[MK Chris]

If I was the supervisor of those self-service things when you were on there I'd make sure I waited until you got to the front of the queue, then send you into the right one, to wait from the back again.

[Vivienne]

You seem almost proud to behave like an idiot sometimes Viv. It's very strange behaviour.

I'm just something that's called HUMAN: make mistakes, esp. if they are simple, logical ones, have moods, etc. You should try it sometime.

[claradooblue]

But consciously choosing a difficult queue in the supermarket isn't logical, or is it?

[MK Chris]

No, it's not logical at all. And it's not a mistake.

[Vivienne]

blame it on moods, or hormones, if you so choose.

[foot-loose]

If I was the supervisor of those self-service things when you were on there I'd make sure I waited until you got to the front of the queue, then send you into the right one, to wait from the back again.

There was a woman who used to chance her arm every time she came into our shop when I was supervisor of the checkouts. She would always go to the 10 items or less checkout with a trolley and she would always make sure she went to the same lass that was on the checkout coz she was very quiet and wouldnt put up a fight. I watched this woman get told by a customer behind her that it was 10 items or less and she ignored them.

I did as you said Topher, in fact, I closed off one of the checkouts that was empty so that she would need to wait in a queue again.

There are reasons that the rules exist - I find it irritating myself when I have to wait behind someone who is doing their weeks shopping, but why should I be allowed to hold someone else up who is only buying a sandwich or summit for their lunch?

[Vivienne]

hangs head in shame

[MK Chris]

If I am buying quite a few bits and the person behind me only has one thing I quite often let them in front of me.

I like that story Foot-loose - I'd make sure I put all the hard checkout people on the 10 items tills so all those people got turned away.

[foot-loose]

Most of the staff hated being on the express, she enjoyed it so it made my life easier.

[Nicola_Red]

Ah, any opportunity for a cat pic!

[Yudster]

I won't use the express lane. If they reduced the prices of your shopping for using them I might - after all, if you use that, they don't have to pay a checkout person to scan your shopping and take your money, so its cheaper for the shop - but until then, I'll have what I'm paying for please, which is my shopping, plus service. Thank you.

Oooh, and no, I never take the piss with the 10 items or less checkouts, its rude and uneccessary, and yes, I also tend to let people with a few things in the queue in front of me. Also people with screaming children. Or old people who look like they are about to die. Sometimes I am just too nice.

[Vivienne]

If you say you haven't broken rules @ one point, or another.... then you are........ a LIAR!!

[MK Chris]

Yes but as Yudster says, it is extremely rude to other people to break this rule, it's there for the benefit of people who are just nipping in for a couple of bits.

[Yudster]

If you say you haven't broken rules @ one point, or another.... then you are........ a LIAR!!

First - I haven't said that. I have said that I don't do certain specific things which contravene certain specific rules, the ones we were discussing. But on the other hand, for a variety of reasons I choose to live within the rules as much as I can. I'm far from perfect, but on the whole I try to make a point of satying within the "rules". Like I said, there are reasons I do this - too complex to go into here. Second - one thing I definitely do not do is lie. Being lied to has been a significant factor in my life - so I won't do it. And third - I also don't make unfounded accusations.

For a list of the things I DO do, well, it would be distressingly long....!

[Vivienne]

hangs head in shame again... promises not to do it again

[Walter Sobchak]

I just want Asda to do what their predecessors done a few years ago.

Asda in Yeovil is what used to be Co-op Leos and before that it was Co-op Pioneer.
When it was Pioneer, they decided to do a promotion, allowing any money-off coupons from any store to be used at Pioneer.
Unfortunately the wording on their adverts was wrong...
It said that they would accept money-off coupons from anywhere, and would also allow them to be used against any product.
This affectively turned all coupons into cash!

You could hardly find coupons anywhere from lands-end to birmingham, I managed to get together about £5.00 worth, so I tried driving to the store, but there were queues blocking the car park, so I went home and walked back to the store, people had walking along the road there were Hire vans from Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester etc etc.
When I got there, and fought through the queues to get in, the shelves were almost empty, and yet more HUGE queues at the checkouts, so I sold my fivers worth of coupons for £4.00 to some guy from leamington spa!
Give the Co-op their due though, they said that they would honour the promotion for the duration.

[Yudster]

hangs head in shame again... promises not to do it again

Daft woman!

[foot-loose]

I just want Asda to do what their predecessors done a few years ago.

Asda in Yeovil is what used to be Co-op Leos and before that it was Co-op Pioneer.
When it was Pioneer, they decided to do a promotion, allowing any money-off coupons from any store to be used at Pioneer.
Unfortunately the wording on their adverts was wrong...
It said that they would accept money-off coupons from anywhere, and would also allow them to be used against any product.
This affectively turned all coupons into cash!

You could hardly find coupons anywhere from lands-end to birmingham, I managed to get together about £5.00 worth, so I tried driving to the store, but there were queues blocking the car park, so I went home and walked back to the store, people had walking along the road there were Hire vans from Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester etc etc.
When I got there, and fought through the queues to get in, the shelves were almost empty, and yet more HUGE queues at the checkouts, so I sold my fivers worth of coupons for £4.00 to some guy from leamington spa!
Give the Co-op their due though, they said that they would honour the promotion for the duration.

Ahh

Safeway had that policy as well - but they didn't tell anyone about it, it was in the small small small print. There was one guy that knew about it and he used it every week. I had to drop a table and chair thing off at his house once - maaaasssiiivvveee mansion place!



Back to the getting past a long queue, do as Lee Evens suggests: "Just run at the checkout with a packet of Andrex above your head shouting 'GET OUT OF THE WAAAAYYY'"

[Vivienne]

Or, if you're female, just bat eyelashes at a male checkout assistant.

[SAV1OUR]

I've gotta admit I'm not a fan of them. I appreciate they must save on staffing costs but I'm sure they don't save any actual time. I've only ever been in one place with them tho, the Somerfield in Manc city centre, and I don't go there often. So I don't worry about it too much.

Me neither, I think that was probably the first time I used one, what made me laugh though was the huge area dedicated to those that wanted to purchase their ciggies. Staff were very thin on the ground, and not from some bloke knocking them all down with a bit of Andrex on his forehead either.

[S4B]

Back to the getting past a long queue, do as Lee Evens suggests: "Just run at the checkout with a packet of Andrex above your head shouting 'GET OUT OF THE WAAAAYYY'"

Or if female a packet of tampax, clutching your stomach asking where the loos are also works

[SAV1OUR]

Is that how you got to meet the big man? Hehe.

[S4B]

lol no that was much easier, I just sold more copies of his book in one day than any other store in the country

[claradooblue]

did they give you any tpe of reward for that? Employee of the year, free dinner or holiday or whatever.

[Boboff]

Did you sell more books becuase you were a fan, or has selling more books made you a fan S4B ?