1. You are on WIC or Food stamps and pull out your wallet full of Benjemens and STILL use your WIC vouchers or Food stamp card, drive the latest 2017-2018 year model car, call your friend on your newest, latest, smartphone.
2. Have your two children in the basket and NOT take them out to put your groceries inside the cart.
3. Let your kid run "500 miles (Good distance away) before calling your child back. Then get enraged when we don't babysit YOUR child.
4. Have your gnarly ass dog come into the store WITHOUT a service vest, and insist he's a service animal. And we, unfortunately are REQUIRED to take your word for it, lest you have a melt down like the spoiled entitled 16 year olds who have a disappointing birthday in their million dollar mansions
You tell the Fuel Attendant, "oh, you can keep the receipt."
Drive through the fuel center really quickly without stopping.
Yell at the fuel attendant while giving directions to another customer because you were blocking her from entering the lane (we have seven other pumps that were open...)
Yell at the fuel attendant making it out it is their fault that the customer had no idea how to insert a credit card correctly into the fuel pump (why not just walk up, put a twenty dollar bill down and say "twenty on pump five, please" like normal people?) Credit card users usually act so rude and entitled at the gas station and it annoys me to no end.
Walk up to the Deli and see the clerk is serving another customer, but still decide your better than that person and start telling the clerk what you want.
You tie up your bags after the bagger puts them in the cart
You line up your bags after the bagger puts them in the cart
You bring reuseable bags
You drive a Solara
You bring your "special needs" child into the store who can't control themself
Feel free to add to the above!
Then I'm for sure an ******* customer. I like Danimals myself(no kids as of yet) and yep was raised to tie up my grocery bags since I was little, lol.
But to add to your list. You are a major ******* customer in deli/bakery land when you:
1. Turn the grab and go into an area that looks like the Tasmanian Devil came through(meat and cheese just thrown all over the place. No longer looking neat like it's supposed to be).
2. You whisper at me what your deli order is, instead of using a regular speaking voice or even raising it so that you can be heard over the rest of the store noise(I can forgive the elderly and people on oxygen/have a disability for this. But for people that are fit and healthy looking or even those that aren't but have no other handicaps going on. Then I am severely looking at you. As our deli and bakery is divided with Produce's area being right down the middle and to the back. So when they bust through their doors or are throwing stuff around back there. As well as the radio and chatter throughout the store and everything else is going on. I can't hear for ****. So do me a solid and speak up louder).
3. When you waste my time by being so damn nit-picky about how much money you want to spend when you are wanting something out of the cold case(have a regular female customer that comes in. That ALWAYS wants whatever little salad she gets to be exactly 2 bucks. EACH AND EVERY FLIPPIN' TIME! Can't be 2.30, 2.15, 2.05. And you can just barely get away with 2.03. And I think I got lucky with that one as she saw how busy we were that day. If not, I'd still be wrestling to get it at exactly 2 bucks).
4. When you want your meat or cheese cut the exact same way as we do it in the grab and go. And yet, you never even went over there to look first to see if what you were after was ALREADY out there(As fast as we go through cutting stuff for the grab and go, it's for sure ALWAYS fresh. And not been left out over night. Just turn around and do some looking, please!)!
5. When you come to the deli counter and say oven roasted, smoked, ham, turkey, regular/sandwich cut. And you aren't specific worth a damn! Don't know how you want it cut, don't know what the flavor is you are looking for. None of that. You are just going with the most generic description you can come up with. And not even realizing about ALL the meats say some kind of oven roasted something or smoked. And then when you say regular or sandwich cut, that doesn't help either. Sure I can show you an example. But as everyone has a different definition of what is regular or sandwich cut(which could be thicker or thinner). You just can't say either of those options and expect me to know what you are talking about right off the bat.
6. You are a huge ******* customer to the bakery when you: LEAVE YOUR FREAKING STARBUCKS CUPS ALL OVER THE DISPLAYS!!!! I can't even count how many I've found in the last few days! My only saving grace is that nobody else came along and knocked em over so I have to clean that up as well as do my 99 other tasks.
7. Major ******* and new personal annoyance: When you opt to leave your damn groceries BEHIND the wooden display that shows what thickness you want your bread sliced on. I don't know how many pies, cookies, grapes, creamers, etc. I've found tucked back there. It's like are you kidding me? If you don't want it take it back! We aren't your catch all area people!
