to berate the girl in boots who fully did her eye makeup then put the non tester back on the shelf?

[thekingfisher]

Couldn't believe it yesterday afternoon before a meeting I had ½ HR to kill so had a mooch in enormous boots store.

I was having a good look at make up and next to me a girl caught my eye as she fully did her eye makeup - including liquid eyeliner with edge with non - testers.

At the point she put the liquid eyeliner back I asked her if she seriously was going to put that back not buy it having had right around her eye. She stammered and said she was going to buy it. I asked why she's shoved it back into the holder then, fished it out handed it to her and told her it was disgusting to do that and she might have red eye. She looked really fucked off stormed off - more annoying were two members of staff with their backs To us chatting with each other and paying no attention...

How does someone think this is OK

It def WAS NOT the tester - she took wrapper off .... wibu?

You are Joshin' surely

Op I think you've found the culprit

Didn't like being harassed

It is the same as theft. I can't believe shop staff didn't say anything.

harrassing customers
She wasn't a customer though was she? She was a thief - that liquid eyeliner is no longer saleable - it's as bad as just stealing it.
In fact, it would probably be better if she did just outright steal it rather than leave it for someone else to accidentally buy or test. If she had pink eye, or herpes etc she could be spreading it. Disgusting.

Or impetigo, I think that can be spread through makeup.

Marniasmum

I absolutely would consider it "my place to harass" a customer if I saw them opening products and using loads (hence spreading their germs all over it) then replacing it for some unsuspecting person to purchase.

No I don't have any shares in Boots.

Years ago I used to work in a Boots store and used to pass the self selection makeup when going for lunch/breaks, often I would see people giving themselves a make over with stock and testers.
I used to stop and remind them in the nicest way possible that they could catch herpes from the lipsticks and conjunctivitis etc from the eye shadows and mascara.
I'm not an nasty person but someone swiftly putting down a product with a half done face and making a quick exit probably to the nearest public toilet to remove said make up made me giggle.
I reckon they never did it again.

Yanbu. I would have said something too. Yuck.

HKTB - I can't believe your mother! What on earth makes her think that's ok? Would she buy things where the packets have been opened?!

It really annoys me when products are sold without some sort of seal. The amount of people who think it's ok to spray deodorants, air freshener etc and not buy them disgusts me. I tend to glare at them and report to store staff.

It also annoys me when people buy grapes or things like that and eat them whilst they are going around a shop.

The eating while you shop thing doesn't really bother me as long as it's not sonetging that gets weighed at the checkout.

I realise that's a very unpopular opinion on MN! :)

Caroline Hirons once wrote a list on her blog of the worst things about working in retail (She also wrote a list of the best things about working in retail). The worst things were all related to rudeness of customers or absolutely scummy mingingness of customers. She said that some people would actually bite the lipstick part out of the testers, then spit it into a tissue or whatever when they were out of the shop so they could take it home

In my old job, the amount of people who would try on earrings (or attempt to, before I managed to stop them) and then put them back was scary, despite the large sign saying 'For hygiene reasons please do not try on earrings or you will have to pay for them.'
I always made them pay for them!

What this girl did does feel a bit disgusting to me, although personally I would never buy eye make up that had been opened previously.

I don't think I'd go out of my way to scold her about it though, as I'm just a bystander and ultimately I feel it would be none of my business

Well done OP. I think more people should challenge unpleasant and unacceptable behaviour in public. I do it myself on occasion but not always. Unwrapping and opening products which you are not going to pay for is appalling and she deserved to be challenged over it.

YANBU

Apart from having a dig at the staff

They're not meerkats and can't be expected to notice every single thing that goes on around them, during an 8 hour shift.

Round here, she would have been berated, and loudly, by anyone who saw her as being 'chaddy' - is that a local-to-me thing here in the west country? Meaning is the same as minging but I've never heard anyone else say it...

op, ywDnbu, she was proper disgusting.

They're not meerkats and can't be expected to notice every single thing that goes on around them, during an 8 hour shift.

Quite

Predictive text wanted me to declare, they're not beermats

Also true I suppose.

Many years ago I was a Saturday assistant in Boots and used to see this all the time people are grim! One instance though really sticks in my mind...the Estée Lauder was on a separate little bit opposite the front doors. The assistant was lovely, could not do more to help etc and used to use the little pots you used to get with disposable films for cameras (feel very old now!!) and would let people put some cream/lotion etc in to try if she didn't have testers. Sound a bit grim now I think about it but anyway I digress. Just before we closed one of her customers came in whom she said was always asking for freebies/testers. The assistant was just packing up her till and the lady shouted over 'I'll just have a bit of this' and scooped a load of cream in her face from tester pot and dashed off to get something else. She paid for her items at my till and was sort of scratching her face with a puzzled look and dashed out. The assistant was giggling away as in he lady's apparent glee of a huge scoop of free face cream she actually rubbed in some face mask . Still makes me smile 25 years later

Orange people steal the testers on a daily basis - and round here, not only is it the "thing" to do all your make-up with testers (the ones that haven't been stolen) it is also, apparently, perfectly acceptable to open new stock, use that and then replace. It's sometimes hard to find an unopened eye-liner etc in a whole line of them.

I also hate that people open products at TK Maxx to test- with big signs telling you not to. So irritating to get home and discover you've bought a used product

I think in this circumstance I think it's fine to take the item to an employee and say what happened, just so someone else doesn't buy it. But confronting the offender... seriously it's like that supermarket shoplifter thread. I don't get why people feel the need to defend the interests of mega-chains. They can look after themselves.

What a total skank she was, OP, you did the right thing saying something to her.

Sorry been working not mnetting today so only just come back to this.

I can say with all certainty I did not harass her although I was sorely tempted to escort her to the checkout as I'm sure she just dumped said liquid liner!

I meant pink eye ! I actually said conjunctiveboolocks to her just couldn't be arsed to type it in my op. I was actually looking at the eye make up of the brand she was ducking about with hence how I was drawn to her antics. If I hadn't seen her I might have picked it up... All cosmetics don't have aplastic tamper proof stuff on and this didn't however the tester was clearly marked and that wasn't it!

I feel redeemed and shall continue my pilgrimage to harass skanky make-up thieves!