"Express" 12 Items Or Less

[Mike P]

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke"

[BigFish]

Yeah....thats the guy!

[Skip N]

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.

[luds]

Originally Posted by Skip N

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.

[luds]

I prefer when there is nobody bagging my groceries. The baggers at the grocery stories near me shove your food in the bag like they're trying fit a little more in the trash before they take it out to the dumpster.

[BigFish]

When they do bag...I get 2 items in each bag! So 12 items....6 friggen bags!

[Skitterpop]

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Skip N

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.

When the customer's 12 items suddenly become 30, i usually wait for the lull when the customer now starts to write a check , then look at the cashier and say, "poor guy, he can't count" .

[afterhours]

Originally Posted by Mike P

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke"

i heard the same thing from my uncle too, he used to go the tracks.

[chris L]

Originally Posted by Mike P

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke"

that is true or at least what I was told.
its also the name of the hamchunk's (vietnamese kid ) dog in the movie " the green beret "

[Backbeach Jake]

I wish that I could rig the 12 item register to charge double for item # 13, triple for #14 and so on. It should be expensive to be an inconsiderate idiot and this way the fare is pro-rated The dumber you are, the more you pay and the less likely that you'd notice.

[riverrat2]

I worked as a shelf stocker in a Stop and Shop and it was the most miserable job of my life. I had this b*&#$ of a boss who was on some type of crazy power trip and I got stuck stocking the womens higene aisle. Try stocking tampons while a 50 year old lady is standing next to you browsing. Not to mention I was making minimum wage minus taxes obviously and 10 $ a month union fees.

[Jimbo]

The key is RR2, you were paying union dues. You should have gone to the shop steward (or in your case the Stop and Shop Steward) and made a claim that you were allergic to the aroma of unused beach whistles and that you were unfairly put in a position where your background did not allow you to respond to patrons' questions regarding, scent, cardboard vs. plastic, mini, maxi, or full size mattress. I bet you would have found yourself in a nice cush job in the frozen food aisle, with a reprimand to that boss.

[Mike P]

Except that the dept managers at Stop&Shop are also union members--or at least were when I worked there. The union would be placed in a position of having two members pitted against each other. At best, all they could do was try to mediate a problem

Only the store manager and asst store manager were considered "management".

A good dept manager made the job a pleasure---a bad one could make it miserable.