Grocery stores

[Rinza Velez]

No matter what I am shopping for or going to get, there's always someone standing right where I am trying to get to. It could be a worker stocking or someone standing and looking (they seem to stand forever), and then I get frustrated and go to buy something else and end up forgetting about the item I had been waiting for! Then, I push my cart out to the car, and the people on either side of me are always walking out at the same time! So, I park far away, and one time I go out to my car, and a car had parked right in front of me, they had acres of places to park, and they chose to park in front of me! So, I left my shopping cart right next to their driver's side door, since they felt the need to get so close to me, I left them something to remember me by

 

[Marie Miller]

Use a shopping list.
Why be so spiteful?

 

[Rinza Velez]

Use a shopping list.
Why be so spiteful?

I do use a shopping list lol, I wasn't born yesterday. And, if I am "spiteful", then, that's how I am, get over it.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

No matter what I am shopping for or going to get, there's always someone standing right where I am trying to get to. It could be a worker stocking or someone standing and looking (they seem to stand forever), and then I get frustrated and go to buy something else and end up forgetting about the item I had been waiting for! Then, I push my cart out to the car, and the people on either side of me are always walking out at the same time! So, I park far away, and one time I go out to my car, and a car had parked right in front of me, they had acres of places to park, and they chose to park in front of me! So, I left my shopping cart right next to their driver's side door, since they felt the need to get so close to me, I left them something to remember me by

The nerve of some people walking out of a store at the same time you do!! Anger issues, eh?

 

[Rinza Velez]

The nerve of some people walking out of a store at the same time you do!! Anger issues, eh?

Read again, I wrote that time and again, people parked on either side of where I am parked, walk out at the same time as I, quite annoying when it happens many times.. Reading comprehension difficulties, eh? LOL!

 

[Lois E. Winters]

In shopping areas, it is common for drivers to park alongside of you if that spot is open. No one here has reading comprehension difficulties at all. More likely you have some paranoid issues along with anger problems.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

Read again, I wrote that time and again, people parked on either side of where I am parked, walk out at the same time as I, quite annoying when it happens many times.. Reading comprehension difficulties, eh? LOL!

OK, the nerve of some people getting out of their cars at the wrong time!! You should teach them a thing or two!!

 

[Mary Stetler]

No matter what I am shopping for or going to get, there's always someone standing right where I am trying to get to. It could be a worker stocking or someone standing and looking (they seem to stand forever), and then I get frustrated and go to buy something else and end up forgetting about the item I had been waiting for! Then, I push my cart out to the car, and the people on either side of me are always walking out at the same time! So, I park far away, and one time I go out to my car, and a car had parked right in front of me, they had acres of places to park, and they chose to park in front of me! So, I left my shopping cart right next to their driver's side door, since they felt the need to get so close to me, I left them something to remember me by

I get miffed when I choose the wrong line to check out. It seems like it will be the fastest and then something happens to hold it up and the other line moves much faster than estimated. I am lucky because I have a handicapped placard so I can use spaces closer to stores sometimes.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

No matter what I am shopping for or going to get, there's always someone standing right where I am trying to get to. It could be a worker stocking or someone standing and looking (they seem to stand forever), and then I get frustrated and go to buy something else and end up forgetting about the item I had been waiting for! Then, I push my cart out to the car, and the people on either side of me are always walking out at the same time! So, I park far away, and one time I go out to my car, and a car had parked right in front of me, they had acres of places to park, and they chose to park in front of me! So, I left my shopping cart right next to their driver's side door, since they felt the need to get so close to me, I left them something to remember me by

I get what you're saying, especially the aisle-blockers who apparently have all day to annoy me while they contemplate the mayonnaise. I also park in the north 40 because I have a new car and I dread that first door ding. But as sure as I park out there and hike to the entrance, when I return to my car some 1973 rust bucket will be parked 3" from my driver's side.

People are often clueless and rude these days; consideration for others is a rare commodity. I order my groceries online and go to curbside pickup so I don't even have to get out of the car. That's as much interaction with the unwashed masses as I care to have.

I realize that my low aggravation threshold is part of my problem. I try to be considerate but it's a waste of time since society moved from "after you" to "me first."

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I get miffed when I choose the wrong line to check out. It seems like it will be the fastest and then something happens to hold it up and the other line moves much faster than estimated. I am lucky because I have a handicapped placard so I can use spaces closer to stores sometimes.

If you see me in a checkout line, choose another one. Somehow I ALWAYS pick the slowest line, behind "coupon lady" and "searching for my checkbook after my order is totally rung up" guy.

 

[Hoot Crawford]

Hmmm. I doubt that very many folks are being intentionally rude, just so wrapped up in what they are doing that they sometimes get in your way or otherwise slow you down. I'm certainly guilty as charged. I get self absorbed over which can of chili to buy that I forget that other folks need to move thru the aisle. Also, I am sometimes the victim of others who do that, but by the time I get to the next aisle I have forgotten all about it. Maybe it's the blood pressure meds I take, but I just can't get worked up over what happens in the grocery store or the parking lot. I dunno.

Hope you have the day you deserve!

 

[Mary Stetler]

Hmmm. I doubt that very many folks are being intentionally rude, just so wrapped up in what they are doing that they sometimes get in your way or otherwise slow you down. I'm certainly guilty as charged. I get self absorbed over which can of chili to buy that I forget that other folks need to move thru the aisle. Also, I am sometimes the victim of others who do that, but by the time I get to the next aisle I have forgotten all about it. Maybe it's the blood pressure meds I take, but I just can't get worked up over what happens in the grocery store or the parking lot. I dunno.

