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Is this selfish behaviour? I think so!

88 replies

SumThucker · 13/05/2015 09:04

I needed to go to the supermarket to pick up some milk. I picked a basket up in the foyer, put it in the crook of my arm like a handbag, and used my free arm to push my baby's pram.
Near the tills as you first walk in are the flowers & plants. A large shelf was filled with around 30 Golden Leylandii plants, almost 2ft high, in perfect condition, all reduced from £3 to 30p.
Deciding one would look lovely in my garden, I picked one up and placed it in my basket, but I soon realised I wouldn't be able to balance the plant in the basket and push the pram, so I reasoned I would grab the milk and butter I needed and come back for it, then I could slowly walk to the tills.
Milk & butter obtained, I began to walk back towards the front of the store and walked past two men, one pushing a trolley, filled with the leylandii plants.
I rushed to the front, hoping 'mine' would still be there, but no, they'd taken every one. Got home, slightly frothing about selfishness, only for my DP to give me Hmm eyes, claiming they were for sale and it doesn't matter if they're sold to 1 or 30 people...

Do you not think it's pretty selfish behaviour, though? To not give anyone else the chance to buy one? I do! Angry

OP posts:
Roseforarose · 13/05/2015 13:12

It's like when they put the reduced food out in Tesco. You always get the greedy ones who pile everything in their trollys leaving nothing for anyone else.The other night a woman grabbed all the reduced sandwiches, as if she could have eaten them all that night. Greedy sods.

CPtart · 13/05/2015 13:26

Of course YABU. First come first served.
I was first on the scene of some vastly reduced loo rolls in Tesco once. Decent ones. I stockpiled my trolley wheeling away around 60 rolls. The kids were mortified. Haven't bought any in months now Grin

balletnotlacrosse · 13/05/2015 13:27

It was just bad luck really. The chances of someone coming along and buying the lot while you just changed your basket for a trolley were small. The man would have had no idea, so he can't be blamed for being selfish.
But I can understand being annoyed at the fact that something so unlikely and disappointing happened.

Nanny0gg · 13/05/2015 13:34

Leylandii are the plants of the devil anyway...

ilovesooty · 13/05/2015 13:46

Rose why shouldn't she? They'd probably be ok for next day's lunch and she might have been going to use them for packed lunches for the family.

OnlyLovers · 13/05/2015 13:52

Or they might have been dinner.

wigglesrock · 13/05/2015 14:00

Rose - I've done that - treat for us working the night shift.

MissMooMoo · 13/05/2015 14:32

yabu.
I once bought 20 packets of nice smoked salmon all reduced to £1 a few days before Christmas. DP and I had smoked salmon and scrambled eggs every Sunday for weeks!

Roseforarose · 13/05/2015 15:05

Ilovesooty she had about 20 packets of sandwiches, I doubt she'd have got through that many, they were going for about 10p so didn't cost her much but nobody needs that many do they?

OnlyLovers · 13/05/2015 15:16

Rose, people have suggested this already but maybe she was feeding several people?

Anyway, it's no one else's business.

bigbumtheory · 13/05/2015 15:20

She could easily have frozen them, I know someone on a very tight budget who does that so reduced sandwiches are fantastic to her.

drycoughssuck · 13/05/2015 16:05

It's annoying as fuck, OP, but something you have to suck up. Cake time.

steff13 · 13/05/2015 16:17

Ilovesooty she had about 20 packets of sandwiches, I doubt she'd have got through that many, they were going for about 10p so didn't cost her much but nobody needs that many do they?

Or perhaps she was donating them to a homeless shelter that evening, or a food pantry, or serving them at a church function or to her son's sports team. Or, maybe she was trying to break the world sandwich eating record and thought this was her big chance.

ilovesooty · 13/05/2015 16:33

Exactly. She could have cleared up the sandwiches for a variety of reasons none of which are anyone else's business.

Roseforarose · 13/05/2015 16:36

Anyway, it's no one else's business. You've made it yours though. No point in having AIBU then really is there if nothing was our business.... Good grief, I just made a casual comment about a greedy woman buying up all the cheap sandwiches, haha, should have known better on MN. Yes she could have been donating them to a food bank, she might have had 20 hungry mouths to feed at home, she might be going on a night shift and be feeding her work mates....she might have been freezing them? wasn't aware you could do that. But whatever. No, I was there, this particular woman does none of these things, she barges in pushing everyone out of the way, she's known for her rudeness. It's just that greed mentality.....but obviously MNetters know differently, always one of two want a good old argument.

Moreshabbythanchic · 13/05/2015 16:40

They were probably Tories. well known for being selfish Hmm

OnlyLovers · 13/05/2015 16:41

she's known for her rudeness

Well why didn't you say in the first place?

GlitzAndGigglesx · 13/05/2015 16:42

But realistically you need about 2 sandwiches to actually feel full and I doubt someone would buy that many just to throw them when they get home. My granddad buys plants in bulk if they're on offer or reduced because he's a keen gardener

Roseforarose · 13/05/2015 16:51

I didn't start the post, my comment didn't require I go into detail, I didn't realise that some people are so touchy. Do t make such a big deal about my trivial comment. Its not a big deal

EustaciaBenson · 13/05/2015 16:58

You should have left the baby in the pram by the plants, taken your plant with you to get the other items, then come back for the pram. This is a logic puzzle right, like how to get the fox, bag of corn and then hens across the river.....

EustaciaBenson · 13/05/2015 16:58

You should have left the baby in the pram by the plants, taken your plant with you to get the other items, then come back for the pram. This is a logic puzzle right, like how to get the fox, bag of corn and then hens across the river.....

EustaciaBenson · 13/05/2015 16:58

You should have left the baby in the pram by the plants, taken your plant with you to get the other items, then come back for the pram. This is a logic puzzle right, like how to get the fox, bag of corn and then hens across the river.....

EustaciaBenson · 13/05/2015 16:59

I only pressed post once, honest, stupid tablet!

ollieplimsoles · 13/05/2015 17:05

Its annoying when this happens but nothing you can really do about it. Because they were on special offer I would have expected them to go really quickly and would also expected some people to buy a good few (maybe not all 30 but who wants that many in their garden anyway)

Trufflethewuffle · 13/05/2015 18:38

Years ago my dad used to grow vegetables in the garden and one summer he had a glut of lettuces all at the same time. He took a big box with a couple of dozen lettuces into his work with a notice for colleagues to help themselves.

A bit later he was chatting to one of his colleagues and he mentioned the lettuce. She looked surprised and said she hadn't seen any when she came in. Dad popped out to the rest room to check and they had all disappeared.

It turns out that another colleague, who also ran a b&b, had seized the lot for his business, no one else had got a look in. Now that's greedy I reckon but it's a different scenario from a shop where the goods are for sale not offered to friends for free.

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