A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:

>I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
>many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
>restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
>don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
>putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
>and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
>garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
>that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
>the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
>commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
>facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
>must require that all retail establishments contract with private
>sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
>pick up thereof.

Move to Minnesota. All restaurants are required to have a public bathroom.
I'm not sure if the grocery stores are required to, as well, but they all
do. Actually, any of the larger stores (like hardware stores, etc.) have
public bathrooms. The diaper incidents happened at Super WalMart. They
definitely offer public accommodations.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that "The Ranger" > said:

>I'm not so much worried about what the next person thinks as much as the
>norms that type of "parent" is passing on to her child. "Stealing is
>a-okay... As long as you don't get caught." I say something to people like
>that -- especially when my three are present -- because food-theft costs me,
>both directly and indirectly. Her feelings, or problems, aren't my concern.
>The messages she's broadcasting are.

You're GOOD! I need you to be my official shopping assistant.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
> to someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side
> of the aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to
> view the shelves from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize
> that they are not the only people in the store.
>

The aisles at Trader Joe's are so narrow, it almost seems they had every
intention to make it single-file shopping!!!

Andy

--
"Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!"
- Ed Sullivan (1964)

A little birdie told me that "The Ranger" > said:

>Damsel in dis Dress > wrote in message
.. .
>> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night,
>> and I was so disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found
>> a nearly empty plastic bottle of Mountain Dew. Later,
>> we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.These
>> people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
>Have you brought this up with the manager? He might be blissfully ignorant
>hiding away in his office all day/night.

No, not that night. But I have to call them about something else anyway.
Might as well mention it.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that "jmcquown" > said:

>Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup?

You get itty-bitty spoons, like they use for ice cream samples. Usually,
the demonstrator puts soup in tiny little paper cups for sampling.

They don't give samples of foods at your store, Jill?

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!

The worst I have seen was a guy casually walking by a bin of candy in
the bulk food department, scooping out a handful with is BARE HAND and
popping it in his mouth. An adult. I had just selected some bulk
foods so I turned them into the register and refused to purchase them,
and I told them why. Never again.



>
> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.

Ugh. that's why I use a cart cover for DS. people smirk and remark
nastily at me but I don't care. Way too many diseases transmitted by
poop, spit and snot.

Take a walk on and CA beach on an early Sunday morning. You will see a
sea of poopy diapers people have left behind from Saturday. Absolutely
unconscionable.

>
> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.

I fear for the future.

-L.
(cloth diaper user)

I haven't touched one of those conveyor belt divider thingys at the
checkout in over 30 years, and I do the shopping. Someone else always
grabs one and tosses it in between my stuff and theirs.

Cam

wrote:

> I haven't touched one of those conveyor belt divider thingys at the
> checkout in over 30 years, and I do the shopping. Someone else always
> grabs one and tosses it in between my stuff and theirs.
>

I have had a few incidents in the last year when people have started
piling their stuff on before I have unloaded mine. The first time it
happened I turned and told the guy that he could wait until I was
finished. He got all huffy. The next time it happened I didn't bother
saying anything. When the stuff caught up to the things I was still
unloading I just grabbed the divider and swooshed everything back. But I
did that a little too forcefully and some of her stuff fell off onto the
floor :-)

> wrote in message
oups.com...
My other favorite pet peeve
> involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
> they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.

Or have a meeting with friends, parking carts three abreast in the aisle.
Or - not keeping to the right traveling the aisles. Damn!

"Sheldon" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> > Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
> so
> > disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle
> > of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
> candies.
> > These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> These kinds of misdeeds (partially eaten products) are much more apt to
> have been commited by the store employees... typically most shelf
> restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
> suppervized, if supervized at all... mostly they are itinerate temps,
> and not paid very well... and in fact in order to recruit them the
> store management often offers the 'all you can eat on premises' perk.
>
> > The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
> up
> > after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>
> I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
> many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
> restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
> don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
> putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
> and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
> garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
> that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
> the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
> commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
> facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
> must require that all retail establishments contract with private
> sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
> pick up thereof.
>
> > The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> > happening.
>
> Not the entire world, only those in charge... how those pinheads become
> in charge is the true sorry state of affairs.
>
> > Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
> By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
> working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
> wanna know.
>
> Sorry, but I can't place the blame on the public.

