What strange behaviour have you experienced in the supermarket?

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Yesterday, I was in Sainsbury's with my teenage daughter. We were walking towards the end of the aisle with a trolley and it was blocked by an elderly woman, her grandson (?) aged about 15/16 and a shop assistant who were talking. The lad. Saw us approaching and wanting to get past but refused to move. I said excuse me and he reluctantly moved. Didn't think much of it.

We were then at the checkout putting the items on the conveyor belt. The lad walked past and the next thing I know is that out trolley is rammed into us. No apologies or anything. So I thought ok maybe it was an accident again and arrived on.

We were walking out of the supermarket and Sod's law they were just ahead of us. The elderly lady was walking very slowly and the lad ahead of her a bit. My daughter tried to overtake him and he blocked her way sidestepping in front of her as she tried to pass. I called her back to me and just said to her to let them get ahead of us as I was beginning to realise by this 3rd incident that it was all intentional by now!

So we walked way behind them. We saw a car slowly reverse out of a parking space and the lad stick 2 fingers up at this person.

As they were taking so long to get to their car and unpack, we held back a bit at the trolley park (as I didn't want him to see where I had parked as I had other shopping to do and thought he might damage the car as 'punishment' to me). He then started staring at us and walked towards us with their trolley to return it. At this point, we just returned to the shop to avoid any confrontation.

I wasn't shaken up by it but felt quite sad that he felt the need to be so hostile and try to intimidate us. I do wonder if he would have behaved like this is my strapping 20 year old son was with us! His gran was completely oblivious to all of this!

Anyone else had this or similar?

Some of us start at 2am shopping! We try to have it finished by 8am but if we have a lot of orders it just isn’t possible

@Soubriquet I know which one you work for then! Tbh I find starting at 4 hard enough but can imagine we might start earlier at some point. We are currently being given 3 hour shifts which are barely worth getting out of bed for 😭😭

That sucks

I was doing 2-8 then that got changed to 4-9 but sometimes I’m finished by 8. I can potter around or go home

Next week I’m doing 3-8/9 so that makes up for the less hours

I was once in a Aldi-style supermarket where you pack your own bags after the till. I was waiting to pay and saw a woman rip open a packet of beef mince and decant it into a plastic bag with her bare hands. Like 4 handfuls of meat into a plastic bag. She left the empty packet on the counter and pushed the trolley back to her car with her mincey hands. It was quite fascinating.

My ds, who was about 3 at the time, could possibly have a post written about him.
He was toddling round a store with me, and cuddled a poor ladies leg as we went past. She dropped what she was holding, only to then have ds belt out the tidy up song at her, as she picked it up. Luckily, she thought it was funny 😂

Some of these are so strange!

A few weeks ago I was in the yogurt aisle trying to remember what I needed and looking up and down the aisle at the signs above for something specific and and I could see this guy about 50-60ish looking at me in my peripheral vision, he then randomly shouted out "are you looking for a the champagne?! It's not down here" with a big cheesy flirty grin on his face absolute weirdo! In my 20's that would have embarrassed me as it was loud enough for the whole aisle to hear but I just gave him this look and carried on shopping.

I mean what does that even mean?!

Picked 4 croissants from the fresh bakery section in Sainsburys. They were the last in the basket but I expect it was going to replenished any minute. Man was glaring at me a bit. Got to the checkout and he came up to my shoulder and said nastily 'hope you enjoy your croissants' . Was so odd - could have understood it if I'd taken 20 of them

Woman in local Tesco Express who was in the queue for self-service, whilst DD & I were in the till queue. Got to the front of the queue, checkout lady motioned me to come forward. Absolute fucking EXPLOSION of rage from the self-service queue woman 'EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??? THE QUEUE'S HERE YOU STUPID BITCH'

I turned around, thinking it must be something kicking off in the other queue, to find this purple faced woman right behind my shoulder with her basket of dine in for £10 swinging at DD's face. I was so taken aback I kind of mumbled 'sorry, but you were in the queue for...' 'YOU FUCKING PUSHED IN, YOU SAW THERE WAS A QUEUE, WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?'

Luckily another till was open, and the cashier said 'I can put your things through for you madam, if you'd like?' which she accepted, but the whole time she was keeping up a running commentary on my shopping and 'OH HOW IMPORTANT SHE IS WITH HER FABRIC CONDITIONER AND MILK, SHE JUST HAS TO COME BEFORE THE REST OF US, DOESN'T SHE?'

