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!

Honestly, you sound very silly.

Make sure the vegan choc has no knobbly bits in it lots of people are allergic to knobs you know

Hi all, Quite a few reports about this one but we would suggest that if we react this way every time anyone posts a bit oddly on here we're tugging at a very unravelly sweater.

Do you wish you were middle class and worry about people thinking you might not be?

My favourite quote from The Poke link posted by CakeNinja:

Overheard in the salad aisle:
^A Mum in bright, animated conversation with her small daughter.
Mother: Now we don’t need to buy any cucumbers this week, do we darling? Why don’t we need to buy any cucumbers?
There follows an excited, anticipatory pause.
Small girl: Because they’re boring?^
Mother (with an air of disappointment): No darling, it’s because we’ve grown our own!

So many deletions! Whats that about?

As a vegan, I'm actually cringing at this. I would never describe a bar of chocolate as 'vegan', but dairy free or vegan 'friendly' and I would never feel the need to educate staff. maybe I'm not a pompous twit

'I'm choosing my vegan chocolate darling.'

reminds me of www.facebook.com/overheardinwaitrose

So many deletions! Whats that about? I think mine was because I wrote something particularly vile a customer once called me when I was a student working in a supermarket.

Do you wish you were middle class and worry about people thinking you might not be?

I reckon that's spot on.

The staff arent. They dont get to have a leisurely stroll around and take note of where everything is.

Actually, in waitrose. They are meant to know where everything is. And take you there. Or at least take you to someone who can help. So ner to you :-)

So many deletions! Whats that about?

The OP called herself a twat and many people agreed with it.

NB, I am not calling the OP a twat if MNHQ are watching!

Oh I had drama one time trying to explain what falafel were - their usual fridge was broken. Deep fried chick pea balls, you know, middle eastern mezzo thing, normally next to the olives - wasn't working out for me.

Meze

BTW sorry to anyone offended by what I'd posted it's not a term I would use myself but was genuinely called it by a man whose washing powder was the wrong price.

I can quite believe it Squidgey.

And it was yummy!

OP, I think you seriously need to find something else to worry about, the fact you took to your keyboard or phone to post this speaks volumes about you, OK the staff member was wrong, big deal, get over it. Life's too bloody short to stress over stuff like this.

Ooh my first deletion

OT but I really do wo see what exactly is in these products that are "free from" that many things.

Eww. Kinnerton chocolate.

I imagine the OP frets about class quite a lot. She sounds really insecure.