The Weekly Gripe

Shop cashiers should be polite to customers

Basic manners cost nothing

Basic Manners

Please and Thank You - Are these foreign words to some shop cashiers or something? This is just one example where often fail and it seems to happen all too often these days.



A simple please and thank you are the most basic manners that everyone should employ in their day to day dealings with other people. It would seem however that some shop cashiers are just incapable of being polite.

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11-9-2007I hate bad manners. I hate it more when they are talking to someone else while they are serving you. I dont open my purse until I have got eye contactyounastycheapskateyou
02-7-2007Two things in this life are inexcusable- being stupid and being bad mannered!!!!PinkSuzette
07-6-2007One ay I was getting off a bus and a woman was getting her buggy and shopping down from the storage rack. I didn't offer to help as both my hands were full with shopping and the next day she passed me she made remarks at me for not helping her. It is not my duty to drop everything I have to b...moreY Viva Espana
08-5-2007I used to take this sort of rubbish from people. Now I don't. As a person who's not shy or retiring, I now pull up anyone who has bad manners. For example, If I hold open a door for someone who doesn't say thanks. I say in a rather loud and theatrical voice, 'Don't mention it, my...moreMacko
03-5-2007In my experience its not just the younger generation. You should try spending some time in Andover...I could count the Please, Thank yous and Sorries on one hand I think. My mum taught me great manners, but she seems to have forgotten them all now, its so embarrassing! The ingnorant folk of the wor...moreSweep
19-4-2007well either he was an illegal immigrant or his boss is a f**king wa*ker and doesnt give a sh*t about get the same cutomers back again!!!!jamie
11-4-2007Good Manners start at home, so blame "modern day parenting" for modern day brats bad manners and poor behaviour - everytime!Mike
23-2-2007Mannerism you don't think outside the box, you are outside the box.Friday
23-2-2007I used to work for Sainsburys when I was younger and I have to say that I was ALWAYS polite and friendly. But to be honest, some of the c**p I would have to take from customers just wasnt worth it. Some of them used to think they owned the store! Im sure some people just go in to pick on someone you...moreEB
03-2-2007I don't want these people saying anything to me. They are trying to distract my attention. They might rip me off whilst I'm not looking, and particularly if I have a very large purchase load. By sleight of hand they could scan a good that I hadn't picked off the shelves, one which they w...moreSilence is golden
03-2-2007No matter what problems you have or how much you are paid there is no excuse for bad manners. A "hello" or "hi" costs nothing and it sets up a mutual respect. I know that customers can be ignorant as well, but they are not being paid for providing a service whereas checkou...moreSteveK
01-2-2007To the Grahams of this world. To the very poster of this gripe. To all who cannot think outside of their "box". The situation posed by the griper was very one-sided. They are simply and selfishly thinking only of the behaviour and manners they would like to receive in this situati...moreMannerism



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