Supermarket Sucktastic Shedevil

[draftermatt]

So (alliteration is fun) today was the "grand reopening" of a supermarket in town, big sales to celebrate it.

We go out around 4 PM, and while it's crowded everyone is behaving themselves, until we get to the checkout.

It's so busy all the checkstands are open and with lines. We get into a line and notice there is an unattended basket on the ground. I say "I guess someone is trying to hold a spot or something"

Well I figure no problem, but if they don't show back up when there's room on the belt, we're moving.

Then she arrives.

1. She walks past me, no excuse me, no I'm sorry, just scoots past me and grabs the basket.

2. She doesn't unload despite their being room on the belt.

3. She places the whole freaking basket on the belt so there is still no room, and we can't move.

4. She sticks a pack of cheese in the magazines, which I promptly grab and hand to my wife while I say "can you believe how rude some people are?"

5. The belt has moved enough to where I can finally start unloading, and she still won't take anything out of the basket

6. The cashier attempts to hand her the order separator to hand to me and she just stares at it causing me to have to reach around her to get it.

7. Half my stuff is on the belt, but that's all I can do as the freaking basket is now empty and sitting there.

8. The cashier finally asks me if I can take the basket and place it at the end of the lane, I respond "Sure, because I'm nice unlike some people"

9. She finally goes to leave but takes a good 5 minutes to close up her purse and collect all the bags.

At this point I ask the cashier if she can believe how rude people are, and she agrees with me. Especially after we hand her the thing of cheese and explain that the Shedevil left it in the magazine rack.

Keep in mind, that I didn't see half of this woman's transaction as I had my back to her. I turned around and talked to my wife, partly because I knew once I saw this woman put the basket on the belt despite having 15 items, which caused the line to just get longer since noone else could unload, that if I watched her entire transaction I'd just blow up.

Seriously, how rude can you be? Nevermind the basket thing and me not being able to unload, but the cheese?, leaving the empty basket?

[Evil Queen]

What a horrid woman! If I was there... ooooo!

[Aethian]

Once found a head of lettuce someone put IN the magazine rack. The thing liquifidies when we went to pick it up.

[Kogarashi]

I've found tons of stuff in the magazine rack in my tenures as Wal-Mart cashier. Cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, ice cream, frozen veggies, frozen entrees, boxes of cereal, makeup, jewelry, clothes, bottles of bleach, loaves of bread, shoes, empty shoeboxes (customer wore their purchase out of the store), towels, bath mats, jugs of water.... You name it.

Worst ever hide-n-seek find, though, was a whole gallon of milk (still slightly cold) under some beach towels in the toy department.

[iradney]

I just wouldn't have let her push in. I'm sorry, but a queue is for PEOPLE. You leave your basket there, tough shit. I'd have moved it to the side and carried on.

[draftermatt]

I just wouldn't have let her push in. I'm sorry, but a queue is for PEOPLE. You leave your basket there, tough shit. I'd have moved it to the side and carried on.

That was my intention, but there was no room on the belt at the time so I hung back trying to be nice. Lot of good it did me.

[Gerrinson]

I hated people like that. They see the pile of baskets, they see the people in front of them unload, but then they leave it to the cashier. Often because it is the cashier's 'job' to unload their groceries. Grrrrr!

Towards the end of my time with the grocery store, when I had put in notice and didn't care about a write up, I did tell off the one old guy who did this every time. He insisted it was my job, I insisted that no, scanning groceries is my job, not unloading your hand basket. (Carriages of groceries for pregnant woman & the disabled, sure, but if you can carry the damn basket you can empty it!) I finally resolved the problem by taking his basket and upending it onto the belt and saying "There, your basket is empty." Which was kind of sucky of me, I know. But it sure felt good. And his precious croissants, the last of the fresh ones from the bakery case, wound up underneath his half gallons of milk and OJ. Oops.

[Rappunzill]

I've been asked to leave my stuff in the basket, at least once. She said it made it easier. Not kosher?

[Listerfiend]

I was once at Target getting a bunch of stuff for my new apartment (I had a handbasket's-worth of stuff plus a couple larger items I carried), and while in line there was this douchebag in front of me who had one item, a mop.
And he put it on the belt.
Did it take up the entire belt? Yes. Was it hopeless to try to put any of my items on the belt? Yes. Did he leave it on there for the entirety of his transaction plus the remainder of the transaction in front of him? Yes. I wanted to ream the bastard with the thing--he had to have been in his early thirties, fine physical condition. No excuse to be that outrageously rude. Hell--he didn't even need to *hold* the damn thing--he could have leaned it up against the counter/belt area until the cashier needed to scan it. Ugh...

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have a bad back, so reaching into a basket to unload it makes my back hurt. I will ask people politely to empty their basket; if they refuse, well, they can just stand tight and wait for a supervisor to come and do it cuz I'm not straining my back just so they can be a lazy arse.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I've been asked to leave my stuff in the basket, at least once. She said it made it easier. Not kosher?

Easier for me when I worked retail.

[Kogarashi]

I've been asked to leave my stuff in the basket, at least once. She said it made it easier. Not kosher?

My philosophy is to empty the basket unless the cashier asks me not to. If they say it's okay to leave it in, then it's okay.

[Lace Neil Singer]

It's up to the individual cashier. There are some who don't mind emptying a basket for you, but if a cashier asks you to empty it, then do so. It's hardly a huge stretch of effort for a customer, and like I said, the cashier could have back problems or some other disability that makes it a strain for them.

[draftermatt]

I'm pretty sure the cashier told her in the future empty the basket.

[Lace Neil Singer]

And she didn't threaten to sue? XD