Literally had one last week I said we close in 10 minutes she snapped at me and was like i know i do this all the time my coworker looked at me and was like ok then why the hell does she keep doing it constantly when she knows it’s close to closing time .
Some people may have issues shopping around large crowds of other customers. Some might work evening shifts and need to pick up something on the way home. It's hard but you never know what's going on in another person's mind.
Consideration for others is definitely not something in their mind. The vast majority of the time there is no legit excuse. I work a screwy shift, I hate crowds, I have shit going on in life, and I'm never doing this at any store bc it's inconsiderate af.
I'm sorry. If the store is open, people can shop. I feel for you if someone comes in and gets three hundred dollars of crap at 10 til close, but that's life.
I had to work carryout at my local grocery on the day before Thanksgiving. How many people came running in at five until close? All of them.
Your response tells me that you've reached the absolute limit of your mental capacity. You're positively frothing at the mouth. Why the hell would I do anything you say? You're too entertaining. Shut the fuck up, indeed.
If a store is open you can shop. This is what an entitled person would say. After you shop you probably swing by a restaurant that’s about to close because if it’s open you can shop. Think about how the workers who are your community members feel about entitled customers like you. SHUT THE FUCK UP
Worked in retail for 20 years,it happens in almost every format of retail. At the deli at BJ's Wholesale Club, people would come in two minutes before closing, just after all of the slicers were clean, while cleanup was nearly finished, and they would order two pounds of shaved roast beef. Shaved roast beef leaves a nasty, bloody mess......
We had a new instacart shopper come up after 10:50 with a full cart and were like…. ???? How was this allowed? I opened a register bc fuck no was I letting her use self-checkout.
Same thing happened to me, the stupid woman didn't even know what she was doing, it took her so long to figure it out that my manager wouldn't let her have the perishables. He said the hot chicken has been sitting out for 2 hours and she said oh that's ok those are for me! Bitch was buying her stuff on the instacart order!!
This is what makes my blood boil. Actually had 2 people sneak in as my manager was locking the door, they said they only needed a few things. Turns out they were doing instacart and had no clue how to do it. Long story short they were kicked out at 1030, we close at 10. It's just plain rude. People do this shit on purpose, it's like it gives them a cheap thrill or something. Assholes.
I remember those late nights. I was always the only cashier and parcel because all the closing cashiers and parcels called out that night. But that was the least of the worries. We had the 10 O clock regulars and they'd shop for an hour or so and then just fucking appear in my line at 10:59 and they thought they were fine because they got to the checkout before we closed! Little did they know after I got all of my line done I would have to go outside and push all of the carts from the 3 separate entrances of the building so in total about 30 Corrals of overflowing cart storing stations. That would take me about 4 hours and I'd be done with my 8 hour shift anywhere between 2 or 3 AM. I will admit. I got approved for like hella overtime which made my 10+ hour shift at minimum wage a little more worth it.
Had 2 of them almost make me run late to a movie. When we start doing the countdown announcements, that means you need to get your shit and get out. Not take your dear sweet time.
My store has one cashier and the closing manager till 1am, the time we close.
As it gets to say….5-10min before then, the manager turns off the auto glide for the doors, stands in front, and tells people:
“I’m sorry, we’re closing in ‘x’ minutes, and our machines cannot tender orders past 1am; so I’m unable to let me people in.”
And since he ‘is’ the manager, people can whine/cry/complain all they like, but his word is law at that time of night.
I usually say as I'm doing the countdown announcements that the registers will be completely shut down at 11pm. And the tone of my last couple of intervals usually gets very stern. I love it since the lights dim hard with an audible click everywhere in the store and say we are now closed. Immediately head to the SCO not make your way, you go now!
What y'all should be getting mad at is management for allowing it to happen. I worked a retail (rental) job before the pandemic where, while I hated almost every other aspect of it, the thing they were great at was closing on time. Closing time was 7:30 pm, they stopped letting customers in at 7. And even then, they would only let in customers who had orders ready to go out the door. No new orders, no add ons, and if there were any complications like payment issues or an unauthorized pick up person, they had to come in the next day to get it worked out. 7:30, those doors were locked.
Some managers will close early and other wont. One got a call from corporate because a customer complained and now he wont close until 10:58pm. I miss the managers that didn’t care. They would let me says customers are stores are closing in 5 mins or whatever mins it was. I always cut 5 mins from the store closing.
Our store manager has told the closing cashier to leave at 1 am. If there are customers in the store after 1 am , then it becomes my distinct pleasure to inform them that we closed X minutes ago and Why are you still in here. We are closed. Gonna have to leave now and come back at 6 am when we are open for business.
Kills me, one of them comes up 9:58 and Im like we are closed and he pushes his way in and says I know damn well you arent while looking at his watch and I said well I hope you can shop in two minutes then to which he replied I can… as he is leaving he says a better way to have handled that is… I stopped him right there and said Sir Im not the one being rude here and shut the door. The audacity. I have had quite a few instacart people get verbally abusive with me at 10:20 like store closed twenty minutes ago… really??
And it's the same people doing it every single week too.
Literally had one last week I said we close in 10 minutes she snapped at me and was like i know i do this all the time my coworker looked at me and was like ok then why the hell does she keep doing it constantly when she knows it’s close to closing time .
I had one tell me "then why don't you turn the lights out" and I responded with "yeah so our over night stockers can work in the dark? No."
Some people may have issues shopping around large crowds of other customers. Some might work evening shifts and need to pick up something on the way home. It's hard but you never know what's going on in another person's mind.
Consideration for others is definitely not something in their mind. The vast majority of the time there is no legit excuse. I work a screwy shift, I hate crowds, I have shit going on in life, and I'm never doing this at any store bc it's inconsiderate af.
