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To love a good supermarket scrap thread?

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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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FreakoidOrganisoid · 21/01/2013 20:54

As a teenager on holiday with my family in France I had a battle with a French couple over my parents trolley that they were trying to walk off with. We stood there for a good few minutes with me holding tight and saying 'non' and them looking increasingly frustrated. I then looked into the trolley and realised I was holding on to the wrong one.

FreakoidOrganisoid · 21/01/2013 21:00

A few years ago when I was still with xh I used to have to shop the reduced section as he spent all the money on alcohol. I walked to Sainsburys at the usual mark down time but nothing was reduced yet so I hung around, returning to the reduced counters every now and then. I was getting a bit edgy as xh was going to hit the roof about how long I had been. Then I heard the member of staff who was going to be marking down say really snidely that she wasn't going to mark anything down until the loser waiting for her to do it got a life and went away. I burst into tears and ran away Blush

FreakoidOrganisoid · 21/01/2013 21:05

Oh and there was also the time I was in the queue waiting to buy really boring stuff and there was a bit of a hold up so I idly started looking at the man behinds shopping as he unloaded it. He caught me looking so I tried to laugh it off and said something about his food looking more appealing than mine and I thought Id go to his house for dinner instead. Then his girlfriend/wife stalked up, plonked a box of condoms on the conveyor belt and told me to "find your own man, whore"

Pandemoniaa · 21/01/2013 21:05

ds2 is a deputy store manager for a supermarket chain I shall not name. He must have loads of scrapping stories. So I shall extract the best of them and report back.

I have remembered that I had, not exactly a scrap but a weird exchange of words, with a very man (accompanied by 2 children) in Waitrose last year. He was blocking the exit door with his trolley and was very unbothered about moving. The children with him were looking ever more embarrassed as people attempted to squeeze round him. So I politely asked if I could get past and to my astonishment he said "No. I shall move when I'm ready. Now go away or I'll report you for pestering me".

Pandemoniaa · 21/01/2013 21:07

that should read "very strange man"...

manicbmc · 21/01/2013 21:08

Kumquat, Kwiksave is no more. Nor is Netto. I used to get nappies there. Sad

VivaLeBeaver · 21/01/2013 21:11

Not a supermarket but I saw a customer try to strangle the manager in Currys. He had hold of the manager round the throat and had actually got the bloke off the floor against the wall.

I clapped as I went past as I'd just been arguing with the twat 10 minutes earlier for the fifth time trying to get a refund for my faulty stereo.

MrsDeVere · 21/01/2013 21:15

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TastesLikePanda · 21/01/2013 21:15

Can I add a story of bus rage?
On the bus out to the scary tesco, and I had a bit of a cough... Not a gross cough, just the one where you've been in the warm all day and gone out into the cold and it catches in your chest a bit.

So, about once every couple of minutes, I had to cough gently into my hand. I was trying to be as discrete and polite about it because I know how annoying it is... I became aware that the old woman in the seat in front was turning and looking at me and sneering every time.

Then she moved seats... So she was sat on the outside of the seat, not next to the window. Just so she didn't have to be in front of me. Now it's not like I was hocking up phlegm on her neck or spraying her with spit, I was still turning my head down and coughing into my cupped hands - I'm not a bloody animal!

When it came to my stop, and I'd rung the bell to get off, I stood up and she looked up at me and said 'oh thank goodness we don't have to listen to that awful coughing anymore'

So I looked her right in the eye and did a massive over-acting theatrical cough right at her.

Then I flipped her the bird and stalked off the bus.

I'm not proud but the look on her face was fucking hilarious!

Cortana · 21/01/2013 21:20

Was it Foodgiant MrsD? They were part of Kwiksave, we shopped there when I was small. Highlight was the Panda brand Cola my Mother would buy us, almost as an apology for the experience.

AViewfromtheFridge · 21/01/2013 21:24

It wasn't a scrap as such, but...

I was working in a supermarket when I was a student, and putting those 5-packs of New York Bagels on the top shelf. I was a bit over-ambitious, tried to carry too many at once, and dropped one. Unfortunately, there was a woman bent over directly beneath me.

The next bit happened a bit in slow motion. It hit her on the back of the head, she shot up and screamed "JESUS!" and I just kind of stood there with an armful of bagels, gaping at her, before going "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh, I'm sorry," and then I don't know what came over me because I kind of hugged her, around the remaining bagels.

She backed away, and I never saw her again.

AltinkumATEalltheTurkey · 21/01/2013 21:44

Not supermarket... But resturant...