I make my living in the retail grocery universe as a field manager. And
while all retailers will tell you that the "shrink" (unaccounted loss of
products due to a variety of reasons, theft, grazing, poor accounting,
damages, etc.) are mostly due to employees, that doesn't mean it is all the
results of employees. However, it is pretty evident by our surveillence
cameras that the employees who graze, steal, call it what you want, don't
consume their product in the aisles. on the sales floor because they know we
are watching there. If you see half consumed products on the sales shelves,
displays, etc. they have been left there by our "guests."

Our night stocking crews are permanent full time staff, paid at the market
rate (are you going to shop our stores if we charge more to off-set higher
paid employees. Consumers are unwilling to pay more for the same thing that
they can buy for less elsewhere). We catch employed "grazers" all the time
and they are immediately terminated without regard. Again, the vast
majority of these thieves are careful to try to dispose of any evidence of
their stealing and seek areas in the store that are away from our cameras
(back room areas).

Many people whether company employees or customers are just selfish pigs,
with no regard for anyone else besides themselves. Our company and ALL of
our competitors have restrooms available to the public; I have never seen
one of our competitors, and I shop them daily, without a public restroom.
We clean our restrooms, empty trash, sweep the floors hourly (log the action
and then there are three redundant checks to make sure it happens). And an
hour later, the users have left a mess that makes me wonder how these folks'
homes must look. In the bathrooms, daily we find feces on the walls, urine
on the floor, water spigots left running (we are going to a photo-sensor
system to put the end to that expense), used bathroom tissue stuck to the
seats, walls, floor...sometimes even the ceiling. This is not the image we
wish to leave with our customers hence the hourly cleaning details and
dedicated cleaning teams. We steam pressure wash our shopping carts daily.
This is a huge, overly unproductive expense that we see as a necessity. And
unfortunately, the customer pays, and then pays again.

Worst of all, there is no solution to this problem. Children run throughout
our stores unsupervised while parents shop. Our records show that we
apprehend 4.7 children PER DAY throughout our 478 stores for "eating and
dumping" as we call it. Easily, a quarter of the parents who are required
to pick up their children from us after apprehension argue that they
children would never have done such a thing. And due to our surveillence
system and the way we apprehend, we now have a 98.6 conviction rate. So
what. The same thieves are back on the street that same day.

Rand

A little birdie told me that Lena B Katz > said:

>seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn food_.
>don't leave half of it somewhere.

Better yet ... go to the food pantry.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Dave Smith wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
>
>>By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
>>working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
>>wanna know.
>
>
> My sister in law was at the meat counter of her favourite local (family
> run) grocery store. The girl who was waiting on her sneezed into her hand
> and could not understand why my SIL would not accept the meat she had just
> wrapped for her or why she insisted on someone else waiting on her.
>


A few years ago I watched a seafood clerk who was in the back room. He
was on the phone and running his vinyl-gloved hand through his greasy
hair, over and over.

When he finally came out I ordered two pounds of scallops. He proceeded
to stick his hand (in the SAME glove) in the bin of scallops and
transfer handsful into a plastic bag. When I told him I no longer
wanted the scallops because he had contaminated them with dirty gloves,
he looked incredulous and angry.

I reported the incident to the public health department and the
store management, but I doubt it made any difference. I rarely shop in
htat store any longer and never buy meat or seafood there.

gloria p

On Mon 18 Apr 2005 03:24:23p, Puester wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>> Sheldon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
>>>working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
>>>wanna know.
>>
>>
>> My sister in law was at the meat counter of her favourite local (family
>> run) grocery store. The girl who was waiting on her sneezed into her
>> hand and could not understand why my SIL would not accept the meat she
>> had just wrapped for her or why she insisted on someone else waiting on
>> her.
>>
>
>
> A few years ago I watched a seafood clerk who was in the back room. He
> was on the phone and running his vinyl-gloved hand through his greasy
> hair, over and over.
>
> When he finally came out I ordered two pounds of scallops. He proceeded
> to stick his hand (in the SAME glove) in the bin of scallops and
> transfer handsful into a plastic bag. When I told him I no longer
> wanted the scallops because he had contaminated them with dirty gloves,
> he looked incredulous and angry.
>
> I reported the incident to the public health department and the
> store management, but I doubt it made any difference. I rarely shop in
> htat store any longer and never buy meat or seafood there.
>
> gloria p
>

It probably happens where you now shop, as well, though you haven't seen
it.

