Supermarket etiquette

[Stormwhale]

I'm pretty sure I'm nbu, but I just want to check. Very minor, definitely not life changing issue.

I was at Lidl the other day and it was really busy. The staff opened another checkout, and I joined the queue for that one. A man then comes along with a full trolley and pushes it past me, so he is in front of me in the queue. At this point I say "excuse me", but he keeps pushing it forwards, meaning other people in the queue are forced to move aside too.

I then said "excuse me, I'm in the queue". A woman at the front of the queue then said, "he's with me" and he gave me a dirty look and said, "we obviously need the trolley".

That's not cool right? Surely you wait until you have the trolley ready before joining a queue? It's not on to send someone ahead to hold a place in the queue, right?

Someone once ran my dd down pushing to get in front of me as 'his wife was already in the queue'. I only had a poxy basket, they had a good trolley full.

As I scooped dd up I pushed the trolley back so it was behind mine and snarled at them that if they carried on pushing in and knocking small children over they would piss a mother off so much they would be in the queue for A and E.

Woman working on checkout obviously knew them as she told them if they pushed in again they would be barred and they had been warned already.

Some people are just entitled cunts. I don't let it bother me unless they run my kids down. In which case they are right at the top of my shit list.

I'm still pissed off about the posh woman in the campsite shop last year - tiny space, lots of people, small shelf to put your things on so they could be totted up. I got to the front of the queue and the woman behind me put her things on the shelf! I gave her my best Paddington and said 'do you mind waiting your turn?'

She huffed, picked them up, bitched to her friend, waited till I'd finished and said 'Oh! My turn now, is it?'

Yes, it is now your turn. To get yourself to fuck.

This one

YANBU although EyeStye does make a good point. It's a tough one. I'd never feel comfortable pushing my trolley past other people like that!

On a side note, this reminds me of when I was little and used to go shopping with my mum and dad. Towards the end dad would be completely bored and disappear to the tills with the trolley with no warning. Once we realised it was a last mad dash to grab a last few "essentials" each and try and find him in the queue in time. (Hopefully this is more reasonable as we were only adding 5 or so things to an already full trolley and not drastically altering anybodies waiting time.) It used to drive my mum absolutely crazy but dad always said it got us out of the shop a good half an hour quicker. Mum now sends him out shopping on his own so I'm not sure it was a great tactic!

This happened in lidl to me recently. A man with 2 items in his basket got joined by a woman with a brimming over trolly.

The checkout lady was brilliant and told them that as the belt was already full they'd need to to go the back of the queue - which had grown quite a bit while they were pushing their way through. They demanded to see the manager and she said "I am the manager".

They went to the back and spent the whole time loudly complaining about how unfairly they'd been treated to anyone who'd listen but the icing on the cake was when the manager asked 2 people with baskets to come in front of them as they had so much to unload-both were through, paid and out the door before they'd got everything out of trolley!!

Rude. Very very rude. Unfortunately people like that are everywhere.
Take a deep breath and carry on. No point getting into a spat with entitled dicks it will only bring you down and ruin your day.

Such brazen attitude often catches us unawares, but I'm hoping if it happened to me, I'd refuse to move. The staff should refuse to serve them, too.

YANBU, what knobbishness indeed!!

little Is there a reason you mentioned her age?

So rude.

Happened once to me in Waitrose. WAITROSE! Oh the inhumanity

They demanded to see the manager and she said "I am the manager".

Brilliant!

Saving a space in the queue!? We're not in school.
Dear me. What entitled arseholes!

If i have a massive trolley i OFFER a basket person to go in front and i dont mind a polite requesr. Barging past with a trolley is obnoxious.