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Petrol pump & full grocery shop

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Poonu · 22/06/2025 09:34

Inspired by a comment on another thread. Is it reasonable to do a full Tesco / Asda etc shop while your car is at the pump and there's 15 cars behind you? And it's rush hour. This is not something I do, but have been a victim of!!
AIBU - It's inconsiderate
AIBU - It's fine

OP posts:
Datafan55 · 22/06/2025 09:41

LlynTegid · 22/06/2025 09:36

It's a shop that sells fuel amongst its goods. The unreasonableness is that if demand is high at particular times of day on a regular basis, the shop does not employ more staff.

Don't blame customers.

It's nothing to do with staff: it's people leaving their car at the pump that is the issue here.

Original poster
Poonu · 22/06/2025 09:40

@LlynTegid well, I do to a degree blame the customer. They have agency they can choose not to spend 15 minutes faffing around in-store lol. However it is a good time to collect the detritus in my car while I wait.

OP posts:
takealettermsjones · 22/06/2025 09:40

How are people managing to do a full shop in a petrol station shop? They are usually smaller, with the 'main' shop in a completely different building, aren't they?

AbzMoz · 22/06/2025 09:39

No, of course that’s not on. There are parking spaces to pull into for this reason.

AndImBrit · 22/06/2025 09:38

I would pull my car forward from the pump, pay for my petrol then do my shop… but if there was a big queue to pay I may be less inclined to queue twice, and I think the pump would still be unusable whether I had pulled forward or not.

Original poster
Poonu · 22/06/2025 09:37

Oops sorry about that @StoorieHoose It was just on the other thread somebody suggested that they should pay for their petrol, park up and then do their shop but I have literally never seen anyone do that.

OP posts:
LlynTegid · 22/06/2025 09:36

It's a shop that sells fuel amongst its goods. The unreasonableness is that if demand is high at particular times of day on a regular basis, the shop does not employ more staff.

Don't blame customers.

StoorieHoose · 22/06/2025 09:36

Your poll options don’t make sense but of course it’s inconsiderate

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