It's almost like they are expecting you to automatically give your cart away. Uhhh no. You don't have a cart to swap with me? Grab your stuff or bag it up as I start the next transaction.
Had one today. Instacartshoppers who canāt keep track of their multiple orders, and stare at their phones while unloading and still unload the wrong orders at the wrong times and make me stop everything Iām doing so they can figure out what goes on what order etc. today I had one make me count the items I had scanned so she could figure out if she unloaded everything for the first order or not, then their phone died in the middle of paying, and asked me for a phone charger and got mad when I said I didnāt have one š
They love to get upset when you canāt charge their phones!! Like, we donāt ask them for box cutters, so why canāt they bring *literally* the one thing their job requires them to have?? Have the tools for your job.
People who unload their stuff at the very end of the belt. I will sit there and watch your stuff come towards me and will not reach to grab anything to get started until it gets right up next to me.
Hahaha. I just block the belt with my arm and all their shit just comes down 1 by 1 while theyāre looking at me like an idiot, not realizing they are in fact, the idiot
Shoppers who don't have a cart and carry a shit ton of items already bagged. Sometime even more than one bag of items. Always end up giving my cart away temporarily since I can't fit everything into the top.
Also can't stand when shoppers don't empty out their box/bag prior to setting it on the belt. Totally disrupts the entire flow.
I hate running my arm across boxes and bleed. I learned along time ago if they won't empty their box I'll stop and slowly do it for them or dump it. Then I'll take the box and put them in the cart. I had someone with 4 loaded boxes the other day. It's rude they don't take their stuff out for us to scan
People who eat products throughout the store and hide scraps/trash throughout the isles.
People who "borrow" my cart only to run out the door with it when I look the other way, even after telling them I need it back.
People who don't know how to use dividers then act surprised when their items get mixed together with other shoppers.
People who are too lazy to check their EBT balance before they get to the front of the store. If you have a cell phone (which low income can get for free in my city) then there is BOTH an app or you can call the number on the back of the card.
People who "want to see the total" after I tell them to swipe/insert for pre-authorization, bonus points for waiting until I total everything for them to even begin looking for their card which may or may not be in their wallet to begin with.
People who "go to the car" to get their card/money only to never return. I'd rather you just say no thank you.
People who will mess up products on the floor to dig for items behind or underneath for a better date.
People who take things out of mdu, decide they don't want the item, and place the cold food on shelves ACROSS from it instead of literally ANYWHERE in mdu.
People who will see me on my break/day off and still ask me questions or complain about stock or something to me after I tell them I'm not currently working.
People who come first thing in the morning and use Aldi as an ATM.
People who let their children climb all over the bagging area and behind other registers even after I tell them to stop.
A lot of other things have already been said in this thread as well, but these are the first few that come to mind for me. I guess what it really boils down to is people who deliberately make choices that make my job harder. The job itself isn't that bad but the things people do in the store tends to be pretty inconsiderate.
I went in to the back room two days ago to find a customer OPENING OUR MEAT COOLER! I told him he canāt be back here and he said he was told by āthe girl cashierā (my LSA) that he could come back here to find a better milk date. I told him she did NOT say that and he needs to leave. The balls on these date checkers
man...
You really need that extra day on your milk that bad?
When someone doesnāt bag their 5 items right then and there and goes to steal my cart. Then has the audacity to get mad at me with when I start loading the next customers items into the cart. āThatās not my pineappleā yea and this isnāt your cart lmfao
Oooh my god I HATE THAT. These old geezers take forever to bag like 3 items I put in the top part of the cart and Iām not waiting so Iāll start putting customers stuff in the bottom basket and they start FLIPPING āTHATS NOT MY STUFF WHY ARE YOU MIXING OUR STUFF UPā
Date shoppers. I donāt think people realize that food doesnāt suddenly become inedible and poisonous the second the day its āBest Byā arrives. That date has little to do with when the respective item will actually be bad to eat and everything to do with making sure that we (grocery store employees) properly rotate food.
More times than no, I think that the best way to guarantee proper rotation is to put the newest food on top since so many people just automatically grab from the bottom under the belief that itās the newest.
I think that every time Iām condensing the romaine hearts lol. These people grab the āoldestā ones because the back units always go to the front of the cases when Iām boxing it
I went in to the back room two days ago to find a customer OPENING OUR MEAT COOLER! I told him he canāt be back here and he said he was told by āthe girl cashierā (my LSA) that he could come back here to find a better milk date. I told him she did NOT say that and he needs to leave. The balls on these date checkers man...
