A New Grocery

[ninnymary]

Major, my store is a big chain type but they always ask if you need help to the car. I've only taken up on their offer when I was hurt or had surgery. Otherwise, as long as I'm healthy I do it myself. But I've always wondered if they prefer we say "yes" so they can get a little break and at least go outside in the sunshine.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

The supermarket by me had a great scanner policy. If a item scanned wrong price you got item free plus $2. Once pina colada mix was on sale, I bought 2 bottles didn't ring up sale price, I got them free plus extra $4 .

 

[digitS']

Hey.

Scanners have been here for about 25 years. I don't like using self-serve for produce but will if necessary.

Maybe I'm too trusting but most of these sorts of things and the people associated are far less likely to make a mistake than I am.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Steve watch check out ,scanners wrong plenty of times when comes to item on sale.

 

[ninnymary]

Steve watch check out ,scanners wrong plenty of times when comes to item on sale.

A couple of weeks ago, there were some Darth Vader Pez on the Halloween shelf that said 75% off, so I got 2 for my grandkids. Saw another favorite cashier that I hadn't seen in months so I went to him. The items rang up regular price and I told him about the 75% off Halloween shelf. He tried again and then decided to just give them to me free! I personally think they were misplaced and shouldn't have been on that shelf. Almost did a happy dance.

Mary

 

[aftermidnight]

I have found using cash for groceries is so much quicker and cheaper too, we don't use a debit card, no bank fees. Of course if there's a good sale on the brand of coffee we like we'll put that on the credit card we pay off each month, bonus, cash back at the end of the year. I love shopping locally at our Country Grocer, everyone is friendly and most of the cashiers know us by name. There's too much automation, etc. in the world today, more people less jobs and it's getting worse. If I had my way I'd go back to my grandparents era, they might of not had as much but were so much happier.
Annette

 

[aftermidnight]

Steve watch check out ,scanners wrong plenty of times when comes to item on sale.

Not only items on sale, we always watch the totals as they are rung through, if the wrong code is on an item, sometimes in your favor, sometimes not, we always bring this to the attention of the cashier. Quite often if it's in our favor they let it go which is nice but no way am I paying more for anything. Fair is fair and I'm a firm believer in what goes round comes round.
Annette

 

[Nyboy]

Annette you should check store policy . When the Pina colada scanned wrong price I asked kid at register, he had no idea. I looked up and on wall next to him was sign about it. When I showed him sign he shrugged his shoulders and said go to customer service. I walked out of store with like $18 because of it.

 

[digitS']

Do you remember when ...



the corner grocery store after we moved into town ... & I want you to know how big of a deal it was for a farm kid to have a store within walking distance and not a 3 mile bike ride ... had the counter at the back of the store! No, it wasn't beside the front door!

Dad was born in 1918. He talked about stores like that but the products were not out on shelves for the customers. No, you gave the checker a list and those things were carried out to the counter .

Steve

 

[aftermidnight]

Do you remember when ...



the corner grocery store after we moved into town ... & I want you to know how big of a deal it was for a farm kid to have a store within walking distance and not a 3 mile bike ride ... had the counter at the back of the store! No, it wasn't beside the front door!

Dad was born in 1918. He talked about stores like that but the products were not out on shelves for the customers. No, you gave the checker a list and those things were carried out to the counter .

Steve

Yep I sure do remember, what would be deemed a corner store today was a big store in the 30's, my grandfather had a corner grocery/dry goods store in the 30's, 40's and 50', supermarkets were just on the horizon and when they came they weren't much bigger.
Gramps store had 2 big windows in the front, one side things like fresh fruit and veggies were displayed, the other side dry goods. Inside there were two long counters, one side for the groceries, a big ball of string hanging down from the ceiling and a huge roll of paper at hand for wrapping on the counter, also a display cooler where all the perishables were kept and the meat slicer for things like bacon, baloney, chicken loaf, bacon etc.

The walls on both sides were wall to wall sectioned shelves, tinned goods on one and dry good on the other, nylons, bolts of material etc. Also on the dry goods side there was a freezer for ice cream and such.

Clerks were behind the counters to serve the customers (clerks, my dad and the fellow who drove the delivery truck when not out delivering). He also hired one of the local boys to do bike deliveries close in. He got paid, I didn't when I was roped into it. The store delivery bike's carrier was mounted on the frame when you turned a corner it didn't. I learned to ride a bike on this one, one leg under the bar.

My grandfather manned the phone, he had had a stroke and his left arm was paralyzed but that didn't stop him, he worked into his early 80's, took phone orders from people 5 miles away. The middle of the floor was usually filled with orders ready to go out for delivery by 10am. The back wall, one side the cash register and beside it was the big round of cheddar, the other side my gramp's desk where he took orders and the filing system where all the accounts were kept. There was a door going into the back section where all the deliveries came, repurposed boxes stored to be used for deliveries, barrels of sugar and bulk potatoes ready to be weighed out into 5 and 10 paper bags (one of my jobs), remember the wooden barrels of sugar, waxed butter boxes (made great kindling) and the wooden divided boxes the oranges came in . The store was closed half day Wednesdays and Sundays. Gosh this has brought back memories.
There that's my ramble for the day.
Annette