They are not super.

they hire too many retards

You can find high priced markets with decent products.

You can find cheap markets with shit products.

There is not intersection of cheap and good.

Go to a farmers market.

Parents that bring their stupid little kids there.

>>763385
>Go to a farmers market.

And pay more

>>763415

If you are a retard you do. Give me some real world examples of where a farmers market costs more. I think this is a myth which has been debunked.

people that block aisles

>>763422

Totally debunked. Because of the arrangement, it's possible for the farmers to make more profit, sell better quality, and for substantially cheaper than any market can.

Think about it. How many steps does shit go through to get to the supermarket, and then into the basket. Think about the overhead involved. Employee health benefits. Rent. Heating. Cooling. Trucking/shipping shit from around the globe (chilean produce). Loss due to spoilage.

The markets don't want people to think about it though because they are huge businesses.

>>763385
>There is no intersection of cheap and good.

I beg to differ.

Parents, and their little shit kids that block the aisles. Old people being sooo fucking slow it's ridiculous.

Mothers having meetings with their trollys blocking the aisles.

There's just too many people to shop properly without forgetting things, this is why I normally shop around 12-4am, thank goodness there are 24 hour supermarkets.

fat people in motorized carts

>>763437

Yes, that's as close as one can come. I prefer to buy my meat from a butcher and my produce/shrooms/misc from the farmers markets when practical though. Other than that, trader joes is nearly 100% of my food shopping, with occasional trips to whole foods, and other local markets like draegers, milk pail, cosentinos, etc... It pays to shop around sometimes, and that's one of the few criticisms of TJ. They don't have sells!

>>763376

this boy!

Well, I'm from Upstate New York, so I've been spoiled by Wegmans. Whenever I have to go to any other sort of grocery store (a supermarket, something like Tops or Market Basket if I'm traveling), I can't deal with how low-quality and smelly it is.

Basically, I just hate that supermarket's aren't Wegmans.

When they stop selling the stuff I like. I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE CLUB CARD. SO YOU CAN TELL WHAT I AM BUYING.

>>763376

Nothing. I'm mature and humble enough to realize the world does not revolve around me and thus I am not above having to deal with inconveniences in public facilities, just like every other regular human being.

The rest of you seem to forget you are not special and you are no different from everyone else who enters the store. 99% of them are more valuable to society since they actually have jobs.

That said, my only complaint would be when they are out of stock of something I want. But that isn't that big of a deal, I can go to another store if I need it badly.

way too many prepackaged foods.

>>763385
Sadly, some people don't have that option.

The only thing I like about super market is the ability to get rare/uncommon drinks. lol

>>763486
Wegmans is amazing. Unfortunately, the closest one to me is about 40mins away.

>>763486
Upstate NY does not equal Wegmans, depending on WHERE in upstate. WTF. There's more of the state out there besides yourself.

>>763376
i usually shop at around 10pm-midnight because i dont have to deal with as many people there, and they tend to be sold out of a lot of stuff on sale. wats the point of 2 packs of bacon for $4 if i cant get my hands on some?

1. not enough weird drinks.....
2. not many are open 24hrs

>>763376
>supermarkets

I hate the fact the entire store is owned by a single company or owner. I'd rather shop in a real market place where many venders are hawking many different things. That sort of atmosphere is also more engaging and fun.

Wegmans is god-tier supermarkets. And they seem to have the best deals on meat in my area.

I WISH I had a Trader Joe's near me...

Also seconding the fat people in motorized carts blocking the aisles...

Fuck yeah Wegmans. Anyone ever been to the flagship Wegmans in Pittsford(Rochester Area)? It's pretty fucking awesome.

costco anyone?
pretty good if you can finish bulk

My only problem is that I moved out of Chicago and cant find anything remotely as good as Cuputo's markets.

BINGHAMTON NY REPRESENT WEGMANS <33333

Slow checkout. I can deal with every other problem, but supermarkets with no self-checkout option do not get my business.

I fucking love Trader Joe's. Except... going to buy shit there is ridiculous. Most of the time, it's not worth it going there to buy stuff because of their ridiculously long lines at the store near me. Fucking line pretty much encircles the whole store.

Biggest complaint? Most of them have shitty meat and produce. There's a huge Safeway by me, probably the busiest one in San Francisco, so the turnover is high enough that everything is always fresh, but everywhere else is abysmal unless you hit it on the right day.

>>763437
I tend to get my packaged shit from TJs though, and my produce from the little places, dirty floors, bare florescent lights, and handwritten price signs. A pretty good combo, and it keeps things cheap.

