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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Blimey, just come back to this one.

Getorf you is busted!

Didn't Gateway turn into International and/or Summerfield?

Ahem. I think I can help here. International came first, followed by Gateway, followed by Somerfield, in various manifestations and takeovers.

I quite like Somerfield

I was in Waitrose (I'm not posh btw) trying to decide what meat to buy as part of their essential winter meal deal (meat + 2 veg = £5 offer) when the lady behind me enquired to the ever so polite shelf stacker if it was just "Waitrose essential meat" that was on offer because she didn't do "Waitrose essential meat"

Thanks Ariel. I quite like Somerfield too Are you the CEO btw? You might want to have a word with GetOrf...........

I was just drafting a letter to a solicitor actually

Excuse me Neribi that's a partner you're talkin about there!

I just don't go to the right places to shop ....

An elderly man followed me around asda once kissing my 4 year old on the hands and cheeks. I kept telling him to stop, he'd walk off and the same thing in the next aisle. I was looking on the shelves, turned around and caught him doing it again. So I whacked him with my hovis. If he wasn't old i would of punched him. He did it 5 times!

I've seen a few domestics in Morrisons in Byker. And quite a few shoplifters being chased.

I stopped shopping there ages ago because it is cramped and people are generally angry and I kept bumping into kids from school.

2 miles up the road and Sainsbury is like a different world. Everyone is polite, the staff are helpful and the aisles are wide enough that no one gets hemmed in.

This thread has really made me laugh. Thanks so much, I'm having a crap month day and thus has helped!

In Asda (hangs head and wonders if I will ever overcome the shame..) I was at the reduced section looking for a bargain whilst the girls were trying to mark stuff down. They asked if everyone could move back for a moment to give them a chance to get the stuff on the shelf quick. A complete arsehole of a man started getting lippy, telling them to hurry up. When they asked him to be patient, he got really abusive and said he was the customer, therefore he was right, so go get the manager so he could complain. I'd had about 3 hrs sleep the night before so stuck my nose in and told him to go get the manager himself because I'd just witnessed him being a total prick and abusive to the staff. Then I realised how foolish it was to get lippy with a man when I had to small children in a double pram and could hardly make a quick getaway...

Just before Christmas I had to go into Sainsbury's as my DD wanted a couple of small items. (Normally I shop in Waitrose, dahling, where they're all lovely.) Had to wait in a queue for ages with two items, and then just as the woman in front had finished shopping and was about to pay with her card, she turned around at me and asked me NOT TO STAND SO CLOSE. I moved away, muttering under my breath (as you do) and then she told me, again very aggressively, that I hadn't moved far away and could still see her PIN. At that point I got huffy, swore at her, and said "I'm not staying around to be treated like a common criminal" and walked off leaving my items behind. Afterwards I thought of a dozen ways I could have handled the situation better, but at the time I was really taken aback. I mean, I was just standing in the queue minding my own business - what sort of person goes round accusing others of trying to read their PIN number?

There is regular fighting and arguments, but the worst thing that ever happened in our ASDA was a visit from Peter Andre. I still haven't fully recovered.

In co-op I accidentally touched someone standing right next to me in a crowded idle. They gave me a really filthy look and I thought they may have been recovering from an injury or something given the response, so I immediately said "oh I'm sorry". They scowled at me and said "no you're not!" I politely replied "no you're right. I WAS sorry but given your attitude I don't think I really am." We stalked away from each other and avoided each other after that!

Headfirst, you poor bugger! I'd sue them for distress and compensation for the counselling you'll need to get over this terror.

Oh my god chickens that's really bad!

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

Indeed.

I rubbed my hands with glee when my student-time employer's business got closed down because she was a slave-driving twat who paid £2 an hour whilst she swanned off in her brand-new Porsche every day

I do kind of see the point made about the skittles

I mean if the tins were battered they are less likely to sell right? Therefore it is a loss to the supermarket.

And I guess lots of small losses add up to one huge loss eventually.

When I worked in the supermarket while a student there were regular food fights behind the scenes. My Asda uniform baseball cap was frequently tomato splatted.

at Headfirst.

I stupidly went to Waitrose the week before Christmas - car park is for town as well, and it's heaving at the best of times - before Christmas it's total mayhem.

There was a huge queue to go into the carpark, so I drove in , saw the madness of the queues, hundreds of cars circling for a space and decided to give up and go home. I went the back way out of the car park, and happened to catch someone reversing out of their space, so nipped in quick. Nobody was waiting for it but me, but there was a HUGE queue on the other side of the one way bit.

One old fucker wound down his window, called me an entitled bitch, who the fuck did I think I was, even called me a cunt! - as he was spewing this abuse at me he wasn't really looking where he was going and drove straight into the car in front of him

Felt sorry for the other person, but was at the old twat. Serves him right. I grinned and waved at him as I walked past his broken car

Lol at funnys.

Yes, Gateway (I still remember their advert jingle and say it to (bemused) DD sometimes in a moment of crisis averted: "thank GOODNESS for Gateway!") Turned into Scummerfields and they were taken over by COop, who sell DISGUSTING food at robbery prices.

Luckily I live in a city near all the supermarkets so if I am feeling delicate I can avoid the rougharse ones (morrisons or the big filthy tesco). The asda round here is strangely all right.

Yes it was stupid re the skittles.

I was a very stupid 14 year old.

I didn't do it all the time, honest guv.

I hate Co-op. I hope to never shop at a Co-op again.

I hate them because they were the only grocery store in mid-Argyll and they charged astronomical prices. They're often the only shops in towns in the Western Highlands. What particularly annoyed me was all that fucking talk about Fair Trade this and that. Then they gouge the local community.

And the same lorries that deliver to mid-Argyll go on up to Oban, where their prices are a bit more reasonable because they have Tesco, Aldi, and Lidle to compete against.