I can no longer shop happily

[venta]

If you are going to the supermarket the please observing the following rules:

1. Do not walk backwards, or suddenly change direction, without looking behind you.


2. Do not walk forwards unless you are looking in front of you, either.


3. Keep your child on reins or hold its hand. Or teach it to look where it's going. I don't mind which.


4. If you need to stop to think/chat/scratch, consider whether you are blocking an aisle before choosing your location.

Also, while I appreciate that having two members of staff attaching the pricing labels to the sandwich shelves is quicker than one, having them stand shoulder-to-shoulder while a queue forms to look at the sandwiches is silly.

I'm normally quite a placid person, but Cowley Road Tesco has nearly induced in me a homicidal rage this morning.

Comments

[uitlander]

13. Do not unload your trolley at the till and then remember a 'last few things', dash off, and leave the queue behind you completely blocked as the checkout girl was halfway through ringing up your stuff.

14. If you do #13. Do not announce cheerily to the crowd that you're in a hurry when you get back.

15. Do not stand checking your bill at the till, start arguing with the checkout girl over missed 'special offers' that Tesco forgot to add into their computers and generally obstructing everyone else from leaving - this is why they have a customer service desk.

16. Try and remember that some people go to Tescos in their 'lunch hour' which is, by convention, only an hour long... hence why they are trying to do things with some degree of speed and efficiency.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Further to 15 - when your shopping has passed through the till please pay, then go. No, I mean now, before that other thing you're about to do.