Man comes in and asks for small dinner, which is very ampled sized and moans about it only being one scoop of tattie... One of the girls was saying well you could go large for a £1 extra, or have a extra scoop for 55p... Man goes on shameful, kixkignof big time, pointig finger in face ...saying how bad one scoop of tattie is etc....

Staff member just keeps saying well go large or buy a extra etc...

Keeps telling member of staff that a customer is always right etc... Gets to me and I ask him what he wants to drink, he says small coke, so instate are you sure that's enough, you'd think you were from Ethiopia the way your going on about a bloody tattie... His GF but in and say weatherspoons gives you two scoops, me... Well go to weatherspoons then if you don't like it, she was like... I'm not coming back here... Me... I couldn't care less if you came back or not, a just work here, I'm not paid to take abuse of twats or jumped up little dicks.

By this time he banged on the counter, and I just said is that supposed to scare me you jumped up arrogant prick, fucking theirs your dinner, eat up, shut up or fuck off where the sun dosen't shine...

He sat down at his table and all customers kept giving him hackey looks, when going out he shouted over we were all bitches and he's going to put a complaint in.

Me, with a pencil dick like yours make sure you buy some lead to write the complaint!

JackieandJudy · 21/01/2013 22:03

Many years ago, when I was about eight months pregnant with ds1, dm and I were in a queue in BHS. The woman in front of us was shouting at her small boy, and slapped him across the face. I was so shocked I couldn't take my eyes off her, and she did the old "what you looking at?" thing. So I told her.

She punched me in the stomach. My dm, god bless her, who up til that day, I'd never once heard swear, and who I have never since heard swear, let out the filthiest stream of invective you've ever heard. Both myself and evil slapping woman just gazed at dm - in shock in my case, and in deep envy I should think in evil woman's case. Evil woman stalked off, and dm said something like "I don't know what half of those words meant but I don't think you should use them in front of your father, now let's go and have a cup of tea".

ParisButterfly · 21/01/2013 22:06

Wow Altinkum I'd have been fired if I'd used the same language you did.

GsyPotatoPieEyed · 21/01/2013 22:11

I had a Saturday job at Safeway. If customers were rude to me I'd squeeze their bananas Grin

AltinkumATEalltheTurkey · 21/01/2013 22:11

My boss was standing right next to me, we had been called all sorts, just didn't mention it, called our boss a fucking looser, a member of staff a whore etc...

I actually don't say the F word I say ducking..

He was a class A KNKB who tried to intimate a bunch of women. All over bloody scoop of tattie!

OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 21/01/2013 22:16

Gsy is that a euphemism?!

MrsDeVere · 21/01/2013 22:24

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Mybumissquidgy · 21/01/2013 22:26

Oh my god JackieandJudy! That's horrible!

JackieandJudy · 21/01/2013 22:29

It was horrid Mybum, I often think about that poor little boy. But my own ds1 was born about two weeks later, absolutely fine Smile so she did me no harm, thank goodness.

ILoveOnionRings · 21/01/2013 22:35

In Tescos with DH in the run up to christmas. I spied the huge bags of Onion Rings, 750grams checked the weight when I got home. I reached up grabbed a bag and threw them into the trolley behind me which DH was pushing.

Or so I thought, DH had moved and I had thrown the big bag of onion rings into a mans face as he had reached to get the bacon streaks. I was quite Blush and apologised loads whilst DH was doubled over laughing behind him.

FeckOffCup · 21/01/2013 22:36

Not a supermarket but I worked in a shop a few years ago and witnessed two mums fighting over the last pokemon easter egg.

I am weeping over the image of Bupcakes punching a gateau and wandering off nonchalantly [GRIN].

Fakebook · 21/01/2013 22:40

I had a fight with a woman once because I was trying to get to the muiller yoghurts but there were people with their trolleys parked there. So I parked my trolley in the middle and waited for them to move. A woman came along with her husband and started shouting at me, telling me how fucking stupid I was for blocking the aisle. I shouted back that I was waiting for someone to move so I can get my fruit corners and that I had my dd in the trolley and wasn't going to leave her alone and start weaving through people's trolleys to get to them. They fafafaffafa'd a bit more, I got in a huff and picked up my fruit corners (bogof) and went straight to the tills and then left, and didnt go back for weeks. Traumatic experience.

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BupcakesAndCunting · 21/01/2013 22:45

Lo Cost! It was like shopping in Stalingrad c.1944. Proper grimshits it was. My mum used to drag me round there in the 80s :( We then had to complete the holy trinity of shit supermarket s by going to Kwik Save and Fine Fayre :(

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HoHoHoNoYouDont · 21/01/2013 22:46

Brilliant thread Bupcakes, it's had me weeping all day.

Have you considered anger management......those poor cakes Grin