Top 20 Most Annoying Things at the Grocery Store

[DarkChylde]

Another thing I hate bearing witness to in the grocery store is the "Big Ghetto Momma," who insists on screaming loudly enough to be heard through the entire store, while she's whuppin' the shit out of her kid in the aisle. How absolutely vulgar! Sure, it has the effect of embarrassing the child into behaving properly, but guess what? This looks SOOOO ghetto to rationally-thinking people, that most of the public's judgment is passed onto the parent!

Please don't beat your kids in public! This is not what I want to hear or see while I am out shopping. Kthanxbai.

I believe me and crank witnessed a similar situation at "hot hits" record store before.

[TygerLili]

People on their bluetooths, or worse, those damn walkie-talkie type phones where you can hear both ends of the conversation with constant beeps in between each sentence, annoy me more than anything on that list. Also, as someone in customer service, people who don't end or hold their phone conversations when they get up to the check out line. But at least you can be as rude to them as they are to you.

I agree about the kids with those stupid shoes with the wheels on the bottom, though. I want to smack them.

[jynxxxedangel]

People on their bluetooths, or worse, those damn walkie-talkie type phones where you can hear both ends of the conversation with constant beeps in between each sentence, annoy me more than anything on that list.

Heehee! The first time I saw someone using one of those headsets at the store, I DIDN'T see the headset at first! I thought the lady had some mental problem, and was talking to herself!

[creatureofthenyte]

Another thing I hate bearing witness to in the grocery store is the "Big Ghetto Momma," who insists on screaming loudly enough to be heard through the entire store, while she's whuppin' the shit out of her kid in the aisle. How absolutely vulgar! Sure, it has the effect of embarrassing the child into behaving properly, but guess what? This looks SOOOO ghetto to rationally-thinking people, that most of the public's judgment is passed onto the parent!

Please don't beat your kids in public! This is not what I want to hear or see while I am out shopping. Kthanxbai.

I might be wrong, but people can get arrested for beating their kids in public, its actually considered 1st degree assault & battery, risk of injury to a minor, wreckless endangerment, and child abuse.

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

Or just please don't beat your kids. Look, if it is that hard every minute of every day with your kids, maybe you are DOING IT WRONG. I mean, every kid is annoying some of the time (it's their job), but swearing at an 18 month old neither gets the behavior you desire nor aids in his/her development.

I totally agree with Jynxx, only it's not just the big mamas and it isn't limited to the ghetto.

umm...cept sometimes thats the only time kids listen.....and lets not get into "aiding their development"....cuz there are some kids that don't care how good their parents are..t.heir gonan be assholes...plain and simple.

[DarkChylde]

umm...cept sometimes thats the only time kids listen.....and lets not get into "aiding their development"....cuz there are some kids that don't care how good their parents are..t.heir gonan be assholes...plain and simple.

I agree, sometimes a kid does need a good ass whooping.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Top 20 most annoying things at the grocery store:

Every customer in the Waterford Meijer's at 1 A.M.

Including me.

...when some idiot's cart is blocking the aisle, I just move it. Really, it's not that hard.

[Hellion]

Top 20 most annoying things at the grocery store:

Every customer in the Waterford Meijer's at 1 A.M.

Including me.

...when some idiot's cart is blocking the aisle, I just move it. Really, it's not that hard.

I used to shop at that Meijer's when I used to live in the apartments behind it,yeah I know that place all too well.

[pomba gira]

....do you know that a large majority of stolen Purses are done at the grocery store...because crooks know that the average woman is more intent on checking her groceries then keeping an eye on her purse...which will be IN the cart...while she is like 5-10 feet away looking at something....

I'm sorry, but anyone who leaves their purse in the cart kind of deserves to have it stolen. Mine never leaves my shoulder.

And maybe I'm kind of naive, but seems like it would be kind of hard for some shysty crook to convince a bank/check cashing place that their name is Meijer.

Another thing I hate bearing witness to in the grocery store is the "Big Ghetto Momma," who insists on screaming loudly enough to be heard through the entire store, while she's whuppin' the shit out of her kid in the aisle. How absolutely vulgar! Sure, it has the effect of embarrassing the child into behaving properly, but guess what? This looks SOOOO ghetto to rationally-thinking people, that most of the public's judgment is passed onto the parent!

Please don't beat your kids in public! This is not what I want to hear or see while I am out shopping. Kthanxbai.

Some days I swear there's a bad-parenting convention going on at Meijer. They should broadcast subliminal parenting messages over the PA in there. Rarely see that kind of thing at Kroger but it's rare to visit Meijer and NOT see horrible parenting skills on display. I can only imagine what WalMart must be like.

