Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

Nailed it

@SledgingSlide are eggs dairy 🧐?

This thread is making retail workers look a lot more stupid than customers. It's never unreasonable to ask where something is or whether something's in stock.

So you’ve forgotten 1 item out of around 150 items that you have to purchase for Christmas Day - and that makes you stupid?
tbh I can see why you don’t work in a supermarket - I doubt you’d pass the interview.

Dunning Kruger effect very evident on this thread.

Yup - stupid to be sitting by a dying relatives bedside for 3 weeks and then having to try and scrape yourself together to make your kids' Christmas special.

Things happen. It is not stupid to ask a staff member if they stock something Christmas related if the shop is open.

Exactly - the huffiness is the issue not the question. God knows retail workers have to put up with enough genuine shit from customers, why go looking for offence?!

It's really not. If the shops are open it is not stupid to ask if they stock something that you might be looking for.
People always have last minute things to pick up.
What is a reasonable date for someone to have bought crackers by? October?
Mid Dec?
Sure, it might reflect a level or disorganisation, or that someone has had A LOT going on in their life and only had a few days to get Christmas organised, but that doesn't mean it's a stupid question.

I think it's more stupid to be able to buy Easter Eggs at 3pm on Christmas Eve.

I agree. Not getting the bread thing either. I can't imagine how that was such a significant interaction for the op that she clocked the customer a month later and thought she'd won some weird contest.

I did my Christmas food shop early yesterday and my Tesco was well stocked with everything, including turkey. The staff were great as well despite being very busy restocking. All smiley and helpful (before I get a hammering, I didn't have the temerity to ask them something, a nice worker saw me struggling to find something and offered help!). I don't think it would be wildly unreasonable to go there on Christmas eve on the chance they may have some crackers.

I really don’t see a problem with a customer asking for something on Christmas Eve? If they get huffy about it when it’s out of stock, that’s the problem.

If you leave your Christmas planning to the 23rd December that is also stupid!

I agree. The OP seems to be one of those little people who thinks you're stupid because you don't know as much about a place as someone who works there.

(I don't know where the word "little" came from, but it seems appropriate so I'm leaving it.)

But if the conversation goes like this:

"Do you have any crackers?"
"No, sorry, we're all sold out"
"Ah ok, thank you, never mind!"

How is it stupid? If the person then kicks off about how Christmas is ruined because of the lack of crackers/smoked salmon/turkeys etc at 3pm on the 24th then it's different, but it's just a simple question and if the answer is "no" then that's fine

Our store keeps them in a non aisle between "free from" food, and vinegars. I know now, but have spent years trying to understand.

As for mini stores?! I have never ever been able.to find eggs in one in my life. Totally random. Our local.co op puts them in a special shelf along with special chocolate.

If anyone needs crackers I saw a whole aisle of them in the Big Sainsbury's yesterday 😂😂😂😂

I know something that is stupid - it’s not having the capacity to think that not everyone starts planning for Christmas in September or has Amazon prime.

Can I have 2 adults and 3 child tickets for the pantomime please?

Yes certainly. Where do you like to sit?

We don't mind as long as there's an end of row.

OK. How about H 1-5?

(thinking hard) Is that the end of the row?

(me, in my head) It is. But if you can think of a better number for the end of a row than 1, I'd be happy to consider your suggestion.

Are you open tomorrow?

But is that near the butter, sugar, flour or other hone baking items? They're all in different aisles where I shop makes mental note to find a better supermarket

No, I don’t.

But people’s lack of planning is stupidity. You can get them on Amazon prime for crying out loud!

When I was working in Primark on Christmas Eve, it was teatime, tills we’re being cashed up and we were having a final tidy, a man ducked under the closing metal shutters on the door and shouted across the shop, “Help, I need to do my Christmas shopping.”

No it’s not. They could have damaged the others, have more guests coming, they might have been sick or delegated to someone else who didn’t do it - There’s a whole host of reasons. Do you work in a supermarket?

If we had sold out of something but knew we would get more after Christmas we would often say that.
But then we would get customers who asked for it 5 minutes before closing on Xmas Eve turning up at 8am on Boxing Day complaining we are still out of stock but "you said after Christmas".

I actually heard someone asking very similar in WH Smith yesterday! "It's got a blue cover and my mum was looking at it in a shop". However she did have the additional info that she thought it was a crime book and it might have had the word Housekeeper in the title .

Plenty of people put crackers on the table on Boxing Day, NYE etc. And even if the answer is "no, sorry we're all sold out" that doesn't make it a stupid question