Customer demands to charge her phone at supermarket

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Jdot · 10/09/2025 06:54

She came into the supermarket wanted to pay for her shopping on Apple Pay but her phone is dead. I saw her talking on the phone in the store.

Supermarkets and other places that people pay for products and services - restaurants, retailers, leisure places etc are NOT responsible for people’s mobile batteries and them not carrying their physical cards on them.

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watchingplanesicantafford · 10/09/2025 07:07

She wanted to pay for her shopping, surely she could have charged her phone for five minutes. It would have used the shops electric but how does that compare to the cost of someone having to stop what they were doing to deal with an abandoned trolley of food?

YelloDaisy · 10/09/2025 07:05

Hope she doesn’t get trampled by the shoplifters (you do nothing about) on the way out

Buddrinker84 · 10/09/2025 07:03

Unless they were really rude, then the safety implications of a woman on her own without phone charge for the journey home would be more concerning for me. A little compassion doesn't hurt and phone batteries get zapped with how much the are used in one day for shopping apps, loyalty cards or the 20 million school platforms. You don't know what that phone call was for.

Rightandwrong · 10/09/2025 07:01

I'm struggling to think this actually happened.
However as quite a lot of people seem to have no shame these days about behaving in totally entitled ways I suppose it did.
No doubt if customers are allowed to charge their phones in supermarkets then that will result in a rise prices to reflect the cost of the electricity involved.

autienotnaughty · 10/09/2025 07:01

True but if she has a massive trolley of shopping the store would have to allocate a staff member to return items. Any perishables would have to be binned. It’s probably cheaper and easier to charge a phone for a few minutes

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