Cart Corrals are not parking spaces!

[SG15Z]

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The first one isn't sucky, just...ewww!

I'm standing at a register filling the coin tower so I can get it counted up and locked up in the safe for the night when a couple of pre-teen boys walk in. And when I say pre-teen I mean 12-13. And well...

Boy1: ...yeah you have a small dick.
Boy2: yeah it's pretty small...

He turns to other guys in the group to describe his tinyness in greater detail thankfully walking away from me so I can't hear them anymore. let me just for a moment.

Major TMI moment!

15 or less

Lady walks up to an express lane that has it's light off so cashier can go on break. Being FES I tell her that one is closed plus she has more than 15 items (like way more) and needs to go to a regular lane anyway. She looks at me all confused, esspecially when I then tell another guy with only one item the there was another express lane open. She thinks I'm talking to her and I tell her no not you you have too many items for express. She finally goes to a regular lane and other guy finally goes to the other express lane. PLus cashier is successfully saved and goes on break. All is well right. Nope.

OL: Old Lady
Me:

OL: (waves me over to her because she needs help unloading her basket) You just have me going everywhere. This register that register.
Me:
OL: Are you knew?
Me: No ma'am
OL: Well I've never seen you before (feelings mutual) and I shop here all the time.
Me: Well I've been here a whole year.
OL: Well that's not very long.
Me:

She then continues ranting about being all confused because I kept taking her from one lane to another or whatever. Um a year is a very long time in this buisness. I'm lucky to have a bagger stay longer than a month. Plus she made the question sound like I didn't know what I was doing so therefore I must be new. Um no, I've been in retail for 4 years now (God has it been that long) I know what I'm doing. Maybe if you looked for the lights on those poles or read the 15 items of less signs you wouldn't have any problems. sigh

W(h)ine lady

SCO person calls me over. Lady is having a problem with the price of her wine.

Me: What seem to be the problem?
SC: This wine is ringing up 17.99 and it's suppose to be 6.79! It's over there in that back corner
Me: Alright I'll just go double check that. Where is it you said you got this (she pointed in a direction other than the wine aisle so I assumed it was a display and wanted to know where it was so I wouldn't take so long.)
SC: Where it always is. You work here don't you know where everything is.
Me: Where? here? (points to the wine aisle since that's "where it always is")
SC: Sigh. I'll show you. It's always been their I shop here all the time.

I follow while listening to the mumbling about how employees don't know the layout of their own stor or some other such nonsense.

Well ma'am I'm sorry that we employees don't take our time off work to walk around the store and study where every item and display is. I'm also sorry that when you said "where it always is." I assumed you meant the actual wine aisle not some display way over in meat market which I rarely go to. Also you "shop here all the time!!!" Really? I've never seen you before. My friend in Drug/GM dept. who's worked here for over 2 years said he's never seen you either. So I'm guessing you only gome every month or so lessening the chances of us meeting each other, and knowing SC language "I shop here all the time" really means "I come every month or so" so no you don't come in all the time, because I'm here 6 days a week and I never see you. Sorry you lose, play again.

???
You have come to the grocery store and found no parking spaces near the door. So what do you do?

a) suck it up and park further away.
B) continue driving around looking for a closer space.
c) Park into the Cart Corral blocking baskets from coming in or out of it.

You have chosen C! So sorry we were looking for either a or b. But we never let a shopper leave empty handed. Tell 'em what he's one Bob!

Bob: One massive dent from a cart inside the corral that got a little push from mother nature. This brought to you by Karma! Thanks for playing!


And all this from a 5 1/2 FES shift. Can't wait for Wednesday when I get to do an 8 hour out in Fuel center. Boy that's gonna be fun!

[powerboy]

About the post of the employees not knowing their way around the store. Maybe because the layout gets changed once a week. The SC was a jackass.

[mattm04]

We had a old driver park his Crown Vic in a cart corral. It broke the coral and one side damaged another car. The Police got involved in that one.

[smileyeagle1021]

....
Boy1: ...yeah you have a small dick.
Boy2: yeah it's pretty small...

one, how does boy one know this? at 12 I could tell you the size of precisely 2 people's dicks, my own, and a friend who had the misfortune of getting pantsed at summer camp...

second, boy 2 admitted it normally in that situation that would be a guy's best kept secret...

