People are supposed to have common courtesy, and not slow down the express checkout lanes with lots of items, but of course people are douches and take advantage and store employees are told not to say anything for risk of offending a paying customer.

I'm from Canada. People here are too polite to do that. [spoiler]I'm kidding. Those people really piss me off.[/spoiler]

I wouldn't say shoot them for punishment but a 30$ fine for wasting people's time and not following store policy -Store Police

Being a person who used to work in retail, you get paid so little nobody gives a shit, minimum wage means minimum labor, I wasn't even learning anything important aside from when anyone's in a grocery store there all a dick, worker or customer, to be honest it's workers vs customers. The worst thing I can remember is in "training", they showed us a news report of some 40 year old deli worker who had worked there 10 years, usually worked 10 hour days, took the bus back and forth, waited for said bus for 30 minutes when leaving and how blessed he felt to work at the store. Granted he worked at what I'm assuming isn't a big chain like walmart or target, corporate wanted us to be like him, -blam!- that, retail blows and I'll hopefully never have to work it again.

Their are bigger problems in this world and that bothers you?

When i worked in retail, I had a few customers that came up in my line with a buggy full of crap and had the gall to ask me, " i know i have over 20, but you don't mind, right?" Me: " Yes , I do, but more importantly, i bet the folks behind you who DO have less than 20 items mind as well . This is the express lane for a reason, ma'am. Management didn't like that one bit. Didn't get in trouble, but i was strongly advised not to do it again.

As someone who works in retail now, I shared in your frustration yesterday. At about 5 PM it was getting very busy and people with hundreds of items were starting to come in out of nowhere. One of the Head Clerks already left, the other CCs were out somewhere else as told to me by the floor manager, and I was the only one there to bag or put things away and so on and so forth for three separate lines, including an express lane. At that point I just think: "whatever, it's my job to do this and I'm getting paid, whatever, I'll just work as fast as I can and try to hurry." Which would normally be all I have to say to psych myself up for an onrush of people. But no, what pissed me off this day was that a lot of the people coming through had kids, in my age range of 18-22 and so on, and a lot of the shit I was bagging was obviously theirs. So as I'm struggling to be in 3 places at once and to keep up, these kids just stand there and stare at me with their arms crossed and don't do shit to help me bag their junk food. I blame the parents partially for clearly not enforcing their kids to do any labor for the stuff they're going to cram down their hole soon, and the kids for being too lazy and irresponsible to help someone who is clearly doing twice their normal work during a rush hour. I'm not asking them to do my job for me, but when I can barely take care of one lane at a time while groceries are piling up on two others, and these kids just stand there and text on their phones or stare at me with their arms crossed, it honestly pissed me off a lot. At this point we're exchanging the food for their money, and it is out of our hands by that point. If as soon as we hand them the food and they the money to us, and get outside of the lanes with their food in their hands, it is not our responsibility what happens to it. If everything was ready and in good shape to be eaten after they paid for it, we're not liable for their food being smooshed or destroyed when they get home. The least they could do when it's as busy as that is bother to help bag and put their shit in the carts, because I don't get paid enough to ask thousands of questions, put their stuff away in an ordered fashion, then have to bend over for them so they can just watch nonchalantly as I try to not crush their goods. Because I so easily could just toss their shit where I please at that point. Had several groups of people just stand there and look at me instead of bothering to lift a finger to help put THEIR food away. If I was the parents of a lot of their kids, they wouldn't be allowed to eat anything that I just paid for if they're not helping to put it away. This is at a Kroger store in my case.

I haven't seen you around in a while, mate. How's it going and all? Why are posters ignoring the humorous elements in this?! That motiff that she's a dog... A bitch (yeah, I caught that) and a fat one at that is supposed to work like a layer cake of funny. It's like everyone's dieting!

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I never go to Walmart. I go to the store I work at. Prices are a bit higher but the store is cleaner and has better customer service.

it pisses me off when there's a crap ton in the cart and food stamps pay it off.

its because... they work the register in a grocery store. Not to be a dick. But unless they are young/retired/just trying to get by, the odds are they dont have alot of self confidence, nor do the like confrontation. Usually people that dont deal with shit like that and arent afriad to say something, also want to do more with their life. "Dont rock the boat" and all that.

Express checkout lanes hardly even exist up here. Somebody sees that you have less items than they do and ask you to go ahead of them. Canada ftw.

Nope. You just live in a shitty place. And I been to four different places in England, 2 in Wales, 1 in Portugal and 3 different Walmarts when I was in Florida and that never happened. Then again we never used the express line because there was four of us so that's a lot of food...

I laughed whenever you made fun of her obesity, am I going to hell? I feel for you though, it never fails to be the person who's got way to many items and then decides it's time to cash in their -blam!-ing food stamps. The cashier never knows what's going on so it takes an extra 10 minutes for them to fumble through with that and all I wanted to get was one simple gift card. That's all! Something that should take me literally seconds turns into several minuets. My Walmart has recently gotten self checkouts so that's a rare scenario now.