>
> 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.
>
Funny, at one of the large warehouse stores, one check-out person commented
"do you always shop with two carts?" and there wasn't a friendly smile on
her face -- we mess up the checking out routine, I guess. Shopping with two
carts might be considered as glomming up the aisles with carts, but we
prefer to shop separately; you know, 'you get this, I'll get that.'
D.

"Puester" > wrote in message
...
> 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

Last week I was in a store where the person getting samples out of the jar
had three fingers torn out of his glove and he had his hand moving up and
down in and out of the jar with the ragged glove with the gloop on it flying
everywhere onto the tray -- what a sight -- I had to laugh even though it
was disgusting!
D

Dee Randall wrote:
>>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.
>>
>
> Funny, at one of the large warehouse stores, one check-out person commented
> "do you always shop with two carts?" and there wasn't a friendly smile on
> her face -- we mess up the checking out routine, I guess. Shopping with two
> carts might be considered as glomming up the aisles with carts, but we
> prefer to shop separately; you know, 'you get this, I'll get that.'
> D.
>
>
>
DH and I shop with two carts all the time not only for the reason you do
but because he likes to stop and examine just about everything (rolling
eyes) whereas, I know what I want and just pop it into the cart.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:50:38 -0400, Serendipity >
connected the dots and wrote:

~The Ranger wrote:
~> 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!
~>
~> [snip]
~>
~>>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
~>
~>
~> The hit-and-run eaters are not too big a problem where I live. When
I've
~> seen it, I call them on it. It can drive SWMBO nuts at times
because she's a
~> very passive-aggressive Gandhi type; you enact social change
through
~> non-violence. I'm more, call them now and handle the consequences
quickly
~> and (in many cases) painfully. Make them fear the reprisals and
they'll not
~> do it again.
~>
~> Have you brought this up with the manager? He might be blissfully
ignorant
~> hiding away in his office all day/night.
~>
~> The Ranger
~>
~>
~
~
~With all due respect, this won't work. Friends of ours own a chain
~grocery store. You should hear some of the horror stories. If
~someomeone wants to steal, they will find a way. He was telling us
of
~how shoppers remove those smelly thing refills and put back the empty
~container. He told us about customers who actually steal toothpaste.
~Then there is the food sampling issue. Another friend who owns a
~smaller grocery store tells the same story except his losses are
worse.
~ Go figure! People think this ok?

Like the kids who were "sampling" the spices by licking their fingers,
sticking them into the can or jar, and tasting the spice? A nice
expensive can of Hungarian Paprika, IIRC.

maxine in ri

"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote in
message link.net...
>
> Dog3 wrote:
>
>> Gawd. I remember watching someone chowing down at the salad bar. He
>> was
>> most blatant about it too. He poured some soup in a cup, at it and
>> left
> the
>> cup right next to the soup warmer with the spoon in it. Then he moved
>> on
> to
>> the salads. UGH.
>
>
> One of the reasons I won't ever get stuff from a salad bar or buffet,
> whether in a store or a restaurant. You don't know WHO or WHAT has
> put
> their grubby hands in the vittles...
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

I've seen a lot of people at buffets that when they get soup, they let
the soup drip down over their fingers, going back into the soup
container -- Perhaps that's why the soup is never 'red' hot - because
they don't want the patrons' fingers to get burnt?
Dee

Dog3 wrote:

>Another huge pet peeve is the person in front of me checking out and
>yapping on a cell phone. A woman ahead of me in line several weeks ago
was
>yapping on the cell phone and trying to write her check. She would
write
>down the info on a line of the check. She entered the date, stopped
writing
>and cackled and yapped on the phone. Then she would do it again. The
check
>out person was getting ****ed and I was over it. After 10 minutes of
this
>routine I politely asked her to please complete her transaction. She
>obnoxiously (snarling like a rabid dog)told me I was rude and said
"Can't
>you see I'm on the phone." 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 - good one.

I've gotten to the point where I participate in their phone
conversations, volunteering my observations and comments.
Inevevitably, the talker will turn to me and say, "Do you *mind*? This
is a *private* conversation!" To which I reply, "Then why are you
having it in the middle of (wherever we are)?"

