Annoying things shopkeepers and their assistants do......

[joeluke]

.......one happened to me this morning, instead of handing me my change the newsagent 'poured' the 4 coins into my hand as if my hand was a receptacle for collecting fruit machine winnings!

Maybe I'll fold my fiver into an aeroplane shape and fire it towards him next time

[smurfchops]

I love the ones who scratch their head (with gloves on so what is the point of the gloves?) before they cut up your ham for you. Boxtops, next time you go to the newsagent, I am sure you have a rough idea of how much your newspaper etc. will cost. Save up your pennies, and count them all out on the counter. Slowly. They will love that. Then leave it on the counter so they have to pick all the pennies up. Nice one. Then go to another newsagent in future !

[erin-x]

I work in superdrug and I like to think that i'm a very helpful shop assisstant. I think some people who work in shops (including my workmates who I love dearly :) ) just lack some common sense when they ignore customers etc. Essentially, I act how I would like to be treated in shops but at the same time we do have a job to do. Even when I go into another superdrug it bugs me when they ask about stamps and topups but its what we get told to do otherwise we get pulled up for it.

[joeluke]

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'I act how I would like to be treated in shops'

You've hit the nail on the head there Erin

Pity some shop workers don't adopt the same attitude

[B00]

Totally agree as well.

Believe it or not, I am nice to our customers. Some of them, despite me saying i hate them, i can tolerate in small doses ;-)

[joko]

i suppose it works both ways boo...and i dont blame you one bit...
i would probably feel the same if i worked in a checkout....but i guarantee most of us hate you too...well rather couldnt care one little bit about you or whether you hate me or your job, or are having a Sugar day with Sugar customers...we not only dont give a toss, it doesnt even occur to us to wonder how you feel...why would it?
just serve me in a civil manner and thats it...

the reason you hate customers is because you have to be nice to people that you are irrelevent to...

i would too

[joeluke]

I understand your point Boo, if you can deal with the customer in a nice manner even though you don't particularly like them then that's fine

It's the ones who make it blatantly obvious that they can't be bothered giving you a decent service that p1$$ the customer off

[B00]

Zakly Joko, and I'm glad you finally get my point Joe ;-)

I'm civil to you, will help if you need it. But when all is said and done, that's all you as customers require from us and that's what you get.

Doesn't mean I have to actually like you, and as Joko pointed out, you as the customer don't care whether I do or not, as long as I do my job well.

[B00]

Not quite sure what you mean there steve?

[dotty.]

Customers in general are rude, ignorant, arrogant, holier than thou, lying, money grabbing, pompous gits.
And after working in retail for 34 of my 55 years on this planet I no longer expect anything less of them and when someone actually offers praise it is astonishing and usually well overdue, to my credit I have never once retaliated in kind when a customer has been a total @rse nor have I ever succumbed to violence, though often been close. I have never ever done anything else and I have seen it all, it won't change, people will always try to belittle people who work in shops, but hey, let them shop online if they don't like it and let's see how far they et arguin my email,

[dotty.]

*by email

[Barmaid]

I am always lovely to the checkout assistant in Tescos but I object when all I get is grunts, my shopping practically thrown down the conveyer belt and no please or thank yous. I would never dream of being so rude.

On Christmas Eve at 5am in Tescos the woman who served us was SO damn rude, I couldn't help but comment to my FH "Another graduate of the Mussolini school of charm". Despite her chucking my goods at me and raising nothing more than a grunt I was still polite. I honestly thought that she bloody well didn't deserve to be serving anyone she was so ghastly. yeah its a Sugar job, but it ain't my fault. I still wished her a Merry Christmas as we left.

[KARL]

I ask for (say) two pieces (or kg, or m, whatever) of X and immediately get asked "What are you going to use it for ?" (usually in connection with warious materials). I can't understand why that happens at all and it really annoys me when it does - either they have it or they do not - I want to buy, end of story.

[KARL]

*various (how did that happen ?)

[tiggerblue10]

It cuts both ways I guess. A lot of the cashiers are nice but a few of them could do with a course in CS. I've dealt with customers of a different sort with my job and lets just say I was glad that we had a bullet proof glass between us.