--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 18 Apr 2005 03:24:23p, Puester wrote in rec.food.cooking:


>>
>>A few years ago I watched a seafood clerk who was in the back room. He
>>was on the phone and running his vinyl-gloved hand through his greasy
>>hair, over and over.
>>
>>When he finally came out I ordered two pounds of scallops. He proceeded
>>to stick his hand (in the SAME glove) in the bin of scallops and
>>transfer handsful into a plastic bag. When I told him I no longer
>>wanted the scallops because he had contaminated them with dirty gloves,
>>he looked incredulous and angry.
>>
>>I reported the incident to the public health department and the
>>store management, but I doubt it made any difference. I rarely shop in
>>htat store any longer and never buy meat or seafood there.
>>
>>gloria p
>>
>
>
> It probably happens where you now shop, as well, though you haven't seen
> it.
>

Actually the clerks in my Alberston's in the deli and
"butcher block" departments change gloves before every
transaction. I've watched.

gloria p

On Mon 18 Apr 2005 03:47:37p, Puester wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 18 Apr 2005 03:24:23p, Puester wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>
>>>
>>>A few years ago I watched a seafood clerk who was in the back room. He
>>>was on the phone and running his vinyl-gloved hand through his greasy
>>>hair, over and over.
>>>
>>>When he finally came out I ordered two pounds of scallops. He proceeded
>>>to stick his hand (in the SAME glove) in the bin of scallops and
>>>transfer handsful into a plastic bag. When I told him I no longer
>>>wanted the scallops because he had contaminated them with dirty gloves,
>>>he looked incredulous and angry.
>>>
>>>I reported the incident to the public health department and the
>>>store management, but I doubt it made any difference. I rarely shop in
>>>htat store any longer and never buy meat or seafood there.
>>>
>>>gloria p
>>>
>>
>>
>> It probably happens where you now shop, as well, though you haven't seen
>> it.
>>
>
> Actually the clerks in my Alberston's in the deli and
> "butcher block" departments change gloves before every
> transaction. I've watched.
>
> gloria p
>

You're lucky. I should probably be more observant.

--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

"-L." > wrote in message
ups.com...

> Take a walk on and CA beach on an early Sunday morning. You will see a
> sea of poopy diapers people have left behind from Saturday......

.......not to mention the used condoms.

Andy wrote:
> Dave Smith > wrote in
> :
>
>> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
>> to someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side
>> of the aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to
>> view the shelves from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize
>> that they are not the only people in the store.
>>
>
> The aisles at Trader Joe's are so narrow, it almost seems they had
> every intention to make it single-file shopping!!!
>
> Andy

Not to mention those product displays that prominently block the aisles in
every store. Maybe it's just me, but I can't ever recall a big cardboard
display prompting me to buy whatever.

Jill

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> A little birdie told me that "jmcquown" > said:
>
>> Um... where do you shop that lets you sample soup?
>
> You get itty-bitty spoons, like they use for ice cream samples.
> Usually, the demonstrator puts soup in tiny little paper cups for
> sampling.
>
> They don't give samples of foods at your store, Jill?
>
> Carol

Rarely. When they do it's usually not something I'm interested in trying.

Jill

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:
>
> >I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
> >many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
> >restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the
stores
> >don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise
that
> >putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking
lot...
> >and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so
if
> >garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
> >that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I
place
> >the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
> >commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
> >facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
> >must require that all retail establishments contract with private
> >sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with
timely
> >pick up thereof.
>
> Move to Minnesota. All restaurants are required to have a public
bathroom.
> I'm not sure if the grocery stores are required to, as well, but they
all
> do. Actually, any of the larger stores (like hardware stores, etc.)
have
> public bathrooms. The diaper incidents happened at Super WalMart.
They
> definitely offer public accommodations.

Restaurants in NY are required to maintain restooms, but they are not
public, (for patrons only), but not stupidmarkets. All the major
department stores, large chain hardware stores, and many other retail
stores maintain restrooms too but not stupidmarkets, at least not those
I've patronized in the past and those I patronize now... perhaps some
do have facilities for the patrons but the two Grand Unions (two
separate towns) where I now shop do not. Those I shopped at two years
ago on Lung Guyland did not, not the Pathmarks, and not the ethnic
markets... perhaps things have changed from two years ago but I
wouldn't know, I've not been back. And from all I've seen around here
I would only rate the ones at Walmart and Lowes adequate... the few
Home Depot restrooms I've been to are disgusting.

