people using a mobile while paying should be refused
its just bad manors ,and anti social .
there should be a sign up in shops , saying please turn your mobile off , when at the till
eg please have your method of payment ready , and turn off your mobile when at the check out

anyway , dont people look stupid on there phones in shops anyway , i always feel such a fool , if mine rings in a shop , because i have forgotten to switch it off

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355278/Jo-Clarke-Peaches-Geldof-Brian-Viner-says-mobiles-turning-people-rude-robots.html

Stupid ignorant woman who compounded her error when she ran to the DM with the Arse....

Sainsbury= massive fail for not supporting the checkout operator.

I totally agree. The customer was so rude!

if the story is true
she was not rude , but very very thick and ignorant , as she see what she has done wrong
if i have to make a call , i go outside , or to a corner of the shop , so i wont be heard .
not walk around looking like a robot , do they realise how stupid they look on a phone in a shop etc

My phone has rung when I'm at a checkout and I've always ignored it. She was definitely rude! (probably ignorant too)

The people serving on the checkouts aren't robots and they deserve a little attention.

I support the supermarket workers stance on the above article, but what I find even more annoying is when the boot is on the other foot.

I generally try and support small local stores with my business, and have lost count of the number of times I have been 'served' by an assistant who is jabbering away on the phone
( often in a foreign language it has to be said ) throughout the entire transaction.

What I find really offensive is when they have finished totalling up my bill, they point to the till displaying the price, and just hold their hand out for payment, all the while still chatting on their phone.

They have not acknowledged me in way shape or form as a living human being, let alone a paying customer. What I now do in these circumstances is leave the goods on the counter and walk away without giving them any of my hard earned money. I am polite enough to tell them exactly why though, not that they are listening or care.

Petrol
garages are like that
Tome it's as anti social as spitting on the street

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23190261





Not only is she ignorant, she is stupid enough to cut her nose off to spite her face.

TOTALLY, TOTALLY AGREE!!!! And it's just as likely to happen when being served by home-grown, fluent English speaking ignoramuses too. Happens all the time. Along with that is the ignorance of the shop staff who talk to each other while one is serving you. In the worst cases, they're complaining about situations at work in front of you. Grrrrrrr. If I owned anything where staff served the public, I'd be sending out secret shoppers all the time to report back on how they were treated at the tills.

I think that if they can't treat you as a human being and talk to you then you should put the goods down on the counter and walk away. They would soon learn (especially if somebody deposited a large amount of shopping there)