales associate, i have some pet peeves. At the fabric store, large groups of women will come in to look at patterns. all of their sons, daughters, nieces, cousins, and whonot have to come with them. they all congregate over at the pattern table. the kids will run all over the store, buying or stealing candy, opening packages of silly putty and sticking it on the fabric so a whole bolt is ruined.
*We had one family come in with a small toddler who SERIOUSLY needed her diaper changed. However, she was walking around touching everything while her mother was cutting fabric. Damn... she stunk.
*we have regulars who unroll an entire bolt of fabric and then just leave it. :rolleyes:

regular shopping:
*the fact that every article of clothing i look at seems to not fit correctly. just because i am skinny, does NOT mean i am 5'7". Pants are always too long. And then ankle pants are too short. Shirts also are a problem most of the time, but i won't go into that.
*a chorus line of people down one long aisle. they all look at you and make some snotty comment when you finally squeeze by them.
*the people that obviously see you coming in their direction but fail to make any effort to move out of the way. Do you expect ME to make all of the manuvers to get out of YOUR path? It's a two way street!