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Today 19:28 #66726
Posts: 562Originally Posted by KeviKev68 [View Original Post]
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Today 17:47 #66725
Posts: 81Medellin-Immigration
I just landed in Medellin the other day and noticed something different. When you walk through the maze (line) there are several posters stating they are against "sex tourists " looking for minors. In it is image of cop clutching an underage girl dressed as a sex worker. You can tell by her frame that she is young.
I get it but I really think people don't like us meeting the women who are of age. I'm sure there are locals who engaging these young girls or are putting them out there. Now I know what it feels like to be scapegoat in a foreign country.
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Today 15:13 #66724
Posts: 427We don't agree at all. I find this extremely amusing reading.
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
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Today 14:28 #66723
Posts: 4034Self checkout is my jam! I love it because it is very unpopular with Colombians so you can usually get to one without having to wait.
Originally Posted by Orgasmico [View Original Post]
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Today 14:24 #66722
Posts: 4034Your number is not unusual and it really pisses me off.
Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
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Today 07:26 #66721
Posts: 5473Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
1. The guy who rushed to get in front of me at Carulla, in the 15 items or less line, had probably 40 items (compared to my 6-10). The cashier stopped him and sent him to another line, where several people were already waiting. I've never seen that in the US.
2. Old people in the US also engage in pointless conversations with Cashiers, waitresses and anyone else who they can drag in. I'm an old person, but I'm still not sympathetic to their loneliness.
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Today 04:02 #66720
Posts: 1Originally Posted by ObjJay [View Original Post]
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Today 03:25 #66719
Posts: 658Originally Posted by ElSexoChino7 [View Original Post]
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Today 00:58 #66718
Posts: 118Originally Posted by Wkahddl2 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 21:46 #66717
Posts: 1509Originally Posted by ElSexoChino7 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 20:23 #66716
Posts: 4034I can explain without bashing. There are two main reasons the lines move slowly than what gringos are accustomed to. One reason is technology (the lack thereof) and the other reason is culture. You hinted at the technology factor when you mentioned puntos. Exito does the same sort of market research based on collecting buying history from customers as other big retailers. The difference is Exito doesn't have up to date technology that enables customers to quickly swipe a loyalty card to identify themselves. Instead, cashiers have to manually key in the loyalty program number of every single customer both before (puntos) and after (movil Exito) they ring up the purchases. Some customers don't remember their punto or movil Exito numbers, so they have to give the cashier a phone number or cedula number to look it up. When customers redeem coupons or store credit receipts, the cashier has to stop the line and scan them one by one and sometimes call for a manager to complete the transaction. All this takes forever.
The culture factor is the one that is least likely to change anytime soon. Very quickly, the things that cause the line to move slowly that you don't see in developed countries are customers who leave their carts smack in the middle of the small space where people on line behind them need to pass to get their purchases on the checkout belt, people who use the checkout clerk as a price scanner to decide whether they can or want to buiy some or all of the items in their cart, people who decide they don't want some of the items or want different items who then leave the line to look for what they want while everyone else has to wait until they return so the cashier can complete the transaction, on top of all of that most customers will engage the cashier in small talk about the weather, current events, their physical ailments or whatever else that has nothing to do with buying groceries. This is especially true of older customers who sadly don't have much other human interaction. That last one about older people is something you also see with building doormen. The older building residents spend a lot of time socializing with the doormen because they are always available and can't ignore them.
Originally Posted by ElSexoChino7 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 19:57 #66715
Posts: 15937Originally Posted by ElSexoChino7 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 17:45 #66714
Posts: 91Yeah, just something for you to read
I'll never understand why the line in Exito always take forever to check out people. Everytime I go, even with people 2 or 3 items in their hand will sometimes takes 30 minutes to check them out. I noticed it takes longer when those people used their "puntos". The cashier looks it up on the computer which take about 10 minutes and additional 1-2 minutes to print the receipt. You will never see that in US LOL.
Now before you bash me, since this forum has so much negativity LOL, I'm not complaining at all. Even waiting on the line for that long, I get to see beautiful paisas, who's most of them on their gym clothes after working out or pre-work out buying groceries. Just had this paisa girl right in front of me who's got a really nice toned body, great shaped ass, a well made tits, nips poking out on her bra, curvy waist and big hips. I'd say she's on her early 30's. About 5'3 height. I'd give her a 7 on the face and 8. 5 on the body. Definitely just finish her morning workout bought a 300 k worth of groceries (mostly healthy stuff). I had the opportunity and the 2 old senior citizens behind me, blessed with the awesome view for 30 minutes.
I was about to pull her a "Hola, como estas? "Realmente creo que eres hermosa", "Tienes novio? Then I realized, I do not want to draw any attention from the locals, me looking like an Asian guy (Extranjero) on his mid 30's. I'd rather keep everything on the low especially the situation now in Medellin LOL. Even then, I still have 2 dates lined up for tonight so I don't feel bad at all for that missed opportunity.
Exito, never misses. There's always a beautiful women everytime I go there. I fucking love this country.
On the other hand, when the cashier ask me for "puntos", I just simply say "NO" so I don't hold back the line.
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Yesterday 16:04 #66713
Posts: 1797Originally Posted by YuyuHakusho [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 15:54 #66712
Posts: 2942Originally Posted by YuyuHakusho [View Original Post]