In meadowhall when people are on escalators they suddenly come to a standstill when they get to the top creating a dominoe effect.

People who wheel supermarket trolleys around leave them in the midle od an isle to get something from the next isle.


couples who hold hands or drape them selves around one anothers neck so you cant get passed them.

The parent that is holding on to their childs hands, but the child is behind the parent and well hiden, when you get level with them the child suddenly emerges to headbut you in the stomach and wipes ice cream down your clothes.

Sounds like you're a bit of a pessimist!

People and having to part with money.

Yep other people in shops annoy me too, God can they get in the way!

What annoys me about shops is the prices lol :P

Oh and the security guards!

1) I get annoyed in shops when they give me a carrier bag. I often take my own strong carrier bag. Despite the fact that I show them I have a carrier bag they still give me a bag. I think that the landfills are full enough of carrier bags which have been used once, for about 10 minutes, before being put in the kitchen bin. It's time we had a carrier bag tax like they have in Ireland.

2) I get annoyed when they ask me if I have a loyalty card. No. Have these people not read about loyalty cards, or heard the investigative programmes on the media about they are a con to get you to do all your shopping in the one shop, while they make money from your data, meanwhile the rewards are so pitifully tiny, that it's not worth the space in your garage let alone wallet!

Everything, I hate shopping. What, a woman who hates shopping? YES!

Having said that shopping would be a lot easier if there weren't so many idiots doing theirs at the same time. People blocking the aisles whilst having a chat. The staff ( especially Asda ) who block the aisles with pallets. Kids running around causing havoc. Sorry, I've just returned from my weekly shop.:gag:

I get annoyed shopping when i'm in the check out and the person in front of me has savings coupons and i don't !
(MY FAULT)

staff asking if you need help

Another thing that annoys me is If you're in spar, in a hurry, waiting behind a long queue to get served. And some T*@* holds up the proceedings for 5 minutes getting cashback. When there's a Cash machine outside.
By the time he's finished there's 30 in the queue.

Swiping my credit card and only works on the 4th try !

People leaving tissues in the trolleys

Trolleys left next to my car

sales people being overly nice

Originally posted by poppins
sales people being overly nice
Would you rather they be something like this?

"Look b**** I don't give a flying f*** what you're looking for in here. Either buy somthing or f*** off"

or maybe...

[Sales Person] "Hello there, do you need any help with anything?"
[Poppins]: "pfffft (obviously annoyed at being nice) no"
[Sales Person] "No need to get stroppy, I was only checking that you didn't need any assistance. Next time I'll not f****** bother...s**g"

I'm guessing not :P

Missb your not on your own ...im another woman who HATES shopping... i only go if i have to .

I have long legs so i walk at quite a fast pace so i gets on my nerves when people stop for no reason infront of you or people that walk really slow and dawdle along,
cause i like to just get what i need and go ....cant be doing with hours of browsing and all that sh*t !!


And of cause shopp assistants with no manners does mi ed' in too!! :mad:

Been pounced on as soon as you enter the shop. "Can I help you" "Are you alright". :mad:

People....both staff and other customers. I think in future ill abstain from washing for a couple of weeks before i go shopping - that should keep them all back a few paces. :hihi:

Oh...and 99.9% of whats on sale. Utter crap...almost without exception (which i buy of course...im so weak!).

I was visiting the large Tesco at abbeydale in the summer, and there were some lairy looking school girls at the entrance. As I drove past in my car, which has no dents in it. One of them let go of a trolley and it hurtled toward my car. Fortunately by some miracle, the trolley wheel must have bounced off my tyre as there was no damage. While this was happening the girls had scarpered, and being more concerned about my car I stopped immediately and god out for a butchers.

A minute later a tesco lady came out and asked what had happened. Being a local woman who looks like she takes no nonsense from anybody. I was reasured that they would put a stop to any similar behaviour.

Moral of this story?
stay well away from shopping trolleys in supermarket car parks.

Originally posted by Snook
People and having to part with money.

Lol!

