offer.

At least they haven't had to say "will that be cash or charge?" in many years--that used to get so old

My current peeve at grocery stores is when they ask if "I found everything I was looking for?" Inevitably (for me) the answer is NO, yet when I tell them what I couldn't find, they just look at you dumbstruck...LOL

you needed?. You are so right. My grocery drops things I buy all the time. Nothing happens when you bring it up...they say "oh corporate decides and there's a lot of competition for shelf space."

Another one...Will there be anything else?. Always tempted to say, why YES, let me get out of queue and back to shopping more thoroughly.

I detest going there and tend to go to smaller hardware stores most of the time. The HD stores are huge, and it takes forever and a day to find something. You almost never can find a Home Depot associate to ask where something is. If I do go to HD, I check the website and find out in advance each aisle and bay where things are located in my local HD. That's my way around their terrible customer service. After that, I then have to get into a huge line of self-checkout registers which are often far slower than human cashiers.

Paint is something that I will never buy in Home Depot again. I was in Benjamin Moore paint shop recently, and had an employee stay with me for 20 minutes advising me on stuff. It's pricier for sure, but for things like matching paint, I want people to help me all they can.

I usually lie and say yes, because what's the point?

I picture myself belting out U2... 🎼🎹 But I STILLLLLL haven't founnnnnd what I'm looking for... 🎼🎹

as though you would risk your life and limb to hold the line up to try to get them to help (and knowing full well they'd have no real way to do so).

something without a price. Btw..what exactly is "unit price" ? Why is it lower.

I remember going in to interview for a job at an auto parts store. The manager told me that their policy was to question customers at the check out about having everything they would need for a particular job. For instance, if it was obvious a customer was going to do an oil change, ask them if they had an oil pan and funnel.

I'm willing to bet $50 that trend is common in customer service across the board.

I say "Well, I wasn't looking for everything, but what I WAS looking for, I found!"

If they ask me "Paper or plastic?" (Which is getting rare, I know) I say "Fern"

If I am at a convenience store buying a bottle of water or juice and the clerk says "Would you like that in a bag?" I say "No thanks, it's already in a bottle and if you pour it into a bag, it will be harder to drink."

If they say "would you like a receipt?" I say "No thanks, I can't deduct this off my taxes and the chances I'll bring it back for a refund are minimal!"

Often I will get cash from the grocery checkout and when they ask me how I want my $30 I say "Nickels, and I want them all face up"

Then smile, and laugh a bit and make the day (or at least the moment) of the person who has to deal with my sorry old ass, a little bit better.


I do these things and other things when I deal with people who perform customer service because not one of them, and I mean NONE that have ever asked me if they could help me find something, did so because they were trying to annoy me.

....it usually falls flat. One I use is, in reply to the tiresome question about finding everything, I say something like...."Yes, except I missed the cute boyfriends you have on sale. Was that on aisle 3 or aisle 8?" I said that once to the checker at the grocery store. She turned to the bagger and asked, "we have boyfriends on sale now??" Maybe she thought it was a brand of bacon.

And when asked how I want my change. I always say, "doubled"!

the bills and
the change on top of each other when i stand there with wallet in 1
hand
and only 1 hand free ... now i have to either put my wallet away to seperate
change and bills as change goes in pocket of pants and
bills in wallet 😑
petty i know ...

✌🏼

I either have to walk away with my change falling all over the place or I have to separate the change from the bills and hear "S__t" or "hurry up" behind me.

to that? Want to be more Zen.

How dare a store clerk ask if they can help me! And then they have the gall to ask me how I want my purchases and receipt handled?

Really?

Others sides perspective? Sure there's a litany.

It gets frustrating when they hand you your change with the receipt on top of the bills and the change on top of them both. Then I have to fumble to separate everything out and get it into the wallet. Just annoying.

Damn nosy neigjbors anyway!

and then going over to the next counter to scratch them off. They inevitably return in five minutes to buy another million and clog up the line.

I tend to skip lines at the grocery store by going to the customer assistance desk.

No, I want it in the garbage bin, actually. Fuck off with your seven feet long receipts and coupons for products I'm not interested in.

Oh, and please don't try to sneak it in with the change. I WILL hold up the line to separate it all out and THEN throw the receipt away.

The above only applies to grocery stores, of course.

be beyond help. " He liked to see people smile.

....If a store clerk asked, "do you need some help?" He'd say, "Yes, but I came here instead!"

and let people who want to do something else with it ask for that special consideration.

Generally, I can find most anything I want in a grocery store since all stores have the same products grouped together. But the reason they ask if they can help you find something is not because they want to help. I worked retail for a few years, and they are supposed to ask everyone that, repeatedly if necessary, to make the customer aware that they are being observed. It's a shoplifting-prevention thing. Same reason for the often-ridiculous "WELCOME TO KWIK SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -type greeting employees are required to shout at everyone before they get more than two steps inside the front door.

I suppose it's more polite than just screeching "I saw you come in, and I'll be watching you until you leave!"

I know one Caren. Several Karens. I agree about the onus. Anyone with an oddly spelled name should thank their parents for that crap every chance they get.

Of course, I always answer, "Nope. I am Jewish." Usually get some fun looks here in semi-rural OK.

Another annoying one..."Have you found Jesus?" Usually, I just answer, "I am Jew, thanks anyway." But, sometimes, I do get puckish. I have said, "Was there an Amber Alert?" "Yes, He was hiding behind the shed."

Of course, at a recent GLBT Pride event, some "crusaders" stopped me and asked "Have you heard the Good Word?" I pointed to my rainbow colored star of David t-shirt and said, "Thanks, but I am spoken for!" They, turned to my husband, to which, I said, "Oh, he's spoken for too!"

BTW, I have known two "Karens with a C"; Cairyn and Carin. Got to love the South.

My plate still has food on it and I prefer you not take anything until asked......

Makes me want to ask "why, are you running short on dishes tonight?".......

Snatching plates as soon as a person is finished.

I want to ask about a shortage of plates too but I usually say “No I’m still using it”

tidy up and leave to keep the rotation rate up. I enjoy nothing more than a nice relaxed chat after a good meal with a friend and don't like to feel rushed.

One of the few good things left in life in the Rethug era.

KY...

That probably it

did you find everything you were looking for?

One time I didn't find my item and at the checkout they asked that question and I said "No", and the cashier just keep on checking me out. So I said "why did you ask me if you're not going to act on it?". Just got a shrug. By the way, they didn't have the item and I knew that before I checked out.

Oh, the joys of shopping.

to you?

Or customers who run back to get something leaving people waiting, or can’t find cash or credit card, or don’t have enough so they start subtracting items, or who ask the cashier questions about a product that cashier knows nothing about, who are jerks, and worse?

Believe me, it’s no fun on the other side of the counter.

and the server or clerk says "no problem." I wasn't thinking about "problems" -- now I am.

No really I can figure it out just point me in the right direction. They are obviously in the middle of doing something

I didn't come in for a sermon. Just say thank you. NOTHING ELSE

The only time they aren't harassing you is when you actually need help.