Gee, let me take care of those for you!

[Despina83]

Working in health and beauty care tonight, I was straightening one aisle when I heard the unmistakable sound of merchandise hitting the floor in the next aisle. Several times. Getting pissed, I peak into the cosmetics aisle to see a family (with a couple kids) knocking items all over the floor. Even the MOTHER was doing it, searching for the perfect eyeliner or whatever christless thing. A pile of items on the floor. I walked by and gave the dad a stern look. A few seconds later when I passed by, they were gone. They had left the pile of items sitting on the floor. Fucking bastard family. People have no respect for anything or anyone these days. Just like the other day I heard a mother and daughter tossing hair accesories onto the basedecks instead of hanging them back up. I went over beside them and starting picking up what they dropped. Left. Came back to find that they had thrown MORE items on the the basedecks. Repeated the process. Finally they got the hint.

[dragon_wings]

We have this display if baby things (bibs, bottles, pacifiers, etc) on the baby aisle that at the end of night is almost always a complete mess. I've seen customers take stuff off and just toss it on the bottom shelf.

[Despina83]

The majority of people that I've seen do exactly that. Even people here who think they understand sucky customers probably unthinkingly leave things sitting on the basedecks or lower shelf instead of hanging it back up. I caught myself in a store not that long ago picking up a bag of chocolate covered pretzels at the checkout and lying it down instead of hanging it back on the peg. People don't realize that they're making more work for others. But that family I mentioned...they're just flat-out idiots.

[greensinestro]

I've seen stuff like this. My pet peeve are the ones who look through clothing. They take shorts or shirts off the rack, look at them, and then just lay them on another shelf, or even drop them on the floor for someone else to pick up later.

I also love it when you're in the grocery store, and someone who decided they didn't want that frozen pizza decides to leave it on the potato chip aisle instead of putting it back in the frozen food freezer.

[Seshat]

Frequently, when I'm putting things back (or trying to), a staff member will intercept me and offer to do it for me.

OTOH, whichever mobility aid I'm using that day probably has something to do with that. It is a bit awkward putting things back properly when you're juggling a handbag, a cane/walker/scooter and whatever you're trying to do.

[Cerys]

Reminds me of an encounter I had as a customer in a charity shop many years ago. A woman was looking through a rail of various ladies' clothes - and by 'looking' I mean 'dragging stuff off the hangers, pulling it about, stretching it and then draping it back over just half of the hanger so it inevitably slid on to the floor'. She then tutted and told her friend that she didn't think much of anything she'd looked at. In her obviously valuable opinion, it was substandard and raggedy. When I had the gall to tell her that I wasn't surprised at the state of the clothes after how she'd treated them, she looked at me as though I'd just sprouted an extra, especially foul-smelling head. I don't think my picking up and rehanging of the dropped clothes as she walked away particularly endeared me to her, either.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've seen stuff like this. My pet peeve are the ones who look through clothing. They take shorts or shirts off the rack, look at them, and then just lay them on another shelf, or even drop them on the floor for someone else to pick up later.

I hated the people who did this at the wholesale club. At the store, those clothes that weren't hanging on racks were folded and arranged on tables in stacks.

We had a name for the shopping method of reaching to the bottom of the stack, pulling it to the top, and upending the surrounding stacks. "Volcano method."

Worse than the legit shoppers who were doing that were the assholes that "volcano'd" the stacks JUST to mess it up.

[blas]

I hate it when people drop nail polishes all over the floor and don't say anything.

I hate when people let their kids open lipsticks and eyeshadows and nail polishes and decorate themselves or the displays with them.

This would be why nowadays, I save my shuckles and go to Macy's or Younkers and buy more expensive makeup. I can try it on before I buy, and I don't have to deal with people like that. I still buy cheaper makeup for work, because it's not worth wearing $35 cover up to work, but I don't put a lot of effort into buying makeup at WalMart the way I do at the mall.

[aurelemsrealm]

One of my pet peeves at the c-store is the newspaper rack, particularly on Sunday mornings since the Sunday editions are chock full of coupons and shopping ads. I used to make an effort to stack them neatly in the rack, and keep them straightened. My futile hope was that people would take the easy and sensible route of taking the top copy from the stack of whichever paper they wanted.

Eventually, I realized no matter how nice and neat the stack was, the moronic masses would still grab papers from the middle or bottom of the stack. I guess the top copy must be tainted if too many eyes gaze upon it at once? I've lost count of how many times half the stack would end up on the floor once again. I finally gave up on trying to restack the newspapers once some moron messed up the rack. Once the papers fall on the floor, I just fold any stray sections the best I can, and pile them in front of the rack.

Yet, customers wonder why some papers are missing entire sections. Now, I just tell them to fish through the pile until they find what they want. I'm not going to bother with sorting and stacking papers repeatedly throughout my entire shift just to have some thoughtless clod once again paw through the papers. That hassle is not worth my sanity.

I usually grab my own "untainted" copy of the paper and set it aside to browse between customers as soon as I start unbundling and stacking the papers, so I could care less if any of the other papers are missing sections.

[Despina83]

On a recent extremely busy day when I ws working in another department, I hear that some kids got a hold of the most expensive lipstick we have and wrote obscenities all over the floor with them. Customers were "shaken up' when they saw it. My question is how do kids draw all over the floor with lipstick in the midle of a crowded store without anyone noticing and saying "Hey, what the hell are you guys doing?"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My question is how do kids draw all over the floor with lipstick in the midle of a crowded store without anyone noticing and saying "Hey, what the hell are you guys doing?"

By everybody else being too self-absorbed to notice or even care. "Whatever, it's not like I have to clean it up."

I had a problem today not with people dumping merchandise hither and yon, but but with people dumping garbage hither and yon. I got paged to bring in shopping carts this morning, and found an empty cheez-smeared cheese and crackers package, an empty potato chip bag, a half-full Starbucks cup, an empty juice box, and an empty soda bottle in various carts left out in the lot.

And then a little while later I got paged for a restroom cleanup (yay for having a clientele made up largely of elderly fart detectors), where I found no issues with bodily wastes or flooding from the urinals backing up, but I did find an empty soda can sitting on top of one of the urinals.

[MoonCat]

They take shorts or shirts off the rack, look at them, and then just lay them on another shelf, or even drop them on the floor for someone else to pick up later.

I just can't wrap my mind around this. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen a video of it on another site: Women takes a shirt off the rack, looks at it, drops it on the floor, removes another one, looks it over, drops that one on the floor....WTF? You can't just hang it back where you got it 2 seconds ago?

[Food Lady]

I just can't wrap my mind around this. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen a video of it on another site: Women takes a shirt off the rack, looks at it, drops it on the floor, removes another one, looks it over, drops that one on the floor....WTF? You can't just hang it back where you got it 2 seconds ago?

Exactly!!! How would she feel if you visited her house and did that? *pick up picture frame* "Oh, nice family portrait." *CRASH*

[Treasure]

there is a little boutique store that i shop at, and i kinda freak them out b/c i usually have done research online first; and I K N O W what size to grab first - if it doesn't fit right, i ASK do they carry it in a different size / have any in the store.... and i always put it back on the hanger and fold it like it was.... I almost always put things on the "do not want" rack or start putting it back where i found it - I did my stint in retail, i know how this works, but every time the associates are like "oh no, we'll take care of that" and are so amazed that i shop almost like i'm on a mission, even when i'm "just looking"

[aurelemsrealm]

By everybody else being too self-absorbed to notice or even care. "Whatever, it's not like I have to clean it up."

Bingo! I think some customers are so self-involved they could walk into a blast furnace and not realize they are on fire.