Oh so many things annoy me about shopping:

Idiots stopping dead just in front of me - I can only pray they don't drive;
Mothers (or worse, fathers, sorry!) with buggies driving straight at me, 2 or 3 in a line, so there's nowhere to go;
Being headbutted by toddlers;
Shop assistants asking me every 10 seconds "can I help you?" - I've already said I'll ask for help if I need it, thank you;
People reaching across me for stuff without saying excuse me;
etc etc :rant:

I do enjoy shopping really - maybe I'm just grumpy today! Although I do dream about shopping trips where there are no other customers in the shops, and I can browse to my heart's content without staff being 'helpful'.

Actually, what I really enjoy about shopping is getting home with my parcels!

StarSparkle :D

PS I have thought about online shopping, but it really doesn't seem to interest me. I'm beginning to think the discomfort of shopping is part of the penance for spending the money .....

I hate it when staff watch every move you make..thinking your on the rob...
Little do they know i was a Store Detective for years and can spot a lifter a mile away...usually behind them while they are to busy watching me! he he

I hate shopping. Especially at christmas. I hate christmas. HUMBUG!

Originally posted by nez75
I hate shopping. Especially at christmas. I hate christmas. HUMBUG!

Were you the same guy that I called scrooge in another thread? :nono:

If you don't like leaving the house for shopping, internet shopping is the answer :P.

Go through the link on Sheffield Forum to Amazon!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StarSparkle
[B]Lol!

Being headbutted by toddlers;



How does this happen? Are you 3ft tall?

Originally posted by Tony_BLiar
[QUOTE]Originally posted by StarSparkle
[B]Lol!

Being headbutted by toddlers;



How does this happen? Are you 3ft tall?

Ha, ha.

I have been run into full-tilt by a small(ish) child on a number of occasions while trying to shop, causing pain to various bits of me .... perhaps I'm just particularly clumsy and don't move out of the way fast enough. I am a bit short-sighted .....

Actually, I was employing a bit of artistic licence in the interests of humour, but I'll remember not to do that again .....

StarSparkle :(

Originally posted by cruella
I hate it when staff watch every move you make..thinking your on the rob...
Little do they know i was a Store Detective for years and can spot a lifter a mile away...usually behind them while they are to busy watching me! he he

I know what you mean, i am an Ex Police Officer i too get followed around shops being suspected of lifting, maybe i look shifty or know what to spot.

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Lol!

Oh so many things annoy me about shopping:

Idiots stopping dead just in front of me - I can only pray they don't drive;
Mothers (or worse, fathers, sorry!) with buggies driving straight at me, 2 or 3 in a line, so there's nowhere to go;
Being headbutted by toddlers;
Shop assistants asking me every 10 seconds "can I help you?" - I've already said I'll ask for help if I need it, thank you;
People reaching across me for stuff without saying excuse me;
etc etc :rant:

I do enjoy shopping really - maybe I'm just grumpy today! Although I do dream about shopping trips where there are no other customers in the shops, and I can browse to my heart's content without staff being 'helpful'.

Actually, what I really enjoy about shopping is getting home with my parcels!

StarSparkle :D

PS I have thought about online shopping, but it really doesn't seem to interest me. I'm beginning to think the discomfort of shopping is part of the penance for spending the money .....

Would any one like to come into business with me an inent a pram/ pushchair with only two wheels, the amount of mothers and fathers that like to tilt the pushchair on two rear wheels pointing the child towards the sky, and ramming the front part into your legs. (thats really really really really annoying)

when very tall people put whatever theyre buying over your head and wave it at the assistant to pay for it before you , when youre at the front of the queue!!!!!!!!!!

queing and small packed shops like pound land in meadow hall (and why do people that go in these places always stink of sweat when you can more and get stuck under someones armpit ):gag:

Originally posted by nitelife40
when very tall people put whatever theyre buying over your head and wave it at the assistant to pay for it before you , when youre at the front of the queue!!!!!!!!!!

and what about when there is one que for 4 tills and you always get on that ques behind the one thas paying at the time and inores the que and gets served (why do they think we are stood there )

:rant:

Two or more clerks standing around, ignoring customers, letting the telephones ring and shootin' the breeze like they're at home when I'm trying to get their attention or ask for help! Or standing in a line a mile long... out the door and around the building, while everyone can hear employees in the back laughing and talking, peeping out every so often to see how long the line is! (This happened to me yesterday at the post office)

Sierra

When items are not on the shelves but you just know they are in the back.

