Staff at supermarket

[London91]

Stopped by a supermarket after work to grab some dinner bits and some pregnancy tests. Paid and went to leave as expected the security alarm went off. The woman who served me told me to go and the proceeded to shout "it's the pregnancy tests that's all" the security guard came over I produced my receipt and he searched my bags. And kept checking items that were not the cause of the alarm going off. I'd already explained what has caused it to go off. He was happy I had paid for everything and as I left the woman at the till again shouted "I told you it was just the pregnancy tests. Am I being unreasonable to be pissed off that she did that. I have no problem with the security guard doing his job just felt like the assistant could have been more sensitive and discreet rather than embarrass me like that. I could be just being oversensitive but I'm fuming and have half a mind to complain for her conduct.

YANBU obviously.

I would probably have kept on walking though - despite an alarm going off.. (And I have before!) Fuck 'em. If they can't deactivate the 'security tags' properly, then tough shit. I am not wasting my time stopping and going back in.

Fortunately, there has always been 10 to 20 other people going in and out of the doors on the few occasions it has happened, (to me,) so no-one knew who was causing the beeping. And I am gone by the time anyone wakes up and runs to the door.

If I know I have not nicked anything, (which I never do!) I won't stop.

DO complain though @London91 Their behaviour was rude and obnoxious.

And the different stories people are coming out with on here are very familiar.

I was in the pharmacist last week (next to the doctors surgery,) and the woman serving said to a woman picking up a prescription (who I live a few doors away from,) 'YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EXEMPTION DON'T YOU? FOR DLA, and EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT ALLOWANCE ISN'T IT?'

The woman looked so embarrassed, coz now me - her neighbour, knows she is on DLA, and has free prescriptions. I don't give a shit, but someone who had a grudge against her, could have used that against her, as they know she is on disability benefits.

It's bad enough that every fucker in the pharmacy knows your address, (as they always call it out as loudly as possible!) without everyone knowing you are on benefits too. The thing is, this woman had already filled in the back of the prescription, so the pharmacist had no reason WHATSOEVER to yell out 'what is your exemption?' to my neighbour.

That would have really annoyed me too.

Yanbu. They are a personal item and not the sort of thing you want announcing in a shop. I now get them from asda at the self service checkouts.

With my last pregnancy I wanted to grab some tests when I popped into Tesco to collect an online clothes order. First the damn things were in those security boxes so I had to get someone to come and take it out, who was chatting away to a colleague waving them about. Then of course the alarms went off at the door and the security guard came over. Rather than just checking my receipt he emptied all my shopping out, pregnancy tests and all, right in the entrance where it was really busy (it was just before Christmas) I found it really humiliating. Turned out they had left the tags on all the clothes I had bought online, so he'd had no need to rummage through all my bags anyway.

I know this isn't really the same but a few years ago I was taking a large amount of cash out of my account, £500 to be exact, and the silly bint in the bank (with a queue of people behind me) started loudly counting it, almost shouting "20, 40, 60, 80 100. 20, 40, 60, 80, 200...etc" I was so paranoid walking through town thinking of all the people who knew I had that amount of cash on me.

The alarm went off in Asda once as I walked out. The security guard came over, glanced in my bags then saw condoms on the receipt and politely said he would not embarrass me by fishing them out so he let me go on my way. He was very discreet , not that I would have been bothered .

I've read this before.

@keepingbees

Yanbu. They are a personal item and not the sort of thing you want announcing in a shop. I now get them from asda at the self service checkouts.

I don't think that would have made any difference if the OP had gone through the self service. It was when the OP was leaving the store that the beep beep went off.

If anything, the self service may have highlighted it more, as the 'restricted items' alert would probably have gone off.

@bingbongnoise no it wouldn't have stopped the door alarm going off in this case, but the Asda ones don't come up as restricted items and aren't, as far as I'm aware, security tagged. I've always just been able to scan them and leave without any staff intervention (and they've never set the door alarms off) which is why I was saying I buy them from there.

Thanks for your replies. I emailed they have said they will be speaking with the lady about her behavior. God knows whether anything will come of it. But I feel better having said something.