Sheldon

Far as I can tell, someone wrote:

>In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic bottle
>of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.
>These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
>The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
>happening.

You should have seen what I found at Victoria's Secret!

Far as I can tell, someone wrote:
>typically most shelf
>restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
>suppervized,

Suppervized? As in, they did'nt eat enough supper?

A little birdie told me that Dave Smith > said:

>Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk to
>someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of the
>aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the shelves
>from a distance. Heaven forbid they should recognize that they are not the
>only people in the store.

Happens in the parking lot, too. Two cars (or one car and a pedestrian)
sit side-by-side and the people have lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng conversations and
block the entire parking row.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

==> Cell Phone Jerk <==
[She] told me I was rude and said "Can't you see I'm on the phone."
"Yes and I can see you're as big as ass on the phone as in person. I've
told you once politely to finish up. Now I'm telling you to move on."
First time in my life I've told someone in a supermarket to **** off.
The check out person was pleased at my response as well as the lady
behind me.
LOL.
The Ranger---------------------------------------------
RESPONSE: Here in the Detroit metro area you make comments like that to
any one even if it's called for you just might get a bullet in your
behind.
Here you learn to keep comments to your self and hit the floor at the
slightest sounds of disturbances.

Dog3 wrote:
> My pet peeve is seeing people in the produce section squeezing the
hell out
> of tomatoes and fruit. If they do not like the way it squeezes, they
just
> throw it back on the pile. Said tomato and fruit, needless to say,
are
> badly bruised and some have broken skin. These people, IMO, are
complete
> assholes.
>
> Michael

Or the GD people in California who find it necessary to break open the
yams - why the F would you need to do that? I stood there and watched
one day while this older guy stood there and broke open literally 8 or
9 yams. I was dumbfounded. I said "Ya know, you are ruining those for
other customers." He just looked at me - I don't think he spoke
English.

-L.
(Who is really good at giving dirty looks and telling people to stop
doing things.)

ms. tonya > wrote in message
...
> > > ==> Cell Phone Jerk <==
> > > [She] told me I was rude and said "Can't you see I'm on the
> > > phone."
> > "Yes and I can see you're as big as ass on the phone as in person.
> > I've told you once politely to finish up. Now I'm telling you to move
> > on."
> >
> Here in the Detroit metro area you make comments like that to
> any one even if it's called for you just might get a bullet in your
> behind. Here you learn to keep comments to your self and hit
> the floor at the slightest sounds of disturbances.

I don't live in fear of might-have-beens or could-be's. Call jerks like that
cell phone abuser Jackasses. Use any method in communicating that his/her
boorish behavior is unacceptable; just get the message across. If the
majority would stand up and be counted, all this brash, abrasive,
dysfunctional behaviors so obvious today would vanish overnight.

The Ranger

Lena B Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
> >
> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
fast as he
> > could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no
shame even
> > when my 3 year old pointed out that the man was stealing grapes!
>
> No shame? You're the one with no shame, lady.

Sarah is no lady.

> Growing up in a small town, you see a lot of people who can't afford
food
> for their kids... I've known people who worked at grocery stores, who

> deliberately turned a blind eye to people they knew couldn't afford
> produce for their kids.(to the point of putting out almost-rotten
produce
> for them to take) I mean, you've got a consistent customer, who
> buys what they can afford, when they can afford it, and who
occasionally
> takes food. This isn't the person who steals because they want to.
It 's
> not the person who steals cars for a joyride. It's a person who
finds
> that they can't afford enough to feed their kids.
>
> I can hope that that old man was suffering from some form of
dementia, and
> didn't realize where he was.
>
> Lena

Agreed!

Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!