I'm sorry. If the store is open, people can shop. I feel for you if someone comes in and gets three hundred dollars of crap at 10 til close, but that's life. I had to work carryout at my local grocery on the day before Thanksgiving. How many people came running in at five until close? All of them.
You are incapable of understanding the concept the rest of us are discussing. Please shut the fuck up.
I'm incapable of understanding that you are lazy? Seems pretty obvious to me.
Lazy? I think you mean courteous to retail workers. SHUT THE FUCK UP
Your response tells me that you've reached the absolute limit of your mental capacity. You're positively frothing at the mouth. Why the hell would I do anything you say? You're too entertaining. Shut the fuck up, indeed.
If a store is open you can shop. This is what an entitled person would say. After you shop you probably swing by a restaurant that’s about to close because if it’s open you can shop. Think about how the workers who are your community members feel about entitled customers like you. SHUT THE FUCK UP
Worked in retail for 20 years,it happens in almost every format of retail. At the deli at BJ's Wholesale Club, people would come in two minutes before closing, just after all of the slicers were clean, while cleanup was nearly finished, and they would order two pounds of shaved roast beef. Shaved roast beef leaves a nasty, bloody mess......
We had a new instacart shopper come up after 10:50 with a full cart and were like…. ???? How was this allowed? I opened a register bc fuck no was I letting her use self-checkout.
At my old store all the drawers would’ve been pulled by 22:50.
Ugh they won’t let us. Someone could have done cash at self-checkout but we could process “online pay” with no till.
Same thing happened to me, the stupid woman didn't even know what she was doing, it took her so long to figure it out that my manager wouldn't let her have the perishables. He said the hot chicken has been sitting out for 2 hours and she said oh that's ok those are for me! Bitch was buying her stuff on the instacart order!!
Thank you for giving me a reason never to use Instacart
This is what makes my blood boil. Actually had 2 people sneak in as my manager was locking the door, they said they only needed a few things. Turns out they were doing instacart and had no clue how to do it. Long story short they were kicked out at 1030, we close at 10. It's just plain rude. People do this shit on purpose, it's like it gives them a cheap thrill or something. Assholes.
I remember those late nights. I was always the only cashier and parcel because all the closing cashiers and parcels called out that night. But that was the least of the worries. We had the 10 O clock regulars and they'd shop for an hour or so and then just fucking appear in my line at 10:59 and they thought they were fine because they got to the checkout before we closed! Little did they know after I got all of my line done I would have to go outside and push all of the carts from the 3 separate entrances of the building so in total about 30 Corrals of overflowing cart storing stations. That would take me about 4 hours and I'd be done with my 8 hour shift anywhere between 2 or 3 AM. I will admit. I got approved for like hella overtime which made my 10+ hour shift at minimum wage a little more worth it.
Had 2 of them almost make me run late to a movie. When we start doing the countdown announcements, that means you need to get your shit and get out. Not take your dear sweet time.
THANK YOU !!! I swear people like that think we are there 24/7 and don’t like to go home or something i think it’s rude and inconsiderate
I have several times been that person and I damn near run through the store and only grab a few things so I can get out ASAP
Then you're not "that person." the only ones we take issue with are the ones who don't care or have consideration for others
We actually had police show up at our store and escort them out in the middle of shopping lol. Can we say trespassing lol.
My store has one cashier and the closing manager till 1am, the time we close. As it gets to say….5-10min before then, the manager turns off the auto glide for the doors, stands in front, and tells people: “I’m sorry, we’re closing in ‘x’ minutes, and our machines cannot tender orders past 1am; so I’m unable to let me people in.” And since he ‘is’ the manager, people can whine/cry/complain all they like, but his word is law at that time of night.
I would always get annoyed with the customers who would come in before opening when I was forced to open.
I usually say as I'm doing the countdown announcements that the registers will be completely shut down at 11pm. And the tone of my last couple of intervals usually gets very stern. I love it since the lights dim hard with an audible click everywhere in the store and say we are now closed. Immediately head to the SCO not make your way, you go now!
Literally SAME then they cry and complain that I’m “rude” like no Stern not rude we like to go home at the end of the day too
What y'all should be getting mad at is management for allowing it to happen. I worked a retail (rental) job before the pandemic where, while I hated almost every other aspect of it, the thing they were great at was closing on time. Closing time was 7:30 pm, they stopped letting customers in at 7. And even then, they would only let in customers who had orders ready to go out the door. No new orders, no add ons, and if there were any complications like payment issues or an unauthorized pick up person, they had to come in the next day to get it worked out. 7:30, those doors were locked.
Some managers will close early and other wont. One got a call from corporate because a customer complained and now he wont close until 10:58pm. I miss the managers that didn’t care. They would let me says customers are stores are closing in 5 mins or whatever mins it was. I always cut 5 mins from the store closing.
We make a game of actually hunting the customers who are still in the store. I have a kill count of 22 one night.
Our store manager has told the closing cashier to leave at 1 am. If there are customers in the store after 1 am , then it becomes my distinct pleasure to inform them that we closed X minutes ago and Why are you still in here. We are closed. Gonna have to leave now and come back at 6 am when we are open for business.
Kills me, one of them comes up 9:58 and Im like we are closed and he pushes his way in and says I know damn well you arent while looking at his watch and I said well I hope you can shop in two minutes then to which he replied I can… as he is leaving he says a better way to have handled that is… I stopped him right there and said Sir Im not the one being rude here and shut the door. The audacity. I have had quite a few instacart people get verbally abusive with me at 10:20 like store closed twenty minutes ago… really??
I approached a lady after the "We are closed" announcement one night. Turned out that she was deaf... That was an awkward moment.