The grocery store disgusts me sometimes...

[voyagergrl3193]

Hi all TBBSers!

I have something that I'd like to get off my chest if I may about grocery stores in general.

Ever gone to the grocery store and felt so disgusted that you felt like you had to get the hell outta there? Well, that just happened to me a little while ago when I went to make a small trip for Mom.

Here's what happened: this has nothing to do with the checkers or the workers there at all...they've gotten better..it's the damn shoppers themselves that piss me off. They're either in your damn way or they run into you and look at YOU like you committed some hayness crime!!! And if you run into them there's no: thank you, kiss my foot, NOTHIN'!

Anyhow, I was walking in..yes IN from the parking lot to the grocery store and this, sorry to say this, demented old lady and her fat daughter were just happening to walk in as well. And the daughter was HUGE..I swear she was five little debbie oatmeal cream wrappers away from holy shit!

Or as my friend Glen would say: "One twinkie away from being obese!" Anyway, the mother, bless her heart, was not the brightest bulb in the box nor the sharpest tool in the shed either. The poor thing was feeble and just barely walking right..hell the daughter HERSELF was finding it hard to walk without oxygen let alone getting a run around chair in the store!

Anyhow, the old lady kept asking her daughter crazy questions like, "why did you park there?" and "why do we have to come to Kroger's? I thought Wal-Mart was cheaper?" The daughter, I kid you not, yelled at the top of her lungs saying: "I PARKED THERE MOTHER BECAUSE YOU'RE SLOW ENOUGH AS IT IS MOVING AROUND AND IT WAS THE BEST SPOT I COULD FIND AT THE MOMENT!" Her mother kept asking her silly questions and I could hear that fat moose(the daughter) all the way throughout the whole damn grocery store.

I mean it's people like that you just wanna slap silly and say: "what the fuck is your problem today??? Didn't eat your wheaties right? didn't have a good BM?" Or something like: don't you think you should be setting a better example for your mother and stop mooching off of her and buying debbie oatmeal cream cookies and loose a few lbs?? I know that's mean of me to say but it's the damn truth I tell ya!

This just thoroughly disgusted me to the point where I just wanted to say "ok fuck this shit!", get in my car, and drive home without the groceries. I mean,this lady was HUUUGGGGEEE!!!! I swear if she sang "Lord lifted me" a crain wouldn't even be able to lift her off the ground. I mean she could jump in the air and get stuck!

Hope this doesn't offend anybody out there but I just wanted to say that this throughly disgusted me because of the way the poor ole lady was being talked to by her daughter. I mean, show some respect for the elderly. I told Mom this story and she died laughing at me..then she said seriously: God I hope you won't treat ME like that when I get old and decreped! I told her: nah, I could never do that to you.

Anyway, anybody have any similar situations they'd like to share? I'm willing to read.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Hope this doesn't offend anybody out there but I just wanted to say that this throughly disgusted me because of the way the poor ole lady was being talked to by her daughter. I mean, show some respect for the elderly.

Fascinating. The title is about grocery stores. The ending is a bunch of pious stuff about respect for the elderly. And the vast majority of the text was about how fat the daughter was.

How 'bout some respect for the people involved? They didn't do anything to you, and you don't know their stories.

 

[backstept]

I know exactly what you mean. I used to work at walmart.

 

[MacLeod]

Best time to go shopping is late at night/early morning. Shopping at 23:00 can be such a breeze.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't have the same sort of thoughts as you when I see people who are elderly or fat. I still treat them with the respect that they deserve. Describing the elderly woman as not being the brightest bulb and the box is not being respectful. From the very limited time you observe her it wouldnt have really been possible to determine her mental capabilities.

It is possible that the daughter was talking loud to her mother because her mother was hard of hearing or suffering from the early stages of dementia and the daughter was trying to get her mother to take notice of the daughter's answers.

If I had seen this scenario I might have assumed that the daughter was her mother's carer. Looking after an elderly person is often a thankless, difficult and time consuming job. It can severely limit the carer's social life and often leads to the carer being depressed. Maybe that is why the daughter is over-eating?

Yoy provide no evidence that the daughter was "mooching off of mother". As she obviously was driving her mother and helping her do her shopping I see no evidence of mooching.

 

[RoJoHen]

Hope this doesn't offend anybody out there but I just wanted to say that this throughly disgusted me because of the way the poor ole lady was being talked to by her daughter. I mean, show some respect for the elderly.

Fascinating. The title is about grocery stores. The ending is a bunch of pious stuff about respect for the elderly. And the vast majority of the text was about how fat the daughter was.

How 'bout some respect for the people involved? They didn't do anything to you, and you don't know their stories.

I agree.

I mean, yes, I'm sure they were annoying, but the OP seems way more interested in making fun of the daughter for being fat than anything else.

 

[scotpens]

Best time to go shopping is late at night/early morning. Shopping at 23:00 can be such a breeze.

I always try to do my grocery shopping between midnight and 3 A.M. The only other shoppers in the store are a couple of stoners buying a dozen boxes of Oreos.

And the OP's rant is unfocused, to say the least.

 

[CorporalClegg]

TL;DR

But like a good thesis, a thread tittle should accurately depict the content of your post.

But, yes, I don't care for shopping at markets. They are Zoos most of the time.

