I hate grocery clerks who have a running commentary on my

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I've never had someone peer into my cart that I've noticed. I also never notice what other people are buying. I'm pretty self-centered.

[cat98c]

I love this thread so much that I'm delurking to share a story. I worked as a cashier at our local supermarket when I was in high school. I went to a Catholic school that had a few random days off that the public schools didn't, and they asked me to come in and cover one weekday.

I'm ringing up a customer, being pleasant but minding my own business, when he looks at me and says, "I bet you regret being a single mother now! Don't you wish you'd stayed in school?"

Um, what? It's 20 years later and I still giggle, because I don't have kids now, and I sure didn't then. I don't even remember how I responded.

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Jul 10, 2013 8:55:49 GMT -5 Miss Phryne Fisher said:

Jul 10, 2013 8:48:03 GMT -5 @beagle said:

You don't have those things where you can look up the item and print a label for it, so all the cashier does is scan the label?

I have only ever seen those at Wegmans, not at any I have worked in. They are convenient. 

My second grocery job (Albertsons) made us have a produce test weekly. It was a pretty good idea, I know my strange produce pretty well. 

We had zero training on produce and had to rely on a little booklet at the register that listed the names and codes, but no pictures. Testing (and training) would have been a brilliant idea. I just empathize with the workers a lot having been there before. That being said, I also avoid the talkative checkout people. 

[cbwm1]

When I was in grad school, I went to Wal-Mart with my roommate and we both bought wine and condoms.

The cashier was a pervy old man and was like, "Looks like you guys are going to have fun tonight!" with a creepy eyebrow waggle. We were totally skeeved out then. It's funny now.

[BaliHai]

This is my worst nightmare at the grocery store, and why I almost always try to use the self-checkout unless it's a big trip.

[cheeseandcrackers]

haha, this is why i always run to the self check out if there is one

[mirandahobbes]

Trader Joe's people are trained to comment on the food, offer serving suggestions, etc. It's a bit annoying when you're buying all junk - I like my mac and cheese, back off!

[janiejones]

I definitely had my "regular" drug store lady comment on my OPK's once thinking it was a pregnancy test. I was mortified by her commentary because we were struggling with IVF, and it wasn't a fucking test, and there was a huge line and she was the only cashier, so everybody heard the whole thing. (She said something about how she "just knew" she was pregnant with each of her kids, but you know women these days can't wait or trust their instincts, yadda yadda, she hoped I got whatever result I wanted....) I stopped going to that store (near my work) even if she saved all the good magazines for me the day they came in.

[joshlyman]

Jul 10, 2013 8:27:59 GMT -5 natsnow said:

This was my first thought lol

[janiejones]

Also, I always spy on people's carts, but I rarely judge. I like to imagine what meals they are going to make, if they are having a party, eating solo, etc.
It's an inner dialogue.

[sergey]

I never get this at the grocery store but I buy a lot of frames for my gallery wall at Goodwill and the cashier usually talks about how pretty the 'art' in the frame is. It actually makes me feel kinda bad because I am about to throw that shit in the trash.

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Jul 10, 2013 8:39:28 GMT -5 wambam said:

It should be a rule that if you ring up condoms, tampons, or pregnancy tests, you just DON'T SAY ANYTHING.

I had a bunch of food stuffs, a case of beer and a 2-pack of pregnancy tests on the belt.  DD was with me.  There goes the beer, there goes some food, dude swipes the pregnancy tests and says, "So do you want another one?"  I said, "Um, did ya see the beer?"  He nervously laughed and said, "No, I mean... these 2-liters are BOGO.  Do you want the second one?"  Um, yes.  I do want a second 2-liter and I will STFU now, thanks.

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Jul 10, 2013 9:24:38 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Jul 10, 2013 8:26:58 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

OMG, I fucking hate that. There is one checker at my grocery store who is so annoying about it that I avoid her.

Last time, she checked out the nutrition info on some breakfast sandwiches I had and told me she couldn't eat them because they had too many calories.

WTFFFFF. Did you say something to her manager? This is so fucked up.

Nah, I just rolled my eyes at her.  I think it was just a 'dur' moment on her part.  

[rex]

When we used to go to TJ's, a worker there would always talk to us (what is it with TJs workers and being SO chatty?!). He always judged my cart contents because they were so healthy and he thought I should get junk food. Which, um, I did.

My H is TOO nice and would talk to this guy for like 10 min every time we were in the store which just encouraged him.

Leave me the F alone and let me buy my kale in peace!

[chickadee77]

This doesn't bug me at places like Central Market, or Trader Joe's. But at Publix? Um, yeah. It's a spaghetti squash. It's not a new item, I promise.

ETA: I mean, if they don't KNOW what it is, then by all means, ask, but don't indicate that it's some brand new vegetable that's just been invented.

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Last week, I bought pregnancy tests, bottles of wine, a bag of hershey's kisses, a frozen pizza, a chick flick and a big box of condoms. Girl cashier gave me a high five and said, "My kind of girl, my kind of night."

[Stingyshark]

:-[There is one cashier that does this - she is also super slow. I avoid here at all costs. A few of the cashier make fun of me for how often I'm there.

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I don't usually mind the small talk. The thing that annoys me is when the cashier is like "is this dill? Ok, let's see if I can jog my memory...dill,dill dill,dill...hmm *punches in 7 different codes*..hmm, nope. *looks it up* ahh, I knew it was that one!"

Lol, no you didn't. And I don't have time for this, do you see these 2 kids hanging off of me? Speed it up!

[bania]

There's one guy I try to avoid. The first time, he untied the twist tiea and retied my bags from the bulk section. He explained that most people don't do them right enough. I don't. So I thanked him even though it was strange. Then he said he has gotten in trouble for doing that before and someone had complained. Okay yet he's still doing it apparently.

The next visit, I made sure to twist them several times so they were nice and tight. I mistakenly went to his line again and he STILL retied them.