Rant: Extreme Egg Checkers

[misswired]

Thanks, but I used to do that until I wiggled one right out onto the floor...oops
I suppose it was my technique or I didn't hold it level or something.
I think I'll try turning the carton upside down and open it!
What could go wrong?

I remember you!! Over the PA: "Clean-Up needed in the dairy!!"

Bout seven minutes later....."MISSWIRED!!..... CLEAN-UP NEEDED IN DAIRY!!"

I hated that PA manned by all the she/woman he-man haters club. It was like having a dozen female bossy busy bodies in charge at once...

 

[Doug627]

When I get an aggressive shopper behind me, I slow my cart down until they get the message and pass me. I don't brake check them because they would hit me with their cart. Sometimes I will pull my cart as far to the right as I can and stop.

 

[oneounceload]

Just got back from Lowe's and my Walmart Neighborhood Grocery.
Cheapest Eggs were 81 cents a Doz!
No! I didn't buy any.
I have 6-7 , I think and I don't recall that I have eaten an egg this month.

I eat 2 eggs plus some egg whites every day - and have for a long time. Making an omelet with some sausage, mushrooms, onions, or whatever is handy makes for a filling, protein-rich breakfast

 

[rubiranch]

Why do EECs do this?

Why do you let it annoy you??

About the only thing that annoys me while shopping at the grocery store is when they run out of my favorite Popsicles.

 

[LVSteve]

I check for cracked eggs, but the full EEC folk need to put their analyst on danger money.

Pet peeves in the store include:

Not stocking the low fat variant
The diagonal cart parkers to "protect their space" apparently. Word up: unless you have a receipt for that part of the store, it ain't your space.
Parents that allow their children to open the cookie/pastry/donut cabinet unsupervised.
Those who make no attempt to retrieve their method of payment until the last item is rung up and they have spent a good 10 seconds glaring at the display with a wrinkled lip.
People who won't walk three spaces to park their cart in the supplied space.

 

[steelslaver]

Thanks, but I used to do that until I wiggled one right out onto the floor...oops
I suppose it was my technique or I didn't hold it level or something.
I think I'll try turning the carton upside down and open it!
What could go wrong?

I once opened the lid and in the process somehow dropped the whole thing. Good thing too. They were all badly broken.

 

[mbliss57]

I worked my way through college working 3rd shift stocking a major grocery store in Upstate new York called Wegmans. I got to know how stores are laid out in general and that chain specifically. So I always have done the power shopping in the family. I can do a full 2 cart shop in about 30 minutes start to finish. I do not stop to sort my eggs... or play with the meat... but I do check the eggs for cracks.
I remember coupon shoppers in the store (24 hour stores back in the early 1980s..) shopping the entire 8 hour shift and checkig out at 6-7 AM with several carts. These people would get super cheap groceries.

When we were in the UK most stores had hand scanners you could scan as you shopped and bag as you shopped. Then check out was 1 scan at a special checkout with no waiting. I could be in and out in minutes if I was just picking up a few things. They started using them here in Ohio and they are fantastic. Hardly anyone uses them but that is their loss.

 

[soFlaNative]

I like opening all the glass freezer cabinet doors as I walk by so they stay fogged up for the next five minutes

 

[Old TexMex]

.85 a dozen here. I had to check last night when I bought my pint of Blue Bell ice cream at IGA.

 

[Old TexMex]

I like opening all the glass freezer cabinet doors as I walk by so they stay fogged up for the next five minutes

The Japanese tourists here seem to do that. (See above post)

 

[steelslaver]

We got one grocery store here in our town of 6000 and the county of about 12,000. Everyone ends up there sometime or other. People run into someone thy haven't seen in a while and catch up, you have your occasional egg checkers and your aisle pluggers. The people who wait till when their stuff is all rang up, before dragging out the check book, filling out the check, the check out counter gossips. I try not to be in a hurry. I figure if I wanted to hurry I picked the wrong place. Plus, chances are I am going to run into who ever I meet in the store sooner or latter at some level or function. Why, be curt with someone who may turn out to be the emergency room nurse, a game warden, a rancher whose place I want to shoot gophers on or something.

 

[Salty RI]

Large eggs were $0.38 a dozen at Aldi's here last time I went . . .

