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Default Jan 27, 2019 at 08:35 AM
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I'm nearing my one month of using the service. There's the convenience of it all, I've kept my home balanced in a continuous supply of food. I mean, I'm not running out for having run out of various things and having to go after a hellacious day at either work or home where I'm tired and haven't really sat down with a list. There's been certain things that I am definitely paying less than I normally would. Plus it feeds into my desire to shop local/support local merchants in the sense that these Shypt shoppers are local and trying to find ways to supplement their own incomes. The two that I have had are friendly. And as I mentioned before, I came to realize that someone I know also does this, she lives 2 communities over and I know her story and why she finds extra means of income in addition to her full time job.

Yesterday's impromptu addition were some pencils as the kids are running low. I have started maintaining a grocery list. Can look at the total bill as I go to really think about what I am buying what I can add in etc. It's a game changer for me.
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Default Jan 27, 2019 at 11:19 AM
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Oh yeah, Amazon is a godsend for me.

I make full use of their discounted Prime membership for students. I order all of my non food essentials on Amazon and it makes my life so much easier.

Heck, I even ordered furniture off Amazon before. I ordered a big memory foam mattress, a metal bedframe, a computer desk, a gaming chair, a couple of end tables, and a TV shelf from them before. Let's just say the UPS guy was NOT happy hauling that stuff up to my upstairs apartment LOL
I started using Amazon when I needed to buy a bed frame and a mattress. At local stores it would have cost me $500 + delivery cost, and I had limited choices. On Amazon, I got what I need for $200, and arrived the next day to the door of my apartment!! I thought I didn't get what I ordered because they were two small boxes, and I thought how these could be a bed frame and a mattress!! But they were what I ordered. The mattress was folded, and the bed frame came in small pieces to be assembled with all the screws and tools. Since then I use Amazon for almost all non-food products.
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I started using Amazon when I needed to buy a bed frame and a mattress. At local stores it would have cost me $500 + delivery cost, and I had limited choices. On Amazon, I got what I need for $200, and arrived the next day to the door of my apartment!! I thought I didn't get what I ordered because they were two small boxes, and I thought how these could be a bed frame and a mattress!! But they were what I ordered. The mattress was folded, and the bed frame came in small pieces to be assembled with all the screws and tools. Since then I use Amazon for almost all non-food products.

Same here.

My $100 full size memory foam mattress and $60 metal bed frame works well for me.

Also, you can make almost any mattress have hotel quality comfort for cheap. All you need to do is buy a good bed cover, which is what hotels do to keep their beds so comfortable without spending a bunch of money.

That's what I did. I dumped maybe $250 in my bed setup and it outdoes people's $500+ fancy beds. Sure it may not look as pretty, but who cares?

Then again, my gaming PC is the centerpiece in my bedroom because when people come over and see it they completely ignore the bed because of how cool the computer looks in all it's RGB lighting glory

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Default Jan 27, 2019 at 04:09 PM
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The grocery store I prefer to go to has had this policy forever (that I hated) that they would take your groceries out to the car for you.

I hated the policy for the following reasons:

1. More often than not, they would just not do this service for me. Leaving me to stand there awkwardly waiting or take the bags out for myself. I sent many e-mails to them complaining that if you are going to have this policy have it for everyone NOT just the families with kids. I feel this was because I was single and typically didn't have a 400 dollar grocery order.

2. The policy was put into effect for the elderly. But it drove me NUTS when they wouldn't do it for the elderly but, would take their cart away from them. My mom had knee problems and she always wanted the cart to lean on.

3. They would hire like "mentally disabled" people to take the carts out. This was always awkward and miserable. I don't want to have to learn to deal with the various and sundry issues of the mentally disabled when I just want a cookie. There was this guy who just talked to himself and you didn't know if he was talking to you and he would get right up in your face upset that you didn't answer him. I don't begrudge him a job but why does it have to be with me?

4. I can't tell you how many times the employees just thew the bags in the car as if there was nothing in them and things spilled out and you had to fix. If I put them in the car I would have been careful.