 

[MacLeod]

Best time to go shopping is late at night/early morning. Shopping at 23:00 can be such a breeze.

I always try to do my grocery shopping between midnight and 3 A.M. The only other shoppers in the store are a couple of stoners buying a dozen boxes of Oreos.

And the OP's rant is unfocused, to say the least.

Exactly my point. There are generally few other shoppers so it can be easier to do your shopping.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Maybe I am lucky that I live where I do. I rarely see any bad or annoying behaviour In the two supermarkets I shop at.

Not that I do much instore shopping any more. I buy most things online including groceries but that is because of my disabilities not because I get annoyed at other shoppers.

The normal trading hours for supermarkets here are

Monday - Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday & Sunday 8am - 6pm

leading up to Christmas the supermarkets stay open to 10pm on some days.

So no-one can shop at 2am in Tasmania.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Although I hate to generalize, I've learned the hard way not to go to the grocery store on whatever day(s) food stamps are disbursed. On the occasions where I've done that, I encountered some of the rudest, angriest people I've ever met in my life.

I get that being poor isn't fun, but that's no reason to ram my cart while you give me an "I wish you were fucking dead" glare.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Depending on where you are, a grocery store can be a truly nasty place. Not because of the employees, but due to the customers who don't feel the need to put things back where they got them when they have a change of mind. Grocery stores do not have people who follow customers around all the time--in fact, they'd be criticized if they did--so I've seen hamburger rotting in a cereal aisle, or a carton of ice cream left to melt in the soap aisle. Such things are probably disposed of as soon as an employee sees them, but that could take several hours and by then it's not a pretty sight.

 

[Amaris]

Although I hate to generalize, I've learned the hard way not to go to the grocery store on whatever day(s) food stamps are disbursed. On the occasions where I've done that, I encountered some of the rudest, angriest people I've ever met in my life.

I get that being poor isn't fun, but that's no reason to ram my cart while you give me an "I wish you were fucking dead" glare.

I get that a lot, too. I try to avoid the first of every month, and our area of town where the Kroger is located is very low income, and anywhere from the 1st to the 3rd, it's packed, and some of the meanest people I've ever seen are shopping. I usually wait until about 10 PM or 7 AM to do my shopping (the store isn't 24 hours).

Also, as an aside, don't worry, it's not really generalizing or stereotyping. It is true that due to people being on food stamps, they go to the store the day (or the day after, or the weekend of) they receive their stamps. That's what we did when we were on them. Don't feel bad.

 

[auntiehill]

So------------no SpellCheck, then?

I take it this is some sort of joke-troll post, trying to get some reaction out of people.

 

[Ethros]

I work in one. To quote from a great movie "This job'd be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."

 

[MacLeod]

Depending on where you are, a grocery store can be a truly nasty place. Not because of the employees, but due to the customers who don't feel the need to put things back where they got them when they have a change of mind. Grocery stores do not have people who follow customers around all the time--in fact, they'd be criticized if they did--so I've seen hamburger rotting in a cereal aisle, or a carton of ice cream left to melt in the soap aisle. Such things are probably disposed of as soon as an employee sees them, but that could take several hours and by then it's not a pretty sight.

And I can tell it's not the store that losses out. Just like to cover shop lifting the customer pays for it. In the price of other products.

 

[Finn]

I agree with Ziyal and Miss chicken.

 

[MacLeod]

I work in one. To quote from a great movie "This job'd be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."

Amen to that, and of course the two golden rules

1.>The Customer is Rarely Right.
2.>If the customer is ever right re-read rule 1.

:P

 

[ThankQ]

Well, maybe I can get this thread on topic, even if the OP couldn't She did say one thing that got me thinking...

I grew up in small town just outside Tulsa, OK. Mostly nice people. If you almost had a buggie (or cart, basket, whatever you call it) collision turning the round the aisle's corner, people would smile, both would say "excuse me" to the other, or "I'm so sorry, I should watch where I'm going!" and everyone would have a good laugh, something like that. If someone was blocking the aisle and someone else wanted past, they'd get out of the way and say something along the lines of "Sometimes I forget I don't own the store!" and again have a good-natured laugh.

When I was 23, I moved to Daytona Beach. OMG! The people were so different at the market. It was brutal. Survival of the fittest, type. No "I'm sorry" or "pardon me," rather looks of "get the fuck out of my way".

I didn't realize you could have a culture shock in Publix.

 

[voyagergrl3193]

Thanks to all who posted so far. Yeah, sorry my wording sounds choppy..espeically the title..and then go off on the daughter about being fat. Again that's just me stating an opinion..then venting about it on a Trek board!

All I'm saying is that it was just the way it was being said. She was acting rudely towards her mother I think. And yes, I guess I have room to talk..respecting the elderly..when I was just venting about how the daughter was fat. Sometimes I come across as being too honest and need to just shut up. But seriously..it wasn't really WHAT she said..it was the WAY it was said..and to hear her voice throughout the whole entire grocery store..that's what disgusted me! Other shoppers don't want or need to hear your entire conversation to your mother for crying out loud! Let their experience at the store be a good one for crying out loud.

I guess the title of my thread should have been..."people who annoy you at the grocery store.." So sorry for my choppy vocabulary.