A child has just fingered the open bread in waitrose and then spray sneezed all over them

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Yet the mum didn't care she just called him over and said come here. They were well dressed and spoken. Spoke to the staff in waitrose as the mother obviously wasn't going to say all the unpackaged bread has snot sprayed on it. And the staff didn't care either, I said its not fit to sell and they seemed to do nothing.

I will never buy unwrapped bread stuff again!

Is it me or are the people in middle class shops like here and organic shops the rudest?

Anyway not sure what my aibu is, I guess for the mum to care that her child snotted all the bread or for the staff to care. People will be eating snot in north London.

OOh was it an artisan(al) loaf?

Lidl bakery is not fun. People do not use the tongs.

Waitrose is going seriously downhill. The other week I was in a branch with sushi wraps 2 days past their use by date still on the shelves. The staff seemed uninterested. They responded bloody quickly when I tweeted about it though!

I remember watching a child (about 5?) in a supermarket just before Christmas last year going along the chill cabinet slowly and deliberately poking a hole in the shrink wrap over the raw poultry. Small chickens, large turkeys, goose, duck - the lot. He was also intermittently poking his finger in his mouth and carrying on.
I approached his mother and said 'excuse me - your little boy might get ill from touching raw chicken' and pointed to all the holes in all the poultry.
She told me to 'F off'. Really.

I told the staff who removed the stock (£100's worth) but didn't say a word to her about the language.

It was M&S

Wow MindReader

The tongs in our Sainsburys don't reach far enough, the chain is only a few inches long. Only the wholesome rolls are clean and the pastries are all dirty

I saw a toddler face down in the loose mushrooms in tescos once. He was chomping away. Mucky, pooey mushrooms. His mum didn't bat an eyelid.

YANBU and I never buy uncovered food for this very reason. I've seen kids playing swordfighting with baguettes, adults coughing over displays of salad stuff, a small child last week fingering some artisan chocolates in a dish by the counter while her mum said mildly 'oh no, don't touch stuff'.

I don't know why shops won't cover food or at least place unwrapped stuff out of the reach of kids.

Middle class people are just as likely to be unhygienic as anyone else. MN has taught me that. Dirty fuckers

Standing outside a butchers in Tooting last xmas waiting for my husband to pick up some meat, I was watching the butcher's assistant cutting up bits of lamb through the window. It was really busy, the shop was packed and there were at least 4 people working behind the counter.

I saw the assistant slice his finger with a knife, it was obviously bleeding but he just wiped it on his apron, and rather than sticking a plaster on it carried on working just holding it out of the way slightly.

I NEVER buy open bread for this reason and really cannot understand why shops stock it.

It' disgusting.

People pinch and poke it with dirty hands.

Everything is sealed these days so why is bread treated differently?

Only in Waitrose

I'm shocked. I thought there was a higher calibre of children whose parents shop at Waitrose? I did once see a kid licking the cream off the tops of little, individual trifles at a christening. I thought it was amusing, but then I don't like trifle anyway. And I didn't tell anyone. I'm so bad.

Was this at the big John Barnes Waitrose on Finchley Rd? Only I'm going there later but might change to the devils playground that is Sainsburys

I am more that they leave the bread uncovered! Disgusting, I bet he isn't the only one who has sneezed on it..I guess lots of little kids would be touching it.

Eww!

If it's stuff to be cooked or can be washed then I don't give a shit. However, bread rolls with snot glaze - oh yuckity yuck.
I had a friend at uni who told me part of her summer job in a supermarket was to guard the open deli counter (serve yourself and pay by weight) to stop people gobbing in it (think it was near a school). Now, I'm not squeamish (grew up on a farm) and I'm not a big fan of loads of packaging but some things I do prefer a lid....

I was eating in Carluccio this week and a man sitting next to the window and the open display of oversized meringues turned his head away from his companion and towards the meringues and, without covering his mouth, did three absolutely huge sneezes which must have absolutely sprayed those meringues. My friend and I felt ready to throw up (and didn't order a dessert)...

Do people really think the pre-packaged stuff is any more hygienic?!

Middle class people are actually scruffier than the proles

I used to work somewhere that packaged sweets and the like. The line I worked on had a huge hopper that loose sweets went into, then emerged onto the conveyor belt in packets, which I put into boxes. The man putting the sweets into the hopper had white gloves. Which I saw him blow his nose into on numerous occasions. He also used to leave the factory floor to use the loo and come back with the gloves on. To be fair, he might have taken his gloves off before handling his todger, but with the glove nose incidents I doubt it. Those gloves looked filthy by the end of the day.

That was meant to be italic, not underlined, doh!