Grocery Grievance. Good Grief!

[Coramoor]

Wal-mart is bad...but you have not LIVED until you wait in line at an Army Commissary after payday!

[ASUADPi]

I don't mind Walmart.

The thing that annoys me the most about grocery stores, and someone mentioned this, when someone gets in a line and they clearly have more than the allotted items and you are standing there with like 2 and they don't offer to let you go in front of them. Heck, if I've got a whole cartful of items (even in a regular check out line) and the person behind me only has like 2 things I always let them go before me.

cheefulgreek-your nicer than I would have been I would have insisted that the Walmart associate clear her damn "order" and let everyone else keep checking out. Why the hell should the rest of the customers suffer because this women had her head up her butt and forgot her wallet?

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Mensa?

The single best cheefulgreek post ever!

Originally Posted by Coramoor

Wal-mart is bad...but you have not LIVED until you wait in line at an Army Commissary after payday!

AMEN.

I don't know how big your Commissary is, but the one within walking distance to my house (next to the PH NEX) is gigantic. On payday, the lines are so long and wrap around so many damn stantions -- they rival Disneyland's lines in the summertime!

Still, for those prices...they're definitely worth it.

Does your Commissary have those people waiting to help you to your car? Most of the time I don't need help carrying my bags to the car, but I hate that I'm usually obligated to tip them out even when I didn't need them in the first place. Usually they're kids or older people...so I can't really say no.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

What's wrong with Walmart?

You live in MN and are shopping at Walmart instead of the beautiful pretty Targets on every other street corner?

Edit: My family used to use Schwan's a lot until we found out how heavily involved they are with a religion that doesn't like our kind. We'll still cave and get French Toast Sticks every once in a while but I always feel guilty eating them.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

You live in MN and are shopping at Walmart instead of the beautiful pretty Targets on every other street corner?

Edit: My family used to use Schwan's a lot until we found out how heavily involved they are with a religion that doesn't like our kind. We'll still cave and get French Toast Sticks every once in a while but I always feel guilty eating them.

It's not like a shop at Walmart. I mean, I needed toothpaste and Walmart just happened to be there, so I went in. I don't shop at Target either. To me they're both places I would go only to buy small things like toothpaste, deodorant ect. Stuff like that. Plus, I think the people there look pretty trashy, so of course I wouldn't be around people like that very long. Hey, a girl has to keep her pearly whites white. Thanks Walmart.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

It's not like a shop at Walmart. I mean, I needed toothpaste and Walmart just happened to be there, so I went in. I don't shop at Target either. To me they're both places I would go only to buy small things like toothpaste, deodorant ect. Stuff like that. Plus, I think the people there look pretty trashy, so of course I wouldn't be around people like that very long. Hey, a girl has to keep her pearly whites white. Thanks Walmart.

Target is full of trashy people?

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Mensa?

Centaur and I fixed it for you.

Originally Posted by centaur532

The single best cheefulgreek post ever!

Agreed!

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

It's not like a shop at Walmart. I mean, I needed toothpaste and Walmart just happened to be there, so I went in. I don't shop at Target either. To me they're both places I would go only to buy small things like toothpaste, deodorant ect. Stuff like that. Plus, I think the people there look pretty trashy, so of course I wouldn't be around people like that very long.

Soooo....you only buy toiletries (deodorant and stuff like that) b/c the groceries are bad?!?

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Target is full of trashy people?

I wanna know too!?!?!

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by OTW

AMEN.

I don't know how big your Commissary is, but the one within walking distance to my house (next to the PH NEX) is gigantic. On payday, the lines are so long and wrap around so many damn stantions -- they rival Disneyland's lines in the summertime!

Still, for those prices...they're definitely worth it.

Does your Commissary have those people waiting to help you to your car? Most of the time I don't need help carrying my bags to the car, but I hate that I'm usually obligated to tip them out even when I didn't need them in the first place. Usually they're kids or older people...so I can't really say no.

