More lovely banning

[fireheart]

We had another shoplifter today!

For the non-Aussies, on Monday it's Australia Day: basically the day when Australia as a colony was founded. From a retail point of view, it means we are busy as hell.

How Not To Shoplift.

Lady comes through my coworkers line with about $50 worth of goods. My sup came down for reasons unknown to me at the time until I look over and hear requests to check bags. Looking down, I see a whole load of perishable, deli, produce, meat and other assorted goodies on the rack. She'd stuffed them into a black bag, stuffed that bag into a green bag and then browsed around breezily. Unfortunately, security noticed and followed her. Whatever was perishable she had to pay for and whatever wasn't was stored away. She left with a lifelong ban.

How Not To Do A PA Call:

"Attention please customers, register <number> currently has nobody--cancel that"

"Attention please customers, just a friendly reminder that-bleah-register <numbers> is currently pla-ahh-stic bag free"

And a suggestion from my coworker:

"Attention please customers, this checkout is on FIRE!"

Yeah, I make my own fun:

Oldie: customer leaves behind a piece of ginger root. And it's big. It's also shaped like a gun. I took great pleasure in telling my coworkers to stick it up, western-style

Coworker today: "I will attempt to make you blow bubbles by the end of the day when I convert you into my cult of craziness"



And finally...my pet peeves

1. Do NOT shove all the meat in front of the groceries when you've packed them behind the groceries in the first place. I have a set order once you've set it up, don't mess it up.
2. Please stop leaving the trolleys behind and then coming along and stealing them when there are about 500 or so in the trolley bay and it takes all of five steps to walk there!
3. The checkouts are not a reservation point. They are for when you're finished. So do not leave your full trolley at the checkout, go off and get another $100 worth of stock, or a full trolley load and jump back in the queue. It is rude and if it happens in future, I'll send you to the back of the line. No ifs, buts, whatever, you can call and bitch all you like, I'll let my manager know that you're just as rude.

[Ghengis51]

And a suggestion from my coworker:

"Attention please customers, this checkout is on FIRE!"

I've long had an urge to go out in my work's parking lot, get a random license plate then come back in and page them with. . .

May I have your attention please? Would the customer with the license plate XXXXXXX please come to the front desk? Your car is on fire, thank you.

I wonder if anyone would even notice.

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

I swear if there was a bomb threat in the store and we had to evacuate people would still shop

I wish I was working on Australia day, we get double time and a half which for me would have worked out to $51 an hour, that would have been nice.

[dawnfire]

We had another shoplifter today!

1. Do NOT shove all the meat in front of the groceries when you've packed them behind the groceries in the first place. I have a set order once you've set it up, don't mess it up.

I hate that too! I'm busy mentally sorting out your grocery and by doing it ,it throws me off, slowing me down.

[Primer]

I just "love" it when I've already sorted everything out on the belt to make it more convenient for the bagger, and they just throw stuff willy-nilly into the bags. Yes, I love finding raw meat bagged with the ant poison when I get home.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I swear if there was a bomb threat in the store and we had to evacuate people would still shop

My mom told me when she was working at my store over 20 years ago, and the strip mall attached to the store was on fire, she had a person wanting to finish up checking out as they were ordering everybody to evacuate.

[wraiths_crono]

I've long had an urge to go out in my work's parking lot, get a random license plate then come back in and page them with. . .

May I have your attention please? Would the customer with the license plate XXXXXXX please come to the front desk? Your car is on fire, thank you.

I wonder if anyone would even notice.

We did this ONCE at Safeway when I worked there, the Front manager did it, we let him use my car plate, and description, it was great, 5 people, with cars NOT like mine, ran up and asked if their car was on fire.

[fireheart]

I just "love" it when I've already sorted everything out on the belt to make it more convenient for the bagger, and they just throw stuff willy-nilly into the bags. Yes, I love finding raw meat bagged with the ant poison when I get home.

It's not that, I'm careful with how I pack it (cashiers do bagging in Australia), it's mainly the fact that the lineup might be for example 3 cans of dog food, 3 trays of meat, 1 set of plates and two blocks of icecream. I go to grab the cans of dog food and the icecream gets shoved right in front of the meat. It slows me down and is also rude.

Also, we don't work Australia Day.

And regarding the shoplifter: she also had a nice audience of me, the next 3-4 customers I was serving, my coworker who was serving her and the coworker facing me

[Anriana]

For the non-Aussies, on Monday it's Australia Day: basically the day when Australia as a colony was founded. From a retail point of view, it means we are busy as hell.

You mean the day the first ship of prisoners arrived?

[Chromatix]

No, I think they founded the colony first, it turned out to be fairly unpopular, *then* they started "transporting" people instead of clogging up the prisons.

[Eric the Grey]

3. The checkouts are not a reservation point. They are for when you're finished. So do not leave your full trolley at the checkout, go off and get another $100 worth of stock, or a full trolley load and jump back in the queue. It is rude and if it happens in future, I'll send you to the back of the line. No ifs, buts, whatever, you can call and bitch all you like, I'll let my manager know that you're just as rude.

I've been known to push said carts aside when I'm in line, or walk up to a line behind one. If people can't finish before they're done, they don't deserve to hold a space in line.

It's worse, when people tag-team this. One stands with the cart and will even proceed to check out, while another runs around the store looking for that one last item. I've been in line behind people who held everybody else up waiting on someone to bring something back.


Eric the Grey

[fireheart]

Eric, I get that a LOT too. And that part is just unbelievably rude. If they all come up and I start scanning, then someone asks me where <certain item> is, I'll usually point them in the right and specific direction and they run off. Unless they have the only payment method, I make them go through another checkout, or if they get back before I'm done, I'll put said item through.

[Ree]

For the non-Aussies, on Monday it's Australia Day: basically the day when Australia as a colony was founded.

Heh...I just saw that on my calendar and wondered what the heck it meant.
I don't think I have ever seen that on a calendar before.

[Nyoibo]

Funnily enough I see it on all the calendars, and some people work on Australia day, I remember doin g it, make decent money though.