Comments on Norfolk Blogger: I don't care about the wording, I just wish Tesco ...

Don't get angry about this; get angry about the pe...

2008-08-31T19:47:00.000+01:00

Don't get angry about this; get angry about the people who abuse parent parking spaces or use them when they have a 12yr old with them!

I actually said to the guy on the till the last ti...

2008-08-31T18:16:00.000+01:00

I actually said to the guy on the till the last time that it happened that he should not have served the person and his response was that he hadn't noticed.

Good point. In a commonsense world we all accept t...

2008-08-31T17:46:00.000+01:00

Good point. In a commonsense world we all accept that ten items is a fuzzy quantity depending on the length of queue behind the shopper. It would be unreasonable to expect a shopper with eleven or twelve items to queue in the big weekly shop trolley queues. But what can a checkout operator do if a stroppy, feisty person puts down the contents of a couple of baskets expecting privileged service? If the checkout operator enforces the rule the customer may walk out and the stock will have to be put back on shelves and a sale is lost.
Is there any way that selfish gits can be taught to realise that other people are as valuable as them? Could electrified training collars be fitted to them?

Is that 10 items inclusive total, or up to ten ite...

2008-08-31T16:25:00.000+01:00

Is that 10 items inclusive total, or up to ten items, meaning a maximum of nine items? Some people might interpret it so, therefore a bit of small linguistic clarification from Tesco may be of use.

After all, every little helps....