>>763376
That people don't wear a shirt and tie with their uniform anymore.

>>763437

In New England there is also Market Basket. They cater to the working class without cutting corners. The owner of the company last Christmas actually sold stuff like diapers and baby food at below what the store even bought it for and I'm talking like gerber baby food and name brand diapers. Plus us workers got a huge christmas bonus, I got about $2k. My mom this year for a $9k xmas bonus.

>>763956

Market Basket does. Males cannot have long hair, any piercings including ears and you can only have a mustache for facial hair. Also we had to wear slacks instead of jeans. Woman can only wear 1 ring, 1 set of earrings, if you wear make up neutral colors only and a blouse with nice slacks or a knee length skirt. You also can't wear sneakers, you can only wear black shoes.

Hm, I dunno. I actually like going to the supermarket. There's a brand new Wegmans about 20 minutes away :D but usually I just go to the Harris Teeter around the corner (partially because the name is funny).

i love trader joe's my only complaint is that their selection is somewhat limited... but I'm pretty sure that's what allows them to be so good in every other way.

i have started to hate safeway. sometimes they have good deals its not worth buying anything that's not in a package. almost all of their produce is old or smashed. looking for decent fruit is futile because it wont make it past the checkout line intact. if the checker doesn't squeeze or throw it there is still a very high chance that it will be bagged improperly. heavy hard stuff on the bottom, light fragile stuff on the top, seems simple but apparently its too difficult for some people. even though they give you a new bag for every two or three items they still manage to stack cans on top of eggs and fruit. and trying to bag items yourself means you cant make sure they aren't charging you twice for things (good luck trying to get a refund after looking at your receipt).

>>763962
a lot of stores sell some items below cost in order to attract people who usually end up buying other things (at full price) as well. this is often done with things that go together.

Grocery store cashier here. What do I hate most about the store? The customers!

No, not all of them. Just the fat fucks using an EBT card to buy $300 worth of Cheetos, and then discovering on the receipt that they've still got $400 for the month.

I also hate when people bitch at me because other people have bought all of something they wanted to buy. No, we're not hiding more in the back room because we don't like you. I'm sorry, maybe if you'd shown up a little earlier, like maybe not ten minutes before we close, there might have still been some left when you got there. Also, I am the cashier, not the stock manager. Where am I supposed to get that cabbage you need so desperately that you're willing to scream at me for it, and why would I after that?

>>764734
i get everything from safeway because you can link your clubcard to an alaska airlines mileage number. then i pay with an alaska airlines credit card for additional miles. i get a free plane ticket over the course of a year just by doing this since i shop for my work and buy gas there too.

also i keep my eye on coupon codes for their grocery delivery service. one time i got 5 12pks of vanilla coke, a bunch of lunch meat, bread, and tons of other stuff delivered for 6 dollars total. the delivery guy was like wtf how did you do this, the minimum is $50. i said coupons are counted after the total, now stand here with me as i bask in my smart shopper glory.

>>764775
FFFF THIS. Fuck, I work at the Ghetto Shaws in my city and I hate that I have to cater to overweight people using their food stamps to buy junk food while I spend my hard earned pay check on decent food and go without entertainment for the week just to eat nice.

I got transferred to the Bakery, though, because I verbally bitch slapped a customer that was getting snippy with me and my boss liked me too much to fire me.

I also hate:
Fat fucks on motorized carts. Walk, asshat, lose the weight.
Fat adults bothering me while I'm working to get their borderline obese children cookies.
Old bitches who want cannolis and refuse to buy the ones I just filled and packaged, making me fill one just for them.
Retards who continue to complain that everything at Shaws is so expensive and that they never shop there and are only there because there's no time to get to MB cause it's already closed... but I see them at least three times a week.

Working at a supermarket makes you hate humanity. Trufax.

>>764861
Haha, I sympathize. Try working at Domino's in the ghetto on the 1st and 15th of the month, when the government assistance checks come in. Lawdy, everyone and their mom wants some goddamn $5.55 pizzas.

Whole Foods.
Pros: for some reason they tend to hire pretty hippie girls.
Cons: hippie girl at first smiles nicely & then scowls at you when you purchase "dead flesh".

>>764904
hippie girls are dead flesh

>>764904
That's when you give them the Soy Fetus talk.

"You know all that tofu and soy you eat? It comes from beans. Beans are seeds. They're little baby soy plants. You are eating FETUSES. ENJOY."

The look of horror on their face is amazing and I always laugh when they try and defend themselves. Then I go eat a burger full of meat and manly.

Kids being general shitheads. And their mothers not doing anything about it.

