1. Does anybody even still buy gum in the checkout line? They tell us over and over don’t pick up stuff here, it’s all meant to suck you into an impulse buy, you get a better deal on multipacks in the candy aisle so why do they still waste the – ooh! Snickers!
2. There’s a certain irony in “Liam Neeson’s Career At Risk Over Racist Comments” being considered a shocking headline. I can hear the movie executives now: So who should we get for the lead? Mid-level budget, action, suspense – I know! Let’s get that guy who told the world he stalked the streets with a bat hoping to kill whatever black guy wandered into his path! He’ll be perfect!
3. I’m a grown woman well over twenty-one. I pay my taxes, drive on the right side of the road, and keep my kids in school. I’m a card carrying member of the Handle Your Shit club with a side membership in the Mind Your Business society. So tell me again why I can’t pick up a bottle of moscato with my groceries on the way home from church? Damn, North Carolina.
4. You can still pay by check at a grocery store? Huh.
5. I’m gonna need this woman to stop rolling up on me. Push that cart one inch closer, lady, and I will wait until this guy completely clears his groceries and heads out before I even start putting things on the conveyor belt.
6. Okay, dude with only five items, I see you giving my cart the evil eye. That’s why I’m in the full service lane. Go find an express checkout for people who run to the store for peanut butter, beer, Brillo pads, and toothpaste.
7. Why are you bagging those things together? Is it too much to ask you bag it like it sits? For the love, I’m just a girl staring at a checkout cashier asking her to keep my produce separate from the cold items.
8. HEY. LADY. Would you like me to turn the keypad so you can see my PIN easier? Take three steps back or your cantaloupe gets it.
9. I’ll take the bread and eggs I’ll take the bread and eggs I’ll take the bread and eggs I’ll take the – yeah, sure, dropping it sideways into the cart will work, too.
10. Ah, look at that. The sky’s opened. Because the only thing that makes loading groceries into the car more fun is doing it in the pouring rain.
This is perfect, thanks for posting this. Why do people want to push their carts so close in the check out line? I agree with you, and I like the gum in the check out lines, too
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The comments here have been ver reassuring. I thought maybe I was being a bit touchy about personal space but looks like plenty of people agree on the carts.
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Gawd I hate grocery shopping. You’ve done a wonderful job here. This week, I will be posting a grocery store story as well. You may LOL, but you will definitely shake your head.
Indiana is in year two of allowing liquor sales on Sunday. It’s an amazing time to be alive. (Unless you’re in a dry county, some of which we still have.)
I buy Moo gum in the checkout lane. She has a problem, Laura, and I feed her addiction because it’s cheap, sugar-free, and easy.
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We pick our battles. My kids are both gum addicts but the hubby keeps them in supply because he’s just as bad and honestly, I hardly ever think to pick it up. TMJ and all. I’m just a barrel of laughs over here.
And I’ll tell ya, nothing would motivate me to move out faster than living in a dry county surrounded by a sea of “yes, ma’am, I’ll be happy to sell you that wine this morning.” Yikes.
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Right?
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It’s as if you are sat of my shoulder while I shop. Why do the self service tills have the worst ever bar scanner. Why do people have to squeeze over tomato before they decide which bag to go for. Why do they keep moving the soya milk. Why do they have more stock of Pot Noddles than the entire gluten free selection.
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These are all EXCELLENT questions. The only way to get a decent gluten free selection is to hit three different stores but I’m too stubborn to do it…
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LOL – I wanna go shopping with you-you have way more fun than I do! Love #8!
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If you can’t laugh about it then how will you make yourself go the next time… 😆
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So true! Plus it makes the time fly by faster too!
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I love all of these! And Number 5? All the way.
I used to live in an area where the median age was around 80 (and angry), and the old ladies would roll up so far on me in line that I used to keep a running tab of how many times per month I had to physically push their cart back because it was literally PRESSED against my butt. What’s with that?!
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“80 (and angry)” 😂😂😂
That sounds like a sticker you ought to carry with you, ready to slap on an offending shopping cart as warning for the next person!!
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Strikes me as a lot of waste of energy that first we mus take stuff off shelves and put it in our cart, then take stuff out of our cart and put it on the conveyor belt, then put it in bags (where I shop you bag your own), back into the cart, out to the car, into the car, from the car to the house, into cupboards, refrigerators, freezers. Whew! I’m exhausted! And hungry.
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And there’s a lot of my impulse candy bar purchases right there…
I have to admit what you’re describing right here is why I’ve started buying a lot of our staples on Amazon. Sure, I still have to go to the store for dairy/frozen/fresh produce but at least I can knock out TP and paper towels from my couch.
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I need to check out canned tomatoes online. Canned things are so heavy and I don’t use many of them but every little bit would help.
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True. Now you still have to lug the box into the house and unpack it then break down and recycle the box, but it cuts out a few steps and makes that store time shorter. Worth it to me.
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You make it sound like grocery shopping isn’t any fun! Man, I super-duper appreciate our checker-outers now. They LITERALLY have competitions sponsored by the store for best bagger, so they all treat your groceries as if they were their own. Also: small town, you might be their kid’s truant officer.
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THAT’S the kind of store I need. If they pass out chocolates on the way in then all the better.
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LOL! They’re not quite THAT nice! ~grin~
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There’s nothing like the bagger who puts meat in with the produce and several layers of canned goods on top of the bread. “Take three steps back or your cantaloupe gets it.” I love that line!
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Yep. And did you know it’s totally possible to threaten somebody’s fruit just with your eyes? It’s a skill.
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My wife can do that. Sadly, I don’t have the knack.
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Too bad. It works on intrusive shoppers and disruptive kids alike.
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I feel your pain about the wine. We used to have dry Sundays around here until, as the area suburbanized, the small town Baptists lost their steely grip on our township politics– and alcohol is now available for purchase on Sunday. Hallelujah, I say. 🙄
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I guess I should be grateful they finally caved enough to allow sales after noon…I just get cranky when my free time conflicts with someone else’s decision about when I should be allowed to buy alcohol. Sheesh.
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ah, the joy of grocery hunting and gathering!
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Current day cavegirl survival skills 😆😂
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That’s it-
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Yeah, that is Monday for you!🤪
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😀 bulK! 😀
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🙂 yes, I do!
It‘s the one thing I mostly forget to buy in bull 😉
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It’s a catch 22. Buying bulk saves money but the kids just seem to go through it faster. 🙄
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