The cashiers were wide-eyed at it all, but no one said to her that she was in the wrong bloody queue in the first place! DD & I made it outside and then we both burst into tears because of how aggressive she was to us.

I really, really hope she goes back to that Tesco Express one day, sees the very clear queueing system and crawls up her own bumhole with shame that she swung a shopping basket at the face of a 9yo.

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea

Woman in local Tesco Express who was in the queue for self-service, whilst DD & I were in the till queue. Got to the front of the queue, checkout lady motioned me to come forward. Absolute fucking EXPLOSION of rage from the self-service queue woman 'EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??? THE QUEUE'S HERE YOU STUPID BITCH'

I turned around, thinking it must be something kicking off in the other queue, to find this purple faced woman right behind my shoulder with her basket of dine in for £10 swinging at DD's face. I was so taken aback I kind of mumbled 'sorry, but you were in the queue for...' 'YOU FUCKING PUSHED IN, YOU SAW THERE WAS A QUEUE, WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?'

Luckily another till was open, and the cashier said 'I can put your things through for you madam, if you'd like?' which she accepted, but the whole time she was keeping up a running commentary on my shopping and 'OH HOW IMPORTANT SHE IS WITH HER FABRIC CONDITIONER AND MILK, SHE JUST HAS TO COME BEFORE THE REST OF US, DOESN'T SHE?'

The cashiers were wide-eyed at it all, but no one said to her that she was in the wrong bloody queue in the first place! DD & I made it outside and then we both burst into tears because of how aggressive she was to us.

I really, really hope she goes back to that Tesco Express one day, sees the very clear queueing system and crawls up her own bumhole with shame that she swung a shopping basket at the face of a 9yo.

That's terrible behaviour. Poor you and DD 💐

Seen shoplifters and told the cashier.Apparently the police won't come out if the stolen items are worth less than £100 😒

@ScreamingMeMe

I saw somebody t-rexing once.

I've told this before, but the strangest experience I have ever had was finding a child.......at 1am. Apologies if this is long.

I worked for Tesco when Id not long had ds, a few nights a week. This was in the days where the store closed at ten.
This particular night I was heading for a break at 1am and cut through the clothing section. I noticed from under the door on the floor of the changing room was a lot of wrappers. Headed over to pick them up and found a boy of about eight asleep on the floor.

I carefully woke him and let him to the canteen whilst my manager called the police. I bought him a coke and a donut and we say chatting for a while. He told me his name, said his mum had remarried, his step dad hated him and there was a new baby so they didn't care anymore. Honestly it broke my heart.

The police turned up, see us chatting and immediately bollocked me, I'll never forget that officer, "oh, it's him again, you've fed him, he'll keep coming back!" Were his words. I told him he was a child not a sodding cat and obviously someone, somewhere wasn't doing their job properly.

He was right though, he did keep coming back and the store had to implement a new closing routine to look for him before they locked up. Ive often thought about him over the years, he was desperately unhappy and I do hope he found a stable life eventually.

Yesterday in Tesco a man arguing quietly with his partner. As I walked past he appealed 'For god's sake, all I want is a lump of cheese'

No idea how it ended

Somebody trying to steal a frozen turkey. And not a small one.

@IamMummyhearmeROAR

Yesterday in Tesco a man arguing quietly with his partner. As I walked past he appealed 'For god's sake, all I want is a lump of cheese'

No idea how it ended

That’s wonderful. I hope he got his lump of cheese! I did worry about dh appearing in one of these. We were in a supermarket, checking we had everything when he suddenly said “We need milk. Human milk.”

Thankfully he meant human milk as in milk for us humans to drink, as opposed to cat milk for the cat to drink but I do feel for anyone who overheard that!

The 4 crossiants made me laugh .
Not a supermarket but years ago I worked with a woman whose friend had gone to Ikea. She was standing looking a bit lost and a worker asked could he help. She told him she had lost her son.
Immediately he got on his walkie talkie and the whole shop was shut down so nobody could get out.
They then asked for a description of her son so they could circulate it.
She started with "well he's 35.."

@IamMummyhearmeROAR

Yesterday in Tesco a man arguing quietly with his partner. As I walked past he appealed 'For god's sake, all I want is a lump of cheese'

No idea how it ended

That reminds me years ago of two men arguing in the toothpaste aisle at my local Sainsbury's 'well obviously Simon, YOU don't care about my gums but I do!' I thought, go mad and buy 2 different toothpastes for your different requirements.