Sarah is probably under 30 (talks like she's 12), she'll change her
tune when (if) she reaches 80. The poor soul was obviously hungry, he
wasn't hiding anything, and he was not stealing, those were his
grapes... NO ONE in America should ever need to go hungry, not ever.
America feeds the entire world and literally throws away more food each
day then all the rest of the world eats. There is no shrotage of food
in the US, in fact ALL that food at the market belongs to the taxpayer,
yes it certainly does... kinda like Universites, anyone thinks the
tuitions cover expenses, not even a very small dent... those
institutions belong to the taxpayer too. Next time your doctor tells
about all it cost to get that degree, call him/her a pinhead, the
taxpayer FULLY funded their education, that tuition doesn't pay to mow
the lawn... the tax payer footed the bill for every brick and
everything else. That old man paid for that food, many, many times
over... and for all we know he fought a war so the rest of us can
eat... odds are if at 80 he's got enough going to get himself to the
store and recognize a grape he did, perhaps at his age more than one
war. Sarah needs her ungrateful infantile butt spanked, and sent to
her room without dinner... I'm absolutely positive Sarah has never
earned a morsel she's ever eaten, or she'd not be talking her selfish
hooray for me and **** everyone else spoiled brat trash.

Sheldon (the US harbors some real sickos, who would castigate an old
man for eating grapes but elects officials who support rights for child
molesters... Sarah is the one with dementia)

A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:

>Restaurants in NY are required to maintain restooms, but they are not
>public, (for patrons only), but not stupidmarkets. All the major
>department stores, large chain hardware stores, and many other retail
>stores maintain restrooms too but not stupidmarkets, at least not those
>I've patronized in the past and those I patronize now... perhaps some
>do have facilities for the patrons but the two Grand Unions (two
>separate towns) where I now shop do not. Those I shopped at two years
>ago on Lung Guyland did not, not the Pathmarks, and not the ethnic
>markets... perhaps things have changed from two years ago but I
>wouldn't know, I've not been back. And from all I've seen around here
>I would only rate the ones at Walmart and Lowes adequate... the few
>Home Depot restrooms I've been to are disgusting.

Come to our cook-in, and you can inspect all of our stores while you're in
town.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that "-L." > said:

>-L.
>(cloth diaper user)

Me too.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> A little birdie told me that "-L." > said:
>
> >-L.
> >(cloth diaper user)
>
> Me too.
>
> Carol
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Not many of us around these days...do you currently have a wee one?
Mine is 15 mos.

-L.

"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> Andy wrote:
>> Dave Smith > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
>>> to someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one
>>> side of the aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining
>>> space to view the shelves from a distance. Heaven forbid they should
>>> recognize that they are not the only people in the store.
>>>
>>
>> The aisles at Trader Joe's are so narrow, it almost seems they had
>> every intention to make it single-file shopping!!!
>>
>> Andy
>
> Not to mention those product displays that prominently block the
> aisles in every store. Maybe it's just me, but I can't ever recall a
> big cardboard display prompting me to buy whatever.
>
> Jill


Jill,

Isn't there some unwritten law that allows you to bulldoze those
blockades with impunity?!!

Andy

> I make my living in the retail grocery universe as a field manager.

<Snip.>

What chain? I want to shop at a chain where they wash the carts daily.

-L.

A little birdie told me that "-L." > said:

>Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>> A little birdie told me that "-L." > said:
>>
>> >-L.
>> >(cloth diaper user)
>>
>> Me too.
>>
>> Carol

>Not many of us around these days...do you currently have a wee one?
>Mine is 15 mos.

Naw, my little darling is 26 years old. So I guess I should have said I
*used* cloth diapers.

Crash and I aren't old enough to need them.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On 18 Apr 2005 04:08:57 -0700, wrote:

>I don't see too many slob scenes at the market, fortunately. Every so
>often I spot a package of a perishable (e.g., cold cuts, pkg of meat,
>ice cream)left on a shelf...always disturbs me that someone is
>perfectly willing to waste food to save him-/herself a walk of maybe a
>100 feet. One of my pet peeves is trash left in a shopping cart for
>someone else to pick up and throw away....shopping lists, empty sample
>cups, used napkins, candy wrappers, etc. My other favorite pet peeve
>involves those shoppers leaving carts in the middle of an aisle while
>they wander off to get this or that. Grrrr.

One of my pet peeves is people who leave their shopping carts in the
parking lot, strewn all over the place, rather than walk a few feet to
put them in the space alloted for carts. How many times have you
started to pull into a parking space to suddenly find you can't get
into the space due to carts left willy nilly? And these are the same
people, I suppose, who circle the parking lot at the gym looking for a
close in parking space.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA


"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

Dave Smith wrote:
> Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
to
> someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of
the
> aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the
shelves
> from a distance.

