to not want a shop to close 10 minutes before closing time

[AuntiePickleBottom]

not a big deal, as all i wanted was odds and ends for a recipe, i know it is late but i can't sleep so was going to do some baking.

i got to the shop 11:50 but the staff closed the door (closing time 12:00

What were you thinking of baking AuntieP?

Crucial to the judging process.

Crucial.

Was it frangipani based?

just things like a choclate cake, so needed eggs. bread so needed yeast and was thinking after that maybe a steak pie which i needed margerine for the pastry

i just cleaned my oven and when i do it always get into a baking mood.

Yeah OP, don't be drip feeding us.

'I just cleaned my oven'

based on that YABU

frangipani or frangipane? Can't imagine they sell the first in the local co-op!

If they advertise that they are opened until 12, then they should stay open until 12.

I did the same thing last week. Just needed cream and the shop was closed so drove like a maniac to one 10 minutes away.

Nothing worse than making your mind up to do something and then not being able to do it.

But if you get in the door at 12, then spend ages walking around the aisles picking up your shopping, the poor people working on the tills at midnight have to wait for you to finish before they can go home to bed.

If I'm in a supermarket at closing time (at the till, paying for my stuff), it always infuriates me to see people meandering around with their full trolleys, completely ignoring the calls to go to the checkouts. It's so rude.

I was killing time recently waiting for DD to finish gymnastics so popped into New Look at about 7.45pm and was immediately pounced on and told that the shop closed in 15mins.

They still allowed people to come in after that but told them how long it was before they closed. It seemed to make more sense than closing the doors 10-15mins beforehand.

She only wanted three items. 10 minutes is plenty of time to pick up 3 items.

I used to work for a bank. Closing time was 5 pm and that's when we closed.

Invariably we had some demented person banging on the door at 1 minute past 5 wanting to do their banking.

Most days we still had at least 7 or 8 people still waiting in the queue.

As we let the customers out, more people would try to sqeeze their way in.

My comment (only to other staff members) was usually along the lines that my local supermarket wouldn't let me in 1 minute past closing time to do my grocery shopping.

I bet you got paid more, working in a bank.

Even Tesco do that, close the door to new customers about what, 15 minutes? half an hour? before they actually close. Anyone already in the shop gets served, but if you let people through the doors right up until closing time then you will actually close far later.

To be fair, if you were working so late, you wouldnt want people wandering in at ten minutes before closing. You have already got the other people in the shop to round up and get rid of.

YABU.

"She only wanted three items. 10 minutes is plenty of time to pick up 3 items."

Yes. It is. But the shop don't know who only wants 3 items and who wants to do a full shop.

Or they could say "anyone who only wants a couple of things, come in. The rest of you, sorry" but I can't see that working, can you?

So they have a blanket policy. Which is really the only thing to do.