Back when I was a manager for a pizza place, my carry-out customers
learned pretty quickly not to try to place their order while chatting
on the phone...because I'd look behind them to the next person in line.
When they complained, I pointed out that they were obviously too busy
to place their order.

Lisa Ann

Dog3 wrote:

>Another huge pet peeve is the person in front of me checking out and
>yapping on a cell phone. A woman ahead of me in line several weeks ago
was
>yapping on the cell phone and trying to write her check. She would
write
>down the info on a line of the check. She entered the date, stopped
writing
>and cackled and yapped on the phone. Then she would do it again. The
check
>out person was getting ****ed and I was over it. After 10 minutes of
this
>routine I politely asked her to please complete her transaction. She
>obnoxiously (snarling like a rabid dog)told me I was rude and said
"Can't
>you see I'm on the phone." 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 - good one.

I've gotten to the point where I participate in their phone
conversations, volunteering my observations and comments.
Inevevitably, the talker will turn to me and say, "Do you *mind*? This
is a *private* conversation!" To which I reply, "Then why are you
having it in the middle of (wherever we are)?"

Back when I was a manager for a pizza place, my carry-out customers
learned pretty quickly not to try to place their order while chatting
on the phone...because I'd look behind them to the next person in line.
When they complained, I pointed out that they were obviously too busy
to place their order.

Lisa Ann

Lisa Ann wrote:

>
> I've gotten to the point where I participate in their phone
> conversations, volunteering my observations and comments.
> Inevevitably, the talker will turn to me and say, "Do you *mind*? This
> is a *private* conversation!" To which I reply, "Then why are you
> having it in the middle of (wherever we are)?"

BRAVO BRAVO ;-) We should make a movement of that tactic.

I took my mother shopping today and told her what someone had said her
about "Tell her to get the blue". She thought it was funny, and as we
walked by the woman on the cell phone who had inspired the conversation,
she started t speak louder and asked me to repeat myself. Now I know who I
inherited my passive aggressive tendencies from.

sf wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:24 -0500, notbob wrote:
>
> > On 2005-04-19, -L. > wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > "GD people"? How many people? I've lived in CA for decades and
never
> > seen a single one. BTW, just how does one "break open" a yam?
Cut
> > maybe, smash possibly, but "break open"? One can't stick their
> > fingers into a yam and break it open unless they're cooked or the
> > person's one strong sumbitch. I suspect you saw something other
than
> > a yam or you're just "dumb", minus the "founded".
> >
>
> I live in California... and I've seen "yams" that were broken open,
> but it's done by the vegetable guy. Mostly though, "broken" yams are
> those that have been cut by a shovel or machinery and made it to
> market anyway.
>
> I break off pieces of ginger because I don't want to buy the whole
> thing and that practice isn't frowned on where I live.

I sometimes break up bunches of bananas; if I just want 2 bananas and
there are 6 or 7 on the bunch I'll just break them off and buy those.
I live along and if I buy a big bunch of bananas half of them will go
bad. I don't have a problem with that and nobody's ever said anything
to me.

On Fri 22 Apr 2005 08:48:46p, wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:24 -0500, notbob wrote:
>>
>> > On 2005-04-19, -L. > wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > "GD people"? How many people? I've lived in CA for decades and
>> > never seen a single one. BTW, just how does one "break open" a
>> > yam? Cut maybe, smash possibly, but "break open"? One can't stick
>> > their fingers into a yam and break it open unless they're cooked or
>> > the person's one strong sumbitch. I suspect you saw something
>> > other than a yam or you're just "dumb", minus the "founded".
>> >
>>
>> I live in California... and I've seen "yams" that were broken open,
>> but it's done by the vegetable guy. Mostly though, "broken" yams are
>> those that have been cut by a shovel or machinery and made it to
>> market anyway.
>>
>> I break off pieces of ginger because I don't want to buy the whole
>> thing and that practice isn't frowned on where I live.
>
> I sometimes break up bunches of bananas; if I just want 2 bananas and
> there are 6 or 7 on the bunch I'll just break them off and buy those.
> I live along and if I buy a big bunch of bananas half of them will go
> bad. I don't have a problem with that and nobody's ever said anything
> to me.

