A Hell called Supermarket

 

These days shopping at supermarkets is nothing but like straightly getting into hell. Big queues, untrained billing operators make your life miserable. If you pick-up an item and go to billing counter, you will see a small queue which never ceases to move. The person at billing counter scans the barcode which the barcode reader never reads. Then the person tries to type it on the monitor. Adding to the misery of the people in queue, the system doesn’t recognizes the barcode. Now, the operator asks the co-operator in another counter for the barcode. The other one answers after much ‘thinking’. This spate of barcode reading blunders continues and after that, operators asks for the amount. The customer now takes his Sodexo Food Coupons and slowly counts the coupons to tally the amount. By the time the customer gets the count and amount correctly, half of the patience gets lost for the people in queue.

When customers choose to pay by the Card, the swiping machine never connects to the server. Then customer flashes another card. After many attempts, it connects to the server and the transaction succeeds. After receiving the transaction slip, now, operator searches for the pen. He goes here and there in search of pen, sometimes getting into small arguments with co-operators.

And now, customer gets into small fight with operator for wrong billing or for the free gift which is advertised in newspapers. By the time your turn comes, you get to know that your valuable time is lost in buying a small item in Supermarket.