Double AMEN! The payday lines at the commissary are the worst! The PX/BX/NEX are all pretty bad, too. But I hate the overseas commissary with a passion! They'll carry an item for all of a week or two, then yank it off the shelf, jsut as I'm getting used to it. And sometimes they won't carry something at all that I think is just ridiculous. I came home over Easter and fell in love with the cherry coke zero, but my manager at the overseas commissary looks at me like I'm an idiot for requesting them to carry it. And ours has the baggers, too, with a huge sign over the door that says "Baggers Work For Tips Only". That must be a sucky job. I try to be nice and give $5 to the guy who carries out the groceries and puts them in the car (over here, it's usually someone from a different country or a high school student). I know there are a lot of people around here that stiff the baggers.

[Coramoor]

The baggers! Yeah, I hardly ever carry cash so I end up paying them in euro or a handful of change.

I'm overseas right now and I know exactly what you mean about items being stocked. For instance you can buy the swiffer pads...but no handle. I couldn't find a bucket to clean my floors with for the last two months. The stuff they don't carry is so random also.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

It's not like a shop at Walmart. I mean, I needed toothpaste and Walmart just happened to be there, so I went in. I don't shop at Target either. To me they're both places I would go only to buy small things like toothpaste, deodorant ect. Stuff like that. Plus, I think the people there look pretty trashy, so of course I wouldn't be around people like that very long. Hey, a girl has to keep her pearly whites white. Thanks Walmart.

You'd take Wallyworld over Target because the people at Target are trashy...then what are the people at Walmart, pray tell?

[TrueBlueKappa]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Plus, I think the people there look pretty trashy, so of course I wouldn't be around people like that very long.

Did you really just type that?

[OneTimeSBX]

grrr. walmart.

last year i went on what i thought would be an empty Wednesday afternoon. i had neglected to remember that it was also the first of the month, so everyone within a 44 mile radius was there.

i got into the back of a line that had 14 people in it. i know this because i counted, and couldnt believe with 28 checkouts, there were 4 open. i waited so long, that half my frozen stuff, which i always get last, was near thawed. at the register, with a new 14 people in line behind me now, the girl smacks her gum, rolls her eyes, and slams down a "register closed" sign. "this lane is closed", she said with a bit more attitude than i liked. she never told the person in front of me that they were last (i always respect that.) she then proceeds to complain as loud as she can about how she hadnt taken her break (like i cared) and needed someone to count her drawer out. everyone in line behind me was simply amazed at the rudeness, so i turned around and said (very loudly) I'M LEAVING! AND IM LEAVING MY STUFF RIGHT HERE TOO! i left probably close to $150 in groceries right there, grabbed my purse and my kid, and about 7 other people did the same thing! i found a manager, told him what happened, and promptly left. i also made sure to tell him i would not shop at that location again, and now i use Kroger. i had a sick sense of satisfaction when i saw those 7 stuffed baskets in the middle of the main aisle with no people attached!

the moral of this story is: i will pay more for better service. dont you forget it...i also heard that cashier got fired. im not proud but it should serve as a lesson well learned.

[Sister Havana]

OneTimeSBX hit on my peeve: when there are over 20 checkstands, but only 2 or 3 are manned. I can understand this if it's like 3am, but there's a store near where I used to work that was consistently staffed like this at prime shopping times. Of course each stand had a line going well down the aisles!

[OneTimeSBX]

SisterH, the worst thing about that is the fact that i will be in line @ walmart and some manager will get on the loudspeaker and ask that all employees working the registers and are on break need to come back to their stations. i can just see them now, back there sucking down a twinkie and rolling their eyes! they need to fire a few people for that, that way when new cashiers come on board all the older employees will warn them "hey, mr. so-and-so is crazy as hell. if you are on your break you better get back up here quick so he doesnt fire you!!" and the problem would be solved.

that, and from what i hear some Walmarts dont treat their employees well. i had a girlfriend get fired for taking off for her wedding!!!