You may be arrested the next time. <g>

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

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

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

I've never heard of a "cart cover" but it sounds like a great idea. I
sometimes in Costco put a box in the cart, but the scanners get confused
and don't know how to put the food back inside the box after scanning it
thru -- it causes so much confusion, as well as the confusion coming
thru with one basket each for the two of us -- that my spouse says to
forget the box, but I love the idea...

Also, in Walmart where I shop, I always cringe when I see the checkout
clerks lick there mouths/tongues/fingers in order to open the bags that
they put your food into. Whoa, think about the sores they must have
taking money all day long, putting their fingers into their mouths, and
then onto plastic bags --
Dee

In article >,
zxcvbob > wrote:

> And no matter how wide the aisles are, a woman (it's always a woman) can
> block the entire aisle with her cart -- she'll park it sideways if she
> has to -- while she chats with another shopper or looks for something.

Huh. Worst trolley-parkers in this part of the world are mostly men.

Miche

--
WWMVD?

In article >,
"The Ranger" > wrote:

> PhotoMan > wrote in message
> . ..
> > "Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
> ...
> > > The fun part of shopping is when you meet someone and neither
> > > of you knows which way to move to get out of the other's way.
> > > I learned the Supermarket Shuffle years ago. Still don't have it right.
> > >
> > It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.
>
> Unless you're in/from the UK, Japan, or Australia...

Or New Zealand.

Miche

--
WWMVD?

Miche wrote:
> In article >,
> zxcvbob > wrote:
>
>
>>And no matter how wide the aisles are, a woman (it's always a woman) can
>>block the entire aisle with her cart -- she'll park it sideways if she
>>has to -- while she chats with another shopper or looks for something.
>
>
> Huh. Worst trolley-parkers in this part of the world are mostly men.
>
> Miche
>


You're in the Southern Hemisphere, right?

Best regards,
Bob

Miche wrote:

>
>
> Huh. Worst trolley-parkers in this part of the world are mostly men.

Your part of the world is different from mine. Around here it seems to be the
women who are bad for parking in the middle of the aisles. The men seem to
make an effort not to.

In article .com>,
" > wrote:

> I sometimes break up bunches of bananas; if I just want 2 bananas and
> there are 6 or 7 on the bunch I'll just break them off and buy those.

Nothing wrong with that, imo.

> I live along and if I buy a big bunch of bananas half of them will go
> bad. I don't have a problem with that and nobody's ever said anything
> to me.

If you ever find yourself with spare bananas, chuck 'em in the freezer,
skins and all.

The skins turn black but help protect the fruit from freezer burn.

The next time you want banana bread or banana cake, thaw out the right
number of 'nanas, peel one side of the skin down and scoop the innards
out with a spoon. Pre-mashed!

Miche

--
WWMVD?

Food For Thought wrote:
>
> And I want to see those lazy SOB's who can't hand
> a package of meat they don't want to the CHECKER rather than tuck it
> into the feminine hygiene products.


Hmm, Food For Thought, eh... perhaps there's a *subliminal* message
there.

Sheldon

In article >,
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 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?

I used to work in a small grocery store (very small) in Northeast
Philly. That was about 20 years ago, but I doubt the human condition has
changed much since. In my experience, the vast majority of customers
were kind and considerate. There were always one or two customers per
shift who gave me grief. At least two or three customers insisted on
complaining about expiration dates on the milk, even though all the milk
on our shelves was well within the expiration date. Very few customers
ever made a mess. There is the one time where one customer did something
I didn't like at all; he and a buddy robbed me, but that's a different
story.

This may depend on the neighborhood where you shop, but I rarely see the
problem you described at the grocery stores in my area (South Jersey).
The trouble is that the vast majority of civil customers' behavior goes
unnoticed because it is the norm. When we encounter behavior outside the
norm, such as another customer leaving a dirty diaper in a shopping cart
of opening up a bottle of juice to drink out of it, that behavior stands
out more than the normal behavior that most customers exhibit.

