Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #16 – Slide your Saver Card

The grocery store where I shop does not have the club card, but the few times I visit Safeway, I have to remember I got one from there years ago.

BUT, what I do make a point of doing is sliding my debit card through as soon as checker starts. Of course, I already know which buttons to press, so all I’m doing is waiting on them to finish so I can press the green button. I always thought to myself that I’m sure they want the whole transaction to go as fast as possible! I can imagine how some people wait till the end to do their card. That just wastes more time for everyone! I just want to get my stuff and go..lol.

It’s tiring having to use a club card at so many stores, why do we need it, the card doesn’t make us return to a store, does it?

My store doesn’t have a way to scan our own cards. I’m with Alicia in always scanning my debit card as soon as a few things are rung up. I love debit since it avoids the hassle (and time) of signing a receipt, especially when you have a long name like I do.

Oh, and is it just me or is your club card graphic slightly pornographic? lol

Oh, the frustrations! I don’t have a club card! I want a club card…can I have one, please,please?!

no I prefer to enter my phone # in the little tablet thingy. Thank goodness for that, I don’t think I can even keep up with yet another card. Maybe my store will just implant a magnetic strip in my ass (just kidding) I mean my wrist. Yes! That would be so convenient!

It really amazes me that more of t these people don’t die from trying to drink air and breathe water…..

I’m so glad my store doesn’t have club cards… ^_^; I have a hard enough time getting people to slide their credit cards on their own…

my magnetic strip is broken and i have th wrong number on my card…..BUT i always wait til the end and do not interrupt my checker because I always think….WHAT WHOULD PAUL THINK/SAY/BLOG!

I gotta cop a guilty plea here.
I always slide my own credit card but I’m really hesitant to slide the club card. For no apparent reason!

Thanks for the phone number advice, I never knew this… Not only do I not slide my club card, I give the checker the wrong store’s all the time!

I always key my phone number in while I am chatting with the checker, then slide my debit while flirting, errrr, chatting, with the bagger. Standard practice. I am also that girl in the line who will, when people are fumbling around for what seems like 10 minutes saying “I know I have a card somewhere” to lean in and key my number in for them to speed up the process.
They always are so appreciative, which is hilarious because I really just want them to get the hell out of my way! My friendly smile is so deceptive!!

Our cards have a UPC bar on them so the clerk just scans it for us; because our pin pad doesn’t have a scanner.
I always fish it out before they start ringing me up.

I love the card because you earn fuel perks with purchases and I think right now I’m up to $1 off every gallon of gas..woohoo. What’s not to love about that?

At the supermarket where I shop, there is no choice to self-scan. Tragically. Otherwise I would do it. I hate awkwardly waving the card in front of the cashier’s face.

lol, you do not know how much this took me back to working at the gym on my school’s campus in college. while I wasn’t swiping savers cards, I did have to deal with customers who insist that they are right about idiotic things and can’t seem to do easy tasks themselves…oh those days…lol!

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None of the grocery stores I go to allow the customer to scan their own card. BUT, I really fidn the cards annoying. I have to root around for the right store’s card and why? Why not make the sales avaiable to everyone without having to carry a stupid card. I really dislike whoever came up with the whole card scam.

Yes, I prefer the checker to scan the card for me.

As a side note, I would also prefer them to bag and pay for the groceries, load up my car, drive me home, put said groceries away and then watch the kids while I have a glass of wine. Or two.

Too much to ask?

You know, those of you that use so many different cards and don’t like pulling out the card can use JustOneCard to make one card to rule them all!

What i think is annoying is when the customer doesn’t want to put all their information on the club card application, and then gets upset when they come in later, forget their card, and find that their phone number doesn’t work!

“You don’t have to do it but this is just a favor.” LMAO! Well, I have a club card at HEB and I had no idea I could scan it myself. Now that I know, I sure will. I can only imagine that there must be 139 things a day that get annoying, so anything that helps you guys out in even the smallest measure I’m a fan of.

As a cashier, the most annoying thing besides WIC vouchers and express lane abusers are the people who hold the shopper card in your face or yell out the phone number to you when you are trying to ask a question. If I’m in the middle of a transaction, I don’t want your shopper card. Holding it in my face is not going to get me to scan it. You can wait till the end of the order and then I’ll scan it. I you come up the the checkout stand and I ask how you are doing and if you found everything ok, I don’t want to be interrupted by you yelling you phone number at me. I would like you to act like a civil person and answer the question. If you think that holding your shoppers card in your cashiers face is a nice way of dealing with your cashier you are sadly mistaken. To any cashier with manners, that is a way of pissing off your cashier. We don’t want your card at that moment. We will take it at the end of the transaction. When people ask me if I want the card now and I’m in the middle of an order I tell them that I will get it at the end most people respect that. If you hold your card in my face I will ignore it.