My own pet shopping peeve: people who put their kids in the basket part of the cart, rather than in the seat. Or let them ride around hanging onto the front of the cart. Not only is this quite unsafe... thinking about the dirty little shoes in close contact with the food really makes me queasy. This seems to have become way more common over the past 10 years for some reason.

The extended temper-tantrum thing is problematic, b/c the only effective way to deal with tantrums is to IGNORE THEM. Doing ANYTHING else, including getting the belt out, actually puts the child in the position of power. So, immediately removing the child from the store may make the other shoppers happy... but it is reinforcing the child in knowing that her behavior has the power to make the parent change their own behavior. I tend to be tolerant when I see parents ignoring tantrums. Yes it's highly annoying... but the parent is doing the right thing, and making it much less likely that the child will continue to throw tantrums in public. BTW, if anyone has this problem with their own kids (or knows someone who does, I highly recommend Jim Fay's "Love and Logic" strategies. They really work.

[creatureofthenyte]

when parents let their small kids scream and cry at the top of their lungs and don't do anything to shut them the hell up.

[TitsMcGee]

When I got here from Poland in 88, I was firstly surprised by the abundance of 'neon' wow tactics

to sell puffy snacks -americans are always on vacation, I thought, they eat nothing but pre prepared

snacks, where are all the slaves that make this?'

then came Meijers...... 'wow, mom, dad, look at that ASS, I can not see the cart, how, is that a human?'

we did not have this ass situation in Poland'

'where does milk come from' -the correct answer being cow

the american child answers

'MEIJERS!!' since americans have never seen a cow.

-too early in the morning for flashbacks to the horrors of the grocery store-

the horrors of poverty do not compare to the horrors of luxury

Now now, there at people in this country that do know what cows look like. Shit I come from Posen which is a sister city to Poznan, Poland. You know how small polish commuinities are, full of farms. So not all kids are dumbasses that think everything just magically appears at the store.

I for one do my shopping after I get out of work at 4am, it's quieter that way. The only downside is that if I need anything from like the deli section I have to go back during the day and deal with the old people that go to slow.

[Guest Megalicious]

The extended temper-tantrum thing is problematic, b/c the only effective way to deal with tantrums is to IGNORE THEM. Doing ANYTHING else, including getting the belt out, actually puts the child in the position of power. So, immediately removing the child from the store may make the other shoppers happy... but it is reinforcing the child in knowing that her behavior has the power to make the parent change their own behavior. I tend to be tolerant when I see parents ignoring tantrums. Yes it's highly annoying... but the parent is doing the right thing, and making it much less likely that the child will continue to throw tantrums in public.

Thank you so much for posting this. People don't often understand and look at it from the parents side of things. Most people also don't understand that reacting and removing said child DOES put the child in a position of power and only causes them to throw MORE tantrums.

My son is in the terrible two stage, it hard to ignore them, but in the long run it will benefit both my child and myself.

As for shopping pet peeves, I HATE the assholes that sit and wait for you to pull out, I have a young son, it takes me a long time to unload the shit in the car, take the cart back, and strap him in his car seat. If you don't feel like waiting a while, park farther away you lazy fuck.

[DarkChylde]

I also know few parents who have someone else (such as relative or friend) watch there kids at home before they go to the grocery store just to avoid any trouble in the first place. Now that method I can respect.

[Nightgaunt]

Senior citizens who just can't seem to figure out the bottle return machines make me seethe in quiet, smoky rage. I've got 250 bottles, I'm in a hurry and these people take half an hour to return a twelve pack. This is the generation that defeated the Third Reich and later, put a man on the moon and they're overwhelmed by a bottle return machine? It scares me a little that they actually get behind the wheel to come to the store in the first place.

I know, I'm going to Hell.

[Hellion]

I have seen people open up stuff take a bite and leave the rest on the shelf

[Homicidalheathen]

I so want some of those pop wheels.

[Homicidalheathen]

When I got here from Poland in 88, I was firstly surprised by the abundance of 'neon' wow tactics

to sell puffy snacks -americans are always on vacation, I thought, they eat nothing but pre prepared

snacks, where are all the slaves that make this?'

LOLS they live in my basement

Land of the free, the brave...the CHEESEY POOF!

[Guest Megalicious]

I also know few parents who have someone else (such as relative or friend) watch there kids at home before they go to the grocery store just to avoid any trouble in the first place. Now that method I can respect.

Some people don't have that luxury.

I hate people that don't stop for people crossing to actually enter the store, when there is a fucking stop sign. THERE IS A FUCKING STOP SIGN FOR A REASON! JFC!

[Rayne]

Some people don't have that luxury.

