Nothing bugs me more than lazy a-holes who can't even bother to put back the carts in their designated areas, even it's RIGHT BESIDE their car. What, you can't walk 10 steps to put away the cart? Of course, since it's not your cart, you don't really care. But way to be an inconsiderate a-hole to everyone else.
Sorry, as a guy who's had my car dented from stray shopping carts before, I always make sure I always put my cart back to their designated area. It's just common courtesy.
While we're talking about lazy a-holes at store parking lots... they're probably the same self-absorbed individuals that park and/or wait in the fire lane when a parking spot is a few more steps away.
Not a personal attack on you but this I will never understand. I never put the stick behind my items. Why? Are people afraid my wrapped goods may touch theirs? I leave a few cms of space behind the person and put my items down. What is the need to create a barrier? The cashiers see the space and never have taken my items and placed them with the person in front of me. I hate that "don't touch my stuff, breath my air or how dare you be in my vicinity" attitude.
It probably has more to do with the fact most conveyors have a sensor that stops the belt when stuff is close to the cashier end. Without the stick, the belt continues to move your stuff to the end of the belt thus negating the few cms of space and incurring the risk that the cashier did not notice and starts ringing your goods on the current customer's bill.
If the next item on the belt is a stick, then even the thickest cashiers will realize that they have completed ringing the current customer's goods and that, at that point, they should be receiving payment.
I don't believe the stick was ever intended as an anti-social device. However, based on your perception, they (stick manufacturers) should at least include a disclaimer: "This stick is not meant to be a barrier or inhibitor to social interaction. People using it as such are violating the spirit of its intended use."
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I've always put the onus on the person behind me to put the stick up.
Sometimes the stick is a bit hard to reach if the person in front doesn't put it behind their items, depending on how far the stick gets slid back by the cashier. I don't find it anti-social at all. As mentioned earlier, it prevents the conveyor from bringing all the items to the front after their stuff is done. Not to mention, you can fit more onto the conveyor because you don't need to leave a visible gap, as the stick does it for you.
Unless, of course, you've got someone in front of you that spaces their items so far apart that the conveyor doesn't advance and you can't start putting your stuff on...
Well there is only one logically response to solving this problem...
Go on twitter, find a random person who works or shops at Safeway,or who has a similar name to someone who works/shops at Safeway, and rage on their twitter page about how they are horrible people who steal your quarters and that you hope they get caught.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back the barrier stick truck up.
What happens if some of your items get caught against the side of the conveyer? Huh? Then my stuff behind yours starts to pile into you stuff. That is how world wars start my friend. The Maginot stick line keeps peaceful France protected from your dirty kraut groceries. All it takes is for a few items to circumvent the line and we got a whole mess on our hands. Gosh!
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I've always put the onus on the person behind me to put the stick up.
^ does not get along well with others ^....
The stick is there to separate customer's goods, If you place the stick behind your stuff, you're being courteous to those behind you, as well as saving the check-out personnel any confusion.
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I can't belive that people are bitching that the person in front of them isn't putting the stick on the converyor belt at the gorcery store.
I swear, people will bitch about anything.
Seriously if you're getting upset about something that small, you seriosly need a vacation....though chances are while you're on it someone would likley slight you in the most insignificant way and completely ruin it for you.
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^ Common Courtesy seems to be a huge stumbling block for some people on here.
My point isn't that it's a matter of common courtesy, it's that people are getting riled up and complaining about the most inane insignificant stuff.
Secondly, please tell me you see the irony in implying other people don't understand common courtesy, when this whole discussion stated with your story about, pushing someone's groceries onto the floor, and swearing under your breath, instead of saying something polite like "Excuse me, I'm not quite done putting my groceries on the conveyor"?
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My point isn't that it's a matter of common courtesy, it's that people are getting riled up and complaining about the most inane insignificant stuff.
The word used was "Peeve" not "riled" or "Bitching".
Secondly, please tell me you see the irony in implying other people don't understand common courtesy, when this whole discussion stated with your story about, pushing someone's groceries onto the floor, and swearing under your breath, instead of saying something polite like "Excuse me, I'm not quite done putting my groceries on the conveyor"?
I simply wasn't given the oppurtunity, by the time I noticed his items, the conveyor was full. Also, the gentleman behind me didn't display a lack of courtesy, He was aggressive with his actions and he didn't peeve me off...he pissed me off.
Maybe I should have dealt differently, But at that moment I guess I didn't ponder the situation and give it enough thought, I reacted like an ANIMAL!!
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Really, the word used was Peeve, so what you did wasn't a matter of getting "riled up", and you aren't bitching?
Seems to me that pushing someone's groceries on the floor and swearing under your breat would constitute getting riled up.
Likewise, complaining about it on a message board, and then claiming that the person who didn't put down the bar in front of you is the one lacking in common courtesy would probably qualify as bitching.
I didn't say you used those words, I'm using them to describe our behavior. And really, all of this over real estate on a grocery store conveyor belt. Were you really concrened that this guys groceries being on the conveyor belt were going to somehow prevent you from buying the things you wanted to buy?
Was he really big and scary, thus preventing you from saying, "Excuse me, I'm not quite done putting my groceries down"?
Does this heinous act on his part really justify having his groceries pushed to the floor and being sworn at? For that matter, was he really the one acting agressively?
Yup, you certainly do exhibit much more common courtesy than everyone else. I'll bet you've got way better taste in music than everyone else, and are a well above average driver too.
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please let's keep this thread on track - i would suggest calling safeway's customer service number. i am sure they give you a $100 gift certificate or something.
When I was 16, in between packing groceries, I wandered around the parking lot collecting carts. Because I was part of a union I got paid above minimum wage and by the time I left was 3+ bucks above minimum. I'd imaging that quarter in the slot replaces at least one employee.
I also don't use the stick, which has now evolved to a full on advertising triangle. It's more fun to play the social experiment and see how long it takes them before they can't stand it and do it for you.
Sounds like the kind of thread where I shouldn't mention that I'm the guy who tries to super push their cart into the back of all the other corraled ones from about 50 feet away.
Sounds like the kind of thread where I shouldn't mention that I'm the guy who tries to super push their cart into the back of all the other corraled ones from about 50 feet away.
Yeah I do that... depending on how many cars are near the corral.
The No Frills (SuperStore) in Olds got rid of their corrals and charges a dollar so that you have incentive to walk inside and return the cart.
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