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Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe she means the cashier is talking on the phone instead of waiting on customers. There's nothing wrong with a customer being on the phone.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

No idea what Dagney's beef is, but I detest noise pollution and can run you a few off the top of my head:

Shopping can be a fraught experience at the best of times. I don't need this compunded by hearing, "I'm not going out Friday, nah I'm broke innit. Nah I can't go out. Nah, nah. I don't get my student loan til next week and I was out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I bought them new Diesel jeans today. Where you going anyway? Oh right. Right. Will that fit bird be there? Yeah the one wiv da fit arse. Yeah. Alright, see you bout 8 then. Yeah we're gonna get munted mate."

People on mobiles simply don't function as efficiently as those not on them (YMMV). If they are packing their shopping single handed in order to continue the dross above, they are slowing me down for no good reason.

I think it is rude at the point of being served, to stare blankly at the amount owed and hand a card over, as if the cashier is nothing more than a vending machine. Working in a supermarket isn't exactly a fulfilling job - it helps to have customers who talk to you, or at the very least acknowledge you.

The call can wait.

[Dagney]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

No idea what Dagney's beef is, but I detest noise pollution and can run you a few off the top of my head:

Shopping can be a fraught experience at the best of times. I don't need this compunded by hearing, "I'm not going out Friday, nah I'm broke innit. Nah I can't go out. Nah, nah. I don't get my student loan til next week and I was out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I bought them new Diesel jeans today. Where you going anyway? Oh right. Right. Will that fit bird be there? Yeah the one wiv da fit arse. Yeah. Alright, see you bout 8 then. Yeah we're gonna get munted mate."

People on mobiles simply don't function as efficiently as those not on them (YMMV). If they are packing their shopping single handed in order to continue the dross above, they are slowing me down for no good reason.

I think it is rude at the point of being served, to stare blankly at the amount owed and hand a card over, as if the cashier is nothing more than a vending machine. Working in a supermarket isn't exactly a fulfilling job - it helps to have customers who talk to you, or at the very least acknowledge you.

The call can wait.

You stated my feelings concisely. I don't need to know what you're doing tonight, frankly I don't care. I also don't think it's quite fair for me to have to wait - wasting my time - while you debate which bar you want to get trashed at while the line behind me gets longer.

Cell phones are handy little things - but they can be quite annoying when used at the wrong time. In the check out line at the market = wrong time.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

The cashier. It pissed the hell out of me and the people behind him or her because they would usually take two to three times as long. Some people can multitask some people can't.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

Besides being rude and and not attending to the task at hand cause you are jabbing away as people are talking to you, and others are waiting for you to finish your task and get out of the way? Put your damm phone away and pay. If you are just standing there waiting, no problem, but don't be pissed if I try really hard to hear everyword being said, cause some people talk really loud. I just think it is rude. Ok, ok, if your mom is dying or your kid is sick, you can talk on the phone in line. Do you think anyone would get mad if I bumped you, you dropped your phone, and I stamped on it? Sorry about that mate.