Don't Use That Tone With Me Missy

[TruthHurts]

Background: The store I used to work at went out of business and I was out of a job for a month. I recently got a job at a local grocery store and so far no SC's except for one.

Lady pushes up her cart to the register. I start ringing up her things and she tells me that they have a banana too. I look over to where her toddler is sitting clutching an empty banana peel.

I tell her that we have to weigh the bananas and go to grab one. She snaps at me "Just ring up a medium banana, okay." I tell her I have to weigh one and she rolls her eyes at me. It took me less than a minute to fetch the banana and weigh it.

If you insist on letting your kids snack on food before paying for them, don't give the clerk attitude when she tries to do her job.

[blas]

People did that ALL the time at the grocery store I worked at. Either they grazed, or they gave weighable fruit to their hungry little baby/toddler.

Then they got pissed that I had to have someone go find a banana to weigh.

[MadMike]

"One medium banana -- 20 lbs...."

[Stryker One]

Size or spice

WTF is a medium banana? Can it talk to the dead?

[Blade_Raver]

Put the kid on the scale... "The banana is in the kid. We'll have to weigh it and the container it's in."

[fireheart]

WTF is a medium banana? Can it talk to the dead?

this had some great mental images of a banana dressed in a fortune tellers outfit.

Put the kid on the scale... "The banana is in the kid. We'll have to weigh it and the container it's in."

[Anakah]

I will NEVER understand why people think its okay to consume anything they have not paid for!
One time when I worked at family dollar someone drank out of the coke that was not rung up and (note this was not on purpose, I really am the world's biggest klutz) I ended up dropping or knocking over the coke thus shaking it up and bascially made it go flat. I can't remember if we replaced it or not. But I sure as hell got a glare.

I had one woman who let her child sit there and suck on a tube of toothpaste. Quite literally eating the toothpaste... My manager had to tell her it was a no no.

A "medium" banana? lol What a bitch. Atleast her kid is eating fruit jk Rude as hell.

[artifical sweetner]

at the food store i witnessed many people eating cherries and spitting the pits where ever. grossssss.

[blas]

Well there are baby bananas. Ever see them at Wal-Mart? Gosh they are cute. I don't even want to eat them, they are too adorable.

Medium bananas? LoL....fire Patricia Arquette and hire Patricia Chiquita! This banana is a mom, a snack, and a psychic medium!

[TTAZ]

Hungry toddlers are no joke, even if you bring snacks sometimes the little boogers decide to be human hoovers that day and you run out. I have been known to grab something from a shelf and open it for my kid so he can eat. HOWEVER...I ALWAYS pay for the item, if he drops something I ALWAYS pick it up, and I don't grab anything that has to be weighed.

I figure the perceived rudeness of opening a box of crackers or something before paying for it is less than the consequences of subjucting the store to a screaming hungry toddler who cannot understand why he can't eat in a place surrounded by food.

As long as the food is paid for and any mess is cleaned up, I don't see the problem. Same as if someone was hypoglycemic and needed to eat something or pass out.

HOWEVER...the person in the OP was a bitch. I would suggest if her kid HAS to have a banana for an in-store snack, go to Trader Joe's where the banans are sold per banana and not by weight. Also, I have noticed that if you do have a hungry toddler, most grocery stores will offer (or okay it if you ask nicely) a piece of fruit for the kiddo. There have been many a time I've taken the kid to the store with me right after he's had breakfast and even though I have a bag of snacks with me find a produce employee "sneaking" a banana or apple to my son. Ditto the deli will usually happily offer you a slice of ham or turkey or cheese for you child to munch on.

Once again, you get more flies (or fruit) with honey than with vinegar.

[blas]

I don't see an issue with parents bringing food from home in a ziplock bag for their kids...that way there is no problem, period. That's why they invented those handy dandy on the go toddler snacks.

[malmalthekiller]

Honestly, I can understand kids eating in a store, but there's a way to do it.

I had nice people that would pick up the slimey item itself, and scan it for me (after they indicated to me what it was, and I allowed them to), and take it back and give it to their kids- that I have no problem with.

But there are some idiots that treat you like a trash can.

[TTAZ]

I don't see an issue with parents bringing food from home in a ziplock bag for their kids...that way there is no problem, period. That's why they invented those handy dandy on the go toddler snacks.

While this is absolutely true, there are times that, at least my kid, goes through all the snacks I bring and is still hungry. Kids just randomly turn into black holes sometimes.

[Balgram]

I eat in stores. I then pay for my food. I am nice about this. I know it's weird and I don't do it often, but sometimes you are hungry when you shop, and you want to enjoy shopping but you gotta eat.

I imagine kids are the same way. Sometimes you just don't plan for it/the kid has diffferent ideas.

Still, you shouldn't give kids food that has to be weighed. Because a different product will weigh differently than your product, you can't be sure if you are getting the right price. That's just dumb. I do it with weighed foods only if it's something like the deli, where they price it then give it to you.

Yum! Deli Popcorn Chicken!

[Jester]

this had some great mental images of a banana dressed in a fortune tellers outfit.

Myself, I was picture this:

Hungry toddlers are no joke...

As long as the food is paid for and any mess is cleaned up, I don't see the problem.

No, they aren't a joke, but the problem here was the parent being a wanker.

Seriously, you know what my parents would have done to us if we had started eating food that had not been paid for? I believe the word "smack" comes into play here. As for the really small youngsters, yeah, they can be a handful, sure. But any idiot knows that produce is sold by WEIGHT. Well, almost any idiot. Apparently not the OP.

Now I'm hungry. Need to go to the grocery store and then make myself some lunch.