I always do my morning yoga before heading out in public, it is my cure for insanity.
I can usually wait my turn unless I notice something really stupid going on that just makes people wait for no good reason.
I agree the Tesco stores are a real pain in the you know what.
I don't know how it works in the UK Tesco stores but here in Hungary the whole set up is so lame it drives me insane even if I have done 2 hours of yoga first.
The deal here is the clerks do not bag for you, you must do it yourself and either bring your own bags or buy some from the clerk.
When we ask for bags,the clerks usually are very slow in giving them out while the food items are collecting and not being bagged. I hate waiting there knowing I should be bagging them up but the clerk is slow.
On top of that they do not for some insane reason have a practical way of delivering the items to the end of the counter so that you can reach them without showing off your bottom or having to half way climb up onto the counter. I must always ask my husband to help push the items down the belt so I can reach them and keep bagging.
The Tesco store also does not have a device to separate customers items from each other. If the person in front of you is slow then you have to wait until they have finished bagging to be able to even start bagging your goods.
I usually am bagged long before my husband has paid the bill but I am a speedy person and if possible have my bags sorted and ready for action.
This way of shopping is new to me but I have adjusted quickly and really can't understand how people here raised with difficult shopping methods haven't learned yet what they are doing.
I suppose it goes back to the old "American Way' of taking on a challenge and doing something about it.
People here just go along with the same old way and don't change much even if the changes would improve things.
I am starting to take great pride in my grocery packing abilities, my new art form, packing cold items, bottles and paper products like a real box boy.
The thing that gets me here is the prices on food and other items are not so cheap here, unemployment is high and they could be doing a service to both the public and to the economy if they would hire baggers in these big stores.
At banks, utility co. and other sorts of offices you are given a no. and just wait your turn while sitting or even leaving the building for a bit until your no. comes up. That is a practical way to do some things, it is the food stores that are not practical here at all.
All I can say is shopping in the US is a dream compaired to shopping in Hungary.
In the Us if you get home and find the product not to your satisiaction almost every store will let you return the item something even without the recite.
For get that in Hungary, even if you just paid for it and change your mind you are stuck with it.
If you ask any clerk for anything like change for the trolley to be able to shop at all they will give you a bad attitude and might even tell you they can't give you change even if they are free, God help you if you interrupt them while they are talking to another clerk or reading abook.( No customer service here at all)
So rude here.
You mst also double check your recite as some stores are known to double charge or not to give the sale prices on items, some sort of scam where the clerks share the profits for overcharging at the end of the day.
We have had several words with some clerks, yesterday is fact I went into a Lidel store by myself and saw a sale price on chips, when I got the the counter, I didn't get the posted sale price.
Often the stores even the Tesco store will leave up outdated sale prices and you are surprised when you check out, they just say sorry but don't give you the sale price, very misleading and sometimes expensive. These sorts of business practices would never fly in the US.
We have several store that we now boycott because of poor service or rip off pricing.
Not sure what we will do when we run out of stores, our list is getting very short.