When items are buy one get one free and there is only one left on the shelf :suspect:

How does that happen :rant:

When I was in my mid twenties I had really long [rock] hair. This was only about 10 years ago. What really ****** me off was when I had my hair cut short. I noticed that all the older middle aged men who worked in shops, all started treating me like an equal, or even a good bloke. or a reasonable customer.

This really annoyed me. And even now, when I go about with easy - to - care - for - take - no - bottles - into - the - shower - close - shaved hair, Which I consider to be much more aggresive looking, I get no problems at all.

I don't know why but it still disturbs me.

Who gets P****d off with bread crates left on the floor in Morrisons to fall over. and staff stacking shelves during the busiest time this should be done early on or in the night shift. Kids screeming and climbing up shelves or kids playing football in the supermarket while parents let them.

Morrisons never has any fresh bread! At the least the one at Hillsobough Barracks never does. Doesn't matter what evening I go - they're out!

Little old women who get to the front of the queue in a really busy shop and then wait until they are told how much it comes to before fishing round in their shopping bag for their purse, or the ones who get to the front, the assistant runs evertyhing through and then little old dear says "Oh I've just forgotten something" and suddenly shoot off to fetch it leaving evryone else stood there waiting for her to return.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
When I was in my mid twenties I had really long [rock] hair. This was only about 10 years ago. What really ****** me off was when I had my hair cut short. I noticed that all the older middle aged men who worked in shops, all started treating me like an equal, or even a good bloke. or a reasonable customer.

This really annoyed me. And even now, when I go about with easy - to - care - for - take - no - bottles - into - the - shower - close - shaved hair, Which I consider to be much more aggresive looking, I get no problems at all.

I don't know why but it still disturbs me.

I find that the shorter my hair is the more suspicious I must look, and when I shave it off completely (down to the skin) I get followed around by store detectives and asked if i "need any help" a lot more often. I must just look dodgy.

Originally posted by Wattsy
Who gets P****d off with bread crates left on the floor in Morrisons to fall over. and staff stacking shelves during the busiest time this should be done early on or in the night shift.

Yeah, Morrisons is terrible for this - I'm convinced that getting in the way of the customers as much as possible is seen as one of the perks of the job!

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Yeah, Morrisons is terrible for this - I'm convinced that getting in the way of the customers as much as possible is seen as one of the perks of the job!

I bet they're stacking so they don't have to work on the tills and face the pressure of a hectic task with disgruntled customers. If I had a penny for everytime I'd been waiting in a massive crocodile approaching the tills and the tannoy goes for all relief staff to work on the tills, and you only get one or two coming to help if lucky. The rest are fagging it around the back.

Why do old Women insist on pushing you in the back all the time when you're in a queue with their trolley. In the bank it's pretty bad too. Often the cashiers are busy finishing up what they're doing and might not be there to serve a customer, they always make eye contact or signal when they want you to approach. I had a bit of a go at an old biddy once, She was tutting loudly and telling me to go on. I told her that she was being aggressive and rude, and explained that the cashier wasn't ready. Everyone else in the queue was looking at her and she kept very quiet after that.

In store radio.

It started with Virgin Music Radio, then Asda Radio, now its got silly. Co-Op Radio. Its just wrong.

And Xmas music insesently jingly happy happy. Look I'm buying a jar of beef flovour meat paste, Cliff Richard does NOT make this a plesant experiance.

i hate it when the staff follow u about as though ur looking for a 5 finger discount and when u walk into a shop and they shove a bag or basket in ur hand its like whoa give me chance to step inside first lol:D

I have to say its the MUSIC the shops and stores are playing!
After 8 hours of working in a furniture store with kids crying
and music playing i am ready to jump!:loopy:

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Yeah, Morrisons is terrible

Have edited your post (so it makes sense to me) ;-)

Greeters who ask if they can help you before you even get over the threshold... particularly bad in Gap, where every assistant seems to be contracted to ask you at least twice, then to prolong the agony the till person then asks (before and after serving you) if anyone has been helping you today.

Originally posted by Wattsy
Who gets P****d off with bread crates left on the floor in Morrisons to fall over. and staff stacking shelves during the busiest time this should be done early on or in the night shift. Kids screeming and climbing up shelves or kids playing football in the supermarket while parents let them.