In article >,
Bill > wrote:

>
> how about the moronic imbeciles who push their buggy's into the
> parking lot, empty their groceries into their car...and just leave the
> damn buggy sitting there in the parking lot ready to roll into
> somebody else's car when the wind blows? I think the supermarkets
> should post snipers with "paintball guns" on top of the stores to lob
> blobs of paint right onto the windshield of these idiots...

God, I hate that!

In article <G7_8e.56034$lz2.2996@fed1read07>, "Nexis" >
wrote:
>
> Lately, much of what I have encountered that's grossed me out has been the
> fault of the store moreso than it's customers. For example, 3 times I've
> seen pineapple (the peeled, but variety) in the produce department that has
> a date 2 weeks away, yet is clearly past it's prime. I'm talking white fuzz,
> bubbling juices.
> Then, my mom was showing me the new pillsbury biscuits that are individually
> wrapped so you can make 2 or 4 or whatever you need. She picks up a box to
> show me and they are all covered in a thick layer of mold. Yuck.
> Then, in the dog food aisle, I moved a bag of food to check the date and the
> bottom was alive with meal worms and moths.

That stores sounds like a good place to avoid. You should report that
place to the local health department.

In article >,
zxcvbob > wrote:

> Miche wrote:
> > In article >,
> > zxcvbob > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>And no matter how wide the aisles are, a woman (it's always a woman) can
> >>block the entire aisle with her cart -- she'll park it sideways if she
> >>has to -- while she chats with another shopper or looks for something.
> >
> >
> > Huh. Worst trolley-parkers in this part of the world are mostly men.
>
> You're in the Southern Hemisphere, right?

Uh, yeah. I fail to see what that has to do with it.

Miche

--
WWMVD?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:35:19 -0700, in rec.food.cooking, Nexis wrote:
[SNIP]
>Then, my mom was showing me the new pillsbury biscuits that are individually
>wrapped so you can make 2 or 4 or whatever you need

Just to say that I bought these (mold-free) last time I was in the States
-- tasty and although they cost more, very useful when you only want a
small portion and there's no one else who wants any.

Doug
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In article >, wrote:

>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?

Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b

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And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

On Mon 02 May 2005 07:06:13p, Doug Miller wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >,
> wrote:
>
>>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
> Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b

In particular, strech pants!

They should be banned from supermarkets for creating an unappetizing
environment.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

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

Wayne Boatwright > wrote:

> On Mon 02 May 2005 07:06:13p, Doug Miller wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
> > In article >,
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
> >
> > Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b
>
> In particular, strech pants!
>
> They should be banned from supermarkets for creating an unappetizing
> environment.

Pft. Fat chicks in tight pants are hot.

serene
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On Mon 02 May 2005 09:11:08p, Serene wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
>> On Mon 02 May 2005 07:06:13p, Doug Miller wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>> > In article >,
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>> >
>> > Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b
>>
>> In particular, strech pants!
>>
>> They should be banned from supermarkets for creating an unappetizing
>> environment.
>
> Pft. Fat chicks in tight pants are hot.

Pft. Revolting!

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

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

In rec.food.cooking, on 3 May 2005 04:29:28 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote about Supermarket Slobs:

>On Mon 02 May 2005 07:06:13p, Doug Miller wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> In article >,
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>>
>> Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b
>
>In particular, strech pants!
>
Or hip-huggers and crop tops.

Joan

Serene wrote:

>
> >
> > They should be banned from supermarkets for creating an unappetizing
> > environment.
>
> Pft. Fat chicks in tight pants are hot.

Hot. And sweaty :-)

:> > Size-28 shoppers in size-12 clothing... :-b
:>
:> In particular, strech pants!
:>
:> They should be banned from supermarkets for creating an unappetizing
:> environment.

: Pft. Fat chicks in tight pants are hot.

: serene

They're only hot if you're a lesbo - which you obviously are. Your opinion
doesn't count.