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To have taken back my walnut whips?!

231 replies

Idontevenlikewalnuts · 28/02/2017 19:50

I've NC'd as this is a bit embarrassing. I rarely shop in M&S as I can't afford to but went in this lunchtime as they often have a few reduced items. I spotted two single packet walnut whips on the end of an unused conveyor belt - they had various reduced things on there. I picked them up and had a look at them, saw they were 30p which is fab! I love the 'whippy' bit and their chocolate is amazing IMO.

My phone rang and I put them back down on the end of the checkout (it's hard to explain the logistics), but so they were close to me. It was an important call so I couldn't really rush the person off the phone as I saw this happen - a couple aged about 60ish who had been looking at said reduced items nearby took the walnut whips and put them in their basket. I was so pissed off, as this couple were near me when I was looking at the whips and I only put them down to get to my phone. They were right next to me so I thought it was obvious I'd 'claimed' them.

Ok I'm a bit ashamed but I subtly followed them and when the phone call finally ended and they were busy sifting through some pasta products I took the walnut whips out of their basket and didn't look back!
Quickly got to self checkout and paid for them then half-ran out of the store and to a shop a few doors down.

I feel really guilty and can't bring myself to eat them, am I a horrible person?!

OP posts:
Bedsheets4knickers · 02/03/2017 21:37

Their not Terry's their mine Grin
Good for you :-) made me chuckle

pontynan · 02/03/2017 21:38

Love it! All you did was...kind of recycle them. In my book walnut whips are probably worth killing for.

LadySinfiaSnoop · 02/03/2017 21:48

Love it v funny. I'm thinking of adding something like a pair of huge pants or a box of condoms to an ex-colleagues basket if I see her in M&S again. Btw I can't stand the woman and need to get some retribution. Xx

HappyFlappy · 02/03/2017 21:52

Karma! What a bitch Grin

mummylove2monsters · 02/03/2017 22:03

Seems fair to me ! Lol god I wish I was as brave as you xxxxx

Lilacpink40 · 02/03/2017 22:08

I was picking a 3 pastries for £1 deal at a supermarket and dropped one. Had a quick look around and one assistant clearly looked quickly away and another was busy, quick kick and the dropped pastry was hidden and I chose another. I've never been so cheeky in a shop before Blush

IvyLeagueUnderTheSea · 02/03/2017 22:12

You know what is going to happen. There is going to be a rush on Walnut, and other Whips, in M&S across the country.
M&S are going to notice this spike in sales and there will be questions asked in the marketing department. They will be trying to work out what the hell has happened.

I'm busy trying to work out how I can go into M&S without DH noticing to stock up. He would Judge Me for buying them. Especially if I said that it was from the back of a MN thread.

IvyLeagueUnderTheSea · 02/03/2017 22:13

Does anyone know if they are vegetarian?
The Whips that is, not the whip stealing other people.

Klaptout · 02/03/2017 22:25

What's the one they do with a pecan on the top? I much prefer M&S walnut whips, the salted Caramel is beautiful. I think I've sampled them all, many times over.

reapercrew · 02/03/2017 22:30

This has made my night OP!!

DM was nearly involved in a fist fight in m&s over the last white chocolate bomb one Xmas, a man literally reached over her head & plucked in from her hands, security were involved (I was mortified) but she stood her ground!!

Turned out to be a damp squib really as it was the crapest M&S desert ever, not a patch on their WW's!!

Lindsxxx · 03/03/2017 08:39

This reminds me of a couple weeks back on a Sunday at the reduced counter in asda. I hit it at just the right time where they reduce stuff to 10p 😀I claimed a couple of things for myself and this older couple got a few things, this other woman was hovering and could easily have got stuff for herself but when I turned to put something in my trolley I noticed her at the older couples trolley, I didn't really think too much of it as it was "parked" next to an end fridge containing yoghurts and stuff so I assumed she was deciding what to get....well she was, but it wasn't yoghurts 😳 She had taken several reduced items out of the couples trolley 😱

HappyFlappy · 03/03/2017 09:04

Lindsxxx

Now THAT really IS disgusting!

ItsNachoCheese · 03/03/2017 09:11

Haha thats brilliant 😂

ButtonMooooon · 03/03/2017 13:13

Holding you personally responsible for this OP!!!!!

Salted caramel?? Why didn't I know this?

To have taken back my walnut whips?!
PolaDeVeboise · 03/03/2017 14:19

Try the cappucino ones Button, you wont look back....

ButtonMooooon · 03/03/2017 14:41

I wish there had been a cappuccino one in the 3 pack cos I aren't sure if I'd like them and didn't want waste a purchase!!

tanyavt · 03/03/2017 15:07

Enjoy your whips!!! :-D

AwaywiththePixies27 · 04/03/2017 08:22

Nipped into my M&S on the way home last night. There were stacks of walnut whips on a shelf at the front near the checkouts.

Ours is clearly more prepared for walnut whip basket thievery you see? Grin

They were that busy guarding them, they never even noticed me fighting someone on the next aisle for the last bag of Percy pigs...

BlondeBecky1983 · 04/03/2017 09:02

Sounds like they were lurking to claim your walnut whips but you cleverly foiled their plan! I'm imagining Mission Impossible style music! Hilarious! Grin

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 04/03/2017 09:11

When did salted caramel walnut whips become a thing?!

re-plans day to allow for detour to M&S

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 04/03/2017 09:16

I've learnt a lot from this thread. I will pick up a newspaper and use it to protect my basket contents from prying eyes and thieving fingers

AwaywiththePixies27 · 04/03/2017 10:33

Don't blame you Breakfast . Now I know such mischief abides I'm going to cover my shortbread up with a daily mail. That'll sort it Wink

Already had my Mother nick my mini Normandy Brie last night when I left the carrier bag unguarded for five minutes.

Scoundrels.

HappyFlappy · 04/03/2017 15:22

I'm going to cover my shortbread up with a daily mail

Oh dear God!

It buuuuuuuurrrrns!!!

ExpatTrailingSpouse · 04/03/2017 22:01

i've bought the giant walnut whip for my dad before! that was a long time ago, maybe 4 or 5 years? i think it's just a giant chocolate shell with a couple of the regular whips inside - he was sort of disappointed.

all these stories remind me of my own shopping trolley thing. put a tray of salmon fillet in my trolley - think styrofoam tray with plastic wrap over top. right in front of me (and i think DS was in the trolley too!), a bunch of women came up to my trolley, started looking at the salmon, and then one of them started poking it really hard with her finger a bunch of times. She kept doing it even when i stood there looking at her. said "excuse me, that's my shopping" and she told me she was only showing her family the fish and kept doing it. i was like, wtf? no need to squash my salmon to show it to them!!!

damngina · 04/03/2017 22:07

I see you Neal McBeal the Navy Seal...