Indeed. Overall, I'm lucky ... my kids are pretty well behaved (usually) in public. Way better than they are at home.

[tanuki1985]

Certain kids are more well-behaved in public than at home. It is puzzling. When I take my nephews and nieces out, they're pretty good. One of my nieces used to throw tantrums and scream all the time... I actually stopped taking her out for a while because she would knock stuff over and employees would yell at me and tell me to "control 'my' child." These days, however, she has completely changed and I can take her out once again. It's nice being able to take a bunch of kids to the mall simply to window shop. They're so well-behaved that I can tell them, "Look, I have no money. Don't ask for anything," and they'll gladly look at stuff without asking for it. They're only ages 6-11. I find that quite impressive, but then again, they do have their moments, and I'm not with them 24/7 since they're not my kids.

Most kids are naturally turds when it comes to going to the grocery store. I can still remember being a little brat whenever my parents took me to the store, like asking for stuff and getting mad if I didn't get it. On one hand, kids annoy my terribly and I wish they'd go away, but I realize that that's just how kids are and sometimes parents don't have a babysitter.

[TygerLili]

As for shopping pet peeves, I HATE the assholes that sit and wait for you to pull out, I have a young son, it takes me a long time to unload the shit in the car, take the cart back, and strap him in his car seat. If you don't feel like waiting a while, park farther away you lazy fuck.

This annoys me so much that when someone does this when I am getting ready to leave, I purposely take twice as long to get out of my spot. I take my time putting my bags in the car, I get in, I change the CD, I touch up my lip gloss, etc. Never once have I seen the lot completely packed at the grocery store, and just because you're lazy and don't want to park another 3 spots down, I am not going to be rushed.

[tanuki1985]

This annoys me so much that when someone does this when I am getting ready to leave, I purposely take twice as long to get out of my spot. I take my time putting my bags in the car, I get in, I change the CD, I touch up my lip gloss, etc. Never once have I seen the lot completely packed at the grocery store, and just because you're lazy and don't want to park another 3 spots down, I am not going to be rushed.

Oh yeah, I've seen that happen before. I've had people try to trap me in the parking lot so they could get the lady's spot next to mine because it's three feet closer to the door. Seriously. I was leaving Meijer at the same time as the lady parked next to me. She had two carts of stuff and a little kid with her, so she was taking a while, which is understandable. She did not create a problem for me in any way. I only had two bags, so I just tossed my stuff in the passenger seat and was ready to go. Well, there was another lady completely blocking me from backing out because she was waiting for the lady next to me so she could get her spot. I waited paitently for about a minute and a half, then I just got annoyed. Why couldn't the old lady just take my spot? I put my car in reverse and backed up a couple inches; I figured that if she saw my huge old green beauty coming toward her, then she'd move out of the way. I was wrong. I backed up more, and she still didn't budge. Then I hit the accelerator and backed up a little faster, but of course I was nowhere near hitting her. She looked at me and honked. I held my hand on my horn for about two minutes, waiting for her to get the f**k out of my way. She FINALLY moved after that. As I drove past her, I gave her two big middle fingers and a very nasty face. I don't understand why she would rather sit there for five extra minutes and trap me in the parking lot just so she could be three, maybe two, feet closer to the door. How inconsiderate.

/end rant

[pheramoans]

Heehee! The first time I saw someone using one of those headsets at the store, I DIDN'T see the headset at first! I thought the lady had some mental problem, and was talking to herself!

I thought the same thing the first time I saw someone driving and using one.

[Guest Megalicious]

This annoys me so much that when someone does this when I am getting ready to leave, I purposely take twice as long to get out of my spot. I take my time putting my bags in the car, I get in, I change the CD, I touch up my lip gloss, etc. Never once have I seen the lot completely packed at the grocery store, and just because you're lazy and don't want to park another 3 spots down, I am not going to be rushed.

[DarkChylde]

This annoys me so much that when someone does this when I am getting ready to leave, I purposely take twice as long to get out of my spot. I take my time putting my bags in the car, I get in, I change the CD, I touch up my lip gloss, etc. Never once have I seen the lot completely packed at the grocery store, and just because you're lazy and don't want to park another 3 spots down, I am not going to be rushed.

When I use to have my own car, I've dealt with this same problem MANY TIMES! What I do is just to be a complete asshole and piss them off I just pretend that im going to pull out by backing up where im almost out of the parking space. Once they try to move in then I immediatly floor it a bit and move right back in the parking space. Its great when they get pissed when you throw ignorance by back in there face.

I thought the same thing the first time I saw someone driving and using one.

I did as well. I thought it was someone who hasnt took there meds.