Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Bitch and moan time again. I just finished doing some grocery shopping. Why do people get so stupid in grocery stores? Here's just a few of latest. The vertical freezers full of frozen food. You know the ones, with glass fronts? Glass that one can see through? Why is it so many stand there with the door open trying to figure out what to buy? Close the damn door! You're melting my pizza rolls!
And when they do finally figure out which $1 frozen pizza to buy -- they change their mind about 3 aisles over -- and then leave the frozen pizza on the shelf next to the canned corn. Speaking of corn -- why go through all the hassle of blocking the corn on the cob display shucking corn?? If they were charging by the pound I could understand, but they're not. It's 8 for $2 or whatever -- corn husk or not. I don't have all day to waste while you peel your corn so it will dry out sooner.
BTW, I'm really glad I'm old enough to enjoy the $2 box of generic toasted oat rings as much as the $4 box of Cheerios. Not that all generic cereals taste good, but most do.
Oh - and the buy one get another free bakery goods -- I hate that! I'm single, OK? (the way I complain what do you expect?) I don't need two bags of 24 rolls or two pumpkin pies. I just want one. As it is I usually have to feed 3 or 4 of the dozen I buy to the squirrels anyway. So not only am I wasting the 2 or 3 I don't eat, but I also have to pay for the second bag or other whatever it is they're giving you "free."
And would it really hurt to have a clerk or two roaming the aisles -- so you can ask them about prices that stores don't put on their products!! You're running a grocery store, not a guessing game -- put PRICES on stuff. At least mark the shelf someplace near the item. I hate when you buy some little bit of weird mishappen herb and when you get to the checkout line, it ends up being $34.50 a pound and then you have to tell the checkout person you don't want it and they give you that dirty look like why did you take it if you didn't want it and who would pay that much for some weird little herb anyway and I don't want to stand here and push keys and get hassled by pissed off customers who can't find what they want because the store doesn't want to pay enough to hire help who actually care about what they're doing and know that a banana is code 4355 and not have to peruse a list of junk the size of the King James bible looking for whatever odd number belongs to the fruit that they forget to stick on which when they do stick on, you can't get off without leaving a thin paste of god-knows what kind of glue that after years of eating apples and pears will gum up your insides and cause who-knows what brand of interrectal cancer all because the stupid store can't be bothered to hire enough help.
Sheesh -- I told you I just finished shopping.
And why do they always double-bag with those flimsy ass plastic bags? You buy a carton of milk and the bagger will stuff it into two plastic bags and then tie the top so tight you have to use a table saw at home just to open the stupid bag. And why is it so hard to open a plastic bag, but it will slice open as soon as you look at it leaving veggies and candy bars hidden in the dark deep recesses of the trunk where you don't find them until the hottest day of the summer when you toss your white shirt in the trunk right on top of a month old moldy molten candy bar.
2fers: http://www.kroger.com/ and http://www.wm.com/
And when they do finally figure out which $1 frozen pizza to buy -- they change their mind about 3 aisles over -- and then leave the frozen pizza on the shelf next to the canned corn. Speaking of corn -- why go through all the hassle of blocking the corn on the cob display shucking corn?? If they were charging by the pound I could understand, but they're not. It's 8 for $2 or whatever -- corn husk or not. I don't have all day to waste while you peel your corn so it will dry out sooner.
BTW, I'm really glad I'm old enough to enjoy the $2 box of generic toasted oat rings as much as the $4 box of Cheerios. Not that all generic cereals taste good, but most do.
Oh - and the buy one get another free bakery goods -- I hate that! I'm single, OK? (the way I complain what do you expect?) I don't need two bags of 24 rolls or two pumpkin pies. I just want one. As it is I usually have to feed 3 or 4 of the dozen I buy to the squirrels anyway. So not only am I wasting the 2 or 3 I don't eat, but I also have to pay for the second bag or other whatever it is they're giving you "free."
And would it really hurt to have a clerk or two roaming the aisles -- so you can ask them about prices that stores don't put on their products!! You're running a grocery store, not a guessing game -- put PRICES on stuff. At least mark the shelf someplace near the item. I hate when you buy some little bit of weird mishappen herb and when you get to the checkout line, it ends up being $34.50 a pound and then you have to tell the checkout person you don't want it and they give you that dirty look like why did you take it if you didn't want it and who would pay that much for some weird little herb anyway and I don't want to stand here and push keys and get hassled by pissed off customers who can't find what they want because the store doesn't want to pay enough to hire help who actually care about what they're doing and know that a banana is code 4355 and not have to peruse a list of junk the size of the King James bible looking for whatever odd number belongs to the fruit that they forget to stick on which when they do stick on, you can't get off without leaving a thin paste of god-knows what kind of glue that after years of eating apples and pears will gum up your insides and cause who-knows what brand of interrectal cancer all because the stupid store can't be bothered to hire enough help.
Sheesh -- I told you I just finished shopping.
And why do they always double-bag with those flimsy ass plastic bags? You buy a carton of milk and the bagger will stuff it into two plastic bags and then tie the top so tight you have to use a table saw at home just to open the stupid bag. And why is it so hard to open a plastic bag, but it will slice open as soon as you look at it leaving veggies and candy bars hidden in the dark deep recesses of the trunk where you don't find them until the hottest day of the summer when you toss your white shirt in the trunk right on top of a month old moldy molten candy bar.
2fers: http://www.kroger.com/ and http://www.wm.com/
