A trip to the grocery store last week was comical. Corn, huge bi-color ears, was on sale for 38¢ each, limit of six. Got the six, put a few extra items in the cart and proceded to check out. Cashier could not get the corn to ring up at the sale price of 38¢ (usually @ 88¢ ea.) Other items apprared to be entered correctly. Total was $31 and some change. I handed the cashier two twenties, the ring up came to $400,000. 40. Yes, four- hundred - thousand! Was handed back $8. No receipt. I don’t know what the heck was going on, I just wanted to get out of there! Went back yesterday and got a receipt.
The corn came up at 2 for 20¢ each. The manager was just shaking her head, no idea as to what or how it happened. Glad I paid cash since I was not in the position to write a check for $400 grand. Looks like the corn was a real deal…
I buy bagged/prewashed salad at Dollar General because I can’t finish a head of lettuce before it goes bad (in Japan you can buy 1/4 or a 1/2 head of lettuce and cabbage…I miss that!) These bagged salads are priced/tagged at $1 a bag while in the supermarkets, the same brands are $1.63 and up.
I usually have no problem with prices or cashiers there, but sometimes the salads ring up at $1.25 even though the tags say $1. If I bring it up to some cashiers, they check the shelf (and I accompany them) and they override the price for me.
Two weeks ago, the price rang up incorrectly and a cashier asked her supervisor if she could override the price and was given the OK to do so. Last week, the price rang up correctly, This week it was wrong again and I mentioned it to the cashier who was the supervisor from 2 weeks ago. She said that “they” were at the shelf changing it as we speak (I have ZERO idea who “they” are…). So I immediately went
to the shelf and checked. It had not been changed and “they” were not there. I briefly considered asking for the $0.25 refund, but it wasn’t worth the time or hassle (and I checked to see if Nevada has a law regarding mispriced items…they don’t). Even at $1.25 it’s still less expensive than any other store, so I’ll continue to buy the salad there, but I wish they’d both fix the problem and not make up stories. I thought about calling Dollar General HQ to complain, but I know it’ll be time-consuming and probably a waste of time as well.
yup… ask me how i know.
otoh, personally speaking to the store manager won’t change how things operate at the store, but you might get a comp for doing so.
If I know the supermarket personnel, I’d sometimes just bring the dang price label up to the cashier, but only at times when the store isn’t busy.
I’ve tried taking a picture of the price tag, too, but I’ve gotten a “that photo could’ve been taken anytime” once or twice.
As for Japanese supermarkets, I’m with ya on the halvsies of lettuce and cabbage, but vehemently against all of those jingles…
I noticed at Aldi’s, if I buy celery that’s shorter, it’ll have the leaves… so that’s what I’m a doin’.
Yesterday, there were two boys (about ten?) wrestling and screaming in one of the aisles. The mother’s approach was to start screaming as well. Yes, screaming at them from half an aisle away rather than going over, grabbing them, and removing them from the store. About five minutes later, I heard her screaming again.
I hate when parents don’t immediately remove the kids when this happens. Growing up, if we were threatened with leaving a restaurant or movie or store or whatever, we knew it would happen and we shut up.
I get it if this Mom had no one to help while shopping, and I get it that perhaps this was the only time to go shopping. But you know what? End the shopping trip and feed the kids cereal if they misbehave and won’t let her do what she’s supposed to be doing (without bothering others around them). Consequences.
Gotta say, I’ve seen 2 adults go at it just as loudly in line at Costco because they were in a hurry. This public behavior, or even loud phone talkers is learned.
Ohhh, don’t get me started. I left work last week and walked down the sidewalk behind a woman who was berating someone I can only assume was her boyfriend or husband - on speakerphone. C’mon, really lady?
And that doesn’t even take into account the carts people roll home with them.
What we found even odder was a circle of folding chairs in a shady part of the lot where people were just… hanging out?
Philly be weird 
Even weirder that they do it here in the burbs too. It’s a shame there are no parks with shade and benches in the area 
Well, the Walmart is in a massive mall area, so the fact that trees even exist on the small pedestrian strip between the parking lots was a surprise.
There’s a few parks in our hood, some of them nicer than others.
Unfortunately this kind of parenting is not restricted to supermarkets. It’s lots of fun in a restaurant!
Again, don’t remind me. Parents who don’t corral their kids in restaurants and make them park their tiny little butts in chairs ought to be triple-charged, just for the aggravation of the servers and other diners.
Amen, sista!
I stumbled across this video a few weeks ago… I thought it was interesting.
This also reminds me of an incident many years ago. I had just started dating this woman and for some reason I needed something from the grocery store. I parked the car and we got out and I grabbed a cart that was abandoned on the parking lot and started dragging it in behind me, so I could use it.
She asked me why I had done this… I told her “Well, I’m walking in anyway, I need a cart and I didn’t want this abandoned one rolling into someone’s car”, furthermore – it just made sense to grab this lone abandoned shopping cart and bring it in with me.
She told me the act of bringing the cart in with me, made me a “good” person. For some reason, I never forgot that statement.
I don’t know that the simple act of grabbing a cart from the parking lot to use it for shopping makes someone another Gandhi, TBH. It could simply be an act of convenience 
That said, I was absolutely stunned by the number of abandoned carts, many of them right next to cars, i.e. in parking spots where they would clearly be in the way if someone wanted to park there — not just on the sidewalk part. It does strike me as aloof, if I want to be generous… but mostly pretty self-centered.
