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Hello!

Let's share our grocery store pet peeves.

Here are a few to get us started:

Having twenty five items in the ten items or less lane.

Being in a hurry and finding the aisle blocked by a reunion between long lost friends, who simply don't move, even with a polite "excuse me, I just need to grab a can of soup"...

So what's your grocery store pet peeve?

Just went last night on my way home from work.
My pet peeve is people who block the aisle talking on cell phones and thier children are racing up and down the aisle.
sundancer
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Here's another one--

You're walking down the aisle, and there's someone who has stopped on one side, looking at her grocery list or an item on the shelf. Now, nothing wrong with that, right?

You start to go around them, and again, no big deal--that's just what you do in a grocery store.

But they sense you are coming and about to pass them.

The next think you know, they speed up like crazy just as you are about to make the pass.

Repeat about four times, until it's just easier to jump ship and hit another aisle, lol!

Stocking the shelves during shopping hours.

People who zoom out of the isles with their carts and run into other people. Grrr. Maybe they should start putting mirrors on the end of each isle, so we can see who is coming.

OK Brandii - I swear we are twins separated at birth, LOL!!!

I kept going, "yes, yes, yes, YES!!!" everytime I read one of your pet peeves.

OK, let's add - parents who let their kids run around in the toys/candy/magazine aisle while they do their shopping. Like their little one (no matter how well behaved) is just going to stay put in one place! Have these parents not heard of kidnapping?!?

And people who eat fruit while they are shopping through the store. Ummm, fruit is kind of measured by weight - so if you sit there and eat it, then you are basically stealing it.

Ok - I'm sure I'll come up with more, but those will suffice for now.

Rosie, Sundancer, Yota, and Michelle, thank you all for adding your pet peeves! I can relate to all of them!

And Michelle, I'm happy to have a 'twin' out there who shares the same pet peeves--I was worried people would think I was nuts posting them.

I've got a new one:

I'm walking into the store. There is a person in front of the door (within an arms reach or two).

She is busy texting on her phone. Or checking e-mail. Or updating her facebook and twitter pages: "Heading into the store"...

Nothing wrong with any of those, as I also like e-mail, twitter, and facebook. I use them often, but not while blocking the entrance to the store.

I started going around her to go inside, and she, like the person in the grocery store isle(see post above)sensed it, and then all of a sudden had to fly through the door, and we about collided with each other.

If you are updating your twitter this and twitter that, or texting your family about what to purchase at the store, why not just step two steps over, and allow the happy traffic flow to continue (especially when there is a BENCH right next to the door)?



I admit, there's much bigger issues to worry about. But, I think it's fun to talk with others who have had the same thoughts about these types of pet peeves.

Any other pet peeve stories out there?

I am glad I am not alone! I absolutely hate grocery shopping and inevitably the following happens in addition to the other pet peeves already listed:

I would like to take whoever invented those dreadful kiddie shopping carts and beat an apology out of them! I guess that sounds harsh but those carts are nothing but trouble and every one of them is a liability suit in the making!

Plus why is it that when I encounter someone in the first aisle, we subsequently meet up in every other aisle? Double annoyance when there is also, you guessed it, a kiddie cart!

Grocery shopping is a form of slavery, lol! Only good time to go is in the middle of the night when you have the store to yourself and you can be in and out in no time!

Tammy

And now you all know why I go grocery shopping at 6 or 7 am on Sundays.

OK - this one is just gross! I saw a woman while we were traveling through the Amarillo, TX Walmart bite into an apple and put it back on the display in the middle. I stopped in my tracks, jawl dangling and slapped my husband in the chest.

His only thought - we'll never move to Amarillo, TX.

Other pet peeves are rearanging stores every couple of months and rude cashiers or the people who go back and forth over .15 - .25 they feel should have been credited them for a sale item.

Nothing wrong with frugal spending, but me personally, i'd go to customer service or watch the items ring up if I'm shopping specifically for bargains at that store.

One man in particular my husband encounterd was a man who took his change, stood there holding up the line and waited for a few minutes then interjected 2 orders later with, "You didn't give me my change!" He made a scene and the cashier calmly stated, "Sir I gave you your change. I can audit my drawer real quick if you'd like." With that he slunk into the crowd behind him.

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