Comments on: Do We Invent Some of the World’s Stupidest Rules, Or What? http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:45:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kerv http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what/comment-page-4#comment-280411 kerv Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:08:16 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what#comment-280411 Next time, shop in a Super 8 Grocery Warehouse near you. Hands down, great customer service! Next time, shop in a Super 8 Grocery Warehouse near you. Hands down, great customer service!

]]> By: niceyfemme http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what/comment-page-4#comment-234842 niceyfemme Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:49:13 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what#comment-234842 Oh and I did that too, just to shut them up, I left all the stuff in the counter and took a big cart. What the! Oh and I did that too, just to shut them up, I left all the stuff in the counter and took a big cart. What the!

]]> By: niceyfemme http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what/comment-page-4#comment-234841 niceyfemme Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:46:27 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what#comment-234841 OH MY G! I seriously thought I'm alone in this. This is one of the things that really makes my blood boil from anger! My Mom said I have been in "argument" with the cashiers and supervisors of SM way more times than most people in their lifetime. Their blue basket and big cart rule really is stupid and I have told them twice. I stopped at that number cuz they do not seem to get my point and I was just wasting my time and effort explaining to deaf ears or is it just deaf ears? Other things that irritate me in SM is the way they "throw" the items after they scan it. I mean I choose fruits with no bruise but then you'll just do that? Why did I even choose in gthe first place? Second is when I pay using my atm/debit card. They just swipe and swipe repeatedly and will tell me it's denied. It's because they just keep assuming it is a savings account when it's a current account. It's in their SOP right? So now I don't wait for them to ask me, I tell them immediately it's this account type but then they wouldn't listen so they will choose savings again and it will be denied! Wow! I have to say I hate that moron look the cashiers give to us shoppers as if we really are morons! More so, I hate how Filipinos react to complaints. It's as if we're just fuzzy, that we are maarte. Most Pinoys are just so used to it that they perceive it as if it's normal to receive such treatment. And I'm a bitch if I complain about it. OH MY G! I seriously thought I’m alone in this. This is one of the things that really makes my blood boil from anger! My Mom said I have been in “argument” with the cashiers and supervisors of SM way more times than most people in their lifetime.

Their blue basket and big cart rule really is stupid and I have told them twice. I stopped at that number cuz they do not seem to get my point and I was just wasting my time and effort explaining to deaf ears or is it just deaf ears?

Other things that irritate me in SM is the way they “throw” the items after they scan it. I mean I choose fruits with no bruise but then you’ll just do that? Why did I even choose in gthe first place? Second is when I pay using my atm/debit card. They just swipe and swipe repeatedly and will tell me it’s denied. It’s because they just keep assuming it is a savings account when it’s a current account. It’s in their SOP right? So now I don’t wait for them to ask me, I tell them immediately it’s this account type but then they wouldn’t listen so they will choose savings again and it will be denied! Wow!

I have to say I hate that moron look the cashiers give to us shoppers as if we really are morons! More so, I hate how Filipinos react to complaints. It’s as if we’re just fuzzy, that we are maarte. Most Pinoys are just so used to it that they perceive it as if it’s normal to receive such treatment. And I’m a bitch if I complain about it.

]]> By: stonedchewy http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what/comment-page-3#comment-234728 stonedchewy Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:22:55 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what#comment-234728 can a cart, just be a cart? to think the other counters/cashiers are empty and yet we have to fall in line and follow their stupid policies. same thing happened to me and my wife in "Stupid Market Cebu"...not only did we fall in line (after my wife complained), the worse thing was they let a tourist/foreigner (with the same colored basket) pay in the "big carts only" lane and the cashier just let her thru. talk about colonial mentality, i mean when do we learn, they should have a customer service 101 training or something. oh well...i hope their management would do something about this crappy service and lame policy NATIONWIDE. can a cart, just be a cart?

to think the other counters/cashiers are empty and yet we have to fall in line and follow their stupid policies. same thing happened to me and my wife in “Stupid Market Cebu”…not only did we fall in line (after my wife complained), the worse thing was they let a tourist/foreigner (with the same colored basket) pay in the “big carts only” lane and the cashier just let her thru. talk about colonial mentality, i mean when do we learn, they should have a customer service 101 training or something.
oh well…i hope their management would do something about this crappy service and lame policy NATIONWIDE.

]]> By: Cesca http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what/comment-page-3#comment-223726 Cesca Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:48:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/do-we-invent-some-of-the-worlds-stupidest-rules-or-what#comment-223726 My experience doesn't have to do with checkout lanes but with another example of stupidity. At certain times of the day at the Megamall grocery, staff members are made to do this stupid cheer touting their "Customer Service". Heck, it's so cheesy I don't really bother to stop and listen. One day, I encountered a little boy about 4 years old bawling for his mommy. I immediately approached and tried to pacify him, asking what his mom was wearing so I could help locate her. After a few minutes, and now merely teary-eyed, we were walking hand-in-hand to the "Customer Service" counter to have have his mother paged. To everyone's relief, his mom had the same idea and we bumped into her there. Oh, and where were the staff members during this entire time? A few feet away doing their stupid song and dance routine, drowning out the child's cries. "Customer Service" indeed. My experience doesn’t have to do with checkout lanes but with another example of stupidity. At certain times of the day at the Megamall grocery, staff members are made to do this stupid cheer touting their “Customer Service”. Heck, it’s so cheesy I don’t really bother to stop and listen.

One day, I encountered a little boy about 4 years old bawling for his mommy. I immediately approached and tried to pacify him, asking what his mom was wearing so I could help locate her. After a few minutes, and now merely teary-eyed, we were walking hand-in-hand to the “Customer Service” counter to have have his mother paged. To everyone’s relief, his mom had the same idea and we bumped into her there.

Oh, and where were the staff members during this entire time? A few feet away doing their stupid song and dance routine, drowning out the child’s cries. “Customer Service” indeed.

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