Ultimate Coupon Asshattery

[Moirae]

I'm surprised no one finally stood up to her and told her that her time in the store is done because she's effecting other customers ability to purchase.

[MoonCat]

I cannot imagine spending one and a half hours just in the checkout line. I don't even want to go grocery shopping in the first place. Yuck.

I find it's cheaper and less time-consuming just to go to a low-price grocery store in the first place.

[rageaholic]

AN HOUR AND A HALF?!

How self important do you have to be to hold up people for an hour and a half. I wonder how much potential money the company lost during the time spent wasting on this one nutcase with too much time on her hands.

[wolfie]

Tying up the only register which can be used for cigarettes for an hour and a half? That EW should have had to deal with a nicotine addict pissed off because she was blocking him from getting his fix. I wonder if *al *art would refuse coupons for sanitary reasons due to the binders being put "where the sun doesn't shine".

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I guess you could say that the cake was a celebration of an ancient civilization...


...*chirp*

[Sapphire Silk]

I actually saw this happen at my Foode Leone last night. Stopped in to pick up a few things, and got in the lane which is most often open . . . and happens to be the tobacco lane. I hear, "Lane 4 needs assistance," and another cashier opens another lane and motions me to that one.

I look over and see the cashier on the first lane hunched over a notebook with a customer with a large number of items . . . a coupon notebook.

I think the customer was trying to price match or something.

[Kristev]

Too bad employees aren't equipped for couponistas with aim & flames.

Not for the couponistas. Just their coupons.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Too bad employees aren't equipped for couponistas with aim & flames.

Not for the couponistas. Just their coupons.

Of course this will send flying embers flitting around that could ignite the couponistas, but oh well!

This is why I hate couponers. Not because I'm against saving money, but because of the disruption to store operations these people pose.

And unfortunately somebody so self-absorbed to tie up one register for 90 minutes with their coupons is probably also somebody who'd complain vociferously if told to go screw, so retailers just grin and bear them.

[dragon_wings]

The couponers at my store like to do multiple transactions to get maximum rewards/savings. Its especially bad when I have a line and/or its busy. I always heave a huge sigh when someone comes up to my register and says "I would like to do 2/3/multiple transactions." Some of the couponers are nice. Some with yell at me. I will tell a couponer our coupon policy and immediately tense up for the typical beratement.

[Kristev]

I've asked to do two transactions before, but only if I only have part of the money I need on my card and part in cash, or if I'm shopping for myself and mother (who can't get out and walk), and I'd rather have her purchase and mine on seperate reciepts.

[Pixilated]

I use coupons when I remember them (which is rarely) but from my time at the Big Green Supermarket, it generally wasn't too bad. Oddly, not many of our customers used them (and AFAIK, you can't do the 'extreme coupon' thing here in Canada -- isn't that where you can use multiple coupons so you end up with $200 worth of groceries for $10?)

Only real annoyance I had was when customers forgot the darn things until the end ... most put them on top of (or as close to as was possible) the item the coupon was for, which was great, as it kept things moving along nicely.

Then there was the one customer who handed me what I thought was coupon but found it later that they'd cut off the AD on the front of the cereal box ... the actual coupon was on the inside of the box ... they got the discount and I got advised that all coupons must have things like bar codes and expiry dates and those warnings about having enough of the product in stock and so on ... *oops* ...

[hotelslave]

I like watching Extreme Couponing show for some reason. I think its a form of hoarding but it amazes me what people will do just "to save money". Now if I was still a smoker having a nic fit and got stuck behind the couponer her binder might "burst"into a mysterious fire

[tropicsgoddess]

That's insanely ridiculous! She should've been shooed away from the tobacco register a looooooong time ago!

[ellie]

Some couponers are just plain crazy. I had a lady the other day who forgot to give me a 50 cent coupon and she waited in line at the service desk for 30 minutes for them to give her the discount. Where a normal person would hold on to the coupon until the next visit.

Now I get that people need to save wherever they can, but if you spend 30 minutes or more of your time waiting to save 50 cents, is it worth it?

I've even had people who come through and will say, "I don't really need this, but I have a coupon for it." So if you don't need it or don't want it, why buy it? Yes, you save a dollar, but imagine what you would save if you didn't buy it.

[Geek King]

The couponers at my store like to do multiple transactions to get maximum rewards/savings. Its especially bad when I have a line and/or its busy. I always heave a huge sigh when someone comes up to my register and says "I would like to do 2/3/multiple transactions."

When I rule the universe, one of my rules will be multiple transactions require you go to the back of the line for each one. One transaction per customer per trip through the line.