Grocery Grievance. Good Grief!

Coramoor · #1 05-27-2007, 04:37 PM

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

ASUADPi · #2 05-27-2007, 05:38 PM

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?

#3 05-27-2007, 07:43 PM

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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.

scbelle · #4 05-28-2007, 01:37 PM

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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 · #5 05-28-2007, 02:44 PM

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.

alum · #6 06-01-2007, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Coramoor

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

For decades I avoided the commissary near the paydays. The last day of the month can be as bad as the first day in terms of crowds. Foolishly I went to the Belvoir commissary yesterday because we were out of everything.

The secret is to go at 6 pm when everyone else is eating dinner. I breezed through and was out of there quickly. Some items were missing such as a particular kind of bread by a particular company. However, it was not nearly the dreadful experience I was anticipating.

KSigkid · #7 06-01-2007, 09:15 AM

I think some of the posts in this thread have lowered the IQ of everyone who has read them. I certainly feel dumber.

So, here is a picture I found on the interweb:

AlphaFrog · #8 06-01-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by KSigkid

I think some of the posts in this thread have lowered the IQ of everyone who has read them. I certainly feel dumber.

So, here is a picture I found on the interweb:

LOLZ.

PM_Mama00 · #9 06-01-2007, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

Okay, as stupid and immature as BOTH of you have been acting, I admit that was funny as hell. I'll give you that much.

But for real, this has gone on long enough, can't you guys shake and make up? Or at least ignore each other for awhile?

Like I've said, if she was posting true stuff about me and not twisting around what I've said, I'd leave it alone.

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Originally Posted by guardedbystars

On subject title, but my response is kind of off topic now...

But, this happened at a grocery store near me. The cashier ASKED ME FOR A TIP. HUH?!?!?! I tried to laugh it off, but then she said "No, I am being serious". UM WHAT?!

Has this ever happened to you??

That's ridiculous. Did you tell anyone in the store about it?

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

She called me names 1st. I'm not just gonna take that ya know. There's nothing she can say about me. What? She hates my threads on a chat site. Whooo. Big deal. I'm speaking the truth about her. And she says I'm dumb?

Whatever.

You are NOT speaking the truth about me. I'd be PMing you but I am sick of you publicly posting shit about me that isn't true. All you've been doing is twisting around multiple posts I've made and I'm sick of seeing it. You wouldn't be talking so much shit about the guys I've had around if you weren't so insecure about yourself. So seriously, stop the lying and stop insulting people on here, open your eyes from being so sheltered, and I will leave you alone... actually I think if you did 2/3 of that, everyone on here would leave you alone.

cheerfulgreek · #10 06-02-2007, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Like I've said, if she was posting true stuff about me and not twisting around what I've said, I'd leave it alone.

That's ridiculous. Did you tell anyone in the store about it?

You are NOT speaking the truth about me. I'd be PMing you but I am sick of you publicly posting shit about me that isn't true. All you've been doing is twisting around multiple posts I've made and I'm sick of seeing it. You wouldn't be talking so much shit about the guys I've had around if you weren't so insecure about yourself. So seriously, stop the lying and stop insulting people on here, open your eyes from being so sheltered, and I will leave you alone... actually I think if you did 2/3 of that, everyone on here would leave you alone.

After our little PM conversation, I said nothing about you, and you know it! I even tried to be friends with you TWICE but you declined! You're acting like such a b....!!! You started this crap again! 1st, you told me to grow up and take a psychology class just because I had my opinions about ccutoff's thread! I totally ignored that, thinking you would leave me alone! Then I started this thread and you started on me again! What's wrong with you?! At 1st I thought you left me alone, so I left you alone, so don't feed me your bullshit about if I stop posting lies about you that you'll leave me alone! You just won't let it go regardless of what I do! It's so obvious that you have nothing else better to do with your piss poor dateless life than to be mean to me! You're a jackass and you need to grow up! GET OVER IT!!!

Oh, and me insecure? Give me a break! You're the one that's insecure! You don't even find yourself attractive, and I'm insecure?! Oh Please.

AKA_Monet · #11 06-02-2007, 03:25 AM

Cheerful-

Sweetheart, I really do not want to get into this conversation. I really do not care about anything stated here. You need to be mindful of your thoughts, for they betray you.

This conversation has gone on long enough from the ridiculous to the sublime. Seven pages ago, you retorted to PM Mama. She responded in kind to your post.

Hayle, if I had a dime for everyone that hates me on GC, I would be a very, very rich woman. It is worth all your bitterness and anger? Do you have to be right in this matter? I know, because it was done to me not too long ago. And guess what, I was call all kinds of names except a "child of God"...

So what if folks say this stuff? They talked about Jesus H. Christ and you saw what they did to him... They are dayum sho gonna talk about you! Are you really going to LET a public message board dictate your actions in life? Is there not more to life than GC? Why are you really coming here and posting?

I am imparting on you: Let this one go to fight another day and move forward. There are bigger fish to fry...

KSig RC · #12 06-01-2007, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by KSigkid

I think some of the posts in this thread have lowered the IQ of everyone who has read them. I certainly feel dumber.

So, here is a picture I found on the interweb:

found another good one:

also if you two don't shut up i will . . . uh . . . yeah.