Shopping today at our local Giant I saw that they have other carts than the ones regular customers use, but they’re the same length and width — certainly not more obstructive.
here they have a flat surface cart that holds 2 (longest side) wide x 4 long (shorter side) paper bags.
no full sized customer basket cart is that big.
I guess our little town is just lucky. It is called Happy Valley, after all.
Just to re-iterate: three- and four-day sales still piss me off. I put stuff on my shopping list, only to discover it isn’t on sale the day I go. 
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What adds insult to injury, the days of the limited sales tend to be on days I do not regularly shop (mostly Tuesday, for some odd reason). I share your aggro!
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I’d assume the days of these specials are slower business days and that’s why they do the specials then ….. to increase traffic. We get weekly sales flyers from 4 local supermarkets each week. Thanksgiving week we didn’t get any. Why spend the ad money when people will be shopping anyway?
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All the Thanksgiving sale flyers and promotions came out the week BEFORE Thanksgiving in our area. I do not know how that worked as a marketing strategy other than all the discounted frozen turkeys and turkey breasts were gone on the Saturday before.
Okay, I have a bunch more:
Shoprite has a short register receipt that has only the total WITHOUT THE TAX. (This is mostly for people who get the long receipt only electronically, which see below.) Of what possible use is this receipt? I can’t use the amount to balance my credit card statement, or keep track of what cash is in my wallet, or anything useful to me.
They also print a receipt in semi-random order. For example, one receipt I have shows the discounts for the yogurt I bought a dozen lines above the entry for the price for the yogurts, so obviously they are not printing in scan order. Other times the discount shows up further down the receipt. But if that’s the case, why don’t they try to print all of one item together, or the discounts right under the items that are discounted? I like to check before I leave that I got all the digital coupons, etc., and this makes it difficult.
Apps that are totally inaccurate, either as to aisle location, or whether an item is on sale. With the Shoprite app, you sometimes see on your llist an item is on sale, but other times you have to click on the item to see details that includes whether it is on sale.
And one not specific to supermarkets: shopping bags with handles so long that short people either have to bend their arms to carry them, or drag them along the ground.
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That’s weird - not sure of your location, but I know that NJ doesn’t tax grocery items (except things like candy and soda). But I would think that tax has to be shown since you’re paying it. Maybe they think that having just the total is all that’s needed? Have you asked at their C/S counter why tax isn’t shown on printed receipts?
Maybe that’s because groceries are generally not taxed.
In fact, in NJ (where you presumably are located), food items sold for consumption (are there other kinds??) are exempt from taxes.
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But some are (soda and candy, for example), as are cleaning supplies, etc.
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More unit pricing gripes:
Why are ShopRite grape tomatoes packaged as a dry pint, but NatureSweet grape tomatoes as 10 ounces? (The standard tomato pricing seems to be by weight.)
Why is the shelf unit price of the twin pack of 2-ounce hydrocortisone cream indicated per dry oz while the 1-ounce tube has its shelf unit price per pound?
I’m sorely tempted to report them. NJ hit Walmart with a fine for doing just this sort of shenanigans.
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New one today. I was doing self checkout mostly to get back to my car before the rain started up again. I’d finished entering everything and trying to finish but the system said “Help is on the way”. Employee comes over and brings up a video screen shot from above that shows us standing there. She clears it and I ask what the problem was. She tells me that the system saw my umbrella in the shopping cart. I presume it thought I was not running it up and cried foul. Not sure if the store sells umbrellas or whether it just saw an additional item. WOW! I never knew these systems did that.
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Probably just saw something in your cart. I’ve had an unused shopping bag in the cart cause that to happen.
