"Eric" > wrote in message
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> Dog3 > wrote in
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>> I have only encountered 1 continuous problem at the self checkout.
>> Other shoppers. Where I shop there are 4 registers at the self
>> checkout. All four of them clearly state, in huge red letters, "20
>> items or less." Lately I've run across people using it with enormous
>> mounds of groceries in their carts with well over the 20 item limit.
>> This really irritates the snot out of me. I just chalk it up to
>> illiteracy and will verbalize that thought if the opportunity arises.
>> The shoppers obviously can not read or count.
>
> It's either that or they go into the express lane with their cart full of
> groceries. I've always said the checker should be able to make them go to
> another aisle, but the customer is always right.

No, the customer is not always right. A place where we've gone for
breakfast that we all like and one full-of-herself wait-person who always
waits on us, said to my question about a certain food, that it had always
been done that way as long as she was there (and she was raised in the
restaurant). I always order the same breakfast (and the most expensive, I
might add) and it has always come out one particular way. After some
chit-chat, I said, "But the customer is always right." She said, "Not here
they're not." and turned on her heel and walked away. The next day my
f-i-l wanted to go back, but I said that there wasn't time. But I won't go
back; "I've cut off my nose to spite my face" and "burnt my bridges." If I
had to look at her face when she brought me my beloved breakfast, I would
choke on it. She won the argument, didn't have to please me, and got her
20%+ tip.
Dee Dee