Thread 21584405

Your local grocery store clerks have come to know you, your cooking habits, your issues with alcohol. They see that you buy tons of juvenile food so they wonder about how many kids that you have. Really the only thing that breaks up the monotony of ringing up groceries is coming to understand your regular customers.

self checkout + I shop at multiple stores for the best selection and prices.

I love near a discount chain and I'm one of the few people who buys fresh food from it. Poor people love processed slop.

If they’re not even gonna bag my shit anymore I’m using self checkout and I’m stealing as much as I can get away with

>>21584405 (OP)
>Your local grocery store clerks have come to know you, your cooking habits, your issues with alcohol
I don't drink. Not really. Funny enough, my wife and I drink so rarely that champagne is overrepresented in our alcohol consumption because we pretty much only drink at New Year's.
>They see that you buy tons of juvenile food so they wonder about how many kids that you have
I don't know what juvenile food is and any clerk who knows us knows we only have the one kid.
>>21584423
Similar, except I refuse to use self checkout if I can avoid it. If I'm doing the work, I want to be compensated. One store actually gives a slight discount (very slight) for using self checkout. Like 10¢ off or some nonsense lmao
>>21584437
Theft is wrong. You shouldn't steal.

>>21584562
I find my time to be more valuable than a slow ass clerk, so I’d rather just scan it myself.

>>21584405 (OP)
The guy at the meat store unironically starts cutting up the meat that is on discount as soon as I walk in the store.

>>21584563
They're pretty quick where I am and because we use digital coupons and shit and the prices don't always come off, self checkout often takes longer for me. I have to wait for the till-girl to finish aiding some pensioner who can't figure out how to scan a tomato before she comes over, sees the sale price/digital coupon didn't come off and adjust it with her key card. The girls at the normal till only deal with one person at a time.
If I'm behind some fat mammy type bitch with an overflowing trolley and her brood of chirruns, yeah, I might use self checkout.

>>21584437
>stealing groceries
I'm picturing a fat ugly commie with rotten teeth. Amirite?

>>21584430
Food Depot is as ghetto as you get, and they live and die on fresh produce and meat.

I'm a loner weirdo but not desperate for human interaction like an /r9k/ incel
Once, I went to Walmart, got a blender, V-8 juice, and some vegetables
The cashier says "Oh I know what you're doing"
Me *seething, say nothing*
What I want to say is "Shut the fuck up. It's none of your business what I'm doing. Just ring up the little doohickeys."
JFC I hate dealing with people

>>21584405 (OP)
the grocery store clerks know more than they let on

my grocery store clerk is my homie. he rings me up for a concerning amount of alcohol and we bullshit about balatro

Am a wagie: me and fellow coworkers don't give a fuck about you or your purchasing habits. Here in California there are even consumer privacy law prohibiting clerks and company employees (managers) from getting too intrusive, talking shit, etc. While on the clock anyway.

Someone not on company time can do or say what they want.

>>21584405 (OP)
I used to work as a clerk. They'd don't really give that much of a shit about you. Who were we to judge? We're a goddamn clerk. I had some regulars that I was cool with, though.

I buy my liquor from the liquor store and every person employed there is also an alcoholic

>>21584952
This is true. I used to work as a clerk at one of my local liquor stores lmfao. Since I worked third shift in a small town, I was the only one in the store and whenever it would get really slow, I'd sneak off and take shots. I wasn't one to judge and my regulars knew that. I got to become really friendly with some of them because if they had a bad day at work, you were the first person that they'd come to see and unload on. I had at least 7 women give me their number and was invited to weddings, cookouts, etc.

>>21584946
What a bunch of cucks
At my workplace we always laugh at the fatties and faggots

i really need to up my flirt game with cashier girls

>>21585076
Is this the only time you talk to women that you're not related to? They do that to encourage repeat business. 20 years ago, Bank of America used to post young girls greeting customers when they walked into a branch, Same thing.

>>21585101
Sometimes I put unexpected items in the bagging area just so a woman's voice will talk to me ;_;

the people who work at my grocery store are all teenagers and literal retards. i doubt any of them give a fuck about me

>>21584705
I go to Big pussy in Canada, all the trashy people buy wings and hot dogs.

>>21585109
>presort on the conveyor belt so the cold stuff is separate from the warm stuff
>they still put jars of pasta sauce in the same bag as the frozen peas
It's tiring.

>>21584405 (OP)
I buy my meat at the local whole animal butcher. My bread from the local French bakery that imports their organic wheat from France. My fish comes from the pier. My vegetables come from my organic hippy CSA, which delivers once a week.

I get some cheap wine and ice cream, toilet paper, canned stuff, and cooking oils from the grocery store. My cashiers must think i have the worst diet in the world.

>>21584405 (OP)
Nope, because 100% self checkout now. I only see clerks at the wine store, which is a rare trip.

The only people who know me are the waiters at restaurants I frequent for lunch.

>>21585259
Self checkout solved all these problems. Faster, no incompetence outside of the occasional label not scanning (shit from meat or produce is always the culprit).

>>21585394
What sort of places do you frequent for lunch? What types of lunches do you have? How often are these lunches?

turnover is so insanely high the odds of anyone learning my habits from observing my purchases at brick and mortars are laughably low. it never cease to amaze me how basic causality is lost on the average person. like engage your brain for two minutes goddamn lmao

>>21585419
Most of the supermarkets in my area are the same people now as when I first bought my house here thirteen years ago.

>>21584946
>Here in California there are even consumer privacy law prohibiting clerks and company employees (managers) from getting too intrusive, talking shit, etc.
The only good thing about Commiefornia

we're out of 305's quit fucking checking go to a gas station

>>21584405 (OP)
When I wasn't locked into a department I'd just judge silently your beer choices and if you bought a custom cake with food stamps. As a decorator I judge you even harder if your using food stamps on a custom cake.
>Inb4 they're buying your product you hypocrite!
Custom cakes shouldn't count. It's not food. Go buy cake mix and learn how to bake.

>>21585692
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