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!

I mean, good for you you got the salmon you didn't really want but the glee to have 'ruined someone's Christmas' is abit off tbh.

and the baby Jesus

I didn't say I was gleeful I'd ruined their Christmas, they were the ones that said Christmas is ruined.
It was just the way they stood there then followed us muttering loud enough about not having Salmon. Dd hid the salmon amongst our other food as she thought they might steal it.
I think xmas shopping is not the time dawdle, it's carnage out there!

Oh for heaven's sake, she didn't ruin their Christmas! Even if it was ruined, it's on them. And no one forced them to follow a total stranger round a shop muttering mutinously. That's bonkers behaviour.

Ah, I’d have given them one!

Couldn’t you have just gave them a pack ? no…….you didn’t have to, but it would have been the kind thing to do.

It would have amused me but I'd also have given them the salmon if I didn't need it , it's nice to be generous

indeed, if its on your list and you need it and its available then its there, etc

in a capitalist society and in line with good will the op could have sold it to them and then got hers free

My local lidl has frozen whole lobster 🦞

They are miserable gits if their Christmas is ‘ruined’ for the lack of salmon

What a pair of sad Sacks!

Good they don’t deserve salmon 😅

Oh well, thank goodness we are not all the same, eh! Glad to see that lots of posters would have given them a pack.

Never had an issue defrosting in the fridge myself.

I think xmas shopping is not the time dawdle, it's carnage out there!
I'm with you, OP. I sometimes look at the yellow-label shelf and wonder if I should get that only-one-left item. I do the pondering with the item in my hand!

It’s quite easy to bump into people again, in Lidl and Aldi. Did they really follow you around? 😳

Sorry, but if you leave your shopping to the 23rd Dec, you run the risk of things not being available.

OP, it is your right to buy whatever you wanted. Nobody "needs" smoked salmon, so it was a "want" for them, too.

So you can go and catch your own salmon 😆😆

How could she have got it if she sold it?

You did nothing wrong OP - they sound like the kind of people who reported their neighbours for eating a sandwich on a bench during covid. The exact kind of passive aggressive, cowardly nincompoops I cannot abide!

"Industrial Park", do you mean Retail Park?

Yes, retail park i couldn't think of the word.

I wouldnt because they sound like the sort who would say "But we need two!" and expect the OP to hand over the other one as well.

Fuck that. You snooze you lose. Tough titties.

For those suggesting she gave them one, if you are buying for a number of people you either need enough for all or none, giving half away so only half your guests get some is madness! If it wasn’t important she could have given them it all but to be honest the passive aggressive behaviour would have just annoyed me.

Have you seen the sherry trifle thread?