>>764906
I like you.

They're not convenient, reliable or cheap.

Supermarkets usually have bad meat and expensive produce. Weis can be pretty bad, Giant fluctuates from okay to bleh, Walmart I don't even want to think about. They're usually full of nasty chemical outgassing from the laundry isle too.

>>764906

The unborn pack the most nutrition. Why is this so hard for people to grasp? Do they not have gardens?

>>764910
Daww, I like you, too, Anonymous.

>>764925

I can't go down the laundry aisle in a supermarket because my sinuses clog up and my eyes water. If I need a bottle of bleach or something I ask somebody to get it for me if it is in the middle of the aisle or if it is near the end I hold my nose and run grab it. I also have to hurry on the aisles on either side of the laundry aisle.

Walking through some nasty motherfucker's gas cloud or past some dirty butt stank motherfucker reeking of Eau de BO.

Same goes for the 100 year old raisin, smelling like a week old urine party

America should have night markets but we don't so all we get are clubs and bars. :/

I work for one..
Creepy enough, i googled king soopers and this is the exact one i work at...

>>763376

I love the self checkout in most cases, because a lot of people are too pussy to try it out, therefore even in a super busy supermarket, they still have relatively short lines. That said,

FUCKIN RETARDS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO OPERATE THE SELF CHECKOUT.

I commend you for your courage, but seriously if you don't know how to read you should probably rely on someone who has at least an elementary school education to help your ass out.

Oh also the asians that stop absolutely abruptly, causing shopping cart collisions. They're just as bad with shopping carts as they are with cars. How did these peoples' ancestors survive with such poor visual-spatial skills?

People who stand in the middle of the aisle and talk with their friends. BLAHBLAHBLAHYAPYAPYAP.

SAVE-A-LOT. That whole place pisses me off.

Trader Joes is fucking awesome for anything that is not directly related to the flesh of an animal. I always find their seafood/Meat selection very lacking other than that however they are great. I am fortuante in that i have a bunch of local buchers right near my house

other people

Idiotic people who can't grasp the concept of common sense.

Example:

Back in college, I was gathering my weekly supplies. I was rolling a cart along gathering all my things. There was then a couple (like middle age, not old) following me...so I make a stop to pick up something. They stop behind me. Repeat. I get what's going on soon. So I'm now by the meat department, picking up steak.

I then hear "excuse me sir, could you move?"

In this somewhat empty Hyvee in Iowa, there's enough space TO MY SIDE to drive a mack truck through!

And it happened to me again just recently. At a Fry's here in Arizona.

Club cards.

Fuck club cards.

>>765637

I resent that remark!

Yeah, You can't beat the 2 buck chuck. Anyone that's ever been to trader joe's will know what I'm talking about.

hidden bathrooms

>>764775
>>764861

ALL TRUE. I'm so glad that I'm not a cashier anymore.

Now, I’m sure many of you have encountered little shits in supermarkets. Little kids running about and knocking things over, being rude, walking all over their parents, you know the kind. But the worst are the biters. Yes, those little cunts that feel it is okay to bite you whenever they feel like it. Okay, here’s the best part. A biter got me today when I was grocery stopping. He broke the fucking skin, too. This was when the gears started turning, the moment I saw a tiny sprickle of blood on the little shit’s teeth as he was grinning at me like the little cunt he is. I made my eyes get wide, and started screaming “SHIT! SHIT!.” Now, my good friend, Tom we’ll call him, was there too, and he instantly picked up on it. He started shouting “FUCK! MAYBE HE DIDN’T GET IT! FUCK!”. By now, the kid is scared shitless and starts crying, and instantly, Mizz Mom appears out of nowhere and starts getting pissy at us for yelling at her kid. Here’s the kicker, I look her straight in the eye and say, “Ma'am, get your son tested as soon as possible, he just bit me and I’m… I’m FUCKING HIV POSITIVE.” And now there is silence. Not a peep in the entire store. The brat knows he just fucked up big time because his mom isn’t defending his ass. She just stares at me wide eyed. I walk away from them, buy my shit from the wide eyed cashier, all the while blood is dripping from my calf, making a nice little trail on the floor. And, just as we leave, we start to hear the mother sobbing. Sobbing like the cunt she is. I have never felt any more satisfaction than the moment I heard that sob. I'm not really HIV Positive, but that little shit must've gotten in a fuckheap of trouble.

>>765642
Only useful for making mulled wine. Drinking it straight is usually not very good.

>>765744
This copypasta still tastes good.

>>765644
VERY True, Also Sometimes The Store Is Wicked Crowded.

