Grocery store etiquette
- Would you go to a good restaurant and scoop lemon butter prawns over delicate pasta in your hands to eat?
- How about moving your table so that no one can get through the aisle?
During this foray into grocery store faux pas, I won’t include Wal-Mart or the McD’s lurking inside it. That’s a different animal altogether.
We shop on Saturday at Dollar General, where we use our $5 off $25 coupon.
Most aisles looked like this:
And checkout looked like this:
I kept asking a guy who was standing in the center of the aisle to move.
He stood…and stood…and he wouldn’t budge until I yelled out, “EXCUSE ME!”
Then he looked at me as if to say, “This is MY store and I’ll move when I want to.”
He should’ve bought a t-shirt that said, “I’m an arrogant B@$tard and have no manners.” I might have backed away to travel up one aisle then down the other for the item I needed that was 3 feet away from him.
Worse yet, most of the aisles looked like this:
There were pallets of $1.25 per dozen eggs in the fridge section and NO eggs where we could get to them.
When, 20 minutes later, we couldn’t find half the stuff on our list, we put back the 4 items we were able to find: 2 boxes of plastic bags, and two onions in a plastic bag.
“We’ll come back later,” hubby said.
Considering the fact that I would rather be shopping at Dollar General than itemizing taxes, I agreed.
At 6:00 pm, the store was almost empty of people, the aisles were filled with products and the shoppers were civilized. It took an entire 10 minutes to locate EVERYTHING on the list, including onions still in the plastic bag.
Yes, there was one problem. The cashier forgot to pack my onions.
On a list of first world problems, that one is ranked slightly below a hangnail.
I suppose life could be worse:
If there’s a World War III, losing our onions at Dollar General would be the least of our worries.
Congrats on finding the right time of day to shop. Take your receipt and go c=back for the onions. They’ll be there and I wouldn’t let the store keep the money I paid for them. All in all… it’s better than it could have been. Have been in our DG store when it was like that and the poor staff were so harries they were starting to snap at us. I do abhor customers that think they own the aisle they are standing in and intend to own the next one as well.
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Nnnnnoooooooo!!!!! Just hit their trolley out of the way. Just rude! Nice pet alligator! Weirdo! Cheers,H
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It was so irritating, my other half pushed someone’s cart out of the way. He didn’t even seem to notice.
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Oh my word! What a day! Props to you for making it HILARIOUS 🤣
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Too bad people can’t buy a replacement brain at Dollar General. 🙂
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Last statement is ultimately funny 😂😂😂 Because it’s almost same situation here 👻😂😂 Onion is a serious business here, way too pricey 🤷 and whatever happens people worry about onions and it’s price 😂 Plus I hate shopping at such big malls, I love shopping but I hate crowds, I’ll be that arrogant B* with no manners 😂 if I am in crowd 😋😜☺️ Loved reading it 🥰 and it’s been 4 days 😸 looking for your post 😁
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Thanks. 🙂
You’re correct. My last post was 4 days ago. Time certainly flies when you’re eyeball deep in work.
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Congrats on finding the optimum timing. People can be inconsiderate especially when there are too many items on sale to grab!
About three months again, the price of onions shot up suddenly. Put us in a tough position too. All of our curries call for lots of onion but the price was way too high! Ultimately it led to a flurry of memes and creative chefs who posted “onion-less” recipes.
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I can’t imagine a world without onions. We take so many things for granted and don’t know their value until they are gone or priced out of our reach.
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