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This is the Conversation Forum for A Guide to Restaurant Service << American Diner Slang... Relative time-dilation in restaurants >> Subject: A Guide to Grocery Service Posted Feb 24, 2000 by Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0   Posting 1 That's good work on the Restaurant Lexicon. But what we *really* need is a guide to terms you hear at the grocery. Like when the cashier charges you too much, you don't hear "Oops, I charged you too much". You usually don't even hear "I have an overring on aisle 7". Instead you hear something like, "I have a 23 on 7". I'm convinced this is a conspiracy to cover up incompetence among pimply-faced cashiers. But, conspiracy theory aside, it would take a cryptography machine to decode some of the things you hear in supermarkets. So, good luck to whoever wants to write the first version of the Grocery Lexicon. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: A Guide to Grocery Service Posted Mar 1, 2000 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 Right on! Someone explain to me, in terms I can understand, just WHAT does the blinky light over a grocery queue mean? Is it a desperate cry for help or merely a way to (further) aggravate customers who have been waiting in line for half an hour? Are cashiers trained to stand behind registers in the lanes that have their lights turned off, just so that they can laugh at all the customers who try to check out with them? Rules...I need a list of rules concerning grocery store queue lights. *rocks and mutters something about online shopping* Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: A Guide to Grocery Service Posted Mar 7, 2000 by Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 I'm going to guess that the blinking lights roughly translate into "I have a 27 on 3", delivered in a pimply-faced tone of voice. Here's another thing I've noticed: Some registers have extra attendants to bag the groceries. But there is no correlation between this and the number of people waiting in line at the register. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: A Guide to Grocery Service Posted Mar 8, 2000 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 But have you noticed - there almost always seems to be a bagger if you've purchased $25 or less in food. But never any at all when someone spends around $200. Very odd. I've bagged so many of my own groceries (to help speed myself along), I think I deserve an honorary smock. Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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