What were Morrison's thinking?

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Don't know if this is just our Morrison's, or Nationwide, but it's wrong for so many reasons...

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/16073499.MorrisonswilllhavemumssonlycheckoutssforMotherrs_Day/

Why would you want to be pampered by a supermarket? They should treat all their customers the same - cheerfully and efficiently so you can get on with your day.

Do they do the same for Dads on Fathers Day? It seems not. Just women who need to get their me time in the checkout queue then??

Ridiculous waste of time!

It's just a silly gimmick though because how do they know who is a mother?

I've been to Morrisons this morning. The "Mums lane" checkout was unmanned so I went through a normal one and didn't get a free flower!

I actually couldn’t care less about P&C parking spaces. They are there all the time and I understand the practical reason for them. I don’t understand the practical need for a mums only till on one day of the year.

I don't understand the practical reason for putting up a Christmas tree in the town square in December. It's not there all year, serves no practical purpose, and may be really upsetting to non-Christians or people who lost a loved one at Christmas.

God, some of you on this thread are such nasty cows it really is astonishing. Makes me wonder what is wrong in your lives that drives you to such spite towards a stranger. 'Some people just want to suck all the joy out of everything', 'Let's just cancel it and every other celebration then' and so on.

What did the OP say or do to deserve such venom? She posted her opinion. Is she not allowed one? And then some of you crowing that she hasn't come back...is it any wonder why?

Is it beyond your comprehension that some people do find Mother's Day sad and that OP and others reading this thread might well be among them given the nature of the OP. I expect it is...in your race to sneer at how lame the OP is there can be little time to engage brain. Or maybe you are just thoughtless and unkind?

FWIW I don't really care either way about the mum's only lane. However the sneering, teasing and laughing at others because they have a different opinion is beyond pathetic, and shows a remarkable lack of any empathy and an ugly spite...you just want to tear her off a strip because you get a bizarre satisfaction from it.

Apologies to the posters who have been polite and friendly on this thread, whether you agree with the OP or not. This post is not directed at you but at the sad bunch of playground bullies gleefully putting the boot in. If you read the thread through you can easily see who they are. Really nasty to read.

In contrast there is another thread running where an OP has been very kind and sent love and sympathy to those who might be crying on Mother's Day for a variety of reasons. What a difference...that thread is the best of mumsnet whereas this thread shows posters at their insensitive and spiteful worst.

Definitely an advertising coup for Morsisons. But maybe false advertising as the queue was longer in the mothers only line compared to the others. Is it worth self identifying as a mother to stand in a long queue?

Whizbang why can't you accept that you don't agree with posters, you don't have to throw your toys out of the pram and start insulting everybody.

It's a day about Mothers, how hard is it to ignore if you don't want to join. Blimey, so much bitterness and anger. Next you will want women to be ashamed of being mums.

Is it beyond your comprehension that some people do find Mother's Day sad and that OP and others reading this thread might well be among them given the nature of the OP.

But that applies equally to all the other stuff peddled for mother's day. I can't stand the idea of mother's day. It doesn't make me sad. I think it is comercialised sentimentality in which I have no interest either as a daughter or a mother. I can't see what is so terrible about one more trivial addition to the welter of mother's day items.

However the sneering, teasing and laughing at others because they have a different opinion is beyond pathetic,

Nobody's "tearing strips off" anybody
It does come across as "I don't like that lane so nobody else should be able to use it either."
'Let's just cancel it and every other celebration then' and so on.
But that's kind of what they are saying - Morrisons are disgustingly insensitive, why should they do that, it causes immense upset..."
Trying not to be blunt, but there really is no way else to say it - people have different experiences. Should we never do anything in case someone gets upset?You'd never go anywhere, say anything, in case someone took offence.
If it doesn't apply to you, it doesn't mean it automatically applies to everyone else.
If they started doing grandparent checkouts on Grandparents Day, should those without their Grandparents still around say "no, that's disgusting, they shouldn't do that, it's not fair?"
Or think it's a nice thing for grandparents who are still around and they shouldn't have to not do something just in case someone gets upset?
As someone said, life goes on and we can't censor and stop others from celebrating if it doesn't suit us.

Haha Cucaracha, the irony! My whole post was about the spiteful madams piling in on the OP with sneers and insults because they don't agree with her. Try rereading. I don't care about the mum's only lane and would probably use it myself if I shopped in there today.

No, I think mum's should be proud. But I think those taking pot shots at the OP and others who might not be skipping for joy about it are really low. Guess you are one of them.

Guess I'm a nasty cow.

I wasn't 'crowing' for anything, but I would like to know the ops many reasons.

And many of the comments you dislike haven't been made to the op (unless the op is sock-puppeting), but to other people in the thread.

But hey, facts are largely irrelevant when it comes to having a good rant so crack on!

I'm a widowed father and have to all intents and purposes been father and mother to my kids for six years. Do I get to use it?

I imagine you wont be the only bloke in the queue. But you might just be the only one identifying as one.

Yes they are tearing strips, re-read the thread.

Lass, you are right, there are any number of things in the shops around Mothers Day that will feel like a knife in the heart to someone who lost their mum recently. They can't be avoided and shouldn't be banned and I do not object to them....I said in my post I don't care about the MD lane.

What offends me is the spite that some posters use to inform the OP of their opinion. It is so unnecessary. And so thoughtless because there will be some who will indeed be hiding away from the world today in grief. I don't understand why they feel the need to be so unkind about it

Yes Peerie, if the cap fits. But don't mind me, knock yourself out thinking up pithy put downs to stroke your own ego, don't worry yourself that the comments are offensive to some and really not necessary in this debate.

Whizbang, its working both ways and to be honest you're not really coming across in the most diplomatic of ways either.

Fionne, that's because I am angry. However I have gone to efforts to point out that my anger is only aimed at the sneery cows on this thread and not to those who have expressed their opinion politely whatever their opinion may be. As for how I come across to the bullies, I don't care what they think of me because I have an extremely low opinion of them.

Fionne, sorry, you have it wrong.

Only nice people describe others as nasty cows.

Does that mean the mum unfriendly staff are on the other tills?

Whiz, so a case of if you can't beat them, join them.

Or is it don't do as I do, do as I say?

Either way you're not practicing what you're preaching.

S'ok Peerie, knock yourself out. Fortunately I'm not recently bereaved and am robust enough to stand up for myself and call out spitefulness when I see it. So go ahead and take your swipes at me, hopefully I'll soak up your bile so that those genuinely grieving today won't have to.

Hang on. Why are these mothers having to shop on Mother's Day? Shouldn't hey all be at home with their feet up already?

My bile? Really?

I haven't called anyone names. I haven't judged anyone by their responses on just one thread. No, not even you.

No Fionne...I have explained that I am calling out those posters who have written unnecessarily harsh and thoughtless responses for no apparent reason. My comments to those posters are not baseless insults, but a statement of fact based on the words they have posted above.