To say nothing when I get undercharged in Morrisons?

[Poulay]

I've taken to shopping in Morrisons, rather than Waitrose, as they've (recently) got a much better selection of veg.

On one recent trip, I corrected them when my girolle mushrooms (£30/kg) were put through by the clueless till staff as king oyster (£19/kg), samphire (£12/kg) went through as chili (£5/kg), and so on.

Now, I've decided I'm saying nothing, they should know what they are selling.

Went in there today, bought some kai lan, air freighted from Thailand, supposed to be £9/kg, I had just under 400g, so £3.50 worth, I thought about using the self-scan checkout, but I decided to go through the till instead.

Waited quite a long time in the queue, then bloke looks blankly at the kai lan 'do you know what this is called?' 'er, kai lan', I say. He spends about sixty seconds scrolling through the different items before passing it through as.....

'bunch of thyme' (99p)

I smirk, say nothing, and walk out having saved about £2.60

AIBU?

Well, what you could do is steal the labels from the mushrooms, and try and get people to work out what they are in the shop.

IME they just bung them in an old spud crate, so apart from the labels, there's no identifying them.

Switching the labels round might work also, perhaps you could swap 'fresh horseradish' with 'salsify', and then mentally smirk, from a distance, when people serve up sausage and mashed horseradish for tea, instead of the mashed poncey potato substitute they'd planned.

Jolly japes a plenty.

The same thing keeps happening to me when I go shopping in Liddl.

MrChoc anyone?

I don't think you are just being unreasonable, you are clearly DISHONEST. Nothing to be proud of IMO.

I couldn't possibly say alors . The eyes, they are a watching....apparantly.

I was wondering if this was AWT? Bit bored as not much work at the mo?

Oh, to the Morrisons management, who apparently follow Mumsnet avidly, I've had my eye on the Gruner Veltliner wine for a while, but no way am I paying £15.99 for a bottle of it. Could you please put it on special?

Also please bring back the 30-year-old sherry, it seems to have vanished.

Just saw your question alors, I don't work for them dp does but not in the stores.

The OP is AWT

lol.

The Sun headline was fantastic.

"I've been Edam fool but I'll be Gouda from now on"

Naaa can't be, he'd just swipe the GV wouldn't he?

Although would he have mushroom to shove it down his pants?

My old man was a dustman.

He shopped in Morrisons, in his hob nailed boots.

He's been dead since 1972.

I've still got his cor-blimey trousers.

I'm middle aged and middle class and I've never heard of kai lan before.

But if a shop sells it they should train their staff to recognise unusual vegetables.

If they don't... dishonesty is still dishonesty. Even for posh veg snobs.

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=kai+lan&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1366&bih=653&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=42YbATSQJnHrhM:&imgrefurl=www.drawinghowtodraw.com/stepbystepdrawinglessons/2011/01/how-to-draw-kai-lan-from-ni-hao-kai-lan-on-nick-jr-drawing-lesson/&docid=PZAvkhZ11dnQrM&imgurl=www.drawinghowtodraw.com/stepbystepdrawinglessons/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kailan-300x300.png&w=300&h=300&ei=uJ8gT--fA9LC8QOS5NjFBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=499&vpy=317&dur=107&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=116&ty=120&sig=112037001723629775158&page=1&tbnh=147&tbnw=147&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kai Lan

How do you cook it?

I actually don't think it's dishonest, if the bloke says 'what is this?', I tell him, and then he can't be arsed to find it on his till, so he gives up and put it through as 'thyme'.

Would stir fry kai lan with lots of chopped garlic over a very high heat in a wok, then when it's cooked add a good few splashes of oyster sauce. And a bit of water. Same as any other Chinese green vegetable really.

Morrisons always try to rip you off by putting one bad fruit/veg in every bag, and not all their offers scan through the till. It's my nearest shop, and I almost always have to have it sorted. The customer service is also non existent.

This Morrison's is in Narnia, isn't it?

Or Mayfair?

Poulay - my question was tongue-in-cheek based on the link I had posted, but thanks for the recipe anyway.

At least, I shall know how to prepare it if I ever come cross it in Morrisons in the NW of England (No chance!)

No excuses for the check out staff not to know what they are selling.

As a teen I worked at Tesco & you had inductions, where you had to know & name all fruit/veg without looking it up.

If Tesco can do this, I am sure Morrisons can.

When I was a checkout lass if I was unsure, I'd put it through as carrots.

Probably wrong of course, but I was 16, it was a saturday job and I didn't really give a stuff.

YANBU OP in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter... so long as you're on the winning side.

Asda charged me £8.50 for a loaf of bread once, didn't notice til I got home. Balance is restored.

It's long stem broccoli ffs.

Was charged £26 for a lemon by See Woo. They put it through as a whole crate.

You are 29 but your dad died in 1972?