5. I enjoy taking my own groceries out to the car with the cart.

I am happy to announce that they got rid of the policy and now have cart corrals. Huzzah!!! What a joyous occasion to be able to go there today and not have someone follow me out.
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ugh, decided today I just couldn't take my same grocery store again, so I went to another one.

I went to a self serve line, I checked out all my goods and before hitting "finish and pay" I grabbed a bag and started putting in my goods... (there was like 6 so it wasn't going to take a long time, I was hardly one body length from the screen).

THis IDIOT, old lady comes up and starts trying to enter in her foods. ON my tab! What didn't she see me there? I said to her.. I am not done.

Old lady: What?
Me: I am not done!!!

Old lady: Oh I think I rang up some stuff
Me: I walk up there, nothing has rug up.

Old Lady: But I rang this up on your tab?
Me: No you didn't.

Old lady: But what is this line?
Me: Told her the line was for another product.

Old lady: (standing right on top of me) oh I thought that was my thing..

(continuing to babble endlessly)

Now, I always have a soft spot for the elderly at a grocery store because my mom was elderly and I hated the rude way people treated her there, so I was as nice as could be, but this lady was addled and would not stop talking and standing right on top of me and I just snapped.

I hadn't paid for anything yet, I could hardly even get it bagged with her standing there on top of me LITERALLY putting her stuff down when I was still ringing up..

I just dumped everything out and left.

I know, i know... but the ENTIRE point of self service is not to have to be addled / talk / deal with someone else and it just wasn't worth it. Will never do that again.
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Default Mar 19, 2019 at 01:58 PM
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Impatience of others never ceases to astound me. My time isn't more or less valuable than others. Should be a rule of the road that no scanning until the other begins to vacate.
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The worst is when its a self checkout lane and you pay but still need to finish bagging, and someone starts to scan their ***** while you do that.

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Default Mar 22, 2019 at 08:42 AM
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Or the reverse, when you want to use the self-serve and someone is standing their scrutinizing their receipt forever and won't free up the station.

I am thinking of shopping online more since we are moving out of the city. The town where we will be living only has a few smaller supermarkets and they are always crowded. We'd have to go to a larger supermarket about 25 minutes away.
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Default Mar 22, 2019 at 09:19 AM
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I will stand in line forever to have a real live human being scan my items. You do realise that by using self-serve check stands they are able to employ fewer people? Why the rush anyway? I know my cashiers at my grocery stores by name by now and it is always a pleasant moment of my day to see them and chat a few words back and forth.

With that said though, I am not longer patronizing one of the markets on account of the fact they have installed barricades in front of all the exit doors. Obviously shop lifting is an issue - but at the cost of the safety of human lives? I can't help but wonder at how people wouldn't be able to get out in an emergency and it sickens me. So Safeway is off my list.
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I will stand in line forever to have a real live human being scan my items. You do realise that by using self-serve check stands they are able to employ fewer people? Why the rush anyway? I know my cashiers at my grocery stores by name by now and it is always a pleasant moment of my day to see them and chat a few words back and forth.


With that said though, I am not longer patronizing one of the markets on account of the fact they have installed barricades in front of all the exit doors. Obviously shop lifting is an issue - but at the cost of the safety of human lives? I can't help but wonder at how people wouldn't be able to get out in an emergency and it sickens me. So Safeway is off my list.


I agree 100%. The only time I ever use them is when I go first thing when they open. At 6am they do not have any humans checking out only machines.

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The worst is when its a self checkout lane and you pay but still need to finish bagging, and someone starts to scan their ***** while you do that.

Yes! So uncomfortable. Or people standing too close to me when I am completing a transaction at an ATM!!!
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Default Mar 27, 2019 at 02:39 PM
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Amen about standing too close for comfort^^^

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I only came back to revisit this thread since I made a change in how I bring in my groceries.
I've got my kids home. They have snacked up and are quiet and settled and I'm still myself unwinding from the various stressors and stimulus of my workday. And I was able to go through my saved shopping list along with most of my go tos are on sale and my shopper is shopping and before I know it the items will be here. Intrinsically, of value. Phew. Plus it got hot outside.
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