8. When you call in the middle of the night wanting a specialty cake order for the next flippin' day? Or to have something priced last minute because you were told by another Kroger, that since we are a marketplace and apparently can shoot rainbows out of our respective asses, that we can do all kinds of great things for you. That we most certainly can not or have any coding for at all!
9. When you insist on showing off to your friends from out of town, the way you can cut your own bread on the customer slicer. And still manage to forget to grab the bag with the bar code on it from the bottom so you can even pay for said bread(one of the main reasons I can't stand closing sometimes. We have too much bread to cut as is at night. And there is always someone that is trying to show off and get in the way).
10. And of all time the most *******-y customer to the bakery: Is the ones that still insist on getting a cake written on. They aren't sure about the job you did. They take it and say it's fine. Then the store manager or courtesy clerk brings it back. Cause they found the damn thing dropped off in another department or they made it all the way to the register and don't want to pay for it. When you simply could have said that **** when you were back in the dept. in the first place.
6. You are a huge ******* customer to the bakery when you: LEAVE YOUR FREAKING STARBUCKS CUPS ALL OVER THE DISPLAYS!!!!
A lot of customers leave their starbucks cups all over the Uscans. Some forget their shopping lists and other garbage. When we have sample tastings, they leave those tiny cups with the tiny spoons on the Uscans and sometimes on the floor. Some of them leave their nasty tissues, that they probably blew their nose with, behind as well.
6. You are a huge ******* customer to the bakery when you: LEAVE YOUR FREAKING STARBUCKS CUPS ALL OVER THE DISPLAYS!!!!
A lot of customers leave their starbucks cups all over the Uscans. Some forget their shopping lists and other garbage. When we have sample tastings, they leave those tiny cups with the tiny spoons on the Uscans and sometimes on the floor. Some of them leave their nasty tissues, that they probably blew their nose with, behind as well.
Which is why I don't think peeps just don't have home training any more. I mean I'd ask where a trash can is or find one on my own. But people these days are just nasty like that.
I just don't get why they would put it behind our bread thickness selector/display thingie. I mean the space BEHIND there is employee space. Our pastry chef keeps her pastry boxes there sometimes and where we put our bread sample tubs. That's not the place for them to act like it's their living room coffee table or something.
They're a*****e customers when they leave behind a package of meat stuck behind the bread, fruit in the yogurt section, milk coolers, etc., deli meat in the frozen section, etc.
They're also a*****es when they ask you to go hunt down a SPECIFIC item, which takes you ten minutes to find, especially if the truck just got in or the pallets haven't been unloaded yet, and once you give it to them, they are so grateful...And then, minutes later, a bagger comes back with said items and says "The customer didn't want these". I mean, WTF?
Also, if you're a customer and you INSIST that you've bought an item at MY store, when I know for a FACT damn well that we've never carried said item, please listen to the employee when he/she says "We've never carried that item...EVER!"...More likely than not, you the customer shop at too many grocery stores and are forgetful/displaying signs of dementia...This is not OUR fault! And just because you bought them at a Kroger does not mean you bought them at OUR Kroger! Every store is DIFFERENT! We the employees SHOULD know these things, especially if we have been at our store a long time and/or we write the orders...Don't just go off like "Well, I bought them here last week!" You are WRONG, lady, but then again, the customer is ALWAYS right, right???
Oh, you might also be an a*****e customer if you walk the store with a friend, complaining to said friend the whole time about how we don't have this or that, how bad the staff is, how bad the place looks, etc., but CONTINUE to shop our store...There ARE other stores out there! If you don't like our store, why are you STILL shopping here??? I have heard quite a few conversations like this, especially among the older women...
OTOH, I know a few seniors who like to antagonize just for laughs! I GET that they're having a bit of fun! It's the rest of the SERIOUS ones that make no sense!
Oh, and you might be a MODEL customer if you come up to me and say "I know that you're working hard, the truck is late and the place is short-staffed, so I didn't want to impose on you for anything. I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you're doing for people like me!"
That last one is a pretty rare comment ANYWHERE nowadays!
They're also a*****es when they ask you to go hunt down a SPECIFIC item, which takes you ten minutes to find, especially if the truck just got in or the pallets haven't been unloaded yet, and once you give it to them, they are so grateful...And then, minutes later, a bagger comes back with said items and says "The customer didn't want these". I mean, WTF?
Oh yes, this one^ all day!!!
