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Ways to Annoy your Checker

Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #29 – Writing Checks

March 10, 2010

There’s nothing wrong with writing checks. Some customers are just used to writing checks and balancing their checkbook. That’s fine but please don’t do it during checkout. Writing a check is the most time consuming way to pay but don’t extend the wait time by having the people behind you and your [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Checker #28 – Bad Cards

March 8, 2010

If your payment card is unable to be read in the card reader then its one of three things:

The card reader is bad.
Payment card is demagnetized.
The strip on the payment card is damaged and the whole card needs to be replaced.

The thing that annoys grocery clerks are customers who know their payment card can no [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Checker #27 – Shopping in Line

March 4, 2010

Grocery shopping is easy. Walking up and down the aisles looking for anything enticing to the eyes. Having a list helps too, just in case you forget anything. Once you’re in the checkout, there’s no going back. Once in line, there’s a commitment. The groceries are on the conveyor belt, [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #26 – Price Match

March 3, 2010

Grocery store prices always fluctuate. It has nothing to do with the economy, sometimes sale prices are better than others. Each week there is a new ad for items that are on sale throughout the store and the prices stand until the next ad. We cannot alter or match the prices of [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #25 – Heckler

March 1, 2010

What do you do when something is out of your control? Just the other day, two of our checkers called in sick and it was only down to Debbie and I, from 6 PM to midnight. Lines are building up because customers had just gotten out of work and anxious to buy or [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #24 – Forming Alliances

February 28, 2010

Things start to get bad when customers start agreeing with one another. If one customer has a problem at checkout, usually the customers behind them would also intervene. They form an instant bond and immediately have things in common with what’s wrong with their grocery store. At checkout, we are outnumbered. [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #22 – Insufficient Funds

February 23, 2010

Payments made via credit cards and debit cards are instant. It’s a simple process, person slides card, store contacts bank to verify funds, bank tells store to process. We have nothing to do with the bank. We don’t know anything, all we know is if the payment processed or if the payment [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #21 – Gameshow

February 22, 2010

Some people just don’t get it. You can only buy what you can spend. Putting items into the shopping cart and then deciding if you want it or not at checkout is not OK. There’s a reason why every item has price tags and if someone has a problem with adding or [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #20 – Checkout Dividers

February 21, 2010

Checkers, we just scan items. We keep scanning items until there are no more items to scan or if something like a divider tells us to stop. You see those 2 bars on the side of the conveyor belt? They are what divides your groceries from the next person. So please [...]

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Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #19 – Bluetooth Headsets

February 12, 2010

Dr. Mr Bluetooth
I just wanted to say your annoying. With your fancy headset, black trench coat and sunglasses you’re way too cool for me. Let me guess, you’re Neo from the Matrix right?
You don’t talk to grocery clerks because we really don’t exist in the Matrix. We’re just one of the annoyances [...]

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