Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

Maybe they said read?

I'll see myself out!

If you are looking in the dairy section then that might be why you have difficulty finding eggs in many supermarkets. Eggs are not dairy. They have nothing to do with milk from any animals (cows mainly, but also goats).

Cows and goats etc. don't lay eggs. Hens, ducks, geese and chickens do, though eggs themselves are not meat so don't look in the meat aisles either..

Eggs are often in the baking ingredients and bread aisles in our supermarket.

Though perhaps Ellie has engineered all this on purpose... she's been having doubts about boyfriend and wants to see how he reacts to the inconvenience so she can dump him if he kicks off... or perhaps wants you to call out his lack of consideration so she can have a big blow up and blame Mum for 'splitting us up' but be secretly glad... Oh, it's a minefield... 😧

Legally you can't do that ...

I refuse to shop on Boxing Day on principle. Retail staff have worked hard enough on the run up to Christmas and deserve the time off.

The OP didn't say anything about people complaining and I was responding to that.

My favourite when I worked on the turkey selection at a supermarket was
Customer: can I have the fresh turkey I order
Me: not a problem I will just go and get it
(Go to the fridge and pick up the turkey)
Customer: that can't be my turkey- a fresh turkey can't have blood on it ..
Me: yes madam fresh turkeys like chicken and other meat often have a little blood on them
Customer: get me a manager this is ridiculous.....
Manager came and gave her a money off voucher for her turkey having blood on it... I was cross.....

In my local Co-op the eggs are at the end of an aisle in a shelving unit with big signs down each side stating “eggs” and there is a massive “eggs” sign hanging off the ceiling just above it, with an arrow pointing to it, and people still can’t find it! 🤣

😂
Good on ya

The battiest two questions last year were

"Do you sell garlic bread but without garlic ~ I don't like garlic"

"Is Christmas Day on the 25th this year?"

Could you please elaborate about what you mean by this?

But I guess other people would want them to be near the sausages and bacon for their full English...! In Canada where I live the eggs are stored in fridges, because they're washed and go bad quickly at room temperature unlike (superior) unwashed British eggs! At least they're easy to find in the store though.

Why should people have to store Christmas things from a quarter of a year before they are needed? It’s nuts. Stock enough and don’t start displaying Christmas stuff quite so early. Much more sensible.

Oh yeah, that happened when I used to work there as well - people would get really paranoid and stressed and shout at their partners to not leave the trolley unattended!

It was less a "stupid thing that a customer asked" (FWIW, nothing wrong with asking where things are if you can't find them), more stupid things that they did...years ago, my first PT job (I was 16) was at M+S. I worked in the Children's clothing dept, but they put me on to the tills in the Food dept on Xmas Eve.

What a baptism of fire!! I saw two very well-to-do looking women fighting and yelling over who should get the last ham joint. Another lady reduced me to tears as I put her shopping through with another man's shopping (I thought they were a couple doing a giant Xmas shop together) - they were chatting together like they were a couple, they did not use any divider or anything to ascertain that they were doing separate food shops, and neither of them told me that these were separate shops (or to stop at any point whilst I was scanning/helping to pack until I rung up the total). She literally screamed and swore at me. I'd lived a pretty sheltered life so wasn't used to people shouting/swearing like that.

In fairness I know the answer to that question and I d9nt even work 8n a shop selling books. It’s this one.

Used to work at Sainsbury’s as a teenager. 30 years ago. Xmas eve was all hands to the pump. All tills open. 12 hour day on my feet at the checkout. Queues 10 trolleys deep at each. It was utterly exhausting and people were HORRIBLE. Blaming you for not going fast enough. Too fast. No stock of X. Not enough Y. Too long a wait. Why was the offer they saw last week not available etc etc. Hell on earth.
At least twice an hour some chippy bloke (always a bloke) would say ‘cheer up it’s Christmas, look at all the money you are making!’ Like the 18 year old will see any more than the £1.50 I was making an hour. Or just a simple ‘look happy, where’s the Christmas cheer love?’
Awful.

Ah my DS is working a twilight shift today and tomorrow - pray for him.

He is very tall so that is often remarked upon – tho it does mean he can reach the milk at the very back of the fridge shelf.

He has been asked for cherries in syrup a lot this year for some reason (viral recipe?) and also for Advent calendars, well into December.

I cant remember the name of the book but it's red.....

@Gofaster2023 my DD works in a library and she gets that a lot.

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Ellie will have to explain why she didn't tell you bother to tell you in time to her new boyfriend then. Vegan boyfriend will have to suck it up. He'll survive, you'll just have to cook your veg in vegetable oil and you can still do some nice vegan stuff with the rest of the shopping you've already bought.

Ellie will tell you about any dietary needs well in advance in future.

”She’s about your size / her size / a little smaller than you,” (leering)

“Um, about this big? (gesturing with hands),

and my favourite “approximately a grapefruit?”

Yes.

My point is that some people are completely nuts about best before dates because they don't understand it and it's really wasteful as a result.

Take it from me, that is not where they are in the majority of supermarkets. That's where they are in 1 of the 4 supermarkets I use regularly. In the little shop I sometimes use, they are not in the baking bit either.

The people who come in Boxing Day to do loads of shopping while telling us it's disgraceful that we're made to work on Boxing Day. Guess what, if nobody came in then we'd probably be closed next year.