[Listerfiend]

With the w(h)ine lady, that's the kind of situation in which I always ask the customer where they found the item--only because I need to make sure that it wasn't just tossed there by another random customer. That, and if it was in a display in the middle of an aisle it's more likely that an old sale sign was left up, etc. There are many reasons to ask a customer where they found an item--and most of them have nothing to do with not knowing where the item is.

[SG15Z]

About the post of the employees not knowing their way around the store. Maybe because the layout gets changed once a week. The SC was a jackass.

Well with displays and shippers it can change several times within a day.

one, how does boy one know this? at 12 I could tell you the size of precisely 2 people's dicks, my own, and a friend who had the misfortune of getting pantsed at summer camp...

second, boy 2 admitted it normally in that situation that would be a guy's best kept secret...

I was asking the same questions afterward. Of course it was a while afterwords since before I was too busy

[fireheart]

ahh please pass the bleach

I am hearing stories of 12-year-olds talking about tiny dicks ahh! Why must you remind me of my first two ex-boyfriends?

Having said that, our store goes through refit every once in a while. A lot of people seemed to think I was an idiot and kept telling me that it was because the store wanted people to buy more stuff. Well duh that is the case (truthfully) but also because it actually looks nice...but then again, they just want pretty food, so who cares?!

EDIT: I'd like to see anyone get through the cart corrals out by my work. They're tiny.

[Imogene]

Come on... gonna let us know whether you found the wine over on that side of the store? Or was it misplaced by another customer or what?

[QASlave]

How, exactly, would one open the car door if parked in a cart coral?

I drive a Jeep Wrangler and had some lady get pissed at me because two up front parking spots had a pile of gravel dumped in them for construction that was going on. It was about 7 p.m., so I knew the construction company wasn't working at the time, so I parked on top of the pile. She was just pissed because my vehicle had the ability to do that. The bag boy that was collecting carts at the time looked at me and said; "Sweet! I need one of those!"

[Nina Turner]

Why do people do that? Rarely are things marked down that much. They'd rather get themselves are irritated and bitch out the person who corrects them than just take the time and LOOK?


Another thing, obviously that woman was full of crap. I'd like to hear what her answer would have been if you had said, "Oh, this wine is always 6.79?" Or, "Wow, it's on sale so much this week and you only bought one bottle?" Since you know, she's in there "all the time" and knows its precise location, she must purchase it regularly.

[protege]

About the post of the employees not knowing their way around the store. Maybe because the layout gets changed once a week.

I hear you on that one. Hechinger's had a *well-deserved* reputation of constantly moving things around. Building materials (lumber, doors, windows, etc.) seemed to be a favorite target. One month, the vertical lumber rack would be on, say, aisle A-8. Next month, the entire aisle-long rack would be on A-9, or on B-8 opposite the lumber desk, etc. Management also wouldn't tell anyone that they'd moved things...yet would bitch if employees couldn't find things

[Crow The Robot]

There was a guy who used to park his motorcycle in the cart corrals whan i worked at WM, This same guy parked is cycle on the sidewalk, obstructing pedestrians' path. As for the "you don't know what you're doing" " ladies" , I challenge them to work in retail for a month. B-tches.

[SG15Z]

Come on... gonna let us know whether you found the wine over on that side of the store? Or was it misplaced by another customer or what?

No it was correct except for one bottle she had. But she was right they were on sale. Damn. I was hoping to pwn her in some way but I couldn't.

[tropicsgoddess]

It just irritates me when people try to go in the express lane when they know damn well they have way more than the limit or when you tell them to go to another lane since ______ lane is closed and they give you shit about it. Besides that, the whine lady was full of shit in so many ways. I'm still and about those two tweens talking about how small their....packages are. I thought guys kept that to themselves.

[otakuneko]

Guys, yes. Boys, not so much. They'll look back on it and laugh. It's just not important to them...yet.

And around here, most cart corrals are too small for even a Geo Metro to fit into, much less a friggin Crown Vic! ...Maybe one of those Smart Cars, at most. Anything bigger would result in much bending of metal and plastic, or shoving of the corral.