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

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Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 10:53

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.

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StealthPolarBear · 18/02/2018 14:15

Oh I eat celery in between the cake and biscuits. I genuinely like it, it's just coincidence that it's low fat :)

AccidentallyRunToWindsor · 18/02/2018 14:16

I had the same in Sainsbury's with a banana but they just let me have it.

FridgeCut · 18/02/2018 14:24

Maybe they aren't allowed to say "Let her have it, Janine" in case she has an uzi in her tabard and is confused by the lingo.

Hygge · 18/02/2018 14:26

I have just bought two loose carrots from ASDA, that I didn't put in a bag but did print a label before we went to the check-out. It cost me 19p for them both.

Tesco are weird. Why did the manager not just go weigh it himself if they really needed a label?

twoplytwoply · 18/02/2018 14:27

I once didn't weigh my veg in a supermarket in Italy, and I was told off very soundly.

Pigflewpast · 18/02/2018 14:29

The vinegar was organic apple cider vinegar for my hair (I’m a curly girl).

I'm a frizzy girl - what am I supposed to be doing with vinegar that will make me become a curly girl???

FizzyGreenWater · 18/02/2018 14:37

Grin FridgeCut

'Naw Janeeeyne iss only a carrut, iss nor worf it!'

GrannyGrissle · 18/02/2018 14:37

Have you a questionable reputation locally when it comes to phallicly shaped veg?Perhaps Tesco are trying to save you from yourself? Grin

Mumthedogsbeensick · 18/02/2018 14:40

This reminds me of Rhod Gilbert's Jacket Potato argument he had in Tesco. I don't know how to do a link but look for it on YouTube it's really funny 😁

satnc · 18/02/2018 14:56

Jobsworths!
I used to work on the checkout at Sainos and then became a checkout supervisor and if cheap stuff didn't have labels or whatever the problem was I just used to give it away. It was a joke between colleagues that my most used line was 'if anyone says anything, just say it was me/say I said to do it' because I didn't really didn't care.
Think some people get so caught up with pointless policy. At the end of the day it's a friggin carrot in a supermarket who gives a shitHmm

GrannyGrissle · 18/02/2018 16:08

Upabitlate and blindness.

Garmadonsmum · 18/02/2018 17:04

Maybe they thought you were pregnant, OP.
Too much vitamin a and all that!

Oblomov18 · 18/02/2018 17:07

Manager clearly couldn't be bothered. Which is poor!

Gabilan · 18/02/2018 22:44

Celery is gross. It tastes like piss.

And you know that how?

NoliteTeBastardesCarborundorum · 19/02/2018 02:29

A teenage cashier once apologised to me and asked what one of the items I was buying was so he could put it through. It was a lime...

NoliteTeBastardesCarborundorum · 19/02/2018 02:32

Also once saw someone get turned away in M and S for trying to buy a loose pear from the food hall at the clothes tills. They were very apologetic but don't think he got it for free.

sexnotgender · 19/02/2018 16:48

I'm a frizzy girl - what am I supposed to be doing with vinegar that will make me become a curly girl???

I use it diluted as a rinse.
I follow the curly girl method- if you look on FB there’s a group for it with over 150k members.
It is essentially no shampoo as that dries out curly hair, so all styling products have to be silicone free. The vinegar is an extra rinse if your hair gets a little bit of build up.

bigbluebus · 19/02/2018 17:00

What's with all this weighing and labelling of loose veg? Doesn't happen around here. Gets weighed at the checkout but no label applied there either.

TheLovelyHorse · 19/02/2018 17:17

I too am a solo carrot purchaser. I have never been accused of the sins of Onan.

a1poshpaws · 19/02/2018 17:26

I can't believe they just didn't give the last, lonely carrot to you free! "More than my job's worth" type of manager, or just really thick.

jane1956 · 19/02/2018 17:32

avoid Tescos go to Sainsburys can buy one carrot there also have number for cucumber 00395113

pollymere · 19/02/2018 17:37

Next time, use the self service. They have built in scales and you just search carrot.

ABypassRunsThroughIt · 19/02/2018 17:42

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

Grin Am glad to hear it! Thanks for your post, it has cheered me up at a time I was feeling low.

XmasInTintagel · 19/02/2018 17:43

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
You were lucky! I once bought a wrapped cucumber, in with a largish shop, and luckily checked my receipt. It had been charged at over £7!
I went to customer services, and a young woman informed me that if I was charged that, it was the price! I asked her to get her supervisor, and she, bless her, laughed, took the price of the cucumber off my bill, and gave it me free for the hassle I'd had with her colleague Grin

Daisypp · 19/02/2018 17:43

The last single carrot and a breakdown of management systems. They should have given it to you I would write and complain, it shows Tesco in a very poor light

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