To wonder why Tescos wouldn't sell me a carrot?

[Pumpkinisland89]

To be clear: it wasn't a big deal, I just shrugged and (bravely) survived.

I tried to buy a carrot. It came from a loose produce shelf. Last one which I thought was a bit odd. I didn't bother weighing it myself because there was a queue at the scales. Went to pay expecting the cashier to weigh it. She moaned a bit about me not putting a label on it and moaned even more when I said I didn't need a bag for it. She was obviously new as she didn't know how to put it through the till so she called a manager over. The manager said something I didn't hear and went off to the veg section. He came back and said because there wasn't a label on the carrot shelf he couldn't sell me it?

I've had it before when a shop has refused to sell me a cucumber because it was prepacked but the label had come off. I sort of see why with that (although it's stupid) but why with a lose carrot?

By the way I am over 18 and have no previous veg related offences.

You have to weigh it on scales and.stick label on. Then u could have had the carrot

I bought a single carrot in Asda for 8p yesterday.

One word. Masturbation funniest reply of the day.

Hope you managed to get to the root of the problem OP...

Is weighing & labelling a thing in most supermarkets for loose veg? Or just Tesco with carrots?

I always buy all my veggies loose. (I’m trying to reduce my plastic use) but I do usually buy more than one carrot and I shop in Sainsbury’s even though Tesco are literally right outside my door. (I can see them from my front and back door) sometimes I weigh my veg and get stickers, sometimes I don’t bother and let the cashier do the weighing.
How very peculiar that the cashier wouldn’t sell you one carrot.

Go Sainsbury’s instead. I saw a chap buying a single (very large) carrot at self service just yesterday. I noticed it because I nearly weed myself laughing about it when he left

That's daft. Have a word with them!

Morrosons are great. I remember being gifted all sorts of ingredients for a curry, as they couldn't get it to weigh the tiny quantities of ginger, lemongrass etc that I'd picked up from the loose veg shelves.

Do cashiers not have weighing option on their till?
I often buy a single carrot, why buy a bag 8f you don't need them?

Reading that receipt was so satisfying sexnotgender

A thousand times better than a shopping list.

🤤 Need a receipt thread.

I managed to find a local independent supermarket that sell all their fruit & veg loose, so I take mesh bags with me & fill those. Then everything just gets weighed at the checkout.

Including carrots.

If Tesco are worried about the phallic qualities of carrots, what do they make of parsnips?

I love reading other shopping bills! The cookies for £2.49 tho???

On a related topic, can we get supermarkets to sell single sticks of celery?
I can't understand why they don't, they'd make a fantastic margin on them.

I don't want a whole head of celery just for the stick I need for casserole

So since I’m sat in a strip mall waiting for DD to finish her piano lesson I thought I’d pop into the supermarket to buy a carrot. It cost 32fils which is about 6p. No issues at all!

Madness. I’d of asked for a reason why. Bet they couldn’t come up with a normal sounding one.

OP is this one of those threads where you drip feed information?

Are you going to admit in a minute that your shopping basket only consisted of a single carrot and a tube of KY jelly?

Look, you can't buy single carrots because they prefer to live in pairs. Like rabbits.

I wanted to make a little portion of guacamole one day to use up half an avo. Came across the tiniest red onion amongst the normal sized loose ones. it was about the size of a ping pong ball. Took it to the till where it wouldn't weigh properly so got it for free.

No waste either :)

Morrosons are great. I remember being gifted all sorts of ingredients for a curry, as they couldn't get it to weigh the tiny quantities of ginger, lemongrass etc that I'd picked up from the loose veg shelves.

Years ago a cashier in Kwiksave basically threw some kiwi fruit at me as he didn't appear to know what they were and couldn't be bothered to find out. Sainsbury's gifted me a recalcitrant chilli that didn't want to register on the weighing scales. Cashier tried a couple of times, shrugged, and lobbed it onto the rest of my shopping. (I want to say he tossed it, but in the context of a carrot thread, it felt wrong, somehow).

In fact, free fruit and veg that refuses to be weighed is a bit of a supermarket perk really.

Omg 😂

sexnotgender
Ooh, both shades of soy sauce? Interesting......

It's really strange. I work in Tesco. Sometimes fruit and veg won't scan - you reset the scales while muttering under your breath about the uselessness of the bloody thing and eventually it works. With the cucukber - someone should have gone and got you another, with a bar code on it. Sounds like the team leader was stressed and didn't do things properly

I shop at Tesco all the time and weigh my 🥕 s at the self-service till because I avoid interacting with people if I can. Never any issues.

I agree they thought you wanted the carrot for nefarious purposes. You mention previously buying a cucumber so have form.

Did you get the carrot in the end, OP? Your post doesn't make it clear and I will worry about it until you confirm.

Self-service checkouts allow you to search individual items, so surely the cashier's till should also allow them to do it?

I almost inadvertently stole one of those tiny Lindt bunnies from Morrisons the other day. It was so light that the bagging area scales couldn't detect it.

When I worked in Asda a billionty and seven years ago we had no scales on the fag counter so couldn't weigh anything. Used to really annoy people who wanted baccy, two packs of kingsize rizla and a banana.

Babybel for £1 is enviable.