What the people at the “10 Items or Less” line at the supermarket have
What the people at the “10 Items or Less” line at the supermarket have
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Needs more checks not made out, WiC, and alcohol.
second!!
They don’t have 10 items or less because they have 10 items or fewer.
Thank you, thank you, my brain just about explodes whenever I see that. Choose TJ’s, they know grammar.
nah… but equating the need for correct grammar to nazi… now, that is douchebagery.
That is precisely what I came to post. Finally I’m not the only person in the whole world who actually knows anything about spelling and grammar…
A few weeks ago I was at the grocery store and there were two obviously underage girls trying to buy beer in the express checkout. They had a horribly fake ID and security came over and it turned into a big problem! I’d have left if I was in a hurry but it was like watching an episode of COPS.
how fun
You should have cancelled your plans, events like that come few and far between. I LOVE watching people try to pull obvious scams like no one’s thought of it before.
Wouldn’t “10 items or less” and “11 items or more” comprise the entire graph?
I am going to assume that “orgarized” is not a typo and that the “n” is just cut off a little.
yeah, the organized is actually spelled correctly.
Also, do people with unorganized wallets have no items? Why are they in line at all? Should this really be a pie chart, or would it serve better as a venn diagram?
Also, why sign up for a card if you have no items to buy? I don’t even know what cards supermarkets have anyways.
The stupid “(name of store) Club” card that supposedly works the same way as coupons, only in card form…
True. I want people who submit graphs and diagrams to make and pass a test first. That would make sure that all the submissions here would be correct and few in numbers.
I have to say something. WHO CARES??? I mean really? Its a gag site with goofiness abounding. Does your life REALLY teeter on the precipice of disaster thinking that there MIGHT be a spelling error on the friggin internet? I bet you drive by gas station signs and straighten all the letters after hours don’t you? You bring a dictionary to spell check every label at the grocery store, yell at your kids for using “Orly” instead of “Oh really”. People, for the love of the internetz give me a break.
What StarlingUK said! Seeing “Ten items or less” in the local supermarket makes my blood boil in a grammatical rage!
It’s a lot of stores too. I’ve only seen one that correctly used “fewer”.
Marks & Spencer has “fewer”, and that’s the only one I’ve seen so far.
It’s an epidemic! I’ve been to San Diego, Ca., Portland, Or., Chicago, Il., and Nashville, Tn. and NO ONE has the correct usage. Makes me sad…
Can you understand the meaning? Yes? Functional English is functional.
Waitrose has “10 items or fewer”
Apparently there are a lot of people who have between 10 and 11 items.
This graph is chock full of truth, seems to me the express lane sign should read “70 IQ points or fewer” as that would more accurately describe the people in front of me who can’t grasp the concept of “EXPRESS LANE”
or they have 100 of the same item and think its okay cause its only 1 item…but its not
Unless it’s a register that can X100 (or whatever number). Most can X by the same item if you need them to.
But some stores insist the cashier scan every item.
The last two stores I work/ed at, had different rules for the quantity button. The first would only let you use the quantity button if you had 25 or more of the same item. The second, where I currently work, you can only use the quantity button for produce and garden center. Which made for a fun day when the guy came through with $50 dollars worth of Kool-Aid.
Yeah, the store where I work only lets you use the quantity button for produce and some of the bakery items. I’ve never had anyone try to buy $50 worth of Kool-Aid, but I did have someone buy over 500 candy bars once. It took absolutely forever, especially since our registers start to lag once you have more then 200 items in one order.
I am a cashier in. When I work express it is ‘about 15′. It doesn’t bother me when they have even 18 items. It bothers me when they bring 25 items into my lane, or must debate the cost of every single items.
Also, if they push the cart to far forward for me to put bags in without twisting, I have stopped putting the bags in. Make the customer do it. And I could really go on, but it would take up so much space.
One grocery store has 10 items and the other has 15. One time i accidentally went to the 10 item one with about 15 and I got major attitude from the lady. Meanwhile I see people with 30 items going through all the time.
I’m always wary of doing this, and usually have close to the limit for items, so I always count them again and check the sign. I figured it was kind of silly to do (who would care? and I was a cashier at a grocery store too).
Then one time I had 12 items in a 12-items-or-fewer (yeah, “fewer,” at TJs) line, and two older persons behind me were convinced I had more. They didn’t directly talk to me, but loudly about me, and proceeded to count my items slowly (“I DON’T KNOW, MITCH, LET’S SEE HOW MANY SHE HAS. ONE… TWO…”). They were quite deflated when it came out to twelve :/ Pissed off the cashier too.
You forgot talkative ladies that spend ten minutes trying to use both coupons and food stamps to buy soda and a bag of chips for the long bus ride that she won’t stop mentioning.
And the people that go through the basket only express lane with trolleys/shopping carts.
Oh and the old people who have to chat about their hemorrhoids.
Agh, I hate that show. The camerawork is so atrocious and the humor…No. Just no. It’s not funny at all. And the actors are terrible.
i hate that line in the supermarkets . ill kill the people that uses it unless i cant cause i carry 11 items xD
I learned from the PSAT that it should say “Ten Items or FEWER.”
Diagram fail.
There are also the old ladies who can’t be inconvienced to actually go to the pharmacy and get their meds. Instead they demand that the one cashier in this lane go get it for them.
And checks. Here that is a never fail.
Also cigarettes, which for some reason they never bother to mention until after you’ve already scanned everything else in their order, so you can’t even have a bagger get them while you’re scanning to cut down on the time.
Then I suppose I should feel somewhat grateful for my store’s system. We call the customer service desk (press ‘0′ and it rings straight through) and tell them. Then the customer goes and picks them up.
Oh, that’s nice! We can do that sort of thing for rain checks, but for cigarettes either a cashier or a bagger who’s over 18 has to go get them and bring them to the register to be scanned. It doesn’t bother me so much when they tell me about it at the beginning of their order because, like I said, then I can save some time by having a bagger get them while I’m scanning their other stuff. When they wait until everything else is done to tell me it gets a little irritating, though, especially when there’s a long line waiting behind them.
This reminds me of an English teacher I had in middle school. After some kids were acting up, she began bitching to the entire class, comparing said kids to “the people in the 10 items or less line with 11 ITEMS.” I still LOL from that.