Is Hating Shopping an Aspie Thing, A Poll

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I know there is another thread with this topic, but it seems you cannot make a poll unless you start an entirely new thread. So, on to the post:

I hate shopping, because most of the employees they have working at places, know nothing. It's like I have to walk them through how to do their own job! Then if I ask for something difficult, like seeing if they have a specific product. They act childish about it, I've had a couple of employees even throw a fit worthy of a 2 year old in front of me. The managers don't care, they're most likely just as immature and dimwitted as the people they employ.

So then the question becomes, who here is looking foward to robots replacing people at shops?

Me! As long as the robots don't have issues.
The other day I was looking for some blank viedotapes in a store, and after I'd serched the entire store, I asked the teenage shop assistant where I could find some. She obviously had no idea if the shop even sold them, and suggested that I look in the electronics aisle. I thought "yes, I'm an idiot, that wasn't THE FIRST PLACE I LOOKED!! !"
I hate incompetence.

I hate shopping anyway, whoever or whatever the employees are.

Go easy on the employees. The stores hire them for minimum wage and treat them like interchangeable parts. "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

Who's to say the robots would be any more knowledgable? Consider the average voice mail tree, which has every option except the one you're calling about. Or consider that machines made and programmed on the cheap would probably be totally stupid and full of bugs.

Now, if they had a device you could use to turn off the sound track! Both the (imagine high-pitched nasal voice at high volume here) "ATTENTION SHOPPERS!" and the pushy, intrustive vocal music background, I'd pay a fair amount of money for it.

If they also had an online interactive inforation station at every intersection along with a "You are Here" store map as its wallpaper, I would shop there, yea, even at SprawlMart.

Home Depot (big box home improvement/hardware store) has 'robots'. There are 4 self checkout stations. There is someone there watching for shoplifting, add bulk items to your purchase, or to override the computer if scale isn't happy.

The employees are usually pretty helpful too, if you're lucky enough to find one.

If you didn't have to look for what you wanted, you wouldn't see all of the other products the store offers.

Maybe that's the bottom line. They'll make more money if someone is having to look through the store, and possibly make an impulse buy, instead of simply going there, getting what they need, and leaving.

Yes, I think it does have to do with AS.

I don't like shopping.

I hate shopping because I don't like stores. your stuck inside with a bunch of strangers, many of them are haveing loud conversations with each other, and the most of the stores in my area have the inside lights brighter than the sunlight outside... and i don't like waiting in lines either.

I like bookshops, stationery shops and music shops. I will quite like the specialist electronic shops too - probably because they're hardly ever crowded. I think I've been in each of those four shops once when they were crowded, and the rest of the times they've been fine - even when they're crowded I'm not overly fussed because I'm so interested in things at which I'm looking anyway. As are most others, it seems to me. Which is great - and they tend to have slightly better background music than most other shops too, I've found

But otherwise, shopping in general disagrees with me.

A lot of supermarkets are putting those in too. I love self-checkouts. It might end up taking me a little bit longer, but it's worth it.

When I was working at Radio Crap as a teen, my manager gave that as the reason the fuses are in the very back. It's a great marketing concept; just like placing items $5 and less next to the line for checkout.

I have no problem with the employees.
But i still hate shopping due to the people in the shop and the waiting in line in a crowded place.

You know, I used to be (at the very best) ambivalent about shopping. Then of late my Sainsbury's obsession has come about - and THAT is on the wane. Sainsbury's has proved to be merely a phase.

So now I guess I'm ambivalent about shopping again, I'm getting pretty bored with it overall.

I'm certain that robots would know a lot more than the employees ever could.

I am for real living people

Honestly it depends on the store. If it's an art supply store or bookstore, good luck trying to get me out of there.

Store clerks are a mixed bag. One I met couldn't add 10% tax with a calculator. Others take me around a corner, ostensibly to show me something, but really to tell me it is cheaper elsewhere in private. It is a time-saver to have a clerk find something, but a problem if I then feel some obligation. There is one lady upselling vitamins who I avoid like the plague, but usually, there's no problem with check-ins as I walk around and encounter employees. There is one whose merry laugh really brightens my days. And, they sure need the jobs. I won't go to stores that treat their people like crap.
Sometimes, I teach a bit. I never use self-checkouts. I've even had a clerk remember my 'phone number.

I've been allowed to browse the "off limit" areas of a tool store, and done a lot of surplus shopping and garage sailing for my collection, but the kind of store I really like sold electronic basic components. I'd gone there looking to find something to fit what I was making, and then went back three days later and found my own part still sitting on their shelf. It was the kind of place that could have been having 80% theft, but it was probably under 5.

I do online shopping