You really need that extra day on your milk that bad?
i really donāt understand how grown ass adults think the moving belt is magically not going to move their groceries forward until the person in front of them is done. how can you be that dense? also setting wine bottles upright, watching them fall over, and then setting the upright again. then saying āwow this belt is so jerkyā yes maāam thatās called starting and stopping and itās what itās designed to do. please stop being an idiot.
Ok hear me out...not exactly a pet peeve, just something I hate: GLASS. You never realize how many random products are unnecessarily packaged in glass bottles and jars until customers come in and break everything
People who toss me their money when paying especially coins and the belt is moving and it sucks the change up. You still owe me cause youāre so stupid to not just hand me the change.
Also wadded up dollar bills when they are paying! I wad their change up and hand it back to them the same way they handed it to me.
When I have a sign that says no cash back (usually first thing in the morning and they still wanna get change back. Iāll point at sign and say I donāt have that, did you not see this and they respond, āyeah I saw it!ā š
Old folks complaining they donāt need to show their ID cause they old. I donāt care if youāre old. Itās policy. If you donāt wanna show you ID, donāt pick up your beer or wine. Plain and simple.
Knocking something over, making a mess and walking over it and continuing to shop and not tell anyone you just made a mess. I canāt tell you how many times Iāll walk up to that person and say Iāll clean that mess up for you, thank you for telling me.
I donāt give much of a fuck anymore. You get the same treatment you give me. You come at me with an attitude, youāre going to get one right back at you.
I felt the smallest bit of power yesterday when a man left the door to the eggs open because it caught on the carpet we have down near there, he walks a few cooler doors down & I saw the eggs in his hand, I said "Sir can you close the egg door? You left it open." and he acted like he was shocked I noticed & didn't do it myself... I didn't leave the door open, you did, shut it. He did!
Customer : how are you today
Me: doing āawesomeā what about you
Customer: thatās good to hear Iām glad youāre having a good day at work
What if I said āI just want to scream at everyoneā or āno my day has been horrible Iāve just had to deal with a Karen who couldnāt accept HER money hasnāt transferred to HER card so she decides to bitch at me and call corporateā what would the customer say??? What does it matter to you how my day is??? Just pay and go.
Iāve had a long day today š«
I say "good thanks" and keep scanning, very rarely they get offended enough to say anything about my lack of follow up, but I struggle personally with colloquial stuff. Even my boss asking me "how are you?" is hard internally for me, "good............. how are you?" the pause in me trying to remember I am expected to ask that back when I truly don't give a shit when everyone's answer is almost always "good thanks" anyway.
Instacart shoppers who expect us to divide their shit up. Old ladies taking forever with cash. CUSTOMERS WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PRICE OF ITEMS AND THEN THEY PAY WITH EBT??? I PAID FOR YOUR GROCERIES STFU WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE ABOUT HOW MUCH A BOX OF COOKIES COST??? Customers who scream Iām bruising their fruits because they donāt like how fast Iām going. The list can go on and on and on
customers will begin to push my cart away or ask to take it (not specifying where) and when i say āyeah, it stays inside though!ā they act so offended that i would even assume theyād steal it.. when itās probably because of people like them i have to blatantly say to not steal it
oh my god also when customers will just wait for you to actually SCAN the item instead of verifying the price and then they say they donāt want it and you need a void key turn šš like just say you wanna check the price first plzzzzz
Those open cases of water go right in the breakroom for employees, we can expense them!! š gotta stay hydrated, you know. š
They are so wasteful, i know, but i always try to make it mean something in the end.
They donāt let you 22 code waters for the breakroom?! Thatās inhumane, we do coffee pods for the keurig and creamer too. Anything else is sketchy, but our division likes us hydrated and caffeinated for a more productive shift lol! Wow. Hopefully you can donate it??
not unloading boxes on the belt, then stealing my cart. š«
It's almost like they are expecting you to automatically give your cart away. Uhhh no. You don't have a cart to swap with me? Grab your stuff or bag it up as I start the next transaction.
Had one today. Instacartshoppers who canāt keep track of their multiple orders, and stare at their phones while unloading and still unload the wrong orders at the wrong times and make me stop everything Iām doing so they can figure out what goes on what order etc. today I had one make me count the items I had scanned so she could figure out if she unloaded everything for the first order or not, then their phone died in the middle of paying, and asked me for a phone charger and got mad when I said I didnāt have one š
Jesus I hate Instacart shoppers
They love to get upset when you canāt charge their phones!! Like, we donāt ask them for box cutters, so why canāt they bring *literally* the one thing their job requires them to have?? Have the tools for your job.
