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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Bit like a thistle I think.

Not me but my DF (father not fiance) on Christmas Eve a couple of years ago. Not really a fight either. In Tesco, he got the last pack of black and white pudding from the fridge. Posh lady beside him said "Oh dear is that the last one" and he said "Yes". Both went on their separate ways.

A couple of aisles later he found large individual black and white puddings. He spotted the posh lady at the end of the aisle, and picked up one of each, went over to her, and said "There you are love".

She looked at him blankly.

It wasn't the same woman.

And he'd just handed her two very penis shaped items of food.

My mum said they have never finished their shopping so quick in their lives, she was watching out for the police all the time they were at the checkout.

The Sainsbury's I worked in was rough. It was smack bang in the middle of studentsville in Manchester. One sunday this bloke went behind the butchers counter, took a cleaver and ran round the aisles slashing at customers and staff. He was going berserk. Trying to avoid him was the single scariest moment of my life. He got to customer services where my friend was cowering behind the counter and started hacking the desk up. It was like something out of a horror film. So much blood. :( Some customers and staff started throwing cans at him and knocked him clean out. 5 people sat on top of him and could barely restrain him.

Fucking hell

Damn!

At my local Sainsburys there's a checkout operator who I always avoid if in a hurry. A lot of the older generation seem to love her so they choose her on purpose. She's always looking up and waving at regulars and seems to know a lot of them. She chats away without a care in the world scanning the shopping at a snails pace so she gets to finish whatever story she's rambling on about.

One time I was queuing at the checkout next to hers and could hear her usual "my son this, my husband that, ooh these crisps look lovely" type thing when the man behind her current customer asked her to get a move on. The customer who was packing his shopping away leapt to her defence and argued back that they'd take as long as they liked thanks. Much tutting and moaning from both of them and then all of a sudden the one who was in front turned around and grabbed the waiting customer by his collar and told him not to be so rude. Both had their wives with them who were trying to call them away "just leave it Don" while checkout woman still carried on trying to chat with first customer . She was still shouting after him when serving the now terrified looking bloke who started it "see you next week, take care" and smiling and waving. It was like she was completely oblivious to what had just happened.

We were in Marks and Spencer's once and my Gran noticed a woman beating her kid up in the fruit and veg aisle (This was about twenty years ago when stuff like that was more common) My Gran took exception to this and went over to have a word. This quickly escalated into my Gran slapping the kiddybeater around the face and then all of us running in case she / security came after us. Not bad for a 75 year old.

I was in M&S Foodhall between Christmas and New Year. It was heaving - wall to wall trollies. I'd stopped to let a woman on a mobility scooter coming towards me turn down one of the aisles. The woman behind me shoved her trolley straight into me, pulled it back and did it again. Not so subtle hint to move. She then tried to push past me. I told her I'd stopped to let the mobility scooter through but once it hadI'd happily let her past too as she was clearly terribly important and there must be some sort of urgent emergency to necessitate her pushing me out of the way. She had the good grace to turn puce and wait her turn.

GetOrf
I once was told off for playing skittles in a supermarket aisle (Gateways).

We arranged 9 cans of beans at one end, and went down the other end and rolled one of those big tins of chappie. It was great fun.

But then they told us off and we ran away.

Seriously? I can't see how that's funny to be honest.

I worked in a supermarket as a student. The amount of money the store lost in a week due to wastage/damaged products was awful.

The store was really struggling and peoples hours were cut down dramatically. When you are working for minimum wage you need as many hours as you can get.

And you think it's fine to deliberately damage products because "it was great fun"

Maybe think of the bigger picture next time.

I have been the perpetrator of supermarket rage once. I was getting frustrated with people getting in my way. The shop was busy and people just kept dawdling down the middle of the aisle, stopping dead in front of me etc... Anyway I just saw red at this woman who was strolling down the middle of the aisle in the way. I just barged my way past her and kept going and as I did hit her hand with the trolley. I have to say I felt awful afterwards and thoroughly ashamed of myself.

bupcakes no must have been a different hormonal woman you were fighting with mine was in the carpark as I was leaving with some man starting on me in front of his children nice but put him back in his box bald headed twatbag that he was

Crinkle thats awful. Did you apologise? There is absolutely nothing worthy of being the cause of that. For the life of me I don't understand why people go shopping at busy times if they hate it.

I called a man a stupid tosser in Tescos after he had nearly run us over in the car park. I was extremely cross.

Brunocat love the story about your gran. Reminds me of the time my sister was trying to teach her teenage sons how despicable swearing is. They weren't interested and after a frustrating ten minutes of them ignoring she just said 'I might aswell shut the fuck up as they don't fucking listen anyway '.

I've got one from my DH and one of mine

My DH had gone to tesco's and parkedin the p&c space at which point a mum in another car went bonkers ' it's a P&c space you dippy fucker ! What gives you the right ' etc etc ... She had the good grace to go very red when DH calmly got out pointed to our DS in his car seat and ' that gives me the right DADS are allowed to park here too '

My one was odd at best, walking through a different branch of tescos with a basket on my arm when some mad old dear pipes up ' oh yeah ! You're all fucking right eh ? With your little basket and your big tits !' I was .... Dumbfounded !!!

Be careful out there people - this is how it could end.

bupcakes "fuck off chunk" - priceless !!!!

"GetOrf
I once was told off for playing skittles in a supermarket aisle (Gateways).

We arranged 9 cans of beans at one end, and went down the other end and rolled one of those big tins of chappie. It was great fun.

But then they told us off and we ran away.

Seriously? I can't see how that's funny to be honest.

I worked in a supermarket as a student. The amount of money the store lost in a week due to wastage/damaged products was awful.

The store was really struggling and peoples hours were cut down dramatically. When you are working for minimum wage you need as many hours as you can get.

And you think it's fine to deliberately damage products because "it was great fun"

Maybe think of the bigger picture next time."

Consider yourself told, GetOrf.

The CEO of supermarkets is PISSED OFF with YOU.

I just wondered it Getorf ever won the tin of chappie and what a disappointment it would be.

That post made me snurk too Bupcakes

Jeeeez I know. Only on MN could someone be pissed off with someone for something done in youthful foolishness (unless it was last week Getorf, in which case I am with the CEO)

That poster has a weird obsession with supermarkets anyway, as she's just started a thread about people eating stuff before paying.

lol, there is a veritable rash of supermarket threads at the mo. I'm so gald we don't have an Asda...........

We're you a student quite recently Hint because I used to work in McDonalds years ago and they certainly don't still have a place in my heart

Ah, isnt that sweet scarletfinernail, a bit of old fashioned customer chatting like ye old days of the little shops....how sweet, somewher the old folk can have a chat and catch up.

Lolol at that post. Bless. Bigger picture indeed.

WHO works for a supermarket as a student and wrings their hands over a few battered tins.

ACTUALLY FUCK perhaps I was partially responsible for the demise of Gateways.

There wasn't much to do in Ilfracombe in the late 80s. Supermarket skittles was a highlight.

Didn't Gateway turn into International and/or Summerfield? I'm sure it wasn't entirely your fault GetOrf, although for an ailing company events like that can be the straw, I mean look at Blockbuster. One overdue DVD and the whole thing came crashing down...........