People who abuse the "10 items or less" checkout lines

[HeXen]

i don't waste time caring. i pick a short line and go there. life is too short to let others bother you, much less complain about something that will produce no meaningful result.

 

[OutHouse]

the safeway near my house about the only 3 lanes open are the express lane.

 

[Lithium381]

Yep. Fat with entitlement personalities. The worst kind. 😛

*throws up*

 

[cavemanmoron]

Anyone else notice that people who go in the express checkout lines with three times the maximum number of items are always fat? :whiste:

I use the 20 items or less lane, and sometimes have 21 items.

😉

 

[BoomerD]

It's fun (for me) when I drive my "cripple cart" full of groceries up to wait in line and a cashier comes to take me into the "express lane." People often mutter under their breath about me having more items than I'm supposed to have...but fuck them. I was in the other line...the cashier moved me. When I hear them bitch...instead of using my debit card, I slowly write a check...and MIGHT make a mistake and have to re-write it a few times.

 

[Doppel]

Anyone else notice that people who go in the express checkout lines with three times the maximum number of items are always fat? :whiste:

Most Americans are fat, you could have asked anybody notice if they typically have two eyes? 🙂

 

[Red Squirrel]

That is my pet peeve when I go to the grocery store, unless it's the only lane open, which is often the case, then you don't have a choice.

Sometimes I only want one single item, yet I have to wait after people with a cart full.

 

[IronWing]

The express lines cater to people buying beer and cigarettes. Screw em.

 

[Baked]

If wanna buy more than 20 items, I would go to Costco.

 

[Exterous]

Lol, I feel the same way about Walmart. I almost never go, but if I do, I know the flesh-bulging trash circus I'm in for.

Walmart attracts a distinct and unique demographic -- ignorant, ill bred, bent and broken-gene, schneiderguy types. Even dollar stores are better. I adjust my expectations accordingly.

It depends on the walmart. There is a nice new one about 10 min west of us. Now the one downtown - that one is a mess. I'm suprised so many people would be willing to be seen in public like that...


Anyway - I really think stores should institute a scalable fee on items over the checkout sign. No fee for the first 5 items over. then $.10 for the first, $.20 for the second, $.40 for the third etc. Never going to happen but it would be nice

They also need to do that use fee/return credit thing with carts. Bunch of lazy fucks can't even be bothered to return a cart to the cart corral two spots over....

 

[mundane]

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[AyashiKaibutsu]

I hate when they do it at the self check-out express and it's taking even longer because they have to do this balancing act to get it to all fit on the weigher. One time with my 3 or 4 items, I walked by 4 people all doing that shit and went into the first normal line which was empty...

 

[Locut0s]

I'll add this, but this may be exclusive to lower east side manhattan:


Going to pathmark, and on the 15 items or less is a chinese family, mom, grandma and 20 little chinese kids, each having 15 items. Mom pays for her first 15 items, hands welfare/foodstamp card to next of kin in line. It drives me fucking nuts.

Lol. Well at least they found a loop hole. It's those that just don't give a fuck, blatantly ignore the rules and star at you like it's your fault when you point it out that bug me.

 

[halik]

People that are incapable of using the DIY check out machines in those lanes bug more more than someone with 15 items.

 

[Locut0s]

I'm usually the mellowest guy on the planet but so long as we are arguing about piddling little shit. One of the things that bothered me a bit the other day was that they put a new guy in the express checkout lane. Yes you have to deal with fewer individual items but the whole point of the express lane is speed. And a new guy would probably get more training scanning and dealing with larger orders, not smaller ones.

 

[Nebbers]

You know what bothers me the most about "10 Items or Less" lines?

That apparently almost every fucking store in America doesn't understand what the difference between "less" and "fewer" is. Items are a god damned countable item, thus it should say "10 Items or Fewer" and so far I've only seen two stores that do this correctly.

 

[sleep]

 

[Mike Gayner]

I worked at walmart (hmm over 20 years ago) as a cashier. I hated it when someone would come into the express lane with a full cart. All you can do is remind them that this line is for people with under 20 items. You can't tell them to go to another line.

When i see someone with more then 20 items i point them out to my kids and mention that is why they need to do well in school. I tell them that person can not read or count since they have more then 20 items and are in a express lane.

Most people around me will laugh and some will say something about them also. I have never had the person respond to me though.

Passive aggressive much?

 

[Locut0s]

You know what bothers me the most about "10 Items or Less" lines?

That apparently almost every fucking store in America doesn't understand what the difference between "less" and "fewer" is. Items are a god damned countable item, thus it should say "10 Items or Fewer" and so far I've only seen two stores that do this correctly.

Yes that'd teach em. Use proper grammar. That's all that's stopping them now.

Ohh now I see. Sorry I'll take my cart with 55 items over to one of the other lanes.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Do individual grapes count towards the limit?

Also, how many people are annoyed with the poor grammar of "xx items or less"? It should be "xx items or fewer"
Some stores do it correctly (all the Walmarts I've been to have done it correctly, Target does it incorrectly) but most say "less". Is the cost of printing 1 morer letter worth the grammatical error?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

 

[Locut0s]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

:awe: One of the few examples of Kinetic Typography that I actually like!

That's fantastic BTW!!

 

[Nebbers]

Yes that'd teach em. Use proper grammar. That's all that's stopping them now.

Ohh now I see. Sorry I'll take my cart with 55 items over to one of the other lanes.

I don't want them to get it right for the idiots' sake. I want it right for the sake of people who notice this kind of stuff.

I'm fine with relatively minor grammatical errors in speech and e-mails and such. I'm not *that* anal retentive. When they're having something printed on a million pieces of equipment that will be used across the nation, though, it would serve them well to spend a few bucks on a consultant if they can't get it right themselves.

Perfect example: Starion Financial. Their slogan incorrectly says "Taking You Farther" when it should be "Taking You Further". The slogan they have would be more suitable for a taxi or airline company. Banks don't physically transport people, damn it.

 

[Locut0s]

I don't want them to get it right for the idiots' sake. I want it right for the sake of people who notice this kind of stuff.

I'm fine with relatively minor grammatical errors in speech and e-mails and such. I'm not *that* anal retentive. When they're having something printed on a million pieces of equipment that will be used across the nation, though, it would serve them well to spend a few bucks on a consultant if they can't get it right themselves.

Perfect example: Starion Financial. Their slogan incorrectly says "Taking You Farther" when it should be "Taking You Further". The slogan they have would be more suitable for a taxi or airline company. Banks don't physically transport people, damn it.

See Gayner's vid.

 

[Nebbers]

See Gayner's vid.

I'll admit that was a pretty cool video. I'll also say I don't get worked up about these things like I used to.

This posted comment on that video pretty much sums up my one issue with this idea, though:

The problem is that people with bad grammar aren't being artistic. Doing something wrong because you don't know better isn't freedom or innovation, it's just wrong.

 

[Locut0s]

I'll admit that was a pretty cool video. I'll also say I don't get worked up about these things like I used to.

This posted comment on that video pretty much sums up my one issue with this idea, though:

The problem is that people with bad grammar aren't being artistic. Doing something wrong because you don't know better isn't freedom or innovation, it's just wrong.

The point he's making is that the people correcting them aren't being artistic. His point is that there is so much to love about language that focusing on nit picking and whining is highly annoying. It's like constantly pointing out every shitty piece of music you hear to each passerby by on the street. It's like going to the Louvre and only commenting on how long the lineups are and how rude the staff is. It's missing the forest for the trees.