Delusional woman at express line

[Andara Bledin]

Well, considering that the woman with the cartful had no business being there in the first place, I see nothing wrong with the mom cutting ahead of her.

I wouldn't cut ahead, but I have been known to make snarky comments about how sorry I am that the SC with too many items never got past the counting part of grade school.

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[mariamousie1]

My mom may have gone to an employee, but employees at this store have proven time and again they don't care enough about too many items in the express lane to do anything. I didn't have a problem with my mom cutting, because I figured if an employee confronted her about it, they would be alerted to the lady with way too many items, also. Can't bust one without the other (I hope).

[iradney]

JMO but another customer shouldn't get to tell a fellow shopper they are cutting in front of them because they have too many items. It's a different story if the cashier tells the person they have too many items and they have to move.

JMO of course

In a perfect world, (and oh! how I wish it was )the customer would say "woops, my bad" and move to another queue. Of course, here, they'd pitch a hissy fit, and get the manager to comp half their groceries.

Nice thing about the CUSTOMER pointing it out to the perpetrator is that there is no repercussion on the poor employees.

[Auto]

Wait a minute.

As we all know, stores don't enforce item limits in express lanes. So it's not really a rule. More a suggestion, recommendation, or never-to-be-achieved ideal. Meaning lots of SC don't hesitate to stand in express lanes with as many items as they damn please, no matter what the sign says.

But the rule that patrons are free to violate only at their peril is no cutting in line.

You're asking for trouble if you cut ahead of someone as your way of enforcing an item-limit rule that the store itself doesn't bother enforcing.

As I said upthread, that's asking for trouble. I'd never let someone cut in on me like that and I think a lot of other customers feel the same way.

A few months ago, an express cashier waved me into her lane even though I had more than 15 items because she didn't have any customers. As I unloaded my basket, another customer suddenly got in line. She gave me a really dirty look when she saw that I was wildly over the limit.

I could have explained to her that I was in that line at the cashier's urging. But I didn't feel I owed her an explanation.

And had she tried to cut in front of me, I would have physically stopped her. In fact, as she tried to slip past me, she might have run into my elbow which just happened to be in her way.

Customers are not self-appointed sheriff's deputies free to violate big rules (no cutting in line) as a way to enforce small rules the store doesn't care about (item limits).

[mariamousie1]

Yeah, you're probably right. My mom can overstep her boundaries at times. You make a lot of sense.