I’ll have to look when I get home. Amazing stuff, though. I’ve discovered the flexibility of harissa.
You are correct Linguafood. My son is a stocker, fully capable of finding the home of those gherkins, and putting them in their rightful place. It’s okay to leave something with the checker. They know who to call.
Something that really irritates me is when I see something from the refrigerated shelves that someone decided they didn’t want and chose to dump it somewhere not refrigerated.
It also makes you wonder if it gets thrown out or put back on the refrigerated/frozen food shelf after being at room temp for a few hours.
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This has been an interesting thread. I’m pretty happy with the groceries I frequent. My fellow shoppers, a bit less so. Leaving the carts in the middle of a frigging handicapped parking spot is a big peeve of mine, and if I see someone actively perpetrating that crime I’ll give them a yell.
People at Aldi often block up the antechamber wiping down the cart handles they had their hands on while bringing the cart to the antechamber. Also, those who dither about payment methods, or wait to put their card in until the cashier is finished, even despite the cashier’s gentle prodding to go ahead and insert card at any time. Those Aldi cashiers are fast, and I’ve never seen one make a mistake. And to say something nice about my fellow Aldi shoppers, quite often folks with big cartloads look behind them as they approach the checkout and let someone with just a couple of items go ahead of them. (Do any Aldi stores have fast lanes or self-check? The don’t here, but I keep hoping…)
Old women mutilating bread in the bakery and in the mass-market bread sections. Sometimes leaving multiple mutilated loaves in their wake. Just look at the sell-by date, Lady. It’s fresh. Trust me. Take a chance. It’ll be fresh.
In reference to people having checkers mistake items over and over… at the name brand store chain I frequent even the youngest kid cashiers will speak up and ask if they don’t know whether it’s cilantro or parsley, or what kind of chile pepper I got, instead of guessing at it, but generally they get good training and for the most part recognize loose produce correctly.
If an item scans in at a price that seems a disconnect from what I saw when selecting it, I don’t bother with the cashier. The don’t know why it happened and they can’t fix it. I just pay, go verify the price, and if I’m right/price is wrong then hit up the service desk. Their policy is, they are right, or it’s free. Usually this is small potatoes stuff, but I got a free $70 ham one day. I protested that I simply wanted to pay the correct (sale) price but the lady was firm - it’s our mistake, so it’s on us.
One day I was buying 8 lobsters for New Year’s Eve, along with a fairly full cart (for me) of other stuff. They’d placed 2 bugs to a box back in seafood, and I realized after I got out to my car that for some reason only two of the 4 box stickers had been scanned. I ran those back in to the service counter, the kid there called over the manager, he grinned at me and said “Our mistake - enjoy your lobster”. That was about $85 worth (years ago when live lobster was in the $15/lb range).
One new pet peeve experienced today at Aldi. Aldi provides scales in the produce section so you can see how much (e.g.) a bag of grapes weigh, and so with a tiny bit of head math you know what they will cost.
A nice lady with a full cart let me (3 items) go in front of her. The lady up to the register, though, had several bags of red, black, and white grapes, and made the kid serially weigh them and tell her how much they would cost, whereupon she rejected two of her choices and kept one.
Seriously? Dang, Lady, use the scales provided. And if you can’t do the head math, your i-Phone Nine Million surely can do it for you.
Heck of a great young woman. So glad we crossed paths. I think we’ve found her intended university, but she’s just 15. She’ll figure it out. Great blessing to work with kids.
A’ight, I live in an older fashioned part of earth. I’m in the IGA with a few items, slightly elder woman in front with some items. She waits and waits for the total to be announced. THEN, she looks for the checkbook. Oh, now I can’t find my checkbook, how much? Starts filling it out (kids, I’m talking about checks, here), Look back at the total, sign and rip. Then, wanna take something back right now. I try to live life unrushed; but, sometimes ya gotta get there.
Friends and I had a discussion a week or two ago and somehow the convo turned to checks (yes, IRL thread drift). I honestly cannot recall the last time I wrote a check or even deposited one. But my 93-y-o mom still writes checks. Never at the supermarket. And yeah, I’ve been behind that lady more than once. I am also baffled by the younger women who wait until their order has been scanned and then dig for their wallet in their handbag and look for their card. Did it not occur to them earlier that they would be asked to provide some form of payment?
That’s all I’m sayin’. Your mom would be treated as a queen. Most of us look out for our older people. Eager to help. We have a guy in a scooter, no arms/legs, it was winter, so I followed him home (stalker-like), sure as heck his battery dies. Glad I followed him. He’s always yelling at me to grab this and that for him in the store. I look forward to that stuff. Just be a little ready for the big check out. Ya know it’s coming. The guy in the scooter ( he has a name, just don’t wanna be indiscrete), sans arms and legs, out in a jiffy. Got his mojo on before the tally.
I suspect the most mentioned peeve here is/are the people who think a shopping cart belongs to the family of Horse Shoes, Hand Grenades, & Atomic Bombs. They think that if the cart is within visual range of the cart corral it counts.
Some people may have trouble walking; but I don’t get how the few extra yards could harm most. Ever go into a lot with everything in place? I have. Lovely sight and beneficial to all.
Then, you have to leave your to-go soda cup. McD’s bag, and a loaded diaper? I always park far away, near a corral, so I can get the cart back quick and boogie.
iirc I think there’s a photo or 2 way upstream with a cart left in the middle of the parking spot next to a corral. Any left next to a handicapped spot is perfectly fine though.
Yeah, finish the big job. Oh, drudgery! Even better when it’s behind another car. Yeah, they should carry my mild yolk.
I always pull off to one side and dig out my loyalty card, credit card, and coupons before I even get in line.
About the only times we write checks are to tradesmen, or for gifts.
And here I thought I was the only relic who still did this,
Even as someone who USED to write checks in the supermarket before debit cards (70s into the 90s, probably) I always had my check filled out and signed, ready to go, filling in the amount when it was all totaled. So I also hated when people, young and old, waited until the amount was given to them.
Me, too. Wasn’t that long ago I was writing checks. Dated, signed, what’s that come to? bang, done.
It’s funny watching the summer vs. winter migrations here in the grocery parking lots. In winter, you’ll see people circling the lot, looking for that “perfect” spot to open up really close to the store.
In summer, the cart corrals being next to islands with trees, people will circle waiting for one of those distant (but shaded) spots to open.
I don’t have a seasonal migration pattern, but I am guilty of waiting for a shaded spot to open if I’m going to be in the store any length of time.
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I generally still write several per year, mostly to taxing authorities (I’d rather not give them “pull” access to my e-accts, yeah, paranoid, I know). But that way I also get the satisfaction of writing the check to “The Infernal Revenue Service” which bugs my wife but makes me a bit happier about sending them money.
The other common use is home services. HVAC companies or the tree service guy I just paid $2500 to drop several trees and trim several more don’t want the CC fees hit and are happier to take a check.
Then my oldest daughter got married this year - that was about 7 or 8 checks, all told between the venue and caterer (both needed 1 to hold and 2nd to finish), floral, photog, etc. Oh, and $350 honorarium to the pastor, of course.
Like self serve gas, they keep trying to convince us to do the work ourselves. For free. 
