I shop at Winco as I save 35-40% on groceries. Yeah, the lines can be long and I have to bag my own groceries, customer service is lacking and the place looks like a warehouse- BUT, I get cheap groceries. And I need to save money. However, in a pinch, when I need an item or two I hustle up the street to Safeway as they are closer and supposed to offer much better customer service to make up for the horrendous price mark up. So up I go for some powdered sugar for my wife who is baking a cake. I pick the over priced item and head to te checkout line. OK, there are 3 lines, and they are all long. Well, that happens, so I head to the express line- you know, the one for customers with 15 items or less. And, as happens to me 4 out of 5 times I shop here, there's a lady with 16,781 items in her cart in the express line. Clearly, she doesn't care. The checker doesn't care. But the 5 people behind her sure do. So of course she has to debate prices, screws up her debit card a couple of times, then she demands to see the tape as she thinks she may have been overcharged on an item. After she gets the affirmation she was not overcharged the 17 cents, she finally leaves. This is it. This is the last time I will ever shop there. Checkers need to have the guts to tell someone to get in the right line.
Start coughing on the lady, tell her you think you have the Swine Flu. If she doesn't let you cut in front of her cough a few more times on her.
ABM tells a great story about his bagger days at Keinows when he was about age 16. This lady used to give them hell about everything. I mean she made their lives miserable. So one day they made sure when she left the bread was sqeezed in two, eggs smashed... her bag of groceries was as close to destroyed as they could make it. Never saw her again.
......and the lady than pulls out her checkbook (even though the sign clearly states "No Checks!")........but, only after the said items have been fully checked. Oh, and she writes everything in her register before writing the check itself. Yep. Been there, done that.
I think it was that same lady who was the "star" of a similar Kienow's story: It was back in the day when all the grocery prices had to be stamped or marked on the items themselves. The lady had purchased a box of Kotex, but it had no price on it. So, when the checker called over the intercom, "I need a price check on a box of Kotex, please.........".......one of my buddies responded back over the intercom (the whole store heard these conversations back in the day).... "Did you need a case price on that?" Needless to say, he got called into the manager's office. Nonetheless, he was a hero in our eyes!
I have to admit I've always wondered why people choose to pay so much for groceries. My wife & I eat very well (steak, ribs...) and help my daughter out with meals as well as her two college kids and we spend about $200 per month on groceries. I know couples who pend nearly twice that.
Did the lady have at least 10 items over the limit? I hate when I go to the express lane with maybe 16 or 17 items (two above the "limit") and the lady behind me starts eying my count and making one of those disguised counts. I can tell she's a bitch and is gonna be pissed once she reaches 16. It just makes me livid for some reason.
