To be annoyed that my local large Sainsburys has banned more than 5 kids at a time

[glynnie1]

Absolutely furious this morning. Went to the big Sainsbury's at Stamford Hill and there is an officious little man with a clipboard stopping school girls going in, no more than 5 in an enormous store. Why do we treat our children like this in this country. Will be writing to Sainsbury's.

Why shame on hedgehog? Shame on her mother for not controlling her behaviour and letting her and her siblings understand that it wasn't acceptable.
I think shops should have the right to ban intentionally disruptive, rude or antisocial customers. It's very tough on those that aren't.

Of course shops should have (and do have?) the right to ban whoever they want ...

You will also probably find that most Supermakets doing this are doing it with the full knowledge of the local school who equally do not want their wayward pupils rampaging through the shops buying unnecessary and inappropriate food (and getting the school a bad name) - schools after all have been tasked with the idea of healthy eating and providing good food for the pupils. They can't do this on a budget if the pupils in question are not buying it!

Our local Asda goes one step further, however, and has a 'school kids only' check out line - works for both sides - kids get to go through quickly with minimum fuss and small number of items, people doing their larger shops are kept happy too!

YABU and unless you have a large family which would be inconvenienced by this rule are unlikely to achieve anything with Sainsburys!

Erm probably cos they've had gangs of kids being thieving little shites?

In general, I agree that the degree of suspicion around teens is depressing and demoralising

Having said that, 5 is quite a lot of children and presumably they've had bad experiences there.

The 'orrible ones spoil it for the lovely ones

Glynnie, do you want to take 6 school girls shopping with you?
If not how does this affect you?

Tescos near me don't let any unaccompanied school age kids in. There is a sign saying so and dd's school warn all Year 7s that they won't be allowed in.

Saying that I take it with a pinch of salt as dd has gone in on her own before just before school as she needed to buy a memory stick. They helped her find one no problem. I should imagine the "rule" is there so they can quote it if they do want to chuck any idiots out who are been a bit daft.

That's too large a group. Let us know which Sainsbo's, I'll write them to request they limit it to 2.

Unfortunately, teens get accused of being intimidating merely by standing in clusters (which is what teens do).

I have teenage boys and i walk through groups of them every day. Mostly polite and thoughtful if you say excuse me please when they are in your way.

Have you written Glynnie? What did you say?

Unaccompanied DC in uniform obviously shouldn't be in supermarkets during the school day.

This isn't a new thing. Shops have done this for years. Unfortunately, children aren't always terribly sensible - and if you put a group of them together, they often wind each other up and egg each other on.

Presumably, the supermarket has noticed that it has more trouble when a group of children come in together than if they come in in twos or threes.

And if I had to take 6 school children shopping with me, I'd probably be asking Sainsburys to lock them in a store cupboard for the duration.

I don't like it when they do that,one of our local stores limits them even if with a parent.

I have to pay a carer just so I can go fucking shopping just in case I go on the day the security guard who enforces the rule is working.

Pisses me off.

It doesn't sound fair but sadly there's a minority who choose to act like thugs out in public with their friends/classmates and it ruins it for the rest. I've lost count of the amount of times the tesco near my sec school had police in removing some kids from my school for intimidating staff or throwing things at them

Yabu.

When we lived in Oz si

Whoops. When we lived in Oz, school children had to leave their bags outside of the supermarket, and no more than 2 at a time. The sign also stipulated that on condition of entry they may be asked to have their bags looked in.

Funny then how most of our Shop theft detainees are always adults...

Terrible behaviour by the shop, why do the teenagers always get tarred with the wide brush..

"officious little man with a clipboard stopping school girls going in"

Wtf does 'little' have to do with the post?

(The rest of it is quite crap as well...imo)

Are you actually a schoolgirl who was turned away, op? I can't see any other reason for your fury.

It's not new to restrict numbers of school children in shops.
Not heard of it in supermarkets though.
I think some people are assuming the worst, like the majority of teenagers are trouble, "pack mentality" fgs, they aren't savages.

Hedge - I'm still laughing at the frozen sausage incident!

Aw op hasn't been back! Maybe she wanted a choroid of yanbu and a mumsnet campaign started?

I think Sainsburys are well within their rights to act like this. They will have good reason to I would imagine.

Does anyone else find it odd that the OP has 2 posts to their name? This one and one in 2010.

Not that I'm crying 'troll' - just I find it an odd thing to name change over, presuming this is a name change.

A measure like this would only be undertaken in the light of experience, and possibly even after complaints from other customers. Very sensible IMO.