Have had this happen to me as well a time or two. Or they act like we have some how changed the look and packaging of a particular item. When we haven't or if we have, it was a corporate thing that even WE don't know about until we open the box ourselves and see if it's something different or not. Not like it's a plot to take over the world.
Hold on to reusable bags until the bagger is almost finished and throw them at them
Stopping the bagger while he/she has a line of carts and has momentum and try to give them a cart that isn't the same
Parking your motorcycle in front of the cart bay door
leaving your cart in the middle of the lobby
leaving the electric buggy parked in the middle of a handicapped lane
Cashier:
Forgetting to mention coupons until after the order has been tendered
Letting the cashier begin scanning the order before presenting WIC vouchers
Complaining about prices before giving value card
Getting angry at the cashier because due to state laws Wine can't be sold on Sunday or national holiday (is posted in at least 12 locations)
Deceiving the cashier of the express lane that you only have one buggy and then bring in more after cashier begins scanning.
Showing up at checkout 5 minutes before registers close with 800 dollars worth of groceries
Showing up late at night and DEMANDING that other uniformed associates (that are either night crew or getting off work) get on a register because they don't want to wait behind 2 people.
Produce:
Seeing an associate with a heavy load such as a pallet, roller or case of something and intentionally get in the way.
Telling the associate to get out of the way (where you are stocking) so they can get at whatever is not there
Adults eating fruits from the "free for kids" bin
Asking the associate to look for something saying it isn't there even though it is.
Letting your kid take most of the fruit from the "free for kids" bin, taking 6 or 8 instead of "1"
Oh, and you might be a MODEL customer if you come up to me and say "I know that you're working hard, the truck is late and the place is short-staffed, so I didn't want to impose on you for anything. I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you're doing for people like me!"
That last one is a pretty rare comment ANYWHERE nowadays!
Since I work at Kroger, when I shop at other supermarkets, drug stores, convenience stores and the like, the clerks enjoy my visits as I often understand when an item is out of stock or when equipment is not working. I am the last one to whine or make a fuss.
Seeing an associate with a heavy load such as a pallet, roller or case of something and intentionally get in the way.
Dude I think this is universal!^ I don't know what are some of these customers thinking. But they love ducking and diving in front of me when I'm bringing the pallets up to bakery.
Kind of reminds me of how my dad talks about deer opting to commit suicide by running into the street instead of back into the woods. As I swear, folks see you coming with this over grown towering pallet and they will still dart out in front of you. On a cell phone no doubt. Or not even slide even further out of the way if it's a wider aisle you have to go through. Soooo, annoying.
Customers who complain about the green rack in produce...about the lettuce and carrots getting TOO WET because of the spray misters...You want your produce to look fresh and not dried-out, right? Those misters are there for a reason, people! If they weren't, then they wouldn't be turned on!!!
Also, it amazes me that people complain about how cold it is in the stores on the hottest of days and in the winter, how warm it is when there's a blizzard out! It's almost like you can NEVER satisfy these people!!!
Perhaps, there are a lot of older people with thin blood issues...I have an uncle who lives in Florida, for instance, who has to have his thermostat turned to 90 degrees and wear a flannel shirt, even on the 70 degree days, so I get it...But, the heat (or non-heat) is not something that I can control!
Seeing an associate with a heavy load such as a pallet, roller or case of something and intentionally get in the way.
Telling the associate to get out of the way (where you are stocking) so they can get at whatever is not there
Adults eating fruits from the "free for kids" bin
Asking the associate to look for something saying it isn't there even though it is.
Letting your kid take most of the fruit from the "free for kids" bin, taking 6 or 8 instead of "1"
as you know, those pallet jacks carrying hundreds of pounds of freight can't stop on a dime. however, if I got a dollar raise for every time I had to skid to a stop to not collide with a customer, I would be around department lead pay level.
Seeing an associate with a heavy load such as a pallet, roller or case of something and intentionally get in the way.
Dude I think this is universal!^ I don't know what are some of these customers thinking. But they love ducking and diving in front of me when I'm bringing the pallets up to bakery.
Kind of reminds me of how my dad talks about deer opting to commit suicide by running into the street instead of back into the woods. As I swear, folks see you coming with this over grown towering pallet and they will still dart out in front of you. On a cell phone no doubt. Or not even slide even further out of the way if it's a wider aisle you have to go through. Soooo, annoying.
have you heard this "joke" they tell when you nearly run into them? "my last name bout to be Kroger, cause yall bout to get sued!" (I worked in a store in the south, Lol I talk this way by default too)
