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Don't hide frozen products around the store.
- Trader Joe's jobs have a good rep in the grocery business.
- The grocery chain was named as one of the best places to work this year.
- Still, there are some things that shoppers do that tend to irritate Trader Joe's employees.
- Crew members have taken to social media to discuss the customer behaviors that tick them off.
Trader Joe's earn pretty high marks in terms of employee satisfaction.
This year, Glassdoor named the grocery chain with a cult-like following as one of the best places to work in the US. Trader Joe's also earned that distinction in 2017, 2013, 2012,and 2011.
But any consumer-facing gig is sure to cause some stress. Sometimes, shoppers just do or say things that have a way of grating on crew members' nerves.
One Trader Joe's crew member wrote on Reddit that the stores probably attract no more rude customers "than the average retailer."
But there are always going to be bad eggs.
"Many TJ's are built in or near affluent neighborhoods, so we do get a lot of people who can be a bit snooty, but won't go out of their way to be rude necessarily," the crew member wrote. "The outrageously rude customers are thankfully far and few between, and we even have had to ban a couple of them. For the most part, I think 99.9% of our customers are decent people. I am even on first name basis with many of the regulars."
With that in mind, here's a look at some of behaviors that are sure to aggravate Trader Joe's crew members: