oh yeah- and please wrap your meat in the plastic bags they provide at the meat department!!! I don’t want the unsanitary meat juices allover the conveyor, my groceries, or the shelves. And I’m sure the cashiers don’t want it on their hands. whenever I see a damp conveyor I get a little suspicious… luckily my fav grocery store gives all the cashiers wipes and spray to clean up. but they shouldn’t have to.
And even if the pkg of meat is still very cold when found–they have to throw it out because it was left out for an undetermined period of time. I find packages like that literally yards from a meat cooler–10 seconds would’ve put it back!
My biggest gripe is people who spill things and just leave them. I had a friend whose knee cartilage was so badly torn in a fall in a store that seh was never the same and later required replacement surgery. It seems like every time I’m at Wally-World I have to stop my cart over a spill and go find an employee to take care of it. If I spill a bit of soda I clean it up myself. I wanted to throttle some idiot one day–her 10 or 12yo daughter was bouncing up and down like a kangaroo, squeaking like a mouse, holding a slurpee–she wound up spilling the drink. Her mom looked down at the spill, grabbed the child and walked away quickly.I wnated to walk up and ask–“What did you just teach your child about responsibility?”–but I know it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Y’all are too funny! I don’t have grocery gripes because I hardly ever go to the grocery store anymore. Since I started my college classes, I just don’t have time…especially after working and taking care of the kids. So, dh goes. Who knows…y’all might be griping about him! 
Our grocery store has these kid carts that look like race cars. I realize you need to take you kids shopping with you but you do not need to put your 8 year old and 10 year old in the race car cart. These things are twice as big as the regular carts and a good foot wider. People get them, can’t steer them, ram them into other people and then leave them with the kids in them in the middle of the row while they move about because they can’t move the things with 150 lbs of kids in them. Make your life easier people and make your kids walk beside you, it’s not going to kill them and they might actually learn how to act like adults that way. AGHHHHH
If you are going to write a check, carry your own stinking pen and start making it out while your groceries are being scanned!!! Do not wait until everything has been bagged and then ask for a pen. And please - balancing your checkbook can wait until you’ve moved out of the darn way!!
And do not hover and breathe down my neck as I slide my card through. It is none of your business and why are you so close to me anyway? This is why I run everything as credit, so no one can steal my pin #.
I live in a small town, so stores are rife with people who like to block aisles and chitchat with people they know… because everybody knows somebody at Wal-Mart here!
And for our cashiers here at Kroger - I don’t know or care what the policy is, if I have my child buckled into the cart seat, WHY the HECK are you putting my groceries in a different cart??!??! :hair:
BTW - I used to cashier and they constantly put me on the express lanes. But they wouldn’t let me say anything to customers no matter how many items they came through with! I [I]wish[/I] I could have admonished them!
yep that’s my biggest pet peeve. all the other stuff i can almost handle. well except the uncontrollable kids, but those are easy to handle. I used to be a nanny so i have noooo problem telling a a child to behave very sternly even in front of the parent, (i have never had a parent confront me, they are usually to embarrass or don’t understand why another kid is telling the kid to behave bc they always think i’m a kid myself haha i look 17 though i’m 30)
And figure out how to pay for your groceries BEFORE you get in line! Don’t stand there and try out every credit card you have and make everybody wait behind you.
Also, Stores, if you see that 15 people are in one line, perhaps you should consider opening another one. 
I have 2 stories. I was in walmart one day minding my own business and I was walking towards the shampoo. This woman who was driving one of those sit-down shopping carts decided she needed to get there first, so she hit the gas, hit my leg with her basket, and ran over my foot. With the Rascal. Then she had to back up and the cart has reverse beeps, which made it all that much better. It was funny looking back, but my foot hurt for several days. lol.
Second, also in walmart, I came across this girl and her friend who obviously have never contributed anything to society. I’m not trying to be mean, but there you are. She was pregnant and wearing a belly shirt and pants with 'Juicy" written across the back, and her friend was wearing an obscenity-laced ensemble. They kept cursing at the cashier and yelling at her, and when her food stamps wouldn’t work properly they started cursing some more and then just decided to leave. They walked out and left 2 entire carts worth of food sitting there for the employees to put away. I felt so bad for them. 