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Rudest thing someone's said to you in a shop

21 replies

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 10/04/2022 18:08

OK I didn't look like the queen but I'd got up late and put on a tracksuit and gone out.
I went into an antique I likes in the window of a Dorking antique shop as a gift for a close family wedding it was around £150.
I went in and the bloke working there (not the owner) said I suppose you'll be wanting to see our cheap items and wafted his hand towards the bargain cabinet.
So I said I came in to buy that vase but you obviously don't need my custom and walked out. I was furious.
Also furious because it took me ages to find something else.

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GivenchyDahhling · 10/04/2022 18:30

It amazes me in this day and age any shop owner would assume wealth based on appearances

100problems · 10/04/2022 18:36

Oh they do. I was told the price of a handbag that I was considering in LK Bennett once in the manner of "put it down, you cannot afford it".

100problems · 10/04/2022 18:37

abs directed straight to the silver floor in Tiffany NYC

MadameFantabulosa · 10/04/2022 18:40

“We don’t have anything in here that would fit you. Please leave.” Shop in Belgium to size 12 friend and me, then size 14.

PragmaticWench · 10/04/2022 18:41

Had a man working in Clarks laugh in my face when I asked if they had a particular shoe in a size 9, presumably as I'm female.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 10/04/2022 18:42

In the Post Office when DS was young I was queuing up to post something.

Staff member walks up to me and says, “What do you want? Money?”

Was her tone as well. Deeply unpleasant.

Then they look all confused when the branches are closed down and everyone uses couriers…

Seraphinesupport · 10/04/2022 18:42

"that wont fit you its a size 16, we have it in grey in your size, it goes up to a size 28" .. I WAS size 16 as was everything i was wearing but even if i wasnt it was a cruel thing to say

SaxendaSummer · 10/04/2022 18:44

@GivenchyDahhling

It amazes me in this day and age any shop owner would assume wealth based on appearances

if it happened of course..

Cheeseandlobster · 10/04/2022 18:45

Some of these are shocking.

LetHimHaveIt · 10/04/2022 18:50

SaxendaSummer

GivenchyDahhling
It amazes me in this day and age any shop owner would assume wealth based on appearances

if it happened of course.

Precisely. I can well imagine retail workers managing to insinuate that someone couldn't afford their wares, but I have trouble believing one actually said: "I suppose you'll be wanting to see our cheap items". It's such an odd phrase, to start with - "inexpensive" or "more affordable" possibly. "Cheap" reflects badly on them. Might as well have said "tat".

namechangeanonymous · 10/04/2022 18:52

Just the lovely "how far pregnant are you" ... I wasn't at that time and struggling with fertility problems. Really upset me.

MrsMoastyToasty · 10/04/2022 18:52

A group of us walked into a pub and immediately got asked to leave as "we don't serve your type " . We were all wearing motorcycle leathers.
As we left I said to the publican "these bank clerks, nurses, engineers and self employed businessmen will take our perfectly good custom to your nearest competitor "
The look on his face was a picture.

skybluee · 10/04/2022 18:59

I had a woman in M&S make a horrible comment (a bra fitter) about not doing 'those kind of sizes' in here (38AA) after she measured me.

girlmom21 · 10/04/2022 19:04

How many times had you been there eyeing up the vase?

Took · 10/04/2022 19:04

A woman screamed at me, “You're a child abuser! YOU CUNT."

The "you cunt" was roared in that way that you knew she'd hurt her throat and would be suffering with it for the rest of the day. You know in Beauty and The Beast where the Beast roars, " THEN STARVE," it was exactly like that but with a middle aged, blonde, Englishwoman. 😂

Her daughter had pirouette'd into me (me in a wheelchair) and her foot ended up right by a wheel. I was going slow and carefully so was able to stop before the wheel did anything but just ever so slightly touched her.

For some reason she turned to her mum and told her I’d run over her foot. But she was about 10/11 and we were all a bit dramatic at that age. Her mum went batshit! Wouldn’t listen to a word I said, was just gritted teeth rage shouting at me.

She went on and on, barred my exit, loomed over me, but those were the most memorable things she shouted at me. I felt sorry for me but worse for her daughter. Imagine how she reacts when that wee lassie does wrong!

EV117 · 10/04/2022 19:06

In New Look at the till - ‘Are you foreign?’ in a confused and condescending tone after I’d asked if I could have a carrier bag. No, just from a different region in the UK. But even if I was foreign, it still would have been rude.

The worst one was in a boots pharmacy after queuing outside for over two hours during lockdown. I came in for my contraceptive pill. The woman behind the till says ‘not really essential an essential item at the moment is it?’ in a quite nasty and judgemental way - like how dare I leave the house for this. I was gobsmacked. I rang up my GP that same day and told the receptionist to put me down with an alternative pharmacy to send my prescriptions too. I sent a complaint to boots as well, got an apology, but I’m not convinced anything was really down about it so they’ve completely lost me as a customer. Superdrug all the way… and my local independent pharmacy is much more pleasant and efficient.

Neena86 · 10/04/2022 19:06

As a supermarket worker I've lost count of the rude things that's been said to me. I've had "chop chop hurry up and look for the cat litter I want, I'm on a tight schedule and I can't wait around for someone so slow as you" then when we didn't have it they then told me it was "unacceptable" and I should know precisely what day it should be in stock. Most customers are lovely though!

MrsCooper2 · 10/04/2022 19:10

"We don't have anything here for YOU" in a clothes shop that I would never normally go into because I couldn't afford it. I was a size 16 and was only going in to buy my size 8 friend a birthday present. Shop still exists but I have never stepped foot in there since. And I bought my friend a lovely birthday present from somewhere else.

ffscovid · 10/04/2022 19:12

I worked on the checkout in a supermarket as a part-time job when I was at uni. One snooty customer once looked over at me and said, "I bet you wish you'd worked harder at school dear, don't you? It can't be much fun having to do this day in and day out".
Cheeky cow! Most of my colleagues were intelligent graduates or undergraduates and were working there because it paid well and suited, not because we were too thick to do anything else . I loved that job too!

MrsEmmelinePankhurst · 10/04/2022 19:16

Really had anything rude to me in a shot by somebody who works there, but I have worked in plenty of shops, including my own, and I have had so many customers be so horrendously rude to me… I’ve been called a cunt, threatened “I’ll rape some sense into you”, called a bitch, a liar, a “fucking tight Jewish bitch like all fucking Jewish bitches…”

I now work in an office. Much nicer.

Sapphirejane · 10/04/2022 19:26

I booked an appointment in a Bridal shop, turned up with my friends to be looked up and down and loudly told “we don’t cater for the larger bride”. I was mortified. Their website had said some of their ranges go up to a 28, I was about a 16 so didn’t think to ring and check before booking. I complained and got sent a load of guff about how they were award winning. None of my friends have used them since, so they lost 5 customers that day.

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