To get annoyed when M&S push cheap chocolate at checkout

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There is an epidemic of obesity in the Uk which threatens our health and the future of the NHS. So AIBU to object to M&S cashiers pushing cheap chocolate at me every time I go in. If I wanted to buy chocolate I would take it off the shelf.

Do they do that at m&s? Or do you mean Wh Smith?

WH Smith are the worst for this, at my local one I have to walk through a twisty maze to reach the checkouts full of bargain pens, those collect every week to make stuff magazines & shelves & shelves of chocolate. Then when I pay the cashier asks if I would like any chocolate & there's an array of it at the checkout waiting!

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Which M&S? I find their chocolate quite pricey, and have never had it pushed at me. I am in the food hall on average 3-4 times per month. I think once I was offered biscuits on offer, but in a low key way.

This is WH Smith's method not M&S.

I've never had that at M&S, only "Did you find everything you were looking for today?" and ours has just had self service checkouts installed so it is possible to bypass even that.

They offer if you want to buy, hardly holding a gun to your head.

You're an adult, you can say "No thanks"

Not that I object to someone asking me if I could find what I was looking for, that came out wrong!

Our WHSmith is like Dantes Inferno so their chocolate is soft 'n' pappy.

that's enough to put me off

I quite enjoy the whole WH Smith thing in a perverse kind of way. Never fails to make me giggle, don't know why. Have never actually taken up their offers though.

Surely they aren't opening your mouth and shoving it in. You can say no and walk away.

I'd love a shop that popped a delicious choc in your gob as you stood at the till.

I would be devastated if they ever discontinued Percy Pigs at checkout.

Leeds station concourse - new policy apparently. Presumably to compete with W H Smiths doing the same next door.

I'd love to be reminded to pick up chocolate at the station so I don't spend the entire evening whinging that I have none and the shop's shut. If I don't want any chocolate I can of course always say no.

YANBU. They should offer expensive chocolate. Who do they think they are, ASDA?

I work for M&S and have never been asked to push anything at the till, hope they don't change it as I hate doing it!

YABU to get wound up about something like this. Just say no...

Now if M&S said, did you want to buy a bottle of wine? I think I probably would say... oh go on then.

I'm mildly amused when they ask "did you get everything you came in for?"

I wouldn't be at the till to pay unless I had... or would have collared a member of staff to find it already!

At least they're not asking "Need any knickers??" and waggling a lacy thong in your face.

M&S pushing chocolate is not really the biggest threat to the NHS's future .

It's great having a voice. You get to say 'No', and everything.

I really don't see this as being an issue.

What Shatners said.

I find it annoying when they fill up two thirds of the packing area with sweet stuff so you can't pack your own shopping. And yes, it's M&S, and yes, they do say "and would you like to purchase some whateveritistodays as well?"