How To Annoy A Grocery Cashier...

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1. Purchase Four Boxes of KIX that regularly sell for $3.39 a box.
2. Present club card to get sale price of 4 foxes for $6.
3. Present FOUR coupons for .50 off a box that are from the late 80's/early 90's, but were marked "No Expiration Date".
4. Have coupons doubled due to store policy.
5. Pay cashier $2 and leave.

Seriously though, I paid her in bills instead of quarters and it's not like I locked up the register.

[jobsquad]

Mar 1, 2010 0:52:39 GMT -5 default said:

1. Purchase Four Boxes of KIX that regularly sell for $3.39 a box.
2. Present club card to get sale price of 4 foxes for $6.
3. Present FOUR coupons for .50 off a box that are from the late 80's/early 90's, but were marked "No Expiration Date".
4. Have coupons doubled due to store policy.
5. Pay cashier $2 and leave.

Seriously though, I paid her in bills instead of quarters and it's not like I locked up the register.

LOL. I do not see anything wrong with that, it's just being smart. The last line makes the post though, lol.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

I would be turned on by how savvy a shopper you are. Love me people who know how to manage their money.

[Clarence "Showstealer" Mason]

4 Foxes for $6?

I need to go where you shop that's good eating

[bob]

hahaha

nice

[Dave the Dave]

It would only be annoying if you held something up and tried mixing 4 sales and 10 different coupons.

What you did is sane compared to a lot of people.

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Yeah. I've held up lines already due to locking machines (the manager has to come over and unlock it.) and annoyed customers. I don't really care about that, as I've had the same thing happen to me (and honestly, it takes less time than say a price check at Wal-Mart). Plus, it's always the soccer moms that start to yell. The ones that spend an hour or more in the store but then suddenly have to check out as quickly as they can.

I should also note I was nice enough while walking around the store to find a stock boy and point out that they had 24 packs of Friskies marked for 47 cents... total (complete with description and even the price per pound matching the messed up price). After that cashier, I was tempted to go back and grab some and demand to get that price, but I was on foot and it's a two mile walk back. But maybe she was having a bad day or something.

[Red Impact]

The easier way is to do what this guy did.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I don't see what's so annoying about that. Back when I worked retail, that was easy. It got once I was trusted enough to have override numbers and I could make the till do whatever I needed it to do to get the job done.

Something doesn't scan? Too much of a hassle to figure out the correct price?

Me: Any idea what the price was?
Them: $x.xx
Me: You gotta promise not to return this.

And I'd just ring it in as whatever.

Whatever. I made the line move.

[Jobes]

You know what's even better? Not annoying them because they probably make minimum wage, and they're just doing their job.

[Annette]

Nah, that's not annoying. I've been a cashier before - annoying is throwing a fit because your credit card is rejected... as if I'M the magical power that decides who gets credit or not. >.>

[Pervy Stone Cold]

No expiration date coupons are something special.

[Deleted]

Having worked in a grocery store, if they truly got mad they need to get bent. That happened all the time in the store I worked at and rarely was it a problem.

Now, if you didn't have your act together in the line and had to shuffle through stuff for ages to find it and was holding up the register because of it then it would have pissed them off and rightfully so. But if you had it all ready and they got mad then they haven't been there very long cause that happens ALL the time.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

That nothing dude. Compared to the BS other people do. It's not just grocery stores. The more annoying stuff I find being I worked as cashier in both clothing and Big Lots who sells a little of everything. The people who do spend hours and hours putting stuff in there cart, not shopping because heres why. They go to the register to check out but stand there one item at a time deciding if they wanted it or not. Then go ask opinions to others if they like it. Basic doing the real shopping in line holding up the line. I spent a hour (Not joking) with one person because they had a cart full of stuff and did that to ever item. After I scan them they would go take that off I don't know. Put that back on. But take this other one off. I'm like this is something you should do before you get in line. Making up your mind what you want.

More sad that the prices on Big Lot stuff is right there on the items. They still go. That was $X.XX. I'm like yeah that what it says.

[theryno665]

Speaking as a former grocery cashier, I probably wouldn't care. I might be a bit confused at first and think "Can we actually do this?" but then I remember "Hey, I'm working at a soul-sucking job and don't give a crap." The only coupon-related issue I had was the lady who would buy like $400 worth of groceries and walk out for less than $100 because she literally bought like 10-20 copies of the Sunday paper each week and spent all of her time clipping coupons. And I wasn't even that mad about her saving money or possibly bilking the store out of money, it just took forever.

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Ok...
I have 2 unconnected stories

1. I was a the grocery store a fw weeks ago, and as usual there were probably 3 lines open. 2 Regular and one (sometimes) express lane. Well to make a long story short, it was starting to snow and the cashier of the express lane starts herding customers to her line regardless of order size to get people out before the snow gets too bad.
This couple with a cart full end up in front of this....assholic older fella with only one item. He then starts freaking out over the fact that he's waiting for a full cart in the express lane. He's quite literally yelling at the cashier BEFORE he ever gets to his turn, then eends up arguing and almost hitting someone when the cashier actually rings out his order. His total....less than $4 and he pays with....a $100 dollar bill. A f***ing c-note for a less than $4 purchase that a manage has to come and approve and key in change for. It actually takes longer for him to check out than the cart full of items because the manager has to get off of the register he's hopped on to help with coverage to go to the back and get change.

The second is a much nicer story

There was a lady when I worked at Target, she came in rehularly and was always especially nice. The only "issue" anyone ever had with her was she always carried a thick envelope of Coupons for her ENTIRE purchase. She was crazy about it, every item had a coupon multiples if applicable and generally she'd also use her 10% Target Card coupon as well. Well, I'm not sure if it was a glitch with the system or not, but coupons apparently were counted oddly in one's speed score which mean that an abundance would mean a guarenteed drop in score. I never minded as she was always polite and HAD the coupons in date (And was more than willing to believe me if they weren't, which as mentioned was rare) and probably payed somehwere around 65%-75% less for her purchase....which could have been in the hundreds of dollars.

[BigBadZ]

Yea using coupons fairly is all good when I was a cashier. I get mad when a lady comes up with a 6 inch binder full of coupons and tries to use them to get a negative balance (when I have to pay them out of the till for buying groceries) and gets angry because I refuse to take 4 of the same coupons for 1 item. Some coupon people are crazy and try to sell coupons in the aisles.

[Porky's Butthole]

A number of years ago, there was a news story(I've searched for it with no luck), but an elderly woman took advantage of her local store's tripling coupon day. She was also a 'club member'. She walked in, filled two carts, presented her coupons and her card. Total bill? Zero dollars and zero cents. The coupons actually ended up in the negative, so *she got change back* from her coupons. Like $11, but still...who wouldn't want to walk into a store, fill two carts and get paid for it.