bfootnovellista
09-22-2008, 03:58:44 PM
Omg, I got so much guff from a cashier overseeing the UScan at Albertsons yesterday.
I like the UScan because I get to bag my own groceries, scan my own freaking coupons, and go about my day. Because I use so many coupons, I end up NOT holding up a line of fifty people while the cashier puzzles over the meaning of the word 'transaction'. Because I live on the fourth floor of an apartment with no elevator, the fewer bags I have, the easier it is for me to get everything inside.
That said... ;)
I bought:
2 Scrubbing Bubbles Action Cleaner (w/ Raincheck + 2 $2.50/1 Qs)
2 Land o' Lakes Buttery Tubs (w/ Raincheck)
5 Campbells V8 Soup (with 5 $1/1 Qs)
17 Muir Glen Tomatos (with 17 $1/1 Qs)
2 Purina Cat Food Bags (with 2 $4/1 Qs)
3 Campbells Soup (with 1 lame $.30/3 Q - grr, Campbells!)
1 Reduced Bakery Banana Bread
Seriously, not a lot of stuff, right? Well, the order I do this in is: scan and bag, run coupons, run albies card, because then the UScan doesn't beep at me. After I'd done all that, I called over the UScan checker - my normal girl wasn't on (and she's SO nice) so I got some frumpy old maid over to the lane and handed her my rainchecks for the LOL and SBAC.
She gave a HUGE sigh, like I had just RUINED everything good and wonderful about the world, cocked one hand onto her hip, and gave me a sideways look out of the corner of her eye, "You know, you really need to find a better system."
I said, "Excuse me?"
"We have no way of doing rainchecks here at the UScan."
Knowing this to be COMPLETE bunk, because I do it ALL the time, I said, "Oh, really?"
"Yeah," she said, huffing as she stabbed at the buttons on the screen and scanned her card, "I'm going to have to *SIGH* put it in as a coupon. You really should just go through the checker lines."
I smiled politely and let her do her thing; I -am- a redhead and I -do- have a temper, especially with people who don't know how to do their jobs (and obviously, this girl fit the bill to a T), but in the end, I was paying something like $17 for over $100 worth of groceries. I bit my tongue.
When she was done beating the monitor up, she said, "I'm going to have to do this at the main register. Hold on." and promptly turned her back to me. I made myself feel better by giving her back a very immature eyeroll. Over at the main register, she stabbed a few more times and cleared up the mess she'd made on my monitor and then shouted (YES SHOUTED) back at me, "YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE USED A CHECKER LINE, MA'AM. LOOK, YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE ENTIRE STORE HERE."
I raised my eyebrows at her, turned to look behind me (there was no one there) and smiled sweetly back to her, "It seems like the only person I'm holding up is you, -ma'am-. Hopefully, they'll let you off soon so you can continue the day you're so in a hurry to finish."
I packed up my bags (note, also, that the catalina thingy got jammed and I wasn't willing to play with it for my LOL cats) and breezed by her, humming. Her knuckles turned white on the register. What an awful, awful person! She's going to give herself a stroke with all that pent up resentment for her job.
I like the UScan because I get to bag my own groceries, scan my own freaking coupons, and go about my day. Because I use so many coupons, I end up NOT holding up a line of fifty people while the cashier puzzles over the meaning of the word 'transaction'. Because I live on the fourth floor of an apartment with no elevator, the fewer bags I have, the easier it is for me to get everything inside.
That said... ;)
I bought:
2 Scrubbing Bubbles Action Cleaner (w/ Raincheck + 2 $2.50/1 Qs)
2 Land o' Lakes Buttery Tubs (w/ Raincheck)
5 Campbells V8 Soup (with 5 $1/1 Qs)
17 Muir Glen Tomatos (with 17 $1/1 Qs)
2 Purina Cat Food Bags (with 2 $4/1 Qs)
3 Campbells Soup (with 1 lame $.30/3 Q - grr, Campbells!)
1 Reduced Bakery Banana Bread
Seriously, not a lot of stuff, right? Well, the order I do this in is: scan and bag, run coupons, run albies card, because then the UScan doesn't beep at me. After I'd done all that, I called over the UScan checker - my normal girl wasn't on (and she's SO nice) so I got some frumpy old maid over to the lane and handed her my rainchecks for the LOL and SBAC.
She gave a HUGE sigh, like I had just RUINED everything good and wonderful about the world, cocked one hand onto her hip, and gave me a sideways look out of the corner of her eye, "You know, you really need to find a better system."
I said, "Excuse me?"
"We have no way of doing rainchecks here at the UScan."
Knowing this to be COMPLETE bunk, because I do it ALL the time, I said, "Oh, really?"
"Yeah," she said, huffing as she stabbed at the buttons on the screen and scanned her card, "I'm going to have to *SIGH* put it in as a coupon. You really should just go through the checker lines."
I smiled politely and let her do her thing; I -am- a redhead and I -do- have a temper, especially with people who don't know how to do their jobs (and obviously, this girl fit the bill to a T), but in the end, I was paying something like $17 for over $100 worth of groceries. I bit my tongue.
When she was done beating the monitor up, she said, "I'm going to have to do this at the main register. Hold on." and promptly turned her back to me. I made myself feel better by giving her back a very immature eyeroll. Over at the main register, she stabbed a few more times and cleared up the mess she'd made on my monitor and then shouted (YES SHOUTED) back at me, "YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE USED A CHECKER LINE, MA'AM. LOOK, YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE ENTIRE STORE HERE."
I raised my eyebrows at her, turned to look behind me (there was no one there) and smiled sweetly back to her, "It seems like the only person I'm holding up is you, -ma'am-. Hopefully, they'll let you off soon so you can continue the day you're so in a hurry to finish."
I packed up my bags (note, also, that the catalina thingy got jammed and I wasn't willing to play with it for my LOL cats) and breezed by her, humming. Her knuckles turned white on the register. What an awful, awful person! She's going to give herself a stroke with all that pent up resentment for her job.