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!

Do wo = don't

Fun free

I bought their own 90% cocoa one to but that's all been scoffed.

It really is all I have to worry about today

Bet that chocolate tastes shite. Just have a Twirl FFS.

I think if it was a choice between that chocolate or no chocolate I would go for the latter.

What's your mocolate not free of?

Twirl? Ew. Planning a huge amount of Lindor when he weans tho

Waitrose don't seem to cary Carte d'Or any more. I used to love the milk chocolate truffle.

I miss it.

Waitrose, why did you push Carte d'Or out in favour of Monty Whatever-he's-called and vegan chocolate?

Thanks for explanations.

And of course waitrose staff are expected to know every single items full ingredients list. silly me. Couldn't have the poor customer using their own legs or eyes to find the product they want.

Carte d'Or?

I've gone mad!

I mean Cote d'Or.

If I was with my DM who couldn't back down in a fight and had to prove a point with a shop assistant, I'd would have walked away.

Was it really necessary?

Firstly, I thought real middle class people shopped in Lidl and Aldi these days?

Did you ( and tbf, am making the assumption here) tell bigger DS that you were choosing vegan chocolate, just loud enough for others close by to hear). Why not simply ' choosing chocolate' ?

Nice looking shop assistant well thank goodness for that, or that might well have ruined your shopping experience altogether, what with her not knowing about all the vegan chocolate an all- but really, was that comment relevant to the post?

As others have said, and DD confirmed (2 years at the Worcester Park branch, if anyone's interested) that when on ambient duties in Waitrose, the assistant will be responsible for keeping stock replenished in their area and nowt else.

Yes they may be aware of where the Himalayan rock salt is, or where the kumquats are, but not the ingredients of every item sold.

YABU (but you knew that already)

I get 15% discount at Waitrose as dd works there so I do most of my shop there

Yes 'looking at the chocolate' would answer the DS's question really.

my ds works part time Waitrose- great pay for a teenage boy (btw I think he's gorgeous)...my dh and I love going in and asking for items such as carpaccio of unicorn and dodo pate...he never seems to be able to find them tho!!

Just popped in to get the choc, aldi don't do dairy free, and ds would tell me off if I bought chocolate, so i specified. She was behind me so didn't even see her tail she spoke up

But I'm fully aware I've been a goady twat but I'm quite amazed at all the deleted posts!
Will keep my 'first world problems' to myself in future!

portia loved the discount card. Am waiting for DS to be at John Lewis three months (he began in Feb), so I can get my discount card 'back'.

Had to give it up once DD went to Uni.

Thing is, DS might be off to Uni in September, so we won't have it for long - am very at that thought, more than DS leaving home in fact

I'm missing the middle class bit also missing point of smug twatty thread entirely

The unicorn horn shavings are on the third shelf up in aisle number 341 7 metres along from the front of the checkouts

Didn't see her at all

Talking of chocolate, cadburys seems to now be marketing dairy milk as a glass and a half. Did they finally listen to our moaning and change it back?

DH spotted that too Queen it made me wonder.

I am sticking with my Thorntons Viennese Truffles to be on the safe side.

Until. Can't even correct my own spelling mistakes after that glass of wine. Taking my twattish arse to bed

Aldi does sell dairy free chocolate . Their staff aren't always nice-looking though.

A fight?
Is that what passes for a fight in Waitrose; some vegan chocolate-eater disagreeing with a wage serf?
DD works in retail, in a couple of very naice shops that attract a certain sort of mother. She entertains us often with her recounts.

There is a really good looking man in my local Lidl.