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To love a good supermarket scrap thread?

371 replies

BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 11:32

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.

Brew and Biscuit

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BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 18:30

Honestly, I could not get myself lathered up about supermarket losing a few pee in tins dented by GetOrf's ogre feet. Really. It's sticking to the man

Get this and tell me what an atrocious cunt I am. When I was younger, I used to punch cakes in supermarkets just so they couldn't sell them. The expensive ones in the fridge. I used to punch them right in their stupid sponge faces. And then I'd saunter over to the deli counter, order ten cocktailsausages and then eat them on my way round before blithely tossing the wrapper on a shelf.

I am a renegade master.

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cocolepew · 21/01/2013 18:33

I was parking in our shopping centers carpark, DD was just a baby and had been in hospital for a week. I was out for the first time to get more nappies. An elderly man suddenly ran after me waving a walking stick, saying I had taken his place. I said there had been no car near me. He said that because he was disabled he was allowed to park where he wanted when there was no disabled parking spots left and he wanted that one Hmm.
I told him to fuck away off and continued on, then he whacked me with his stick a,couple of times. So I snatched it of him, threw it across the carpark and ran away.

I also refused to let a woman go any further up the aisle in Tesco, by standing in front of her etrolley. She had been screaming at her small DD the whole way round and I saw her pull her hair. She seemed very pleased with herself, and kept looking around to see who was watching.Another woman came over and we decided to phone the police on her. Didn't half wipe the smirk of her face.

cocolepew · 21/01/2013 18:40

Oh and I witnessed a brilliant fight in Homebase. Two very posh women fighting over the last roll of Laura Ashley wallpaper. It started off with words, progressed onto pulling the roll back and forth and ended with one hitting the other with it. Me, DD and a man watching, were like this Shock Grin.
The security guard came and ended up manhandling the hitter out of the store, all the while she was screaming don't you know who I am?". Nobody did.

Then we saw her half an hour later in M &S yelling at a worker there. Of course she started the don't you know......etc again. Turns out she was a councillor Hmm

TandB · 21/01/2013 18:44

marriedinwhite - I too have had an incident in the Waitrose in Putney!

I was queuing for the basket-only tills - 2 pairs of tills and one central queue as you probably know. It was a long queue - about a dozen people waiting - and it would have been a little tricky to miss it.

I was about halfway down the queue and there were two women in front of me with babies in buggies. I was heavily, visibly pregnant at the time. A man, probably in his 60s, wandered down from the back of the queue and re-inserted himself into the queue in front of the first of the two buggy women. The three of us looked at each other with our mouths open and then I turned round to look at the people behind me, all of whom were making "what the actual fuck?" gestures.

The first lady tapped him on the shoulder and said "Excuse me. You appear to have jumped the queue." At which point he went absolutely ballistic - in a terribly posh way - and started shouting "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I'm not as important as you because I'm not a mother, because I don't have a baby. I'll just go to the back of the queue then, shall I, shall I?" The entire queue looked at each other again and went "Yes, yes, that sounds like a good idea. Excellent. Thanks for that" and words to that effect.

So he stormed off to the back of the queue and started another row because he tried to reclaim his original place in the queue which was now longer than it had been when he tried to queue jump. While still yelling about him not being as entitled as mothers.

The daft thing was, all of us agreed that if he'd just asked, we'd probably have let him go in front as he only had a couple of things.

puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 21/01/2013 18:50

No way Manic I was just saying how I had never seen a supermarket fight even though I shopped at Byker morrishop. Must be the days of the week Grin

marriedinwhite · 21/01/2013 18:57

Tis the shop from hell Kungfu. The one in Wandsworth is lovely though.

turkeyboots · 21/01/2013 19:13

I was the crazy lady once. In Somerfield as the student I slapped now DHs hand away from the steak and said in a firm voice "no".

Except it wasn't DH, it was a mortified looking middle aged man. I went luxe, gabbled apolgies and ran away.

turkeyboots · 21/01/2013 19:13

Luxe? Puce!

ShiftyFades · 21/01/2013 19:39

I had a "vocal exchange" in Sains near Christmas 2011.

DS and I had done our shopping, everything was bagged and packed in our trolley, on our way out I noticed a trolley asking for "gifts for kids".
Now the thought of a child waking up nothing from Santa on Christmas Day breaks my heart so DS and I went back in the store to the toy aisle and chose 2 toys.

As we were only buying 2 items I went to the basket aisle.

