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[Laughaholic]

Since I work in Giant, I decided to share some of the experiences I have had in the supermarket. Some of them are actually really dumb if you think about it! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Just today, I bagged some lady's groceries and she left 2 dollars on the end of the register. I didn't realize this until she started walking away. I said, 'Oh maam I can't take this' (we aren't allowed tips) and she said, 'yes you can'. I must have said it 4 times, when she was out the door and I ran after her and put the money in the cart. She probably thought it was very rude, but it's either that or my job.

On several occasions I have been asked where 'snappy soup' was, 'graham cracker mix'. This is often when I am with other employees and we look at each other like 'what is that?' [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

Share your funn supermarket stories that either you've had happen to you, or have seen.

Kristin

[DisneyNutMary]

Okay, I swear this really happened....

I was at work one Sunday night, and as it was late, the customer service person had gone home and I was answering the phone while managing the front-end (cashiers, registers, etc...) I got a call from a woman who asked if I could send someone to pick up one of our shopping carts. These are very large blue plastic carts-we're a big supermarket chain in our area. I told the customer to just give me the location and someone would be by the next day with a van to get it. She said it was in a tree on Ardmore Street. I said under a tree? she said no, IN the tree. The cart was hanging from a tree. I couldn't help myself, I had to ask her how does a cart climb a tree? Customers in the neighborhood sometimes walk home from the store, and return the cart later, but this was a new one to me.
Next day, the cart retrieval van went to the street, and sure enough the cart was perched high on a bough of the tree.

[Lotta D'Olwipz]

This isn't extremely funny, just a new one to me.
On one of our first trips to the supermarket after moving to Florida from up North, we saw an unusual sight.
A woman was shopping for food wearing only a string bikini! This was not a small convenience store by the beach either-it was a full fledged Publix Supermarket!

Anyway, it looked very odd to me. [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

[joyjoy]

That shopping cart in a tree sounds like a frat prank or something. How funny.
Okay, here's mine:

My daughter Jordie has been a gymnast since she was 5 years old. She progressed quite rapidly and was competing in Junior Olympics by the time she was 8. When they start doing skills on bars, they wear leather "grips" on their hands, but where the leather rubs on their wrists and palms, they develop "rips", which are basically callouses that tear and leave raw skin. We were told by older girls that rubbing Preparation H on them soothes the burning and also helps heal the skin. So. We're at the grocery store and I buy some Preparation H. Jordie is with me and it's right after a workout at the gym. (She was around 9 or 10 by this time). She has no idea what it's really for, so when we're checking out she sees it come through and says very loudly "Mommy. Give me the Preparation H. I want to put it on NOW." I'm like, quietly, "Jordie - let's just wait till we get home." She says, louder, "MOMMY. I NEED THE PREPARATION H NOW. IT HURTS NOW. LET ME PUT IT ON NOW." Omg. People were staring at us. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]

[goofy4goofy]

You guys are cracking me up! I don't have a funny supermarket story, but these are great!!!

Kelly [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img]

[ariel1]

ok, it's not a supermarket story, but i used to work in the lingerie department of a department store. from time to time we would get men shopping for themselves- not wives or girlfriends. you never get used to telling a man to take his bra to the mens department fitting room to try it on.