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I seriously wonder how all the Kroger baggers can have NO common sense?

I bring bags, so I obviously don’t want theirs. All my items easily fit into the bag(s) I brought (I have taken to filling my bag as I shop, thinking it would help the issue)…yet they STILL end up giving me a bag for something small.

Today it was relish. Yes, they couldn’t fit a small jar of relish in my bag (where, of course, there was PLENTY of room) so they put it in its own bag. Even after I said “It will all fit in one bag!” And TWO guys were bagging! So both were morons!!

I don’t know why this irritates me so, but it does.

WHY DON’T BAGGERS LISTEN?

I don’t want to use plastic bags, which is why I brought mine.

And if I tell you to “just put the items in the bag” as I see you reaching for the plastic bags—PLEASE put them in the bag—I know those three LIGHT bags of potato chips will fit JUST FINE on top of the four cans of baked beans and carton of macaroni salad. >:XX

It was all I could do to NOT take the chips out of the TWO plastic bags and throw the stupid unwanted bags back on the counter.

What is it with shoe stores, where the shoes you try fit like a glove and feel like you’re walking on air? And then as soon as you buy them and put them on outside the store, they’re suddenly too tight, too small, and they hurt your feet? >:XX

I hope DSW has a good return policy (since I wore them outside). 😐

I was SOOOOOO damn frustrated today, I would have rather just thrown every last bottle and can away.

We had two FULL garbage bags of returnables. I assumed beforehand that there might be one or two that made the trip from North Carolina—so I was prepared for that.

So imagine my surprise—and frustration—when the very first can I put in got spit back at me.

Well, wait.

First, of the four self-serve stations, only two were working. And of the one plastic station that was working, it didn’t seem to be working too well. (Once I moved on to the glass bottles, and saw that the plastic guides were constantly moving once you started putting bottles in, I realized the plastic station wasn’t working right.)

So my first can got spit back. I looked at it, and it had a Michigan deposit. Ooooo-kay. So I tried again, and it spit it back at me again. Fine.

Bottle #2. Ditto.

Bottle #3. Ditto.

What the hell? These were ALL Michigan cans and bottles!! >:XX

Then I remembered that stores won’t take the bottles if they don’t sell the product…but these were like 2-liters of Faygo and Coke that I KNOW we bought there.

So I tried some of the rejected bottles again. And what do you know? THIS TIME they worked. So with each can I tried, I had to try it two or three times before it finally took. >:XX

And since the moving guides weren’t working, I had to practically shove my entire arm down the chute in order for the machine to read the bar code. And then, of course, 75% of the time it would spit it back at me anyway.

I started to try to flick them back there (so I didn’t have to stick my arm in) and then I got the error message “PLEASE DO NOT THROW CANS.” >:XX

I finally gave up on the plastic and moved to glass, which worked like a charm (as smoothly as I had expected the whole process to work from the beginning).

Then it was back to plastic for another go-round with my Michigan rejects.

I ended up bringing half a bag home and only getting about $2.00 in actual returnables.

As it also happened, I think Owen decided to sit on a nerve or something, because I could barely stand, let alone walk, so my actual planned shopping trip was out the window, and I hobbled back to the car, fuming all the way.

Needless to say I think “bottle return” now falls under Tom’s Honey Do list. |-|

It irritates me when you use a coupon at a store (say, $10 off $50) and it takes a certain percentage off each item you buy—instead of just a generic $10.

Why?

Because when you return something, you “lose out” on part of that $10 you saved because they return the item at what you paid for it.

Now, I am sure they do this to make the cashier’s life easier—that way they don’t have to wonder “Now, with this return, did the customer still qualify for the coupon?”

But it screws the customer.

We spent $150 at Lowe’s last night. Used a $10 off $50 coupon. Today we returned $30 worth of stuff—still enough to qualify for the full amount of the coupon—but got penalized for returning something because now our $10 coupon was really only worth about $8.

No, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things…but irritating nonetheless.

This has also happened at Lane Bryant, and I’ve fought it before (and won) but it wears you down and it’s almost worth losing the $2 or $5 not to have to deal with it.