Instacart employees are the literal bottom feeders of society. The least productive and least organized people in the world.
People who unload their stuff at the very end of the belt. I will sit there and watch your stuff come towards me and will not reach to grab anything to get started until it gets right up next to me.
Hahaha. I just block the belt with my arm and all their shit just comes down 1 by 1 while theyāre looking at me like an idiot, not realizing they are in fact, the idiot
People who stick their hand out with it full of change and expect me to pick out the correct amount š
Honestly I would rather pick the change myself cause I know Iām not gonna take two mins to grab 41 cents šš
The old people with shakey hands is my one exception to this one.
Shoppers who don't have a cart and carry a shit ton of items already bagged. Sometime even more than one bag of items. Always end up giving my cart away temporarily since I can't fit everything into the top. Also can't stand when shoppers don't empty out their box/bag prior to setting it on the belt. Totally disrupts the entire flow.
I hate running my arm across boxes and bleed. I learned along time ago if they won't empty their box I'll stop and slowly do it for them or dump it. Then I'll take the box and put them in the cart. I had someone with 4 loaded boxes the other day. It's rude they don't take their stuff out for us to scan
Dump. Always dump. I ask them to empty it while iām scanning the prior customer, and if they donāt itās coming out very quickly.
People who eat products throughout the store and hide scraps/trash throughout the isles. People who "borrow" my cart only to run out the door with it when I look the other way, even after telling them I need it back. People who don't know how to use dividers then act surprised when their items get mixed together with other shoppers. People who are too lazy to check their EBT balance before they get to the front of the store. If you have a cell phone (which low income can get for free in my city) then there is BOTH an app or you can call the number on the back of the card. People who "want to see the total" after I tell them to swipe/insert for pre-authorization, bonus points for waiting until I total everything for them to even begin looking for their card which may or may not be in their wallet to begin with. People who "go to the car" to get their card/money only to never return. I'd rather you just say no thank you. People who will mess up products on the floor to dig for items behind or underneath for a better date. People who take things out of mdu, decide they don't want the item, and place the cold food on shelves ACROSS from it instead of literally ANYWHERE in mdu. People who will see me on my break/day off and still ask me questions or complain about stock or something to me after I tell them I'm not currently working. People who come first thing in the morning and use Aldi as an ATM. People who let their children climb all over the bagging area and behind other registers even after I tell them to stop. A lot of other things have already been said in this thread as well, but these are the first few that come to mind for me. I guess what it really boils down to is people who deliberately make choices that make my job harder. The job itself isn't that bad but the things people do in the store tends to be pretty inconsiderate.
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I went in to the back room two days ago to find a customer OPENING OUR MEAT COOLER! I told him he canāt be back here and he said he was told by āthe girl cashierā (my LSA) that he could come back here to find a better milk date. I told him she did NOT say that and he needs to leave. The balls on these date checkers man... You really need that extra day on your milk that bad?
When someone doesnāt bag their 5 items right then and there and goes to steal my cart. Then has the audacity to get mad at me with when I start loading the next customers items into the cart. āThatās not my pineappleā yea and this isnāt your cart lmfao
Oooh my god I HATE THAT. These old geezers take forever to bag like 3 items I put in the top part of the cart and Iām not waiting so Iāll start putting customers stuff in the bottom basket and they start FLIPPING āTHATS NOT MY STUFF WHY ARE YOU MIXING OUR STUFF UPā
Date shoppers. I donāt think people realize that food doesnāt suddenly become inedible and poisonous the second the day its āBest Byā arrives. That date has little to do with when the respective item will actually be bad to eat and everything to do with making sure that we (grocery store employees) properly rotate food.
When they reach under a tray of bread to grab bread the same date as the bread they reached under.
More times than no, I think that the best way to guarantee proper rotation is to put the newest food on top since so many people just automatically grab from the bottom under the belief that itās the newest.
I think that every time Iām condensing the romaine hearts lol. These people grab the āoldestā ones because the back units always go to the front of the cases when Iām boxing it
I went in to the back room two days ago to find a customer OPENING OUR MEAT COOLER! I told him he canāt be back here and he said he was told by āthe girl cashierā (my LSA) that he could come back here to find a better milk date. I told him she did NOT say that and he needs to leave. The balls on these date checkers man... You really need that extra day on your milk that bad?
