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AIBU?

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Is this selfish behaviour? I think so!

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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 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!

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StupidBloodyKindle · 13/05/2015 18:47

Don't wreak havoc with your house foundations, block light on your garden and make your neighbours hate you/kill your trees by stealth?

I know the frustration though OP. I am still sulking over the fact that last Summer IKEA had an offer on dark grey plastic table +4 chairs.
We got there to find a couple with a trolley had bought the lot...about a dozen and they had even asked for the set on display .
We were gutted, can only assume they had a cafe or were planning a gazebo wedding or something . I was unreasonably foamong at the mouth seeing as like normal people we only wanted one.
But all's fair in love and garden furniture.

StupidBloodyKindle · 13/05/2015 18:48

Don't leylandii....
foaming

corgiology · 13/05/2015 22:39

I agree it is selfish.

I would have been very annoyed and bottled it up for the rest of the day.

However, I have also done the same in the past. To me I'm more annoyed I didn't spot it first :D

SeenSheen · 13/05/2015 23:46

Never mind - maybe just buy one at £3 when they are back in and be thankful that this lesson only cost you £2.70! Hopefully next time it is a big ticket item with 90% off and you won't miss out again.

daisychain01 · 14/05/2015 06:47

I always believe in counting one's blessings.

Can you imagine living next door to leylandii-chops. OMG. Those trees are the spawn of Beelzibub. Maybe they had it in for their NDN or were fed up with a barking dog/noisy kids etc and decided to get their own back.

In principle, reduced items tend to appeal to the greed-factor, buying stuff because they are cheap even if you don't need the goods.

Regarding sarnie-gate, anything that's perishable can reasonably go to the quickest in the trolley-dash as long as they are eaten up

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 14/05/2015 06:52

YABU - first come first served, you should have taken it when you saw it. And leylandii are 'orrible anyway.

however · 14/05/2015 06:55

Of course it's selfish. But people are very entitled. They want something and that's that, really.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Footle · 14/05/2015 07:10

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MythicalKings · 14/05/2015 07:10

Rose, a friend of mine regularly buys up a load of reduced sandwiches on her way home and drops them off at the homeless shelter.

Roseforarose · 14/05/2015 08:36

Nothing wrong with that, this woman doesn't do that. She buys them because they're dirt cheap and barges everyone out of the way to get them. It's greed, let others have a cheap sandwich. If there were 50 packs she'd take them. She's well known to the staff for it.

MoustacheofRonSwanson · 14/05/2015 14:08

The replies to this thread are a depressing indication of the extent to which greed is now considered normal, even a virtuous and sensible behaviour, rather than a vice that is driving this society and others downwards into the pits of a Boschian hell. Perhaps the Garden of Earthy Delights is bordered with leylandii.

CactusAnnie · 14/05/2015 14:14

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pod78 · 15/05/2015 06:24

Yes YABU. I've been in your place and it is frustrating but can't usually be helped. Even if the man had taken all but one, someone else might still have come along and taken the last one before you got back there. I've learnt that if it is that important to you to have that thing at that price you have to grab it by any means possible!!

Saying that, I alwys try not to take all of the reduced items for myself; only when we've been really hard up do I just snaffle what we need. I always think of how I've felt if I've been desperate to save some money and there is nothing left.

But of course, you can't guarentee that the reduced items go to who needs it most anyway - plenty of wealthy folks (trolleys with wine and luxury items etc) will be quite happy to join in the barging to get reduced items. But it still feels right to me not to take more than I really need.

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