We’re asking for a favor. Please, the first thing to do before anything else is to either slide your club card or enter your phone number into the card reader. Yes, you can really slide your saver card or enter your phone number into the card reader for the savings. You don’t have to do it but this is just a favor. Unless your saver card doesn’t work because it’s worn out or the magnetic strip is demagnetized or the screen doesn’t let you enter the phone number then we can do it for you. What annoys us is when we’re scanning the groceries and customers puts the saver card in front of our face to scan for them when it can easily be done with the reader. You don’t have to do it but this is just a favor. Just remember to follow the prompts on the screen but do not press the “ENTER” button before sliding your card. You don’t have to do it but this is just a favor.
An older man is unloading his groceries onto the conveyor belt…
Saver Card Holder: [yelling from the end of the checkstand] I have a saver card!
Me: OK.
Saver Card Holder: My number is 503…
Me: [yelling from the end of the checkstand][tapping the card reader] Sir, you can enter your number here.
He finishes unloading his groceries…
Me: How are you doing to…
Saver Card Holder: [cuts me off] My number is 503…
I enter the number but it doesn’t work…
Me: Sir, your number doesn’t work. Do you have another one?
Saver Card Holder: I don’t. That’s the one I use all the time.
Cliche answer. Phone numbers linked to the saver card just don’t disappear.
Me: Do you have another number?
Saver Card Holder: Hang on.
I go back to scanning the groceries…
Then out of my peripheral view, I see a card hovering in front of my face…
Saver Card Holder: [dangling the card] Here’s my card!
Stupid me. I want to change the world and consideration for others…
Me: Sir, just slide it right here.
He presses the ENTER button and continues to slide his card repeatedly.
Saver Card Holder: Is it working? Is it working?
If I could have only slid his card earlier…
You don’t have to do it but this is just a favor.
Do you prefer your checker to scan the saver card for you?
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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.