OT: Things that annoy you in retail stores
August 25th, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 10:37 AM ^
sans nipples.
August 25th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
Boobed mannequins WITH nipples, but those odd nipples that cover 85% of the boob...
August 25th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
I've never seen the saucer-dish areola kind. Usually just the puffy/pointy ones. Where have you seen the nips you mentioned?
August 25th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
When there's a price label on a shelf purporting to be a sale price, but you look underneath at the regular price and it's the same. I don't commit many crimes beyond mild speeding, but I rip that shit right off the grocery shelf when I see it. Come at me, Big Grocery.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
You are literally a Walmart Wolverine!?!?!?! :-D
August 25th, 2017 at 9:13 AM ^
Boy, there's OT and then there's OT. This is the latter. Criminy.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:13 AM ^
I hate it when stores have loud music playing. Why?
Also, I've walked by some stores that had a heavy perfume/cologne smell coming out of their doors. I have yet to go in one of these stores. Do they smell like that on purpose?
August 25th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
Judas Priest. You have to yell your order at those dipshits. Turn that hip-hop or emo indie shit the fuck down!
August 25th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 10:44 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
I just had a conversation about this and am firmly in camp "give me space". Apparently, the phenomenon could be partially cultural and rooted in population density, from places where queues are expected to be tight. The person inches from your back may be just as anxious about over-spacing as you are of under-spacing.
Last time this happened to me I just turned around with a startled look, "oh...hey there. Didn't realize the line was so tight!" And lo and behold it wasn't, and the guy backed away a couple feet.
August 25th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
Completely a cultural thing... you want your space in Tokyo for example? Be prepared to have a 100 people cut in front of you then. Same goes for the Middle East.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:16 AM ^
It's just the general impatience of people. Pick a line, stick to it. The 30-60 seconds you gain from picking your stuff back off the belt and finding a somewhat shorter register is not worth it.
And I don't really understand your beef with people giving others space. There's nothing I can't stand more than a person breathing down my neck when I'm waiting.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:17 AM ^
Parking lots.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^
I find other drivers in the parking lot to be annoying. Especially the ones who take the sight of empty spaces or areas as a signal to criss-cross every which way without even looking for other traffic.
August 25th, 2017 at 11:33 AM ^
I'm talking about how they are ugly, bad for the environment and actually dangerous as you are required to actually walk in the lanes of traffic. Glad I have had the opportunity to live where there is good public transit & have seen the beauty of not needing a car. It's a different world.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:19 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 9:19 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 11:53 AM ^
With scanners, number of items isn't as critical an issue for checkout speed as meithod of payment and coupons. Checkout lanes shoud be cash/credit, and check/coupons.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:20 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
This isn't OK(GD)Cupid, I'm shopping for groceries.
Told a clerk once "I'm here to shop, I didn't come for small talk."
Told I was rude, "Really? Knew you had a meat counter, didn't know you had a meat market too."
August 25th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 9:20 AM ^
Employees doing something else right near the check-out lines when there is a long line of people waiting to be checked-out.
August 25th, 2017 at 10:57 AM ^
Oh my fuck!
This enrages me.
How about you put down that fucking clipboard and grab a goddamned register you .....
/has stroke....
August 25th, 2017 at 9:22 AM ^
Hate when stores don't have one line for checking out, then call the next person to whichever register opens up. If a place doesn't, I always get screwed with the slow ass line. Kohls and Barnes & Noble are places that do have it, they get it.
Also hate middle aged women who try to bitch about everything in line, about how long the person in front of them is taking, but then try to use an expired coupon themselves, bitching over 50 cents.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:30 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 10:37 AM ^
Occasionally someone doesn't understand the one line concept and they just try to cut to the open register. This is a bigger problem at the gas/convenience store that I frequent.
August 25th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
Same here. The gas station I frequent has 1 line for 2-3 registers. There is always someone trying to skip the line. I had a lady tell me chivalry must be dead when I called her out on it. I replied "For rude people it is". She didn't like that but whatever. I don't get why some people think they are so much better then everyone else!
August 25th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
Exactly, her time isn't any more valuable than anyone else's. Get your ass in line.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:22 AM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 10:59 AM ^
I always... ALWAYS answer "no" to this just to see what they'll do.
Usually, they just say, I'm sorry. If they actually get concerned and want to help me, I fess up immediately.
I also sign my credit card with "please ask me for identification". No one ever has.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:23 AM ^
My biggest pet peeve with retail stores, including grocery stores is the cashier soliciting for donations as you pay for your goods. While usually all great causes, that just seems inappropriate to solicit like that in front of other customers. Time and place man!
August 25th, 2017 at 9:25 AM ^
I'm here to shop people......not to have sex with you!
August 25th, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
Haha - that is beautiful. I guess I'm not the only one.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:24 AM ^
In any store really - people parking their cart in the middle of the freaking aisle, as if no one else is going to need to get through.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
Or run into someone they know and have a conversation smack in the middle of everything, with people trying to maneuver their carts around them.
August 25th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
I have no tolerance for that kind of shit. I speak up when that happens, and usually get either a completely confused reaction (like they honestly gave it no thought), or they get nasty. People, man.
August 25th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
Or hunched over their cart on their cellphone... completely oblivious to anything going on around them.
August 25th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
August 25th, 2017 at 9:24 AM ^
I don't like to be asked if I'm "finding everything alright" or otherwise need help. The bigger the purchase, the more I like to be left alone so I can turn things over in my head, although of course the more likely I am to be bothered. Looking for nails? I might as well be invisible. Looking at refrigerators? It's like I'm putting out salesman pheromones. I will seek you out if I need something. Of course, that's when they disappear, so maybe I shouldn't complain after all.