This is an express lane.

[KabeRinnaul]

Covering for breaks, and on an express lane for a few minutes. Little old woman walks up with a loaded cart.

Me: "Ma'am, this is an express lane."
OW: "Oh, no, this is fine. I have too much for that."
Me: "I mean, you're in an express lane. Fifteen or less."
OW: "I don't need an express lane. I have a lot more than 15."
Me: "I know, what I'm saying is this is an express lane."
OW: "But don't I have too much for that?"
Me: "Yes... look up here." *point to sign* "You're in the express lane. She can get you on number nine."

At which point she gave me a confused look and moved down to the next line. I'm still not sure she understood me.

[RestaurantDude]

Thank you for upholding the express line item limit! The place i do my shopping never does, and i hate it when i get stuck behind some entitled cow with an overflowing cart, in the express lane, when i've only got 5 or 6 quick little items.

[OfficeSlug]

I HATE when people try to come through with 50 items in Express (ours is 10 or less) when it's busy with the excuse, "But the other lines are so long!"

So... let me get this straight.... you're in SUCH a hurry that you're gonna make 5 people behind you WAIT for their subs/soda because YOU can't WAIT in line with your weekly shopping?!?!

Talk about Entitlement Biatches!!!!


I swear I'm gonna make a pin to wear on my vest, "I can count to 10. Can you?"

[EricKei]

Note from the WD stores here -- The express lanes, at least locally, now have signs that say "X items or FEWER" !!! Thye finally figured out how ta tawk sum gud Aenglisch!

[KabeRinnaul]

I once had a woman come through on a very busy day with a loaded cart when I was on Express. She said she understood the limit but got in that line on purpose to punish us for having so few lanes open. All the Supervisors were busy and trying to get rid of her would have taken longer than it would for me to ring her out, so I just got rid of her as soon as possible and apologized to the people after her.

And another with even more at one point, who demanded I take her because I wasn't doing anything at the moment, and told me that if someone with an actual Express order came up, I should just pull someone off their break and have them open up the other Express lane. She eventually got mad and stomped off when I didn't cave.

And a group who had about 40-50 things in their cart. I asked them to move down to a regular line, but their response was, "Oh, this is actually three orders." At which point I was forced to explain that no, multiple orders takes much longer. They at least listened after that.

[bainsidhe]

People are just rude and are more likely to be so when the lines are long. Sadly, I'm not permitted to educate these wayward little customers because then I'm considered "rude" and management doesn't like that.