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

[Boxingshibes]

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!

Tough titties 🤣 I've not heard that expression for years lol love it haha

What am I reading

Agog and aghast at these last minute ‘critical’ purchases being reported

Essentials for Christmas Day has been in the freezer since late November early December including MnS yellow stickers salmon, party food nibbles. Turkey crown and ham joint and all trimmings. All frozen veg just in case we ill to go to shop but DH bought all fresh fruit and veg yesterday at 6am

We have had a rough couple of months nothing bad illness/a death could ruin Christmas for us

Never let Salmon/Chipolatas have so much power over you

A relative of mine ruined someone’s Easter. A woman left buying her children’s Easter eggs until late on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. She complained to my relative that the chocolate eggs she wanted were sold out- shock. She demanded my relative go and get the ‘hidden’ eggs from the back.
The woman then came to the till with some Easter baskets, chicks and small chocolate eggs. She looked my relative in the eye and said ‘ well this is all my dcs will get for Easter, thanks to you!’
Unbelieveable.

I would have been v entertained!

There is something satisfying about getting the last of something, not to be mean to other people, but the joy of not having to slog round different shops looking for it. Happened to me a couple of times yesterday

If people leaving shit to the last minute because they are busy / a bit shit at organisation leaves you aghast I think you need to get out more

Personally I normally get it all online but failed in a hectic work year so went out yesterday, it was quite hunter-gathery, I qu enjoyed it.

Never let Salmon/Chipolatas have so much power over you
Lols.

That should be a cracker motto.

Agog and aghast at these last minute ‘critical’ purchases being reported

Agog and aghast at last minute Christmas purchases?

You must live life in a permanent state of astonishment and wonder. In a way I'm kind of jealous.

This just makes me think of that scene in Christmas with the Kranks and the wretched ham.
@drivinmecrazythey sell frozen lobster at supermarkets??

It was many years ago now, but I worked in M&S Foodhall. Christmas Eve happened to be on a Sunday, so limited trading hours, the shop doors were practically ram raided at 10, queues 8 deep at the tills at 10.30, arguments about why couldn't we open the tills earlier, it was bloody chaos.

I've never known a shift go as quick.

At 4.00pm managers were posted on the shop doors very clearly giving instructions about 30 minutes until closing. Tannoys at 4, 4.15, 4.20, 4.25. Doors locked at 4.30. Tills closed, cashed up etc. 20 minutes after closing there was a family hammering on the doors, pissed as farts, yelling at us to open the shop "We need to do our shopping, we've not got a turkey or anything!!!"

They wrote and complained about the store...

And that’s what happens when you leave your Christmas food shop till just before Christmas!!! We’ve had this too one year - I’ll never forget the sprout hunt round our way of 2015!!!! 4 different supermarkets until we found a bag…. The joys. Little green balls of fart but got to have them, even if the kids won’t eat them!

Years ago I ruined someone’s Christmas by selling out of glitter balls. This was the late 90s, pre internet shopping.

I worked in a nice little independent interiors store. We put our Christmas decorations out at the beginning of November. One thing we had in our window was a proper glitter ball. 🪩 We just had one as it was expensive.
We were just locking up one evening when a turned up and started rattling the door. We were all stood outside with our coats and bags. She demanded that we open up and sell her the glitter ball. We refused. The till had been cashed up, the card machine totalled and the alarms had been set. Selling the glitter ball would mean more than just handing it over. It would mean getting the ladder to get it down. Going to the upstairs stock room to get the box. No. We were shut. She was advised to come back tomorrow at 10 when we opened or she could call in the morning and we could take payment over the phone.

The next day, nothing all day. The day after someone came in and bought it. The day after that she turned up. We explained that it had been sold and we only had the one. She argued that she had tried to buy it but we wouldn’t let her. She then actually stamped her foot and said, ‘well what am I going to do? That is Christmas ruined.’

I can’t be anymore agog at the serious responses and ‘advice’

But I pass two MnS garages on the way home and will check for any last minutes stuff but be rest assured my Xmas will not be ruined if I come away empty handed

Promise you would not say that if you knew the other things I stress about

Anyway in all seriousness I do this because one year we were all ill with flu abs got caught out so I get it all in ahead of time frozen so we have a full dinner just in case.

But also as I’ve succumbed more to peri tendencies this past couple of years I don’t think me and Christmas food shopping is a good idea - public service me staying away

…or they’re just a couple of faffers 🤷🏼‍♀️ who has time, in a supermarket, at Christmas to wonder if a couple of ditherers have a poorly relative in hospital?

' Oh for Heavens Sake'.

I quoted her own post. I never said she did.

All this huffing and tutting at people leaving their shopping until the last minute don't realise how privileged they are. Maybe people work shifts. Many don't get paid until the 23rd or 24th and so does not have any option but to wait until they paid.

Count your blessings, but this smug attitude and looking down on others are awful attributes. There are children in these families too. Have some heart fgs!

Fair dos, my bad.

if we are discussing the same smoked salmon our aldi had some in stock today @Boxingshibes

….who needs smoked salmon anyway

…I mean on a Christmas Day dinner

What is wrong with those people?

They sound as irrational as the supermarket customers who rant at the delivery driver about missing items from their online orders.

Many years ago I was in an M&S homeware store and noticed a very heavily discounted pair of ready-made curtains on the shelf. All packaged as normal and wrapped in cellophane. A huge reduction sticker to just 20% of their original price. I'd just moved into to my first flat, (with vast uncurtained windows), so eagerly picked them up, checked the size and moved towards the tills with them.

A very flustered shopper rushed up to me and shouted that I'd taken her curtains! She said they belonged to her and that I couldn't buy them and had to put them back! I was very confused but continued holding the curtains because they were the last pair and such a great price and far better quality than I could usually afford.

She said she'd bought them at a higher price, then noticed the sale had reduced further, so returned them unopened to Customer Services. She'd been waiting for the store assistant to put the reduced price sticker on and put them back on the shelf so she could buy them again at the new lower price. She said, by taking them, I'd ruined her newly decorated living room!

I apologised but said the curtains had just been on the shelf as normal. She continued to to rail at me about this in front of everyone in the queue, eventually fetching a store assistant, hoping they would make me hand the curtains over. Fortunately the assistant agreed that I had picked the curtains up in good faith and was entitled to buy them if I wished. I did wish and bought the curtains!

I was young at the time and rather embarrassed and unsettled by this encounter though. If the other shopper hadn't been quite as aggressive, maybe I'd have handed them over!

I think I would have done the same. I can understand her initial fluster - she would no doubt have been mortified to see her curtains being snapped up by another shopper. But if she'd then calmed down, explained, and asked politely if I wouldn't mind letting her have them, I'd probably have handed them over. Being berated at in public doesn't dispose me to agreeing to someone's demands.