To think reduced supermarket goods are for customers not staff?

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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!

Just a thought, shock horror, DS used to ring me Christmas Eve to tell me when the turkeys had been marked down to a ridiculous price and I would drive down and get one, should that have been allowed? I was the mother of a Tesco employee who was still ON SHIFT!!! Shocking ....

She can have em, avocados, yuck.

My future dil calls me if any electrical things are going cheap, sometimes you get a toaster for 10p.
They are just flash sales and tbh it is mostly staff that get these because they know first, but other customers manage to get them if they are there at the yime.

Stop being so bloody entitled.

typical mumsnet thread, love this !

without stopping to work out that shelf-stackers don't normally use the same kind of trolley as the customers
People putting reduced stuff out use customer ones in Waitrose. I checked with a staff member that what I was taking was there to buy and not her shopping only last week.

I made the same mistake as you once though, op, which is why I now check. Lone trolley right by the reduced bit in Waitrose, full of reduced stuff and a staff member near by. I assumed that it was stuff being put out and the staff member said 'oh, sorry but that's my shopping'. To which I apologised, and we got on with our day. I didn't go and bitch about it online.

I dont think you're unreasonable to assume she was putting out stock, if she had a trolley load and was in uniform.
I do think you are unreasonable to be annoyed over it, once she said it was her shopping. She's probably finished her shift/on a break and what she buys is her business.
Maybe she was planning a face pack/hair mask?

You 'refuse to be told you are being unreasonable'. Then why post / ask?

I hope "high end" supermarket assistant is decadently luxuriating in a bath full of mushed up avocados, sipping a chilled glass of something delicious.

Just one small thing- I used to work in a supermarket and we were NOT permitted to shop in uniform. At the time the uniform consisted of shirt, tie and apron. At the very least we had to remove our tie and apron before doing our shopping, precisely to avoid confusion whether we were on or off shift.

Oh come on, as if anyone will believe this absolute twaddle

Maybe she's having a guacamole gathering if she had a trolley full of them maybe some kind of orgy, she fills a swimming pool full of them and everyone jumps in and the fun really begins.

Why ask if YABU and then refuse to be told.
Not that you can stop us

If it bothers you that much OP, there are always jobs going at supermarkets.
You might have to change your entitled attitude if you make it to an interview though.

You weren't being unreasonable to assume it was reduced stock. If the 'upmarket supermarket' is the one I suspect it is, they put the reduced items in a trolley. It was an easy mistake to make. However, you ARE being unreasonable to get sniffy about it once that mistake was corrected.

How dare a shop worker also be a customer

If I stopped buying in the shop I work in their profits would plummet

You might be unwilling to accept this, but YABU

I confess I was in a less than 'upmarket' supermarket some months ago and I had taken all the reduced hearts, liver, kidney and pig trotters from the shelves and had stacked them in a basket. The DH went to get a trolley, they were heavy. Once we'd decanted them into the trolley, another customer tried to take her pick! I don't think she spoke English because when I told her they were all mine, she still tried and I did block her. I wasn't dressed in the staff colours and there was no way I was losing my bargainous bits!

I get YANBU for being confused that she might have been putting stuff out.

But that is not the question you asked. You asked if reduced goods should be left by staff (off duty) for customers who are not staff. The answer to this is, without doubt, YABU.

An off duty member of staff has equal right to reduced goods as any other customer.

All the supermarket staff who I know go to work in uniform and come home in uniform. They do their shopping after their shift, one less journey.

I'd love to know what she's going to do with all those avocados though. Make shitloads of guacamole?

Maybe she was buying them all to sell on the black avocado market. Mind you, wouldn't that mean they're past their best?

Oh YABVU btw

This is hilarious. Expecting shop employees to have a change before doing their shopping. Many must shop in their break.

Of course YABU. What on earth would be the point of them finishing their shift and then going across town to a different supermarket to do their shopping, is that what you'd prefer? And surely it's a perk if the job.

#avocadogate at Waitrose. It'll be all over the DM tomorrow

You are being perfectly unreasonable op! there I said it!

I LOvE that you tried to steal a supermarket workers shopping.

"Upmarket supermarket" is an oxymoron if I ever I heard one. Unless of course, you were in fortnums