Thread: Queues in shops

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

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In my books that's not local favouritism, it's damned good customer service!

Nuh, it sucks.... :eek:
I walk in & order a meal & sit down at a table to wait for it & six other people come in after me & all order something very similar & theirs comes out & they are half way through it & I'm still sitting there like a stale bottle of pizz?????
That's like pushing in on a queue & faqing rude in my book. :mad:
How do you call that good customer service? :confused:
Sure they may have six regulars but am I ever likely to go back there again?

I'd be peeved too, if we all ordered at the same time.

At this particular caf there was no need for me to order, they'd just see me walk in and plonk it on the grill. Mind you, it would probably be a different story if I changed my order occasionally.

Well I dunno if I'm a local yet Cliff, I've ónly been here for thirty odd years but some of the locals do recognise me and wave... or is it just the flies?

One thing that realy peeves me about Coles is that when there are 30 peaople queing up at 6pm ( Caulfield Plaza) the staff are all sitting outside having there meal break. I dont have a problem with staff having a break but management need to organise it better so that only one staff memebr at a time is on there break.
And the other most hated would be that the cigarette counter is always at the express checkout, and they always get priority. They just walk up when there is a queue with 20 or so people and get served next. Last time the girl went to serve this woman and i was next in queue i said to her " hold on ive been waiting 10 mins is this queue and your going to serve her" other people in the queue said she should join the queue like everyone else. Wont ever see that happen, at least Safeway have moved them to a seperate counter now.

Originally Posted by Guy

...Coles ..the other most hated would be that the cigarette counter is always at the express checkout, and they always get priority. They just walk up when there is a queue with 20 or so people and get served next. .....

Yeap, I'd forgotten about that, that is like pushing in too. :mad:

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Yeap, I'd forgotten about that, that is like pushing in too. :mad:

Since we're whinging - I am not very happy when you get to the front of the queue and the phone rings, which they then answer and make you wait.

I got of my butt and drove in there, only to be cut off by some phone shopper. A few times now I've put the goods down on the counter and gone elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Groggy

...the phone rings, which they then answer and make you wait.

I got of my butt and drove in there, only to be cut off by some phone shopper. .....

Yeap, I'd forgotten about that, that is like pushing in too. :mad:

What about when you ring up to see if they have one & they say they do & when you get there they can't find it?

Can't remember the last time I stood in a queue. Oh, yeah I do, I had to queue up to buy tickets to my daughter's dance concert 2 years ago because the wife was playing golf.

But reading all this certainly brings back the memories and reminds me why I don't live in Sydney any more. It must take years off your life.

So I'll stop reading

Then of course theres the Commonwealth Bank, take a cut lunch with you, and ANZ Frankston, take a number, have a seat and we may wake you up when it's your turn.
Got a bit like Mr Bean in the hospital queue........
And I hate Mr and Mrs with a trolley full of gear in the 12 items or less who split the goods when they get to the checkout and fart around with one card to pay for both lots.

Originally Posted by silentC

Can't remember the last time I stood in a queue.

So, you're one of those who barges to the front eh?

What gets me about supermarkets is where they find the dills for the checkouts. Do they give them intelligence tests and only employ them if they fail? Dead set. You get the occasional good one, but most have left their brain in the lunch room. Jamming something heavy and hard like a bottle of milk in the same bag as the bread is popular. Or you put the tomatoes on the bottom of the bag then fill it up with heavy stuff. Every now and then though, you get a good one. I had a good one last month - young, neatly dressed, genuinely chatty and happy, knew how to pack a bag properly - I haven't seen her since, they probably realised she wasn't suitable for the job.

Richard

Originally Posted by Daddles

Jamming something heavy and hard like a bottle of milk in the same bag as the bread is popular. Or you put the tomatoes on the bottom of the bag then fill it up with heavy stuff.
Richard

Scrunching up the prosciutto after someone with a semblance of intelligence managed to slice and pack it properly (usually of Italian parents)

Originally Posted by Iain

....the prosciutto ... someone with a semblance of intelligence managed to slice and pack it properly (usually of Italian parents)

In our little town, the supermarket is owned by the English famly in English St. (The Englishes own half the town).
If you order prosciutto they cut it about a 1/4" thick.

And how thick is the bacon???