I can't do supermarkets

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The other day I went to a large supermarket, I normally order my shopping and get it delivered to my home but I ran out of baking foil and bin liners and needed them urgently so I went to this horrible shop.

I was perfectly happy and entered and though it is large, it wasn't too crowded and despite getting a little distressed trying to find what I wanted I did very well until I got to the tills; there was a store lady there and noticing I only had two items directed me to the self pay tills. I haven't used these tills before and I noticed that you had to put your money notes into a slot, I don't know why, but I didn't want to put such a large note into the slot and then have to deal with an enormous amount of change, so I went back to the tills with people on, but that darned woman saw me and again directed me back to the DIY tills, I explained that I didn't know how to use them but she said that there was someone at the end that would advise me; I went to find the person but she was talking, it was too late, by this time I was so distressed I thought I would burst in to tears and had to leave the goods there and get out quickly. It was a horrid experience.

I can't cope with supermarkets if it doesn't go really, really well and is over really, really quickly and I cannot cope if they make changes to the aisles or the way you pay or any other damned change.

I am never going into that bleeping place again, ever.

yeah i hate those tills too and the " help" is usually some 16 yo kid who is texting on their phone, i dont walk out in annoyance i do walk out in disgust . i shop somehwere else now.

I understand-those DIY things are a pain in the ass-one time with me and a friend going to a supermarket, we kept doing somethign wrong on the tills and it sucks..

and that it's recorded so you cn get arrested if you "steal" something...

Sorry to hear of your bad experience Kaleido. To be honest, I don't think it was anything to do with the supermarket itself, but rather with the pushy know-it-all that kept trying to tell you to go to the self-check out. People like that piss me off. I'm fine doing things my own way, and going about my own business. Why do they always think they have a right to stick their nose in my business, and act like I'm the one with the problem? Like you, I always just follow their directions until I'm so confused that I could just explode into tears, when I would've been just fine if I were left alone to do my own thing, my own way. Every once in awhile, I get enough of myself together to be witty back to people like that, and let them know they're annoying me, but it's very seldom.

I was already disturbed because they had moved the bin liners from the back wall on the right to the right wall on the end and I knew I was overly stressed before reaching the tills and just needed to either pay quickly and get out quickly or have time in a longer queue to calm myself.

I can be very assertive if needed if I have not already started to become overwhelmed, but I knew I was already overstretched and had to just get out.

i'm quite the opposite here. those DIY's make me giggle. and when I go through drive-thru's at fast food joint... i'll just burst into a fit of laughter... and I dunno why.

I never really had any trouble with those DIY things, unless I forget to say I "forgot" my discount card (and that my number's unlisted). The only problem is that it can take me forever to get through it all because of my natural clumsiness that no amount of therapy has ever improved.

I'm not really fond of supermarkets or shopping, either, so I can sympathise with you on that. I prefer smaller convenience stores like co-op, but not the really small newsagents.
On the plus side, automated tills would be great. No uncomfortable contact.

Guess what my awesome experience was!! ! I went to a self check out and there was a tray for getting your cash back (THE GUY BEFORE US LEFT HIS MONEY $100 IN BILLS!! !! !! !! !!)

I actually prefer the DIY tills. I can do my own thing, at my own pace. I don't have to deal with some dumbass cashier who has no clue what they are doing and has to call managers for every other item...

Go shopping at night. It's so much better, because there aren't so many people.

This video explains the joys of late night shopping: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/late+night+shopping/

Lab Pet loves the video, except I forgot to stop watching. About OP: Shopping = misery, the bane of existence. I hate it and would prefer to abstain. But I cannot; just one of those icky realities. Like Cyanide, shop at night - way less stressful.

I have been at or near meltdown whilst shopping at the supermarket. Too much......overwhelm. I have cried at the store and then left asap. Plus the fluroescent lights, screaming kids, waaaay too many humans - where does it all end?

Once, very innocently, I ONLY needed a bag of kitty litter on Christmas Eve. NEVER again. Just not worth it. I simply don't shop near holiday time which is shopping Hades amplified.

I never go at holiday time either. I always have everything delivered and if my local small store still stocked what I needed then I wouldn't have had to go.

I think I might have enjoyed the experience more if I had had the luck of zeldapsychology though and found all that money, I would probably have handed it in though ha ha

Thanks for that

Yes Kip, I might also have liked them had things gone more smoothly before I got to them and couldn't get the assistance I needed.

Cyanide's right - if you shop at night it's usually much quieter and you've less noise, obnoxious kids (and parents!), and you can take your time shopping. Sometimes when it's very late though I find it a bit uncomfortable in a big empty store, with the odd weirdo or yob hanging around (and that's just the staff j/k!)

I often go first thing on a Saturday morning (about 7am) - it's still fairly quiet, but it's not as uncomfortable.

I'm usually OK with new things (like the self-serve tills) but only once I've had chance to get used to them. I don't like being hassled by a queue as I try to get my head around the thing, or the embarrassment of making a mistake with it. I try to find a time with few people around, so I can try it out in peace and then after that I'm fine

ha ha