Some people can't see. I know it's no excuse...

> Heaven forbid they should recognize that they are not the
> only people in the store.

What I can't stand is the family with 6 kids, Uncle Harry, Grandma and
cousin Alberto. I mean, do you ALL really *need* to go to the store?
They act like it's a freaking party or sumpin.

I bitch if I have to take DS, and when DH wants to go with, we split up
so we are outta there, pronto.

-L.

A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:

>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
>> >
>> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
>> > fast as he could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no
>> >shame even
>
>Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!

Boy, do I understand that one! Low blood sugar makes you ravenous. It's
also very frightening. When I had that problem from a medication they'd
given me to lower my blood sugar when I was first diagnosed. Horrible!

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:04:30 -0400, "Dee Randall"
> wrote:

>Another pet peeve is when I'm looking at a product and always-a-woman comes
>up beside me and speaks in a loud voice and says, "EXCUSE ME!" and I know
>she expects me to get out of the way of her shopping -- and fast! She may
>know what she wants and she wants you out of the way so she can get it NOW!
>Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.' They must wait?
>
>dee

One of my pet peeves is when someone blocks the aisle with their cart
and is standing there intensely involved in examining some product,
pretending to be oblivious to the fact that there are other people in
the world. So much so that they won't acknowledge anyone else. We
are supposed to say "Excuse me" with a pleasant affect. I don't think
so :>

How difficult is it to consider other people and move the cart to the
side *before* getting lost in the label? That way, one can read the
label to their heart's content and other people can get on with their
lives as well. Problem solved and everyone is happy.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:36:28 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress
> connected the dots and wrote:

~Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
so
~disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
~of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
~These people have no class, and they're thieves!
~
~The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
~after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
~
~The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
~happening.
~
~Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
~
~Carol

I ran into the most amazing aisle hogs today. Usually there's one or
two, but today, every freaking aisle I went down had not one but two
people with their carts in the middle and themselves blocking the rest
of the aisle. No wonder I left the house at 9:30 and didn't get back
til after noon!

My other pet peeve (ok it's not gross, usually) is when you leave your
car with no carts around it, and come back to find some dingbat has
left their cart behind yours.

maxine in ri

"-L." wrote:

> > Not just aisle blockers. It's the way they do it. They stop and talk
> to
> > someone and park side by side, or they park their cart on one side of
> the
> > aisle and then stand in the middle of the remaining space to view the
> shelves
> > from a distance.
>
> Some people can't see. I know it's no excuse...

It's not their inability to see that bothers me. I joined the bifocal club
a few years ago myself. The problem is that the tend to park the cart in
one place and stand beside it. Needless to say, the people who do that do
not park the cart to one side. They usually manage to situate their carts
and themselves so that no one can by in any of the three small spaces
left. There is certainly nothing wrong with standing behind the cart while
you scan the shelves. If you absolutely must park the car, park it at the
side of the aisle to leave the maximum open space.

>
> What I can't stand is the family with 6 kids, Uncle Harry, Grandma and
> cousin Alberto. I mean, do you ALL really *need* to go to the store?
> They act like it's a freaking party or sumpin.

I must be lucky. I don't see that sort of thing. Maybe it is more common in
the bargain stores where people feeding that many mouths have to shop.
However, I have seen it in airports. I once landed after a long overseas
flight with a stop on the way. It was late and we were exhausted. After we
finally cleared customs and made it to the exit gate we were held up by
another line up because there were thousands of people standing there to
great some of the passengers. It looked like entire extended families.
They were blocking the exit gate and would not move. I jostled my way to
the front of the line and said "Follow me", held my suitcases at a angle
and used them like a cowcatcher. I then proceeded to push my way through
the crowd. I got a lot of dirty looks from the people that got pushed
aside, but I had a line of my fellow passengers following me.

>Maybe you don't get out much.

Sheldon uses an outhouse so he wouldn't recognise a proper bathroom if
it bit his sagging ass.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Lena B Katz wrote:
>
>> seriously... if you're so hungry you've got to steal, _eat the damn
>> food_.
>> don't leave half of it somewhere.
>
> It's more than just hunger. Some people get a cheap thrill out of getting
> away
> with things like that. Many people who steal can well afford the items
> they
> take.

Winona Ryder?

Scott.