Supermarket Grump XXVI

[Swimmer]

REDSOCKSTICKET thats why the register tells them how much change to give you because they cant count it.

I will say this in Roche brothers in Bridgewater, while they dont count change they surely exchange pleasantries with you. Company policy, same in Wholefoods..........

[Jimbo]

Doesn't matter to me if the cashier and or bagger don't speak to me as long as they are efficient in their work, but the second anything I am purchasing is abused I will speak up. If it's the bagger, say loud enough for the people nearby and hopefully a manager to hear, something to the effect that I plan on eating it in one piece and to "step away from my food, I will bag it myself." Not too long ago, my head almost blew off like Milton the Monster when they needed a price check for ice cream I had bought. The kid going to check walks like there's no urgency in his mission, AND, is tossing the half gallon up in the air and catching itas he goes. I said to the cashier, "Oh that's not good, that's not good at all." Well he stands there frozen like a deer in the headlights. The other kid returns, mumbles the price and throws the ice cream into a bag like he's doing a fall away jumpshot. My eyes rolled back in my head for a second, but I composed and said, "Look grociery bag, here's what you're going to do. You're going to hustle your butt back to the ice cream section and find me this exact brand that's not dented, sticky or leaking and you're going to come back and hand it to me or we'll be chatting to your manager about why you feel the need to abuse other people's food. Don't play catch with it, don't hurt it, just get it and come back quickly, because the rest of the people on this line want to see what a conscientious and gentle bagger you are. The kid has actually been pretty good since, I think he just needed a wakeup call.

[justplugit]

When you say hello and get no response, one word, rude. Par for the course now adays.

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by justplugit

When you say hello and get no response, one word, rude. Par for the course now adays.

I honestly don't think that they're being rude. Some kids today have very poor social skills, they're latch key kids who came home from school and played video games or visited chat rooms. I think that for the most part, they really don't know that they should respond, they grew up without anyone around to respond to. And they are painfully shy. Of course some are a-holes just like adults.