To know more than supermarket staff

[IamthepermedowlofVeronica]

In typical middle class way, I was shopping in waitrose today, fancied a treat (dairy free due to smallest ones allergies) and I'm stood musing in the chocolate aisle.
Bigger son comes up and asks what I'm looking at, i reply I'm choosing my vegan chocolate darling.
Nice looking shop assistant steps over (to help I assume) and says it sorry we don't do vegan chocolate.
Yes you do, I reply, that one, that one, that one (pointing at the relatively large range) I'm just trying to choose. Oh, she replies. I don't think they are vegan.... So of course I have to prove her wrong, showing her the vegan stamps and ingredients. Then she says 'well they must have come in on my day off yesterday'.

Now, I am the last person to back down in a fight so I get it, but what happened to the customer is always right? (Which I was, obviously) I know Iabu to think a supermarket assistant will know all the stock in the place, and I feel I've done my bit to educate, but now feel like a right showy offy know it all! But seriously, she shouldn't have bothered saying anything if she had nothing helpful to say!

Nice looking as in she looked nice/kind

You can never tell from the outside.

🎖 for you op

Really OP, I don't think anyone was seriously asking you what you mean't by 'nice looking'.

Am I wrong, or is anyone else wondering Maui is going to be mentioned soon.

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#oldskool

Sparkling I am going to show dd this thread when she finishes her shift and finally gets home after bowing and scraping since 4pm.

Were you looking to spend £1000 on some utter decadent products in Waitrose OP?

Do people think that supermarket staff take home a floor plan of the store with each product listed by aisle? well done for knowing a product you buy regularly is vegan when someone who probably does little more than stack it didnt know. Well done for knowing where preserved lemons are when you are probably in store browsing weekly. The staff arent. They dont get to have a leisurely stroll around and take note of where everything is. They get assigned a section and that is their section. They stack it, they tidy it, they clear off out of date stuff. They dont have time to read the ingredients of every sodding product or know where the lemons are when they are responsible for the tinned goods.

Sorry, totally don't get the Maui reference?
(But the chocolate I bought has been devoured with a glass of red and it feels like a decadent monday night!)

5thd

You and this poster might get on well

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2601534-To-spend-1000?trending=1

www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/10/people-sharing-comments-theyve-overheard-waitrose-funny-words/

I'm my experience the customer is rarely right.

I am sure she is very nice looking Portia.

First paragraph of your OP: tolerable

Second paragraph:

Are they Vegan biscuits Emperor?

cakeninja amazing!

I expect your ds is very nice looking Sparkling

I expect he is a nice intelligent lad doing his best like my dd

She made a mistake/didn't quite understand what vegan meant. A moment well worth putting in the superiority complex memory bank, you clever middle class person.

Of COURSE, sparkling. Duh. Didn't you know MN stocked them?

Well, this went well

Just choosing my vegan chocolate darling

I work in retail, in an Organic Farm Shop no less.

On a good day I look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

An organic one though obvs.