>>765744
i love this story every time i read it

>>764775
>>764861

Abso-fucking-loutely.

I work in deli/bakery because I know if I ever had to work the registers for an extended period of time (as in more than half an hour), I'd probably tear new assholes into half the assholes who came to my register.

For the love of pete, is it that fucking hard to be polite? I know you want your shit at X price, but guess what? I can't give it to you for that price. I'm not authorized to do so! Bitch at a manager if you think you've been cheated. I can't do anything for you.

There was a thread on the subject a while ago in /ck/ but I cant' stand people who eat and drink things before they pay(or don't pay) for it.

Kids who like to put their nasty little hands in the bins with bulk dry goods, touch vegetables and breathe all over the freezer cases

Those people who can't operate self-checkout

Seeing carts with meat or frozen food abandoned in a random asile because somebody decided they didn't want to shop anymore. It makes me paranoid.

For those of you who work at a supermarket what happens with that stuff if its melted or has been sitting around for a while?

>>765997
Chilled and frozen products are supposed to be marked as Waste if they're left out at room temperature for more than 20minutes. Usually a manager will just feel it and judge for themselves, a lot of the time it will go back on the shop floor. If it's noticeabley thawed it will go into Waste.

>>765780when i was a boy, i worked the registers in a few places, including burgerking.

now that i have a real job, I am the politest, most understanding, grinningest motherfucker you ever saw. my kid touches NOTHING. he makes a peep, and we are out the door. he can figure out what happened in the car.

he wants an apple? we pay for it first EVERY TIME. except a fw times when he was a infant- i let him eat a few fruits, but also took an extra and asked them to double weigh it for me (no one ever did, aww, sweeties)

free cheese at the deli? he flat out asked for it once and i about lost my mind. (he got the cheese, but i made him say "please sir" and "thank you sir" to the butcher- that guy had a smile a mile wide)

i'll even stand some sass; you fuckers have it coming. the shit we had to put up with can make you insane. one job i literally did nothing but drink from the moment i got off to the next day. it was hell on earth(that was BK, IIRC)

same with going out- dated so many waitresses that i tip like Croesus even for a fucking pizza and a beer. seriously. five dollar tab? five dollar tip. least i can do.

fuck, i'd tip the cashiers and bag boys if i could.

>>764861

What shaws do you work at? I worked at the Leominster, MA Market Basket so haha at all the shitheads that went to your store at night. I was the cake decorator.

Ah, cashier stories. Those are great. Indeed customers are a pain in the ass especially the cheapo types who eat 2/3 of the chips in the bag and then return to store to get a refund saying the chips are stale (repeat story with other food items like wine, etc).

>>766065

leominster is a pit of hell.

fitchburg, however, is worse.

i personally, have shopped at the MB in Ashland (GODDAMN HELLO BRAZIL), the MB in Somerville(HI SOUTHAMERICA AND OLD EYETIE LADEEZZ)

also visted several shaw'a, and they are pale imitations of Stop n Shop.

Roche's can kiss my ass, and Hannafords are an alien invader, so whatever.

and I must say, whole foods can suck my dick. you people are outrageous.

>>766072
My favorite's when someone goes to a church function and collects the boxes and leftover cans of soda, then gets an old receipt and tries to return them for cash because they "tasted funny".

Another fantastic one is when someone leaves their purchases--or, rather, intended purchases, since they haven't paid yet--on my register so they can price-check the store next door to make sure they're not paying more. I understand price shopping, but seriously? A little more discretion, please. We're the grocery store; we don't do layaway.

>>766072

Anon from the bakery here. My favorite one to tell is about the lady who came to us trying to return a strawberry shortcake, telling us it was stale.

Which, under normal circumstances, we would totally appologize, and give her a free cake. Except for one thing - We hadn't carried strawberry shortcake for the past three weeks! Bitch was eating one slice of cake every night, and didn't like the fact that her cake was getting staler and staler as she ate it.

>>766027
The world needs more of you. I'm serious. Please keep procreating. On behalf of humanity and the gene pool, THANK YOU for keeping common sense alive. No sarcasm here, I'm serious. Thank you.

(This comes from a former BK slave. It's been years since I worked there, damn high school job, and I still don't let ANYONE get away with stupid shit in public when I'm around.)

Faggots that leave packs of raw beef in the cereal section.

theres a No Frills I used to shop at.. they would leave one of their meat fridges at 13C.. of course before I knew this, I got sick. They would leave meat from their supplier in the aisle for more than an hour before they would put it on the shelf. Incredibly lazy and incompetent people.