 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to A non
Re: [Rant] Stop and Shop Not to take sides but I've gone to a stop & shop that stays open for 24/hr and walked in around 6 AM and they have the self check outs open with no monitor.. same when late at night around 10 PM.
However I went in one time around 2 AM and they just have a single lane open.. but for a good reason because I found I was the only shopper in the store at the time. |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to A non
this thread is tl;dr, because reading about 4 items is just not worth is, BUT, Kudos to the OP -- he voted with his wallet. |
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Around christmas time I went to sears to buy pants. Tried them on, everything fit really great, went to the checkout and noticed a really long line. Looked around and found that this was the only cashier that was open in this part of the store. My wife saw some employee hanging around so she nicely asked if there was anywhere else we could pay. I forget his exact response but it was something like, its christmas time, suck it up and wait in that long line. So I took out my smart phone, loaded the amazon app, scanned the barcode with amazon's barcode scanner and then order the pants from amazon and left sears without having to wait in line. Technology is wonderful  |
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said by A non :I was just at the Stop and Shop on Kingsland Rd in Clifton, NJ, to buy 4 items. All the self-service checkouts were closed. There were two regular cashiers, but both of them had customers with full shopping carts. I left my 4 items at an empty lane and walked out without buying anything.
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My Stop and Shop is great, but that doesn't mean yours isn't sucky. If this happened all the time I'd be annoyed and shop elsewhere. If it's a one off incident, well I'd figure that there was a possibility the store was short staffed/someone called in sick and then deal.
My Stop and Shop always has a "12 items or Less" isle open at all times. I am surprised yours doesn't.
In those off-times I am in a hurry with my few items and all isles are too long - I go to the courtesy counter, where they will ring you up there too (or it prompts them to open another register).
It's hard to feel for your rant, when you didn't even go to courtesy for help.
-Jim
PS Growing up we never had any highfalutin self checkout. We waited in line for as long as it took and liked it.
Now get off my lawn. |
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 BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
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| I think they are half great, when you just need a few items you don't have to wait for the old bitty with a handful of expired coupons, and wants to argue about them, then talk about how her cats really need that cat food.
I understand they might shutdown the self checkout during off hours, and I'm ok with this when they only leave one lane open so they are not paying people to stand around.
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to JALevinworth
said by JALevinworth :In those off-times I am in a hurry with my few items and all isles are too long - I go to the courtesy counter, where they will ring you up there too (or it prompts them to open another register).  PTU
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said by JALevinworth :It's hard to feel for your rant, when you didn't even go to courtesy for help. The courtesy desk was empty, as in not staffed, unoccupied, vacant. And it wasn't off hours, it was 8 AM. |
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BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
join:2000-01-13
kudos:2 | Ask yourself this, who goes to the grocery store during a non-holiday weekday at eight am, very few people. Almost nobody does their family shopping at eight am. |
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | and yet, the OP found the only 2 people in Clifton, NJ that shop for the family at 8 in the morning in front of him. |
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said by A non :And it wasn't off hours, it was 8 AM.
my "off-times I am in a hurry" does not equal your store's off-hours. It does equal the few times I am in that much of a hurry.said by A non :said by JALevinworth :It's hard to feel for your rant, when you didn't even go to courtesy for help. The courtesy desk was empty, as in not staffed, unoccupied, vacant. Ah ok, so you forgot that part in your rant and also where you went to the courtesy desk and reasonably waited for staff in the (most likely adjoining) back office to come forward having seen you on the monitor (which is where they are in my store if no one is waiting at courtesy) before you gave up and left. Not to jump ahead but saving the trouble. |
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If somebody wants my money they better come and get it. I'm not going to stand around admiring their inefficiency. I won't hesitate to leave a basket and walk out. If I'm in a good mood, I'll confront a manager if they can keep up with me on the way out. From Home Depot to Kroger to Kohls, they have heard my standard line. "See this face, you'll never see it in here again". Kudo's to the OP for not being another American sheeple.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to A non
Re: [Rant] Stop and Shop Ah, the Modern American. "My time is important..... I can't wait for all the other unimportant people to get served before me.... they should cater to me alone."
Another good saying is "A lack of planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on my part."
It sucks they lost the sale due to your impatience, but if they catered to people like you and hired extra cashiers the extra expenses would make your 4 items much much more expensive....
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | Stop-and-Shop is not the bargain store to begin with. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to bitemeboy
Hope some other asshat does that to you at your job or business.
I'm so sick of the "Me, Me, Me, Me first" generation. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to A non
8am is very much off hours in the supermarket business. most stores in suburban areas do not pick up until 10 or 11am.
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scross
join:2002-09-13
Cordova, TN | reply to BlitzenZeus
said by BlitzenZeus:Ask yourself this, who goes to the grocery store during a non-holiday weekday at eight am, very few people. Almost nobody does their family shopping at eight am.
My wife works nights, along with several hundred people in her organization; around 8 AM (after work) is their favorite time to go grocery shopping at Wal-Mart, which is directly across the street from where they work. And for the hundreds of local FedEx folks who work at the hub here, after work shopping might mean 4 AM or so. So there's a REASON why these places are open 24 hours. |
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scross
join:2002-09-13
Cordova, TN | reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd:8am is very much off hours in the supermarket business. most stores in suburban areas do not pick up until 10 or 11am.
We I worked at a grocery store as a teenager, we had multiple waves coming in. I started at 5:30 AM, restocking perishables straight off the delivery trucks. Our first wave of customers began no later than 7:30 AM, even though we didn't officially open until 8 AM according to our signs (they actually unlocked the front doors and manned the registers starting at 7 AM; if there were no customers around at any given moment, the cashiers restocked the register areas). There was a second wave of customers just before lunch. There were later waves, too, but I left at 3 PM so I don't know much about those. |
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