Put the receipt down on the counter please

Well of course Kathleen, the gloves are to prevent the ingress of e-coli bacteria to the weeping sore on the operative's hand. But admittedly they also conveniently keep out the grime from the notes and change between sandwiches. Who knows, maybe they can come up with something to safeguard the customers too.

Yes, I know I spelt sandwich wrongly! The brain is not working so well today.

Yes, or they put on disposable gloves to make sandwhiches ,take the money and give change with them still on and then make another sandwhich.

Indeed MikeP.

Shop girls today!

Simple their calling may be, but have they no pride at all in their work?

It seems the demise of the honest and willing tradesman (or indeed woman) is all too prevalent.

Well, that's just unhygienic...whichever way you slice it.

How does this rate?

Girl at deli counter slicing ham using the machine. She puts a protective glove over the hand with which she is turning the handle of the machine, whilst the sliced ham is falling onto her other, unprotected, hand.

"Main culprits - Tesco supermarkets if anyone wants to observe!!"

What!? Are you kidding? You don't really think that Tesco trains its staff to irritate you with this petty behavior. If staff do that by company policy (and I seriously doubt that), then it could only be to allow the CCTV camera to get a look at the cash before it's taken and the amount potentially disputed.

Maybe she saw you leaving to loo without washing your hands.

A handful of Manners... Check out girls (and its only women who do this -no men!!)who think its okay to give you your change/receipt, etc by placing it on the counter rather than in your waiting, outstretched palm. A red mist descends before my eyes when this happens as this is so blatently rude, and now I have a trick - where upon, I say very loudly, 'oh can you please give me my change in my hand as I don't have any finger nails!'

Main culprits - Tesco supermarkets if anyone wants to observe!!

For years I have complained about the habit that check-out operators have of plonking your loose change on top of your receipt and any notes onto, not IN, your outstretched hand. Usually in your other hand you have your open purse, waiting for the loose change. As it is, you have to scrumple up the receipt and change to avoid dropping it all on the floor.

I like to get the change first so that I can close my fingers over it, and get the receipt between finger and thumb. When I have pointed this out, on numerous occasions!, the check-out operator has said "Oh yes! I see what you mean. I hadn`t thought of it like that. Why can`t all till staff be taught this simple logic??

Your receipt is a important document so its respect to you as a customer that you recieve it properly. How many 'put it in the bag people' have thrown it away with a carrier bag then wanted to take back a electrical item etc. Solution - stop packing - take the receipt - continue packing. Sorted.

I work as a cashier and I dont put the recipt on the counter as 99% of my customers do'nt like it I always offer to pack for customer and I always alow customer time to pack. Its the customers that are trying to hurry the one in front up most of the time and if you have a problem with cashier just tell a manger. But I think if some customers were nicer and smiled and traeted cashiers like humans less and less csashier would be moody or rude

An interesting concept "...ban rude people from shopping there".

Now; how to establish if the potential customer is 'rude'. Excepting the obvious signs - nudity, the wearing of cheap mass-produced clothing, talking with a whining 'regional' accent or bearing a tabloid newspaper - one must suppose that there will be a need for independent validation.

Perhaps one should take a 'rudeness' test at the door, administered by a 'Chartered Manners Officer' employed by the local authority's 'Environmental Health Department'.

Maybe there should be a national database set up, holding full personal details and ones Civility Grade on Civility and Politeness Register with a staff of thousands of extra civil servants overseen by a Minister for Rudeness Eradication at a cost of millions.

Or indeed, simply ban anyone who does not appear to be a gentleman or lady of position, manners and breeding.

All to avoid offending the delicate sensibilities of a little shop girl.