When was that 1950. [emoji1]

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[Salty RI]

Some of you obviously have too many chickens...63 cents/dozen??
I just got back from our local grocery (the only one within 25 miles) $3 to $4 per dozen........ (and that's regular size. jumbos are more.)

Same here.

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[Muss Muggins]

A dozen eggs have been under a dollar, and mostly under 50 cents, for a couple years around here. Aldi's and Wal-Mart lately were about 38 cents a dozen . . .

I'm still wondering about all these cheap egg prices you guys mention. Mine start at $1.29 and go up. Are they having you pick them from the coop yourselves?

 

[Recusant]

What get me are those folks that leave the shopping carts in a parking space out in the parking lot. The Kroger we shop at has several motorized carts for the handicapped. These are often left next to the handicapped parking spaces. It stands to reason that these folks walked into the store, so why couldn't they put the cart back and walk out?

 

[Rastoff]

What get me are those folks that leave the shopping carts in a parking space out in the parking lot. The Kroger we shop at has several motorized carts for the handicapped. These are often left next to the handicapped parking spaces. It stands to reason that these folks walked into the store, so why couldn't they put the cart back and walk out?

I completely agree about leaving the carts in a parking space. I mean, just how lazy can people be?

However, when it comes to the motorized carts being left at a handicap spot, I'm not so bugged. People that really need those things often cannot walk back to put it away. This may sound bad to those of us who are able bodied, but a person can get worn out in these giant stores. I have a neighbor who can walk about 30-50 feet before he needs to stop. I could see him walking to get the cart, but not putting it back.

No, it's those able to walk and yet leave the cart in the space that bug me.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I also cut the grocery store cart riders some slack.
Some folks can walk a short distance, like over to a cart.
But after shopping they may only be able to to walk a shorter distance.
Yesterday, when I was in the Walmart Neighborhood Market,
I saw a guy riding a motorized shopping cart and dragging his charging cord.
I told , you are dragging your wire!
He stopped and looked back.
I put the cord into the storage compartment and snapped the door closed.
I see Lots of folks dragging their asses and there's usually not much I can do about that.
But when you are dragging your charger wire, I can fix that!

 

[Golddollar]

I also cut the grocery store cart riders some slack.
Some folks can walk a short distance, like over to a cart.
But after shopping they may only be able to to walk a shorter distance.
Yesterday, when I was in the Walmart Neighborhood Market,
I saw a guy riding a motorized shopping cart and dragging his charging cord.
I told , you are dragging your wire!
He stopped and looked back.
I put the cord into the storage compartment and snapped the door closed.
I see Lots of folks dragging their asses and there's usually not much I can do about that.
But when you are dragging your charger wire, I can fix that!

We're all one accident or medical procedure away from being in this situation. After I had my knee surgery in 2017, I was moving pretty slow with a cane and had a temporary handicap parking placard. I was actually using the shopping cart for support. Sometimes I couldn't get a handicap parking space, but I figured somebody else who was in worse shape than me was using it. I probably could not have brought the cart back to the store from my car but luckily there were cart corrals nearby that I could put my empty cart in.

 

[steelslaver]

Our grocery storehas a monopoly, but, is community conscious. One young man who I suspect is in his early 20s. I saw him recently with a neck full of special Olympic metals. He is the one who chases down the carts and takes them in the store and does it with a big smile. For a while they had a little old lady bagging groceries. Hey, she needed a job. Was she fast, no. So, what. She always asked if I need help to the car. No thanks. I mostly look at going to the grocery store here as an social adventure. If I wanted to hurry I would avoid around noon and 5pm.

There are a couple motorized carts. If somebody needs one of those someone is helping them out to the car and bring it back.

Here even strangers will offer to help someone struggling with something

But, hey when great rib steaks are on sale for $7.59 a LB and they are sold out at the meat counter. asking will get you a time you can pick up what you want, cut the thickness you want, from a prime beef that came from the feed lot about 10 miles out of town.

Eggs here are way more than Muggins pays. Must be having to keep them inside in the winter. Our eggs mostly come from the Hutterite colonies as do the fresh summer veggies.

 

[OFT II]

A dozen eggs have been under a dollar, and mostly under 50 cents, for a couple years around here. Aldi's and Wal-Mart lately were about 38 cents a dozen . . .

I haven't eggs at that price since they closed our local A&P store.