Hope you have the day you deserve!

When I notice I am holding up the aisle I apologize and tell people that they need to honk.

 

[Marie Miller]

I get what you're saying, especially the aisle-blockers who apparently have all day to annoy me while they contemplate the mayonnaise. I also park in the north 40 because I have a new car and I dread that first door ding. But as sure as I park out there and hike to the entrance, when I return to my car some 1973 rust bucket will be parked 3" from my driver's side.

For the most part, people are clueless and rude these days; consideration for others is a rare commodity. I order my groceries online and go to curbside pickup so I don't even have to get out of the car. That's as much interaction with the unwashed masses as I care to have.

I realize that my low aggravation threshold is part of my problem, but I don't care. I try to be considerate but it's a waste of time since society moved from "after you" to "me first."

Luckily not everyone has subscribed to “me first”.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We mostly order delivery for groceries now. Bobby does not enjoy long grocery shopping trips, so when we do go, it is a “Guy Shopping” kind of trip……have a list, buy that, and go home, trip.
With ordering online, I can take as long as I want to browse and decide what I want to buy, and when I have over the $35 amount, then I order. Since I have the Walmart+, I have free delivery for groceries.

The other day, I ordered dog food from Sam’s Club, and they sent it out with a delivery person, instead of shipping it with fed-ex like they usually do. The cumin, they didn’t bring, and fed-ex is bring that today.
No clue how they make those decisions.

 

[Don Alaska]

I get what you're saying, especially the aisle-blockers who apparently have all day to annoy me while they contemplate the mayonnaise. I also park in the north 40 because I have a new car and I dread that first door ding. But as sure as I park out there and hike to the entrance, when I return to my car some 1973 rust bucket will be parked 3" from my driver's side.

For the most part, people are clueless and rude these days; consideration for others is a rare commodity. I order my groceries online and go to curbside pickup so I don't even have to get out of the car. That's as much interaction with the unwashed masses as I care to have.

I realize that my low aggravation threshold is part of my problem, but I don't care. I try to be considerate but it's a waste of time since society moved from "after you" to "me first."

It happens to me a lot on Senior Shopping Day. Damned old people!

 

[Mary Stetler]

It happens to me a lot on Senior Shopping Day. Damned old people!

They should stay home where they belong!

 

[John Brunner]

Hmmm. I doubt that very many folks are being intentionally rude, just so wrapped up in what they are doing that they sometimes get in your way or otherwise slow you down. I'm certainly guilty as charged. I get self absorbed over which can of chili to buy that I forget that other folks need to move thru the aisle. Also, I am sometimes the victim of others who do that, but by the time I get to the next aisle I have forgotten all about it. Maybe it's the blood pressure meds I take, but I just can't get worked up over what happens in the grocery store or the parking lot. I dunno.

Hope you have the day you deserve!

I've got no problem asking folks if I can scootch by. Heck, I help strangers reach stuff on the top shelf all the time (some on scooters, others are just short.) I've not run into folks who have been impatient with each other, either here in my county or in the "City" of Charlottesville or in the western suburbs of the state capitol. I will say when I lived outside of DC there was an air of self-importance in people, but if they're in a grocery store doing their own shopping, they ain't all that special.

 

[Ken Anderson]

The main irritant that I have while grocery shopping are women (yes, guys don't do that) who consider grocery shopping to be their primary social event. Two women pushing shopping carts will stop in the middle of the aisle to talk, and no one else is going to get past them for at least ten or fifteen minutes, and if you dare ask to be able to get by, they'll be offended. So, if I want something in that aisle, I'll have to go all the way down another aisle to come up from the other side, and if they're standing next to whatever it is that I want, I'm out of luck unless I don't mind being treated as if I'm the most unreasonable man in the world.

If a woman knows the checkout clerk personally, which is likely in my small town, that checkout counter might be tied up with conversation for a long time, and anyone behind them will have to find another checkout counter.

I don't mean to be sexist, but I don't see guys doing that.

 

[Krystal Shay]

The main irritant that I have while grocery shopping are women (yes, guys don't do that) who consider grocery shopping to be their primary social event. Two women pushing shopping carts will stop in the middle of the aisle to talk, and no one else is going to get past them for at least ten or fifteen minutes, and if you dare ask to be able to get by, they'll be offended. So, if I want something in that aisle, I'll have to go all the way down another aisle to come up from the other side, and if they're standing next to whatever it is that I want, I'm out of luck unless I don't mind being treated as if I'm the most unreasonable man in the world.

If a woman knows the checkout clerk personally, which is likely in my small town, that checkout counter might be tied up with conversation for a long time, and anyone behind them will have to find another checkout counter.

I don't mean to be sexist, but I don't see guys doing that.

That is why I said in another post somewhere that I need a leaf blower when I go to the grocery store; to blow them out of the way. And for the record, there is always little old men chatting and blocking the aisles at my store, as well.

 

[Ken Anderson]

That is why I said in another post somewhere that I need a leaf blower when I go to the grocery store; to blow them out of the way. And for the record, there is always little old men chatting and blocking the aisles at my store, as well.

Clearly, they identify as women.