Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

Have you read the thread? Do you really need it spelling out to you?

I always get a few bottles of Babycham at Christmas time as they are a fond memory of my childhood.
I know now to only ask staff members who look older than about 30 😀

I would agree with this.

I know my way around a supermarket layout - by brand, not store as we don't always shop at the same branch (to the point DH annoyingly asks me, on which aisle will I find x in every supermarket because I will know).

Eggs are the one that individual stores tend to move around.

Aldi - last aisle usually but it's the baking section.
Lidl - baking section but it's usually the second aisle. (I always want to look on the last aisle).
Asda - usually on the back wall by the bakery (this is the one that foils me.)
Sainsbury's / Tesco - near the dairy section. Often where the long life milk is but sometimes in the chilled section.

Eggs need a universal home.

That said, I got very angry at the kidney beans in Tesco the other week. They have a whole aisle named 'tinned beans'. They were not in the tinned bean aisle or the tinned food aisle. Nope. World foods aisle? Nope. They were in the sauces aisle close to the ketchup. This is wrong. This angers me. This should not be allowed. There should be laws for misrepresentation of aisles.

I used to work in Tesco and people would steal things out of otherbpeoples trolley

"Can have a prescription, I've run out of my happy pills " - at 5.29 on Christmas eve!

Do you staff think they’re superior because they know where the eggs are?

Asking about the BBD date on bread isn’t ‘stupid’ 🙄

Nothing Aunt Bessie’s should grace a Xmas dinner

The vast majority of my retail staff have a degree or higher education qualification 😂

Recent graduates, post grad students, parents who have gone back to work part time, older staff who have taken up part time work to supplement pensions or as a career change after a busy professional role. A lot who moved into retail as they were sick of roles in the public sector. I have a MA and worked my way up from sales advisor when I was at uni to regional manager, I graduated during the crash in 2008, couldn’t find work in my field and fell into a career I ended up enjoying.

Degrees don’t always = professional jobs, especially over the last 20 years. A lot of my staff were very clever but ended up in retail to make ends meet, because it suited their family situation or because they enjoyed the interaction with people.

Nope. Putting them on sale in September is stupidity.
So is not ordering enough to last till Chrismas, which presumably is intentional if looking for them on Christmas Eve is going to be called out as stupid.

Asking if they have crackers at 3pm on Christmas Eve, when they’ve been on sale since sodding September, is stupidity.

Yes but if you want Warbies, Hovis, majority of their lines have 5 days on their shelf life

That’s for people with a degree, not for the computer says no retail workers on this thread.
I doubt very much anyone who is offended when you ask where the eggs are has a degree or has any hope of earning 100k at Aldi.

Literally none of the questions asked are stupid so far ..

Also did a few years in a well known supermarket. Every year I 'ruined' quite a few christmas days apparently. No turkeys at 3.30pm, the year we closed at 4pm. As we left the store that year people were arriving in their cars and swore at us that we needed to open the doors back up for them as they needed to shop.

It was actually frightening some years, people stealing out of other trolleys. Proper punching each other, police being called.

Bloody eggs. Locally to me:

Tesco has them in with the bread and cakes.
Sainsbury's opposite the milk and next to the Free From stuff.
Morrisons by the sugar, tea and coffee.
Lidl between the baking ingredients and the jams.
Asda no bloody clue. Can't remember.
Aldi between the freezers and the bread.
M&S on the end of an aisle near the biscuits.

No consistency.

Every supermarket however will have the fruit and veg near the entrance and the booze at the back/near the end by the tills. Bread and fridges will be separated by dried/tinned goods and usually followed by the freezers. Easy to predict and navigate.

Stupid as well as nasty, given the Aldi graduate scheme starts at £50k (plus a free car) and means someone could be on over £100k before they're 30 even if they don't go for any other promotions at all. It's very possible (and encouraged) to work your way up in any retail job.

Long life bread would have been post 28th

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 .