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Supermarket Experiences
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From: maxine in ri <weed...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Supermarket Experiences
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:20:01 -0000
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On Sep 10, 6:27 am, Tabbi <Tabbica...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please excuse my intrusion into your lovely grouip of Food fans but I
> crave your indulgence.
>
> I guess most of us have been in a supermarket at one time or another.
>
> I'm doing some research and I thought this group might be a good place
> to start.
>
> I'm researching two main things and I'd be very grateful for any
> comments -
>
> (1) How the average (that's you) shopper deals with queuing at the
> checkout in a supermarket - do you chat to the other people, are you
> commenting on the management of the supermarket, do you zone out
> totally until it is your turn, anything else... please include if you
> are waiting alone or if you have someone with you (mother, sister,
> other relative, partner, child, friend etc) What I'd like to get
> from this is a broad idea of how we deal with going through a busy
> checkout. (How I feel about it depends on how many of the staff can be
> seen to be standing around talking while the over worked checkout
> staff slave away)
>
> (2) Any particularly glowing examples - either positive or negative-
> that you may have experienced in a supermarket . Great customer
> service? lousy customer service ? What happened , what did you do,
> what did they do, what was the outcome?
>
> Other than the above , I'd be happy to get any other comments such as
> people blocking the aisles, poor quality of produce, out of date
> produce, 'specials' that are sold out before you get there,
> embarrassing moments like having the checkout operator calling on the
> microphone for a price check for condoms... (okay, not food -
> unless ?? )
>
> Essentially, I'm keen to get 'supermakret rage' stories of whatever
> degree.
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> Tabbi
Go to googlegroups. search on supermarket. you'll get all sorts of
threads that have covered this in detail. Do your own homework. This
is not an on-line crib sheet.