Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

Been in store this morning, seems like customers have forgotten how sentences work. Just barking random items at me “sugar?” “Eggs?” Like they are too busy and important to say excuse me! Tbf the majority were fine, but add in the overexcited kids and people who think it is perfectly ok to wander round the store coughing without covering their mouth and I am glad I am done!!!

I remember my first year actually going out on Boxing Day to go to the sales and it was horrendous I was a teenager at the time with my mum and there were women full on fighting in the aisle in Boots over some bath set I’d never seen anything like it the poor staff and security tried to separate them and got assaulted in the process in the end the police were called and both women were taken away by the police and a member of staff took this one remaining bath set off the shop floor absolutely ludicrous

As an adult now I avoid the shops until about the 3/4 January

Where have I said that?

It is amusing for people to be crawling under the shutters after closing.

Ultimately you don't NEED to have everything regardless of how you shop.

Eggs are not dairy.

Only milk and items made from milk are dairy

The 23rd was always the worst day to work, I hated it. Christmas Eve was much more pleasant as most people decided to shop on the 23rd because “Christmas Eve would be too busy”!

Yes, she’s coming out of this very badly. I was expecting this thread to have some really daft or funny questions in, a bit of entertainment - but, no.

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.

I follow this guy on Insta too - and this thread had me thinking of him.

Have served my time in retail (supermarket) so feel I can join in. My favourite did not concern a customer asking me for the moon and stars but as I was heading into town to do my own last minute shopping one Christmas Eve I bumped into an acquaintance heading back to the station "Finished already" I said cheerfully " "No", he replied, "Wife sent me to get a turkey but it's absolutely heaving in there, I'm not doing that" Oh to be a fly on the wall when he got home...

Next to the long life milk in ours. And to be fair to them, although they regularly change around all of the other aisles, the eggs have been in that position since the store opened about 20 years back!

"Don't you have any Christmas spirit?"
Asked by a desperate banging-on-the-shutters-as-we-are-trying-to-close-them c**tomer at 5pm on christmas eve.

Yes, I do (although God knows working retail nearly beats it out of you) - that's why I want to go home to my family!

There are a few branches of Gail’s and a Costa Coffee open here on Christmas Day. I hope they are staffed by people who don’t really want to celebrate! As an NHS worker I have done my fair share of Christmas Days and bank holidays. I am not sure that I need shops and cafés to be open on Christmas Day but there is clearly a market for this.🤷🏼‍♀️

That’s doesn’t really work for food though, which is the bulk of the supermarket. You do it that way because you are disorganised but you think it’s ‘stupid’ that’s someone might be disorganised and do it a different way?
When I have lots to remember I start a list early and keep adding to it as I remember stuff, then deal with it all in one go. Much less likely to have something slip through the net.

How do you know? Granted, it could be either. I’d have started with this one though.

I am 60 years old. I have never bought or "needed" Christmas crackers (the sort you have with cheese though, that's different....).

And if there’s just a tiny bit of green on the edge then it gets picked off and bread goes in the toaster!

Calm down mate - it was just a question 🙄 And not unreasonable considering that bars and restaurants open on Christmas Day, so it’s not just the emergency services working.

Looked for croutons in Tesco for ages recently - would you suppose they'd be near the soup? But they keep them three aisles away, beside the ketchup and preserves. There's things in Tesco that even the staff can't find - I've seen managers have to look locations up on their phones.

My daughter worked in a shoe shop when she was a student, and she once had a man crawl underneath the shutters as they were closing at 5pm on Christmas Eve wanting a pair of slippers for his wife, size 5. He didn't get them from that particular shop...

no, so I’d have asked for the information the poster said she volunteered. I don’t think there’s a suggestion she waited to be asked though, is there - she added genre and a word from the title.

Re aisles and signs, someone told me about a place where the overhead aisle name on the 'baking' aisle said 'bacon'.

Did she want a live one ? 🤣

Well most people aren’t going to buy excessive amounts of desserts and celebrations and god knows what just to please the supermarkets. It’s already hard to get your body back after one week in December let alone 2-3 months of eating crap before Xmas too. I don’t know a single person who buys Xmas stuff to eat 2 months before Xmas.

In Canada, eggs and dairy are found together. In the U.K, it’s all a bit random. My local M & S has them located next to peanuts and crackers. My local small Tesco in the bread aisle. No rhyme or reason.

No I don't trust the supermarket signs.

I have already posted on this thread several times about the travesty that is beans not being in the beans aisle as signed and how this should be illegal.