AIBU?
To be annoyed with the check out man at Sainsburys?
LadyOfTheManor · 23/05/2011 17:13
I went into Sainsburys this afternoon as I had a scan due and was killing time without stopping long enough to pee. I picked up some organic snacks, a few tins of soup and a punnet of cherries and 2 loose peaches in a bag.
I got to the til, and there was a man serving. He said;
"Do you need bags?"
I said; "Yes please".
And he gave me one. I then said;
"Can I have another one so I can bag my fruit separately from the tins?"
To this, he glared at me, tutted, looked from me back to the few items I had, shook his head and said;
"The poor environment" and slammed one down.
Now, as far as I'm aware the bags are free and I'm entitled to them. It isn't compulsory for me to take my own bags in (which in all fairness I usually do for a planned shop, which this was not). But I feel that it is none of his damn business how many bags I need, as they are not being paid for out of his own personal packet. I may be hormonal, but is it the job of a shop worker to tell me about the state of the environment?
Folk · 23/05/2011 17:20
DH got tutted at by a female checkout assistant last week for needing an extra bag (he had taken several with him)...."typical man - not thinking of the environment" 
...i couldn't help but think that a few years ago she wouldn't have given a shit...
...which makes me wonder if they get 'capped' by the supermarkets these days like in the Triffids 
madamehooch · 23/05/2011 17:20
Are you the customer who I served the other day - laughed when I asked her if she needed a bag for her book and said to me "How on earth do you expect me to carry it. It really annoys me when YOU shop assistants ask me if I need a bag!"
On the other hand, the shop assistant you had seemed very rude but maybe he had served my customer before you.
If I had another hand though, why should it not be the job of a 'shop worker' to tell you about the state of the environment. We do know an awful lot about carrier bags after all!
LadyOfTheManor · 23/05/2011 17:22
Well MadameHooch, without causing offence, I do not shop in a supermarket to be given a lesson by whomever is working on the till. I'm usually good at asking for advice and I can't help thinking if I wanted his tuppence worth on the environment, I'd probably have asked for it.
to be honest if I hadn't had a baby bouncing on my bladder, I probably would have questioned him about it.
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Folk · 23/05/2011 17:29
Shop workers are the lowest of the low to some folk - i have worked in our local village shop for two years (don't any more) - and people think they can talk to you like shit on their shoe....so i do know where you are coming from madame.
But i never got judgy about carrier bags that people needed (marvellous happy shopper ones in my case) - i never felt it was up to me to do so...
madamehooch · 23/05/2011 17:30
See previous threads where people complain when shop assistants have no interaction with customers. I did concede that he was being rude but no, it is not all shop assistants' jobs to 'scan things and take money.'
Anyway, I'm getting vertigo from standing on my soapbox too long! I hope baby doesn't keep up the trampolining on your bladder. I remember that feeling all too well.
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