To love a good supermarket scrap thread?

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There have been some good ones this week, what with the snow turning everyone rabid and that.

Tell Aunty Bupcakes your best supermarket scrap threads. I loves 'em I do.

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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha hahaha! Cyborg your DH sounds like a winner!

He is! Although I was very glad the bloke didn't follow him.

I think I might start stalking the aisles of asda when I have pmt-induced rage so I can quite righteously let out my inner fishwife.

Am also loving the retro remembering. When I first moved out of home I did all my shopping in kwiksave. For about a fiver a week, some beans like bullets, cheapest bread and a couple of admiral pies. And cider. Which back in the nineties wasn't the nice, different flavored ones you get now. In fact I couldn't get a pint on tap anywhere outside of devon.

worked on the cheese counter in tesco when I was a student - we had regular customers who were lovely and had the same items each week, and those we would try to avoid like the plague - washing up instead of pressing the button for their turn to come up. why are some people so horrid all the time? some would moan and groan about something being 1/2 an ounce off, too much, not enough, cant you open a fresh one etc

some would mispronounce things "cheese with cheeves (chives)" and even qwitch! and customers had their nicknames - the cheeves man, the qwitch man etc

ah, memory lane!

but once when we were really busy someone hastily whispered over the counter "call security dear" - turned out another lady had accidentally bumped someone with her trolley, immediately apologiesed, but the bumpee had taken a baguette out of her trolley and started hitting bumper on the head with it - she was too embarrassed to get me to do anything about it though!

I was told I was "too overdressed for the supermarket" in Safeway WTF?

I have remembered one from years ago. It was a couple of weeks after my ex DH had left me, and I was still a wreck, I had a really bad cough and cold, hadn't been sleeping, but finally realised I had no food and needed to go to the supermarket. first time I had left the house.

I made it round Sainsburys and was putting my food on the conveyor when I coughed. The posh man in front turned around and said "how disgusting, you shouldn't cough on people's food." I said "I had my hand in front of my mouth and turned away, so it wasn't on your food". He said "Its still disgusting, you shouldn't leave the house if you are that ill"

This opened the flood gates and the poor man had me sobbing, shouting and screaming at him about how dare he speak to me like that, my husband leaving, my being by myself and the fact that all men are bastards. A very sympathetic manager gave me a cup of tea in his office then sent me home in a taxi.

That's tragic for you, but the man was a prick. Deserved.

LOL at "cheeves" and "qwitch"

What are these Admiral Pies that everyone is going on aboot?

bups you left Normans out of your list (sorry I can't find a photo ), it was the first supermarket where I grew up, when Safeways arrived people were actually excited

'You're very rude, I was doing a number 2' < this is class right there!!

Baby seepage trumps number 2 headline...

Thanks for the squashed cake bups

My favourite supermarket experience was this time last year, at the height of orange season. I was in Booths (Lancashire version of waitrose) staring at the baffling numbers of oranges that were on display, while working out whether I could finish my shop before throwing up (morning sickness) or whether to abandon my trolley and be sick straight away. The lady next to me turned to me and said, "there's no decision to be made dear, you want these ones, they're delicious" and plonked two bags of blood oranges in my trolley before walking off. I made it through the rest of my shop chuckling to myself. When I got to the checkout she was at the next till along. She came over to check that they were still in my trolley because she couldn't see them!!

She was right, they were delicious

I also wee'd a bit at "I was doing a number 2" Jeeeez, I can't believe that people shit in Waitrose...

Oooh I don't know Normans! This is exciting! I love defunct shops.

Who remembers Tandy, Rumbelows and Olympic?

I was in a checkout queue once and an old woman behind me with a real catsbum face was practically shunting me along and everytime l moved away a couple of inches shuffled up to me again. She was actually touching me she was so close I have real space awareness issues it is one of my pet hates anyway.
So when l had put my shopping down the chute and stood at the end catching it and bagging it she followed me down and was tutting at every word l dared say to checkout operator even though we werent interrupting proceedings in any way iyswim.
When l had finished and wanted to pay, l had to reach the card reader but as my new found friend had moved up so close to me she had to back up (cue much more tutting) so l could reach. She moved up as little as possible - the others in the queue were waiting on the other side of the till parallel with their shopping on the belt as you should do so she had plenty of room to move back to stand in front of the 'polite' people.
I'd had quite enough at this point and as it seemed she thought she was going to stand with me in front of the card reader and watch the whole transaction shoulder to shoulder with me.
I just said to her very loudly 'Do you mind?' and started ushering her back away from me. She said something like 'Well get on with it then !' to which l replied 'Only when you move back and for future reference behaviour like yours will only make me go as slow as possible - OK !'
In the end the cashier intervened and told her to move back and she started saying stuff like 'I'm not gonna rob your bank account love' and stupid stuff like that.
But she shot herself in the foot when she then tried to rally the open mouthed queue behind her by saying ' Well you're holding all these people up'
The couple behind her told her in no uncertain terms that they didnt agree and it was her that was the problem.
This was an extreme example but l have had similiar happen to me before at checkouts (l am usually super efficient) and l always fanny about as much as possible just to piss them off tbh.

Bugger all those, I miss SupaScoopa :(

We used to have Savacentre!

DURRRR I should have posted this in here. I regaled folk on another thread with it the other day....

In Asda (oh yes) I was just standing, looking at the bread. I was stood right up by the shelf so not in the way of anyone. Suddenly, this woman comes round the corner like a bull in a china shop screeching "EXCUSE ME, COMING THROUGH" I ignored as like I say, I was stood to the side of the aisle so she can't have meant me, right? Then I heard her bellow "DON'T ALL MOVE AT ONCE WILL YOU????" and when I looked up from my packet of Soreen, she was glaring at me. I laughed at her and said something like "Wind your neck in, you silly cow!" She went purple and said "DON'T CALL ME A SILLY COW DO I LOOK LIKE A COW????" I looked her up and down then laughed at her, before returning to my malt loaf. People were laughing at her. She was embarrassed so she started going "Hurrrr look at the state of YOU" I looked marvellous though. I just ignored her so she was ranting to herself whilst people just stared at her.

She had a child in the trolley too.

Just for Bups

" my gf was already heartbroken over the suggestion she eats kebabs but being told to giddy of home and get a fucking grip by CS was just a step too far ..."

There is no Farm Foods on that Wiki entry, Amandine

Remember Budgens? Rubbish, but had pretensions?

I'd forgotten about this one: When I was a scruffy be-Afro'ed post-grad student I was shopping for a (rare) dinner party and choosing figs. I noticed a woman standing glaring at me-really glaring, as if I'd just flobbed on her cardigan. I looked. She barked "You do realise they cost THAT [jabs at price label] each? I said 'Yeee-ees?' as contemptuously as I could (think Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey). She shouted at me for a bit then wandered off. Who gets angry at other people buying figs, for heaven's sake?

There is! There is! It's under the list of current UK supermarkets

They even have their own entry:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmfoods

Will you be punching a humble pie now bups?

Budgens is great in our village. It caters well for the elderly with the Cook range of ready meals. We support it rather than use the new Coop or the Tesco Express.

She wants an Admiral Pie AFAIR, although she probably only wants to squash it.