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Original poster

To think reduced supermarket goods are for customers not staff?

254 replies

catlovingdoctor · 09/10/2016 16:44

I was in an upmarket supermarket chain today and a member of staff, in full uniform, had a trolley load of reduced packs of avocados. They're normally relatively expensive but I thought I'd get some since they were reduced. So I went to take one out the trolley and she literally blocked my arm with her hand, saying it was her own shopping. Surely if she wants to do her own shopping she shouldn't be doing it in company uniform? The stock is there for customers not staff!

OP posts:
ShatnersBassoon · 09/10/2016 17:04

It's the only perk of working in a supermarket. Lucky her. I bet she's very used to blocking strangers from taking the best stuff out of her trolley Grin

Salmotrutta · 09/10/2016 17:05

God.

The cheek of the woman.

Did you complain to the store manager OP?

Please say you did - I could do with a laugh.

ThymeLord · 09/10/2016 17:05

I can't believe you tried to take something out of another persons trolley! 😂

mrsfuzzy · 09/10/2016 17:06

salmotrutta how dare you pinch my thoughts !! Grin

greenfolder · 09/10/2016 17:07

Fgs. Back in the day when I worked at Marks and sparks the highlight was the special reduced stuff at the end of the shift. All carefully marked down to pence and a special till opened.

londonrach · 09/10/2016 17:08

Yabu.

BerylStreep · 09/10/2016 17:08

I'm Shock that you would take it out of the trolly.

Did you not think to ask if they were reduced items for going on the shelf?

bananastar · 09/10/2016 17:08

It's the best bit of working in a supermarket. We all share out which reductions we want and put the rest out for the customers. It's a perk of the job. Same when xmas or easter stock goes down to pennies. Why do you think there's never any good stuff left. It's cos the staff have bought it allGrinGrin

Salmotrutta · 09/10/2016 17:09

mrsfuzzy - that's me the Thought Pincher Grin

VinoTime · 09/10/2016 17:09

You snooze you lose, sucker.

Better be faster next time. Though a word of warning, us lowly peasants are pretty quick to the draw. Given we're paid fucking peanuts to put up with your bullshit all day, we feel entitled to reap a few benefits and we're masters at the old snatch and grab come reduction time. I feel for you, OP. I really do. You're up against pros and stand no chance.

We are many. You...are few Wink

Original poster
catlovingdoctor · 09/10/2016 17:09

She was in uniform, in the salad bit of the store, with literally a trolley full. I am not exaggerating- so yes, I assumed she was putting them from the storeroom onto the shelves! I wasn't going around looking for things to pinch out of other people's trollies. She had a couple of other bits of fruit in there from what I remember, so I made the assumption that as she was in uniform she was putting them out on stock.

I refuse to be told I am being unreasonable!

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BreconBeBuggered · 09/10/2016 17:10

An actual trolley load of avocados? I'd probably have thought the same, without stopping to work out that shelf-stackers don't normally use the same kind of trolley as the customers. YWBVU not to ask her what she was planning to make with them, because now I want to know.

Coffeegivemecoffee · 09/10/2016 17:11

i refuse to be told I am being unreasonable OK so why the fuck did you post in am I being unreasonable Hmm

You carry on fighting over reduced avocado in "upmarket" supermarkets OP

madein1995 · 09/10/2016 17:11

YABVVU. they don't shop when they're working so she was either on break or after shift. In which case she is a customer and has as much right to the stuff than you. You're not more of a customer because you don't work there, and she's just finished work. Bloody stupid, who cares what she was wearing. As for you trying to take stuff from her trolley well what exactly did you expect, I'd have accompanied the blocking with a 'what do you think you're doing, how rude' lecture as well. Or if I wasn't in my uniform a few swear words. Do you take a spare clothes to your work op for after shift? No? Then why should she? What a stupid idea, take a spare pair of clothes to change into on the off chance you decide to do a bit of shopping! Yabu and bloody stupid

DameXanaduBramble · 09/10/2016 17:11

Well it's no biggie, is it. You assumed incorrectly they were free to take, she told you they were hers, no harm done, is there?

TallulahTheTiger · 09/10/2016 17:11

Maybe she's having a guacamole gathering?

Salmotrutta · 09/10/2016 17:12

You refuse?

Well, OK then Hmm

Usually the reduction trolley is a flat topped thing that looks nothing like the shopping trolleys.

But maybe it's different in "upmarket" supermarkets Hmm

AndShesGone · 09/10/2016 17:12

On a far more important note, are avocados freezable or summat Confused

Because if not who would buy a trolley load

AmbivalentGirl · 09/10/2016 17:13

The stock is there for customers not staff!

Bloody peasants, shopping in your "upmarket supermarket" like they belong.

ShatnersBassoon · 09/10/2016 17:13

YABU, because your point is that she shouldn't be allowed to buy what she wants from the shop she works in in case someone who doesn't work there wants it. That's unreasonable. She wanted a trolley full of avocados. Good job they were reduced.

SoupDragon · 09/10/2016 17:14

She had a couple of other bits of fruit in there from what I remember,

So, the trolley was not "literally" full of avocados at all.

Anyway. You made a mistake and they were a customers avocados. Albeit a customer who worked at the store.

YuckYuckEwwww · 09/10/2016 17:16

OP is getting a hard time
OF COURSE one would think they were for customers not the staff member, I mean had they been supanoodles or over chips then yes, that might concievably be the shopping of a retail worker and not of a high end supermarket shopper, but what on earth might a retail worker type want with avocados… or any fresh or whole foods for that matter????
Easy mistake to make!

Salmotrutta · 09/10/2016 17:16

I think the OP is exaggerating the number of avocados anyway.

It was probably about 3-4 packets or summat.

Maybe she likes avocados a lot.

expatinscotland · 09/10/2016 17:16

Some customers truly suck. You assumed, you were wrong, staff are customers, too.

Manumission · 09/10/2016 17:16

I refuse to be told I am being unreasonable!
How are you going to stop us? Confused