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[dex]

If I see people with children shopping I like to be helpful.I will let them go ahead because I've been there and I know how hectic those days were. I am retired so I have more free time than they will have for years to come.I will help them unload carts and bag if they need it too..why not?I am hoping that some day if I am unable to keep up ,someone will assist me.

[Lesa]

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@Laura14 wrote:

@Abrowneyegirl  I'm so sorry that happened to you.  Common courtesy along with common sense is just not as common as it used to be.  

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Hi @Laura14 When I lived in PA, I worked at a Hospital. A co-worker was always saying, "Well, that's just common courtesy."

So she was put in charge of "common courtesy".  She gave up after a short time. Wasn't very common there.

[Venezia]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

My rant concerns those who read a magazine in the checkout and then put it back rather than purchasing it. I don't want to buy a used magazine that someone has fouled with with who knows what viruse or bacteria they may be harboring. 

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In that case, you need to subscribe to the magazines you like and ask for them to be delivered in plastic wrap.  That's the only way you're going to be "safe" from "who knows what viruse (sic) or bacteria they may be harboring".

And, even then, someone in the printing facility has (gasp!) handled it at some point.  Hopefully with plastic gloves on!

It's unrealistic to think that no other hands have touched a magazine or book in a retail store.  People often pick them up and check the contents before deciding whether or not to buy.

[Venezia]

@Abrowneyegirl - I know exactly how you feel.  Been there too many times myself (as I'm sure many of us have).

Most recent crazy experience was at Sam's Club.  They have self-checkouts but, you'd think most people would know that they're meant for fewer items.  I got behind a guy who had an overflowing cart (and you know how big they are at the warehouse stores) and, even worse, he had no idea how to use the darn checkout.  He had to have the assistant come over four times!

It was busy and the other lanes weren't much better, but it's a wonder I didn't just leave my stuff and walk out.  "Common sense":  If you don't even know how to use the self-checkout, get in a regular line!

[QVCkitty1]

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@Meowingkitty wrote:

Yesterday I was behind a woman with a cart full and two screaming kids. The cashier finishes ringing her up. Then she proceeds to pay so much in cash, another amount on her food stamp card, another amount on her debit card. Then I guess she ran out of money and had to root through her bags to put some stuff back. 

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That poor woman. 

[Perkup]

I may have posted this before, but humor me . . .

A couple of weeks ago I was in line with about half a basket of "stuff".  A man lined in behind me with only a bunch of bananas. I asked him if he wouldn't like to go ahead of me, and he very graciously accepted.  Then he pulled out his wallet, from which he produced about a dozen fresh, new $2.00 bills and gave me one.  He said that was his "pay it forward" to folks who treat him with kindness and consideration.  And then he added, "I don't give away many".

[QVCkitty1]

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@Perkup wrote:

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@Abrowneyegirl wrote:

Grocery stores that have the self scan/check-out lanes

These are meant for smaller orders.

Today on a busy weekend, when there are 12-16 other 'regular' check out aisles open

2 different shoppers are tying up the self check lanes trying to ring up HUGE cart full orders!!!!  

The one guy has 2 toddlers running around- so he is trying to deal with them and scan hundreds of items and bag them and of course the area is not designed for this so there is no room for any of this to happen.  So his order and the other yahoo doing the same thing have groceries and bags everywhere.

I am standing there with my 1 item; watching this like a sitcom.

((((Sigh)))))

If you have hundreds of items to be scanned go to the regular check out lane where there is a conveyor belt, a cashier, and a bagging area.

Common Sense Please.

Rant over

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Realize that first of all, this was a man . . . with two very young children . . . at a grocery store for heaven's sake. He must have done something awful to his spouse to be punished in this way!  Lord help that poor man!!

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You know I see  men with their children all of the time, why would that be unusual or a punishment ? They are their children.

[occasionalrain]

Magazines are assembled by machines. Workers don't handle them except in packing and putting into store racks. Inside they are free of fingerprints, germs, saliva...There are magazines at the library for those who don't mind ones that have been pre-read, fingered through but if one is paying for a new magazine, it should be unused.

[rustee]

I do not, and never will, use self-scan checkout.  That type of system decreases the number of hires the store needs to make.

[CelticCrafter]

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@Bri21 wrote:

I got irritated the other day in the grocery store.

Another lady and I were heading for the same cashier.  She had a cart full of items, and I had maybe 20 things.  She got there first - by a hair.  If that was me with all of those things, I would have let someone with less items ahead of me.  But I digress.

She was being selective as she put her items on the conveyer belt - putting like items together.  She wanted the items to be bagged in a certain way.  She kept checking on the bagger and her cart was still full.  Ringing her up was taking forever. 

Finally, the cashier was ringing up the last item and then this woman decides to pull out the checkbook.  She was questioning the total.  If there wasn't someone behind me, I would have gone to another line, but I was stuck.

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@Bri21 - then you don't want to be behind me!  I do the same thing and when I get home, I'm just able to drop the bag where the items get stored and unpack them that way rather than willy-nilly going all over the house.