I always grabbed the same red can without thinking, then last week I accidentally bought the store brand and honestly couldn't tell the difference in my chili. Saved $1.50 per can which adds up when you go through 6 cans a month. Has anyone else noticed certain items are totally fine as store brand?
Been hitting self-checkout for years because I thought it was faster, but yesterday the regular line moved 3 carts quicker even though there were 4 people ahead of me. Has anyone else noticed the self-checkout lanes crawling when people have a full cart of produce?
At the Stop & Shop on Broadway last night around 10pm. I'm scanning my stuff, normal routine. This lady two machines down hits the call button because her wine bottle won't scan. The one employee comes over, helps her, walks away. Then her machine starts beeping like crazy. She looks at me and yells "YOU set that off!" I didn't touch anything. The employee comes back and sees her screaming at me, asks what happened. She points at me and says I "hacked" her machine. I just finished paying and left. Has anyone else had someone randomly blame them for a self-checkout error?
Back in the mid 2000s I'd sit down Sunday morning with the paper from Kroger on Maple Street and map out every deal. I'd drive 3 miles extra just to save 50 cents on canned corn. Now I walk in without a list, grab the first brand I see, and don't even look at prices anymore. Anyone else stop caring about coupons after using those self-checkout machines?
I'm always stuck behind someone who takes 5 minutes to find the right PLU code for their organic kale. So last week at the Shaw's in Portland I tried putting all my apples and peppers into one bag before weighing them at the self-checkout. It took maybe 30 seconds total instead of the usual guessing game. Has anyone else found a dumb little trick that cuts down on checkout time?
Went to the Safeway on 3rd Street Tuesday night and the self-checkout scale kept yelling at me for "unexpected item in bagging area". I tried three times to enter my 2 pounds of bananas but the sensor was losing its mind. Finally an employee walked over, hit a button, and told me "just go ahead" without weighing them. Has anyone else gotten free produce from a broken machine?
So I'm at the Publix on 4th street yesterday and the bagger asks me paper or plastic. I freeze up like an idiot because I have like 3 bags of chips, a gallon of milk, and a frozen pizza. The guy behind me sighs loud enough to hear. I panicked and said uh neither and just started shoving everything into my jacket pockets. My keys punched a hole in the chip bag and the milk got warm before I walked 2 blocks home with it wedged under my arm. The freezer pizza slid down my pant leg and left a cold trail on my thigh. The cashier laughed at me and the bagger just stared. Has anyone else tried a dumb grocery escape like that?
I used to hate self-checkout because it always screamed at me for unexpected item in bag. Tried scanning all my produce first at the Kroger on Main Street and now I breeze through in under 5 minutes. Has anyone else found a weird order that just clicks?
I grabbed one of those mesh bags of avocados at Aldi last Tuesday because they looked perfectly ripe, but when I cut into three of them at home they were all stringy and brown inside. So I basically threw out half the bag and wasted six bucks. Has anyone else had luck picking single avocados instead of the bags, or do you just avoid them altogether?
Was at the Safeway on Broadway last night and the stupid self checkout swallowed my cash then just sat there with a blank screen for 5 minutes. Had to flag down a teenager to open the machine and get my money back, anyone else have these things just die on you mid transaction?
I was dead set against reusable bags until last month when a jug of milk busted through a plastic bag right in my trunk. Now I grab those 99 cent bags every time and actually keep them in my back seat instead of the carousel.
Must be 6 or 7 years ago now, I was standing in the produce section at Publix near my old place in Tampa. This older gentleman, probably 70s, saw me squeezing avocados like I knew what I was doing. He just chuckled and said 'you gotta check the little stem nub, son, if it pops off easy it's ready. That squeezing just bruises em.' I still think about that guy every time I pick out an avocado. Has anyone else gotten random grocery advice from strangers that actually stuck with you?