Just WHAT possesses people to stop RIGHT INSIDE the door to stores (like the grocery)???

Question

Do you think it's ignorance?
Genetics?
Upbringing?
Due to their nationalities?
What's you horror story?

Everytime (it seems like) I go the grocery store there seems to be a congregation of people RIGHT inside the doorway, and I can't get past them to save my life! When I say "Excuse Me" they look at me like I'm from another planet!` Does this happen to anyone else?

OH! By the way, I'm disabled and use a mobility scooter. I guess not too many people are used to this, as they just stop & stare!

Answer 1

#1.
Start talking to one of them like you know them....
" You know, the swelling on my knee went down after you told me to try that salsa recipe...."
#2.
Ask something weird....
" Did you see that dehydrated dead cat carcass by the ATM?"
#3.
Be real
"Every time I come here, a group of senior citizens usually stands here in the way...have you seen them?" or: "this isn't the usual Friday night gathering, what happened to the other group?"
#4.
Be avoiding: Shop at 2 AM.
#5
Bring a camera!!!! Start taking pictures...if they look at you weird say: "where/who is the celebrity?"
#6.
say: " I feel REAL sick....can you get the manager?"

Any of those can help "loosen up" that crowd.

(I'm being funny) :o)

Answer 2

I believe that part of the responsibility for this lies in poor planning/layout of the stores in question. Carts are usually located just inside or just outside the doors, and because it takes a little longer to get a cart than to just walk inside/outside, there will probably be a small congregation in this area if the store is busy. I think stores could probably move their cart "corrals" a little further from the entrance to the store and help to relieve this matter.

Also, at one of my favorite grocery stores, there is a corkboard with coupons for items throughout the store located very close to the entrance. I like to stop by this corkboard for coupons and to plan what I will purchase. I ry to be as unobtrusive as possible, but because it's near the entrance, and many people wish to stop and look there, it does sometime create a traffic jam in that area. At the same grocery store, the produce section is located directly as you enter the door, and because people will take longer in this section to make their selections on fresh produce, then it creates slow-moving traffic until you get through the entire section unless you need just one or two items and don't have a cart.

Actually, that store is only my favorite grocery store because the prices are so low, because the planning for the store was horrible!

And personally, I would still stop by the corkboard for the coupons and to plan my purchases before shopping even if it were located at the back of the store, far from the entrance.

Answer 3

It happens to me allot to. When you say excuse me they act like your bothering them! I don't understand it! Something else I don't understand is why some fat lazy people use the handicap scooters to do there shopping with. I live in a small town and I have seen people that I've known for years, use them. I also know that there is nothing wrong with them other than there just fat & lazy. Then what really make me mad is when some elderly person who can't walk 10 ft without running out of air, is having to walk because some lazy fat @$$ has the scooter.

Answer 4

LOL so true, usually though the shop is set up with the cash register right there. We have a service station that they changed the furniture and now everyone gets tangled and stuck - didn't improve the service any! My mother has this problem of stopping at the top of escalators - she doesn't step aside - she wonders why people get rage against her. We are like "bloody move mum". She thinks everyone can just suffer for her - just rudeness really.

Answer 5

That's what happens when the ACLU forces all the mental hospitals to release the idiots into society.
If people had a clue why they were at the store to begin with, they wouldn't have to stop & have a meeting right inside the door.

Answer 6

I had the comparable question myself a twelve months in the past. actual the Starbucks interior grocery shops are ran via the keep, or perhaps however they seem to be a "Starbucks" they at the instant are not ran via the nationwide chain. the advantages are different. merely ensure you communicate with them intimately; as much as now as i be attentive to you would be an worker of the keep. (that's what the chief I spoke with mentioned).

Answer 7

Right. It is your ignorant genetic nationality and the piss poor upbringing that you had that makes this sort of thing a problem for you.
Not really all your fault though. Your sad parents just didn't know how to raise any decent people.

Answer 8

i hate when people do that..you just want to yell at them. anther part of that is the people who have to park in front of the door to load groceries in the car. and usually its young people who are perfectly capable of walking to the parking lot. Drives me Nuts.

Answer 9

I actually got fed up with a couple of ladies just standing there and asked them why. They told me so they can get their bearings (?) and figure out where what they want is and where to start.

Answer 10

They want to look around. What bugs me is when they step off the escalator and then just STOP.