Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 564478)

Its not always the assistants that are grumpy the customers can be too as well.

I was in iceland yesterday was late on mainly because i was waiting till i felt better before i went down town. Anyway there i was in the queue. There was only one till open and there was 2 assistants at that till, there was a problem. Anyway it was sorted but by the time it was sorted there was a long queue and i was at the back of it. So another assistant went and got someone else to open another till. The lad opened the till and said next please. Now this bloke with a dozen eggs went straight to him and put the eggs down. The bloke who was in front of him took exception to this and said im before you and moved his eggs and started putting his shopping down.. when the bloke with his eggs said i only have this - he said I'M BEFORE YOU and the poor assistant didnt know where to look or what to do - he was stood there doing nothing waiting and he could have put through the eggs no problem with no hassles, and this bloke with his eggs put them down again - this other bloke picked them up and moved them to another till and said IM BEFORE YOU thought it was going to be fisticuffs in iceland!!!! It was funny watching it - me - i stayed in the same queue i was in and got served quicker than the ones who moved over to the other till. By the way i let the bloke with the eggs go in front of me - he came and queued behind another woman and me we let him go in front of us. :p:p:p

Originally Posted by misskitty (Post 564433)

onlyme and i (lol) went shopping recently and the woman who served me was the worst assistant i had ever encountered.She only spoke when she had to,no 'please' or'thankyou' and had a face like a smacked butt.......needless to say i think alot less of that chain of stores now,as i had only been there a few times previous.

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 564478)

Its not always the assistants that are grumpy the customers can be too as well.

I was in iceland yesterday was late on mainly because i was waiting till i felt better before i went down town. Anyway there i was in the queue. There was only one till open and there was 2 assistants at that till, there was a problem. Anyway it was sorted but by the time it was sorted there was a long queue and i was at the back of it. So another assistant went and got someone else to open another till. The lad opened the till and said next please. Now this bloke with a dozen eggs went straight to him and put the eggs down. The bloke who was in front of him took exception to this and said im before you and moved his eggs and started putting his shopping down.. when the bloke with his eggs said i only have this - he said I'M BEFORE YOU and the poor assistant didnt know where to look or what to do - he was stood there doing nothing waiting and he could have put through the eggs no problem with no hassles, and this bloke with his eggs put them down again - this other bloke picked them up and moved them to another till and said IM BEFORE YOU thought it was going to be fisticuffs in iceland!!!! It was funny watching it - me - i stayed in the same queue i was in and got served quicker than the ones who moved over to the other till. By the way i let the bloke with the eggs go in front of me - he came and queued behind another woman and me we let him go in front of us. :p:p:p

Originally Posted by Bagpuss (Post 564663)

The guy with the eggs was out of order I would have done the same I hate queue jumpers, it does not matter he only had one item.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 564666)

That's true, then again polite people will often let someone with a couple of items go in front of them if they have a trolley full, I know I do.

Originally Posted by mick (Post 564769)

The only thing that really gets me i when i go into W.H.Smiths for my computer mag
you cant get to the shelf its like a ruddy reading room
i don't know if all the people that are reading the mags actually buy them but its annoying trying to get to the shelf when someone is standing in the way with there head stuck in a mag

Originally Posted by emzy (Post 564770)

I struggle to get round there in the pram anyway, a lot of the aisles are to narrow because of badly positioned display units, this goes for many of the shops though