Come on FFS. Work it out, the nightshift fill the shelves, then the customers empty the shelves.....then amazingly the staff have to refill the shelves, else the customers at busy times would have nothing to buy. Get a grip...it's not sodding rocket science...or is it :rant: :rant: :rant:

Originally posted by sparklesista
Sounds like you're a bit of a pessimist!

I've been meaning to tell you, if you aim for the moon and miss you'll be drifting forever in the cold, dark vacuum of space.

Staff in Boots @Meadowhall who shove giant trolley things about and seem to have forgotten how to say 'excuse me' when sneaking up behind.(Three times in last 10 days)
Claires Accessories who insist on you having a huge net basket when all you want is a pack of hair grips.
Kids who run around the store shouting and getting in the way during food shopping - what kinda parents let their kids do this? How silly!
Checkout staff who pop a 'no more customers, till closed' sign on the conveyor just as I've got into a queue which doesn't contain half of Britain.
Recently, broken glass on Waitrose shelves and in Tesco freezer section - what's that about? When you tell someone either you've cut yourself, or so they can clean it they look all puzzled and confused.
The 3 staff it took to find 1 box of breadcrumbs in Waitrose last week. It was like an Ealing comedy. (not my breadcrumbs I hasten to add).
Stores who only accept certain types of plastic. I have Switch but some people have Solo and certain stores don't accept Solo, I see that as very biased since it's more likely to have money on it than a Switch card is, otherwise it can't be used at all.
GRrrrr

it always annoys me how they give you the change from a large note and put a note in your hand then drop all the shrapnel on top of that so it slides all over the place as you try to put it away.....and when you are at the checkout frantically packing bags as they hurl everything down towards you throught the till then once you have paid start with the next customer whilst all your stuff is still there....have started not paying them till all my bags are packed now - makes a point and makes me feel better too - must be getting crabby in mi old age...

Originally posted by msbehavin
and when you are at the checkout frantically packing bags as they hurl everything down towards you throught the till then once you have paid start with the next customer whilst all your stuff is still there....have started not paying them till all my bags are packed now - makes a point and makes me feel better too - must be getting crabby in mi old age...

I agree with this totally! The worse thing is when you are on your own with a considerable amount of shopping... whilst you are piling it all onto the conveyor belt, the assistant start putting it through the till, so that by the time you get to the other end to pack it all into bags there are piles of shopping stacked up, the operator wants your money and the next person is already waiting to put their stuff through! This happened to me today and I had to simultaneously wrestle with three carrier bags and my purse whilst the woman behind me in the queue tutted loudly at my obvious incompetence! Arghh!

What annoys me in shops? People! In particular, the annoying ones who wear rucksack type bags. The human brain doesn't seem to allow for the fact that with a rucksack the body is significantly larger, therefore before they turn around they should check that they aren't going to have someones eye out, or send them flying. Rucksack wearing gits :hihi:
Oh, and people who dawdle along and block the aisles. Don't they know Draggletail is in a rush?:rant: :hihi: :hihi:

I hate it when I am browsing and a shop assistant comes over to ask if they can help me.

This is very irritating.

Then when you say no they look all up set and ask you again five minutes later.

No No No, leave me alone I am shopping and you cant help untill I ask you to so go away. haha

And yet as soon as you need assistance they are nowhere to be seen. Or all engaged in a private discussion about last night's episode of Corrie.

Originally posted by tslogf74
And yet as soon as you need assistance they are nowhere to be seen. Or all engaged in a private discussion about last night's episode of Corrie.

Correct.

I hate it when people shoulder barge as well this propper gets up nose.

And big bags , old grannies allways take me out with big shopping bags with summat sharp or hard in them.

Your just walkin along in a day dream and wack be bag to the knee cap and a shoulder barge.

No sorry , just a look like it was your fault.

And another shoulder barge, aaaaarrrrrghhhh

Thank the lord for ecommerce...

When you are paying for something and the shop assistants are talking about nothing in particular while they are serving you, not looking at you etc, i think its very rude!

Coming a close second is the fact that they ask you if they can help the second you've walked through the door! Havent even had time to look at anything yet eh!

I hate the fact they insist on putting everything in a carrier bag. Even a little item has to go in a bag. Even if you already have a bag with you.

All the bags get thrown away, go in a hole in the ground and stay there for ever. Can we have a bit less waste please? :rant: :rant:

Originally posted by jonsastar
I hate it when I am browsing and a shop assistant comes over to ask if they can help me.

