Bring your glasses!

[jjc927]

I get a lot of customers who say they can't see/read something because they don't have their glasses on/with them. Considering it's somewhat important to see and read things at a supermarket, shouldn't you think to wear them? Oh right, customers reading and thinking? Silly me.

Anyway, here's a customer in this category that was particularly sucky. He comes to one of the Uscan registers with 4 oranges and asks me how to put them in. I tell him to hit the Produce/Bakery button and then type the code that is on the sticker of the oranges. A minute or so later, I see him just staring at the code entering screen. I again point out where the code is and to type it in, and he rudely responds "Well I don't have my glasses, how am I supposed to see?!" So finally I just put it in for him. A few seconds later I hear him saying "They need to hire people!" Yes, because it's the Uscan's fault that you don't think to wear your glasses when you clearly need them

[BamaBabe]

People and their vanity. And, then to snap at someone else because they were too vain to bring/wear glasses? That's just stupid.

[laborcat]

I've noticed at my store, a lot of people say they didn't bring their glasses, when I think they really can't read.

[XCashier]

It sure must be nice to not need glasses all the time. I've worn glasses every waking hour since I was eight...!

BamaBabe's right: it's nothing but vanity. People don't want to wear glasses because "it makes me look old!" Instead, they squint at everything they want to see. Yep, those crows feet you get from squinting make you look so much younger than glasses do!

[csquared]

I am betting that he didn't want to wait in line at the full service. Figured if he bitched enough, someone would check him out at the UScan. They need to hire people to staff the full service check out so he won't have to wait.

[EricKei]

"They need to hire people!" Yes, because it's the Uscan's fault that you don't think to wear your glasses when you clearly need them

...Except that hiring more employees would defeat the whole purpose of having UScan's to begin with. The only reason stores don't have cut-it-yourself deli's is because of the liability exposure...Not because of the frequent deaths-by-stupidity such a thing would no doubt cause.

[bhskittykatt]

Have this happen at the motel all the time. They can't read the reg card they need to fill out, nor can they read the CC machine. Hello? At every motel I've been to, there's some paperwork to fill out, so why did you leave your glasses in the car?

[Teefies2]

And if you DROVE here, your license probably has a glasses restriction on it, so WHYYYYYYYYYYYY don't you have your glasses?????????

[bhskittykatt]

Dammit, you jinxed me! I JUST checked in a guest who said, "I don't have my glasses; can you fill that out for me?" Gah!

And if you DROVE here, your license probably has a glasses restriction on it, so WHYYYYYYYYYYYY don't you have your glasses?????????

I think some people just use glasses for reading. Me, I can't see a foot in front of my face w/o glasses. I'm very near-sighted. There are lots of other types of poor eyesight, though...not all of which require glasses 100% of the time.

But, if you know you're going to need to read something, then you should have them with you!

[simplyanother]

I'm near-sighted, have been since I was a kid (and I wear glasses). But now, my close up vision is going away, so, I find myself having trouble reading the itty bitty print on products. So, it's great fun when a customer shoves something in my face and says "what does this say, i've forgotten my glasses...." and I can't see it either.

(I do not want bifocals before I'm 35, dang it).

[Seshat]

I've noticed at my store, a lot of people say they didn't bring their glasses, when I think they really can't read.

Seconding labourcat.

Functional illiteracy (ie, people who can't read enough to get through daily life) is scarily high. 'I forgot my glasses' is one of the way people mask the shame of being functionally illiterate.

Of course, they'd be much better off doing what my father did: go to adult education. But as a general rule, they're too ashamed to do that, either.

(My father's parents were the Australian version of rednecks. Their kids didn' need no skoolin'. So he entered adult life functionally illiterate. He's proud that HIS children are both highly literate - and we're proud that he's largely overcome the handicap. We just ignore his 'creative' spelling: he does his best.)

[LillFilly]

I swear someone posted a story about how they were waitressing or hosting and how the customer DEMANDED to use her personal reading glasses to see the menu, and then complained that they should keep reading glasses of all strengths at the host stand for when people forget theirs

[XCashier]

(I do not want bifocals before I'm 35, dang it).

I had to get bifocals when I was 41, and probably needed them before. They make lineless bifocals now, with the prescription gradually changing from long distance (at top of lens) to middle distance (center of lens) to reading (bottom of lens). I have the lineless biforcals and they're really good, though I'm going to need new ones soon. You can't tell by looking at them that they're bifocals as there are no telltale lines, so you don't need to worry about looks there.

[mharbourgirl]

...Except that hiring more employees would defeat the whole purpose of having UScan's to begin with. The only reason stores don't have cut-it-yourself deli's is because of the liability exposure...Not because of the frequent deaths-by-stupidity such a thing would no doubt cause.

It probably has as much to do with preventing customers from slicing large quantities of, say, the $12/100g smoked prosciutto and putting the label for the $.49/kg ham loaf on it. They do it in the bulk section, they'd do it if the deli was self-serve, because that's just how people are.

[xaenon]

"Well I don't have my glasses, how am I supposed to see?!"

Pretty sure that's what glasses are for, chief. So you can fucking SEE.