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and this is why i hate shopping....

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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 13:31

Get to MoE, go into Debs, choose bathing suit cannot find cashier for love nor money. Joined another lady at the counter who said the girl had disappeared half way through ringing her stuff up with no explanation. Mill around uselessly.
Go to C4, find the ipod station, wait patiently for my turn but when the dude finishes selling whatever it is to a bloke he disappears. Cashier girl has back to me and is counting phone cards. Wait wait wait. Finally I ask her (not so patiently) where someone is to help me. She looks around uselessly, speaks to some one, picks up phone, talks to someone else. Eventually one of the can i help you dudes wanders over from where he has been watching TV with the rest of the can I help you dudes. I am not going to bore you even further with details of the transaction.....
Finish C4 shop eventually, go to checkout. The lady in front of me not only waits for her whole sale to be rung on before announcing that she is waiting for something else, but also has no wallet to pay. Wait around uselessly for either her friend to show up or a supervisor to show up and cancel sale.
Now, I am getting a little anxious time wise, because while in C4 a friend rang and asked if I could do the early school run for her and am a bit worried I'll be late, and all would have been perfectly ok if taxi driver hadnt decided that me saying 'that interchange there' while pointing at it actually ment " I will go all the way down SZR to the one 600 miles away' instead.

So thats it, I am officially a hermit, and need to figure out how to do my sodding groceries on line.

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 16:43
ahh, well in C4 I just dump my stuff on the Najm checkout and if they wont serve I just leave it. I take it as a personal afron that those flipping 10 checkouts are all empty and I want to pay for my shopping. Take it or leave, so sometimes they take it sometimes I leave it. Right there one whole trolley load. brilliant! i might start doing this just to make a point!
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EW GURU
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 16:42
ahh, well in C4 I just dump my stuff on the Najm checkout and if they wont serve I just leave it. I take it as a personal afron that those flipping 10 checkouts are all empty and I want to pay for my shopping. Take it or leave, so sometimes they take it sometimes I leave it. Right there one whole trolley load.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 16:37
I have stood in the middle of shops with my shopping and asked loudly if there is anyone available to take my money or are the items free - always gets everyone running to help. DH does this in restaurants that fail to deliver the bill promptly - embarassingly for anyone with him he will actually get up and walk out loudly pronouncing his thanks for a free meal.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 15:51
ha ha ha! I can really relate to this OP! This happens to me every time I go to both stores, I thought it was just me, so infuriating! Why haven't carrefour sorted their act out considering they are an anchor store, why is it so difficult to make a purchase! I particularly love the 10 empty naam card check outs and the way the till girls take so much pleasure in telling you this so they don't have to serve you lol!
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 15:37
Ha ha I will have to try that!
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EW GURU
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 13:43
I have stood in the middle of shops with my shopping and asked loudly if there is anyone available to take my money or are the items free - always gets everyone running to help.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 13:42
*pours Aroha a s0dding great rum and coke* have scary 'I'm being a proper mummy' meeting this afternoon. Thought had best turn up relatively sober. Lol!
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EW GURU
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 13:34
*pours Aroha a s0dding great rum and coke*
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 13:34
Personal shopper?
 
 

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