This is very irritating.

Then when you say no they look all up set and ask you again five minutes later.

No No No, leave me alone I am shopping and you cant help untill I ask you to so go away. haha

That is definately the worst thing about shopping! It's so true; if you want help, you'll ask for it - it's just not necessary to be pestered as soon as you enter a shop. Who says you're looking for something in particular anyway? Most of the time it's only a case of browsing.

Another annoying question is 'do you need any help finding your size or anything?' To which I feel like shouting back 'I do know my own size thankyou! Leave me alone and let me look around first for goodness' sake, if I can't see my size in something I like maybe then I'll ask for your help! Unitl then I don't need you following me about making me feel uncomfortable!'

If only we could say that instead of 'I'm fine thankyou'!!

Originally posted by jonsastar
I hate it when I am browsing and a shop assistant comes over to ask if they can help me.
This is very irritating.
When when you say no they look all up set and ask you again five minutes later.
No No No, leave me alone I am shopping and you cant help untill I ask you to so go away. haha

I recall Billy Connoly's response to this one!

"Yes, you go & look round & I'll stand here & mind my own f***ing business!"

Other things that irk me are:
Christmas in Meadowhell; Ammericanised greeters getting in your way (Disney Shop et al) acting like they are your best mate from school when there's only 1 person on the 'till & she's had 12 minutes training to deal with queue that reaches the greeter.!

When the till girl holds my note up to the light!!!
I am not a criminal!!! :rant:
Nowdays if I pay with a tenner & she does that, & I get a fiver in change, I do it too - try it! You'll see real shock on the till girl's face and, as for the reaction of the rest of the queue :heyhey:

MORRISONS!!
Why must you shrinkwrap every last tiny item of fruit & veg??
Haven't you heard of global warming & landfill tax?
:loopy: Da-ah!

people wo knock your kids flying because they think they have the right of way , and they are far more important then everyone else

.The parent that is holding on to their childs hands, but the child is behind the parent and well hiden, when you get level with them the child suddenly emerges to headbut you in the stomach and wipes ice cream down your clothes.

people stood about doing nothing and there is usually one person running about like headless chicken. saturday kids can be fairly annoying and clueless, but we have all being there.
the worst thing is when you see a manager ridicule a staff member on the shop floor. i see that a lot, and think it should be done privately

What realy bothers me at the moment (with menswear shops) is that they all seem to sell the same stuff, you can't find anything different without paying a fortune, it's like they have all agreed what we will wear and thats all they will sell.

It's ok for women they have more choice of shops.

Originally posted by nick2
What realy bothers me at the moment (with menswear shops) is that they all seem to sell the same stuff, you can't find anything different without paying a fortune, it's like they have all agreed what we will wear and thats all they will sell.

It's ok for women they have more choice of shops.
you must be joking, girl shops are pants at min. racks and racks of rubbish "in the sale for a reason" clothes.
i went into crombie the other day and didnt even get asked if i wanted any help, went in later with hub (he was suited and booted) and they came a running! thats annoys me. just cos i look about 15, doesnt mean i havent got pennies! customer service should be equal

Snooty slappers that patrol dressing rooms and look you up and down with a deep look of contempt as if to say, you are not worthy or attractive enough to wear these clothes, go to the fruit and veg stall and see if they can spare you a hessian potato sack instead.

This could however be deep rooted paranoia :suspect:

this is a pet hate of my mum too, shes 50 and size 16 and it annoys her when you go in shops and the assistant is size 6 and 16. the good things about evans, is you haveto be 25. maybe they have some sort of positive discrimination when they employ?
i detest bra shoppin, shes nice in debenhams down the moor though. very helpful

I dislike:

The idiots who congregate in busy shop doorways and talk the hind legs of a donkey with their equally inconsiderate friends - Can they not see they're causing an obstruction?

People who stop suddenly and then expect the tide of people to flow around them while they gawp at whatever tat is cluttering the shop

People who start to walk on the opposite side to me and then drift over to my side. - Next christmas ask for a sense of direction!

People who use their pushchairs/trolleys/shopping baskets as offensive weapons - Contrary to popular belief, my legs actually have nerve endings.

Rant over............ on the odd accasion I do go shopping, I'd just once like to do it without stress levels going through the roof.