I am another person who packs their bags as the items arrive at the end of the till. Why should I wait and have to do it outside when it makes no difference in the scheme of things? Obviously those who moan about such a thing have no patience or do not like shopping. The self scan here is only good during the winter months as currently you have to unpack everything because its the season of thieving and everyone is judged to be one thanks to the dishonest amongst us. I like the local SU, have got to know the ladies on the tills and some of the other clients and we always have a chat and no one minds in the least about it taking a bit longer to get through. My absolute gripe about supermarket queues is the person on their phone oblivious to anything going on around them and how the conveyor belt is progressing. As for just throwing everything back in the trolley, no way, at least in a bag its protecting MY stuff from anything lurking germ-wise.
Good point, if theyāre not doing it then itās a bad idea.
Isnāt there a system where one Orders and Collectsā¦ ???
thus no fighting through the crowdsā¦ no queuing at the tillsā¦ just zenā¦ zzzzzzzzz
I must plead guilty to causing checkout delays recently. I was waiting in line behind a very full trolley. The cashier suggested it would be quicker If I went to the adjacent check out. āThank you ā, I said āsheās better lookingā
This started off a lively banter between check out girls and even some customers contributed to the comments, finally being joined by a supervisor. The final conclusion was that Englishmen were rather cheeky but friendly.
People expecting to hurry anything in France are making a rod for their own back.
Last week I was in the priority pregnant and disabled lane with no basket or trolley, just a single item in my hand. I was just about to be served when a man showed me his disabled badge and pushed in front of me ā with a trolley full of stuff which he proceeded to unload while his wife continued shopping and bringing more stuff to the conveyor belt. I confess that tried my patience a little bit.
I feel exactly the same. Iām no longer annoyed in the slightest when the little old lady has a natter with the cashier as the items are slowly scanned, canāt find enough cash in her purse, so then searches for her card for a few minutes, fails to get it working properly and so goes through all her purchases to figure out, with the cashiers help, which things she can do without and be within the amount of cash she has, which sheās forgotten the amount of and so has to count it again.
This happened to me a few weeks ago in Carrefour. She gave e an apologetic smile when everything was completed but I said not to worry and gave her a beaming smile back.
Lifeās too short to worry about these things when your retired.
Me too. What I do though is place the items in order so that when they are scanned I can put them in the bags quickly in the right order so that more fragile things are on top and donāt get crushed under heavier things. Organisation is the key.
Plus if I am in the queue with a lot of items and someone with just one or two bits is behind, I always let them go before me. My parents bought me up to be polite and respect others even if I get mad as hell at some things, you just never know who you might be helping or abusing here and who they are locally!!!
Retired or notā¦ Life seems almost as busy as a full-day at the Officeā¦ 
In the UK there was a report that Sainsburyās was selling huge amounts of carrots, much more than they were buying in fact. At the same time other more expensive vegetables seemed to be very unpopular, even though they were buying loads of them 
Sadly, we cannot put heavier items on the conveyor firstā¦ since they are sitting underneath the fragile things in the trolleyā¦ (carefully organized shopping) thus the heavier stuff has to wait its turn to see the light of dayā¦ 
However, weāve got this bag-packing down to a fine art and donāt keep the impatient folk waiting any longer than they have toā¦
and I canāt see why anyone in the queue would complain about the Cashier offering the discount vouchers etc etcā¦ yes, it might take a few seconds to discuss, but every centime needs to be watched carefully these days.
EDIT: and at one local shopā¦ after weāve exchanged cheerful Bonjours etcā¦
while Iām paying I do quietly ask the Cashier "et Madame?? "ā¦
(āMadameā is a lovely lady, Mum of the present Owner/Cashierā¦ sheās hitting 90 and in rather poor health at the momentā¦ )
and the Cashier beams and promises to tell Mum that the āmad Englishā have said Helloā¦ 
I would have paid it for her 
Iāve done that beforeā¦ in UK and here in Franceā¦ not huge sums thankfully.
folk helped us in hard times and we have always tried to "pass it onā¦ "
Would you let somebody else choose your fruit, I donāt want previously squeezed peaches, if you see what I mean. 
I agreeā¦ but if folk really donāt like shopping amongst other peopleā¦ prepacked stuff might be the way to click and collectā¦
You should have told him you were pregnant and, while he was figuring that out, paid and left.
Just more recycling. Thereās no end to it.
I donāt think thereās an easy answer to folk who donāt like shoppingā¦ but Iām doing my bestā¦
I was gently admonished by the lady on the fish counter in Carrefour. They have a low barrier about a metre back from the fresh fish display. I was the only customer and assumed this was a place for people to queue. I stepped over it - well it was open at each end anyway. It turned out they didnāt want anyone closer to the product than a metre or so. Iād never seen this anywhere before. Do people prod and handle fish like they do fruit? Maybe itās a throwback to covid times.
Possibly, but also prevents people coughing and spluttering over the fish. And allows the fishmonger to come round the front quickly to collect the things from front row. Iāve seen it in a few places, especially where short, deep displays.
Itās to stop the cephalopods from grabbing you.
Why not go the whole hog gregca and complsin about the fsmily groups with only member of the 6 doing any shopping but tbey all stand around clogging up the aisle? especially in Lidl which seems to spec narrower aisles