I shopped in Sainsbury’s earlier. There were two women (probably early to mid 30’s) standing at the end of an aisle with their masks under their chins, chanting, “Facemarks are useless. It’s our right to be free”.

Everyone who passed just looked at them and moved on (very quickly).

People leaving frozen goods out on open shelves

Someone with SEN lifting lumps of ice from the freezers and leaving thrm at the back of shelves to melt unnoticed.

People parking their trollies beside other trollies or cages, so that the aisles are blocked and then acting oblivious to the inconvenienced people behind them

I have RTFT and am -disappointed- relieved that none of these have been about my exMIL’s antics. She loves an audience She goes to loads of different supermarkets so she can get a new audience each time.
One of her favourite tricks is to wander really closely to members of staff, whilst speaking into the air, “I need some (insert random item here), where is it? I can’t find X etc”. Staff members usually then ask if she needs any help, which sets her off into an over dramatic, “get back! Get back! How dare you try to sell me something! I don’t come in here to be bullied! Get off me!” And the poor staff member is shocked at her bizarre behaviour. When she has done this when I was there I move her swiftly on whilst apologising, but I know she still does it. She enjoys setting the trap.

Don’t ever dare point her in the direction of self service tolls or you will get a loud monologue about how she won’t use them as she expects a discount if she does it herself, and she doesn’t work there so why should she etc. She will then try to draw as many other shoppers into her argument as possible.

She does make sure she “eclipses the S*n” newspaper by either picking them all up and hiding them in the toilet roll aisle, or by putting other newspapers over the top, so she isn’t all bad.

A couple of years ago i was shopping at about 2 in the morning in a 24hr Asda with my son.
we had just paid and we were walking towards the exit.
Then this naked man came running past us into the supermarket he ran past the tills to the end and turned around and ran back past us out the door.
The security didn't do a thing it was like it was a regular thing.
My son looked disgusted and i burst out laughing.

Man at the fresh bread section, pulled a fresh loaf put of its wrapper, squeezed it a few times then put it back in the wrapper and walked off 🤮

I did worry about dh appearing in one of these. We were in a supermarket, checking we had everything when he suddenly said “We need milk. Human milk.”
Thankfully he meant human milk as in milk for us humans to drink, as opposed to cat milk for the cat to drink but I do feel for anyone who overheard that!
I used to work PT shelf filling in Asda; one night a couple of teenage boys asked me if we had pigeon milk-I just said "are you having me on?" and they walked away. I still don't know if it was a joke, if they wanted milk to feed a pigeon, or thought that pigeons gave milk!

I popped into my local supermarket the other day for a book of stamps and was in a bit of a rush as I was working. They only sell them at the cigarette counter but there was only one person serving and a guy in front of me with a trolley full.

So I very politely asked if he'd mind if I went ahead as all I wanted was stamps and he bit my head off, shouting that he was in the queue first and I had to queue like everyone else. If I'd demanded it, then the rudeness would have been justified but I didn't, so I just apologised and said, 'That's fine, I thought I'd ask but it's no problem'. Even then he wouldn't leave it and kept turning around to tell me angrily that he had the right to say no. It was getting a bit aggressive so I left and got stamps across the road, but as I came out, he appeared and shouted across at me, 'You didn't want to wait your turn then!'.

FFS! I only asked!

@AlanThePig

I've told this before, but the strangest experience I have ever had was finding a child.......at 1am. Apologies if this is long.

I worked for Tesco when Id not long had ds, a few nights a week. This was in the days where the store closed at ten.
This particular night I was heading for a break at 1am and cut through the clothing section. I noticed from under the door on the floor of the changing room was a lot of wrappers. Headed over to pick them up and found a boy of about eight asleep on the floor.

I carefully woke him and let him to the canteen whilst my manager called the police. I bought him a coke and a donut and we say chatting for a while. He told me his name, said his mum had remarried, his step dad hated him and there was a new baby so they didn't care anymore. Honestly it broke my heart.

The police turned up, see us chatting and immediately bollocked me, I'll never forget that officer, "oh, it's him again, you've fed him, he'll keep coming back!" Were his words. I told him he was a child not a sodding cat and obviously someone, somewhere wasn't doing their job properly.

He was right though, he did keep coming back and the store had to implement a new closing routine to look for him before they locked up. Ive often thought about him over the years, he was desperately unhappy and I do hope he found a stable life eventually.

No referral To social services for that poor boy? How sad.