Firstly an elderly man chose to ignore us in the queue and stood in front of us. I politely told him we were in the queue, he grumbled and stood behind us.
Then all hell broke loose... A 2nd elderly man came along with his basket (containing lots of items) and stood in front of us.
So I politely told him there was a queue.
He replied "but you've got a trolley"
I said "we've already bought all the stuff in the trolley, we are queuing to buy these 2 items in my hands"

Repeat above exchange 5 times.

I was fuming but the lovely lady in front of us handed me a basket, saying "here, pop them in this".

So I did and the old twat man went to the back of the queue.

I still had a trolley of Pre-purchased items but because my 2 to-be-paid-for items were no longer in my hand an were in a basket he seemed satisfied.

Oh the things I muttered under my breath loudly ... "You try and do a good deed", "yes DS we are ONLY buying 2 toys for the children who won't get anything for Christmas" etc etc.

Oh I'm all angry again!! Grin

GetOrf · 21/01/2013 19:40

bups I wished I had known you at school re the cake punching. Christ we would have had fun in Kwik Save. Played polo with some baguettes and mini baby bels whilst scooting on a trolley, frisbee some flans. Grin

BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 19:42

Oh no, this wasn't when I was at school. I was about 21.

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GetOrf · 21/01/2013 19:42

I am astonished that a Waitrose in Putney would be awful.

mind you, you would think that a Tesco in Cheltenham would be refained. It is not.

We now have a whole foods market in Cheltenham, it makes Waitrose look like a scabby corner shop. It's amazing. But bloody hell the prices of stuff.

GetOrf · 21/01/2013 19:43

Hahaha you utter twat. Grin

I would deeply love to punch a cake right now. It must be so satisfying.

ThedementedPenguin · 21/01/2013 19:47

These are brilliant. I must live a VERY sheltered life!

marriedinwhite · 21/01/2013 19:51

Have you ever been to Putney Getorf? The high street's awful - little quality and no heart.

Not brilliant for shopping but the buses get you to the Kings Road in no time Grin.

teamboleyn · 21/01/2013 19:51

I was buying my lunch in M & S, one sandwich, and stood in the 5 items or less queue and i noticed the woman in front had about 12 items, I felt a bit pissed off as I only had half an hour for my lunch and she clearly was a lady of leisure. I tapped her on the shoulder and pointed out that she had too many items for the queue. She just turned her nose up at me and said 'well I'm here now' When bought my sandwich I passed her paying the assisstant and said loudly 'you'd better check that money, that snooty cow clearly can't count' Blush

BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 19:51

The best ones were the gateaus. You could give them a real bunch of fives. They were always in a thinplastic casing rather than cardboard so it was abit more of a challenge.

God I am a cunt.

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Loislane78 · 21/01/2013 19:53

Was in Sainsburys before Xmas getting items for a regular shop plus a few nice things to take to PIL for Xmas. Among other things we had Bisto and some bottles of champagne.

DP is loading the conveyor belt when this uber posh woman and her husband in front said "champagne AND Bisto, hope you're not going to drink them together hahaha, you do know you can make gravy from the meat juices?". Shock

Errrr WTF has it got to do with you lady how I take my Bisto and Champagne! Yes I do know how to make gravy but maybe I haven't got any meat and it's not juicy and maybe I'm busy pissed on my nice Chamagne

DP was too stunned to say anything; we agreed later we should have asked why she wasn't shopping in Waitrose Grin

GetOrf · 21/01/2013 20:07

I always thought that Putney must be rather nice and smart (based almost entirely on the fact that Jilly Cooper used to live there, and Jimmy Goldsmith 'out out out' Grin)

GetOrf · 21/01/2013 20:08

I am still laughing at the image of you in your 20s walking down the aisle and sneakily punching cakes and dashing off. Grin

NicholasTeakozy · 21/01/2013 20:15

After finding I wouldn't be able to get a word in, I calmly said "Fuck off, chunk" then advised her husband to go to the pet aisle and buy his mrs a muzzle. She was like this Angry

Bups, you're a star. :o

This thread has reminded me why I avoid Morrisons.

RandallPinkFloyd · 21/01/2013 20:15

buppers I had no idea you were such an anarchist Shock

BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 20:25

I am fucking ROCK, me.

If you're made of flour and eggs, watch yo back.

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KumquatMae · 21/01/2013 20:28

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ceeveebee · 21/01/2013 20:36

DH nearly had a scrap in our local tesco express tonight.
There was a single queue for cashier and self service tills, and a woman just jumped the queue and went straight to till - DH said 'oi love, there's a queue' and some random bloke took it upon himself to be her knight in shining armour - DH ended up muttering 'prick' under his breath and he then told DH to step outside! He didn't obviously, but man waited for him and had a shouting episode in the street.

All very embarressing. Wouldn't have happened at Waitrose.