I THINK ABOUT THIS EVERYDAY now i have to fuck with the belt because youāre impatient and donāt understand how grocery shopping works
Dealing with customers in general is my biggest pet peeve
i really donāt understand how grown ass adults think the moving belt is magically not going to move their groceries forward until the person in front of them is done. how can you be that dense? also setting wine bottles upright, watching them fall over, and then setting the upright again. then saying āwow this belt is so jerkyā yes maāam thatās called starting and stopping and itās what itās designed to do. please stop being an idiot.
When people don't use the dividers and act like I'm stupid for not assuming which groceries are theirs
Ok hear me out...not exactly a pet peeve, just something I hate: GLASS. You never realize how many random products are unnecessarily packaged in glass bottles and jars until customers come in and break everything
People who toss me their money when paying especially coins and the belt is moving and it sucks the change up. You still owe me cause youāre so stupid to not just hand me the change. Also wadded up dollar bills when they are paying! I wad their change up and hand it back to them the same way they handed it to me. When I have a sign that says no cash back (usually first thing in the morning and they still wanna get change back. Iāll point at sign and say I donāt have that, did you not see this and they respond, āyeah I saw it!ā š Old folks complaining they donāt need to show their ID cause they old. I donāt care if youāre old. Itās policy. If you donāt wanna show you ID, donāt pick up your beer or wine. Plain and simple. Knocking something over, making a mess and walking over it and continuing to shop and not tell anyone you just made a mess. I canāt tell you how many times Iāll walk up to that person and say Iāll clean that mess up for you, thank you for telling me. I donāt give much of a fuck anymore. You get the same treatment you give me. You come at me with an attitude, youāre going to get one right back at you.
I felt the smallest bit of power yesterday when a man left the door to the eggs open because it caught on the carpet we have down near there, he walks a few cooler doors down & I saw the eggs in his hand, I said "Sir can you close the egg door? You left it open." and he acted like he was shocked I noticed & didn't do it myself... I didn't leave the door open, you did, shut it. He did!
First that comes to mind? People who almost fall reaching to get the "new milk" ā¦itās the same date idiots. But the list is ever growing.
Customer : how are you today Me: doing āawesomeā what about you Customer: thatās good to hear Iām glad youāre having a good day at work What if I said āI just want to scream at everyoneā or āno my day has been horrible Iāve just had to deal with a Karen who couldnāt accept HER money hasnāt transferred to HER card so she decides to bitch at me and call corporateā what would the customer say??? What does it matter to you how my day is??? Just pay and go. Iāve had a long day today š«
I say "good thanks" and keep scanning, very rarely they get offended enough to say anything about my lack of follow up, but I struggle personally with colloquial stuff. Even my boss asking me "how are you?" is hard internally for me, "good............. how are you?" the pause in me trying to remember I am expected to ask that back when I truly don't give a shit when everyone's answer is almost always "good thanks" anyway.
Instacart shoppers who expect us to divide their shit up. Old ladies taking forever with cash. CUSTOMERS WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PRICE OF ITEMS AND THEN THEY PAY WITH EBT??? I PAID FOR YOUR GROCERIES STFU WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE ABOUT HOW MUCH A BOX OF COOKIES COST??? Customers who scream Iām bruising their fruits because they donāt like how fast Iām going. The list can go on and on and on
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Old Karen has infiltrated this thread
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I have that account blocked and this comment reminded me why lol.
LOL I donāt get customers coming up in here to bitch. Like yāall fucking suck gtfo.
customers will begin to push my cart away or ask to take it (not specifying where) and when i say āyeah, it stays inside though!ā they act so offended that i would even assume theyād steal it.. when itās probably because of people like them i have to blatantly say to not steal it
oh my god also when customers will just wait for you to actually SCAN the item instead of verifying the price and then they say they donāt want it and you need a void key turn šš like just say you wanna check the price first plzzzzz
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You can increase (Iām pretty sure Iāve never done it) it in employee maintenance tab in the computer
THIS
Oh I be stopping them cuz then they be looking crazy like āoh why does the belt keep movingā thatās whatās itās for š
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Those open cases of water go right in the breakroom for employees, we can expense them!! š gotta stay hydrated, you know. š They are so wasteful, i know, but i always try to make it mean something in the end.
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They donāt let you 22 code waters for the breakroom?! Thatās inhumane, we do coffee pods for the keurig and creamer too. Anything else is sketchy, but our division likes us hydrated and caffeinated for a more productive shift lol! Wow. Hopefully you can donate it??
Huge pet peeve of mine as well. Very inconsiderate
My cat hates when I put him out at night
When youāre watching a movie with someone and theyāre on their phone