I've ruined someone in Aldi's Christmas!! Apparently

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Just been to Aldi to get some stuff. Went to get some smoked salmon. It was a want not a need.
I went to the chiller cabinet and opened the door to get some salmon. There was a couple standing close looking but not opening the door. I opened the door and took the last 2 packets I could see.

After I took them I heard ' why didn't you open the door before her? That's now Christmas ruined!'

They then followed me closely round the next couple of aisles saying ' we have no smoked salmon, what are we going to do?' While glaring at me!

Not my fault! Also it's an industrial park there us also a sainsbury/ lidl and m&s nearby.

Maybe I'm a horrible person but I found it quite funny!

Well that's made my Christmas 🎄 🤣

I'd have done that if they'd asked nicely. But following someone around making passive aggressive comments shouldn't be rewarded.

Oh my god 😂😂😂 what about Blini as a baby name?!

Are the staff issued Grinch costumes? And what is it about the shops being shut for one day that gets this reaction? Happy Christmas to everyone whether or not they have stuffing and smoked salmon.

Couldn't you remove the claws and dress the rest of the crab?

DH is a ditherer, if we’re going to buy something he’ll find something to stare at until a large queue forms at the till then he’ll join it, and if I had a pound for every time we’ve come home from a shopping trip and he’s said ‘I wish I’d bought that t-shirt now’ after staring at it in the shop for 20 minutes I’d be a rich woman, as it is he’s the one with more money than me because he can never seem to bring himself to spend it 🤣

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any smoked salmon " the opening sentence of Little Women for our times

Blini Balonz.

that point ive wondered because until its paid for it belongs to the store,

Is this the new mumsnet thing? If someone is dawdling around and you take the last item, the dawdler just needs to demand that item and you are expected to hand it over? 🤣🤣

I'd have given it to them, and enjoyed them looking embarrassed 😀

And this is a thread because there is only one supermarket in the whole of the Uk and no days before Christmas.

They can get it elsewhere. It's not "ruined."

If they are such wet dish-cloths they can't drive to another supermarket for the key item for their Christmas (or so it would seem) then they probably deserve it. But given they both stood looking at it through a fridge door and could summon no motivation to open it, perhaps they are that wet.

We have just had Evri dump a bundle of things at out door. Fabulous lady - and not young either - who works tirelessly to their difficult schedules. She screeched up, car full to overflowing with packages she is no doubt on a tight schedule to get delivered, leapt out, back in, off and away to the next house. If she can be managing that, why can't this couple together potter across to another supermarket? This is a case of ANIG (arse not in gear).

Hopefully they were able to get their smoked salmon elsewhere. I hope so.

I have to agree. I’d personally be sharing a pack with them.

see a business opportunity, they could have sold them one at the cost price so in theory yours is free

Would the other couple have shared? Smoked salmon is never a need!

I don't celebrate that, but I would have given them one of the packs

😂😂😂 that is PEAK Mumsnet. That would be a 1000-word thread in AIBU.

Im generally goodwill to all men but I wouldn’t have shared. If it’s for hosting, you can’t really give everyone a teeny tiny portion. I worked in supermarkets for years though so I’ve ruined many Christmases in my time.

One woman said I’d ruined her Christmas because her mum could only eat M&S brandy cream and we’d run out. She kept telling me I should have ordered more - I was 16 so did zero ordering and she’d come in an hour before we closed on Christmas Eve!!

Some people expect the moon on a stick, as others have said there’s many with much worse problems this Christmas.

All is not lost its Aldi - they probably sell fishing rods in the middle aisle 🤣

I ordered the last slice of carrot cake at a garden centre cafe today. Went and sat down started eating and then heard a raised voice saying ‘well WHO had the last piece ?? My mother is NINETY THREE! This is her Christmas outing and she wanted carrot cake ! I doubt she will be here in a year so her last Christmas has been ruined!’ The poor old lady in the wheelchair just looked confused and I felt awful 😭

The little boy offered his lunch - and in doing so meant there was more than enough to go around to feed everyone after Jesus multiplied it

Reminds me of earlier this year when I went to Morrisons to get some lamb, and an older woman just in front of me ran to the fridge first, and literally scooped every single box and loaded them into her trolley. Lamb isn't cheap, it will have cost her a fortune if she went ahead with the purchase! Or maybe she was just being spiteful and dumped them all later. I wouldn't dream of stalking her and asking her to give me a packet, however. Maybe some MH issues at play.

As for the salmon, it's just tough luck! Ask yourself if you think they'd share if the roles were reversed. Very likely not. I'd personally have told them to get lost and leave me alone.

I definitely believe in Jesus being some kind of divine being but I used to always think did he actually produce a larger quantity of food so there was genuinely enough to eat or did he hypnotically make everyone feel full and believe they all had enough 😂

If you didn't need the 2 packs OP, you could have given one to the couple