ERD50
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People who want their groceries rung up in separate orders. I was behind two women at Costco today and they actually split it into 3 orders: Woman #1, Woman #2 (likely not a member, using Woman #1's card), and then a giant box of K-cups of coffee to be rung up separately because she was buying it for her office. I guess it's too much for the bean counters to look for the coffee in a receipt that contains anything else, then calculate the sales tax.
Fortunately, Costco's staff are pretty efficient so the delay wasn't too long.
There are legitimate reasons that they each want an original receipt (she would lose her original if she has to hand over the original to work - and maybe she doesn't care for work to see what else she buys at Costco?), or just need an easy way to keep the costs completely separate. DW does this when she does the grocery shopping for herself and her mother. Just show the receipt total to her Mom, who wants to pay for her stuff, don't try to break it down with all the weird descriptions on the receipt after the fact.
As long as they don't get the total, and then start digging into their purse to get a checkbook, and then more digging to find a pen, and then ask if they can take an out of State check, and then start digging for their ID, or spend 5 minutes digging through their purse for nickles and pennies because they want to pay with exact change - now that bothers me!
-ERD50