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Supermarket CF

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makingmammaries · 28/11/2018 19:36

In a big supermarket, I eyed up the queues and joined the one where people didn’t have full trolleys. Stood there for 7 minutes or so with my almost-empty trolley and as the queue moved forward a young man showed up with a trolley full to the brim and pushed it in front of me to join the woman standing before me in the queue. Now, this is France, where supermarket CFery often involves people dumping their bags with a few items at the checkout to ‘reserve’ a place and then going off to fill their trolley - but it’s quite easy to stop them getting away with that. Never yet have I seen one empty-handed person ‘reserve’ a place in the queue while the other rocks up with a full trolley at the last minute. So I protested. The man was quite bolshie, and the woman indicated that she had been ‘waiting’ in the queue. When I pointed out that people choose a queue on the basis of the trolleys they see lined up there, she looked uncomfortable and told me to go first. So all’s well that ends well, except that l’m still annoyed that they tried that trick. AIBU or are they indeed CFs of the first order?

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Bananacloud · 28/11/2018 19:45

I think I’ll be trying what they did next time I go shopping😂
But really, yeah that’s kinda rude!!

Booboostwo · 28/11/2018 20:18

Also in France, also hate the queue jumping.

I had a guy pretend to be with the woman in front of me in a really, really long queue. When I realised they were not together i confronted him. He lied and said he had been there before me and when the woman corrected him he said he was disabled...all the while looking straight at my DD in her wheelchair!

But my biggest bug bear is cashiers who close the till while you are in the queue. DH had unloaded a full trolley when the cashier told him she was closing. He politely asked her to ring him brought but she told him to put all his things back in the trolley, go to another queue and eventually unload again. So he walked away. Good for him.

makingmammaries · 28/11/2018 20:20

I’d also have left my stuff on the conveyor in that situation, and watched them get apoplectic about the chilled items 🤣

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makingmammaries · 28/11/2018 20:26

While I think of it, there’s another amazing CF trick here - the people who gaze at you steadily while brandishing one item. If you let them in front, they often fish out 20 more from the bottom of their bag...

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Booboostwo · 28/11/2018 20:46

...and the produce a bag full of coupons and pay by chèque. 🤪🤪🤪

DeadCertain · 28/11/2018 21:02

I had very similar here in the UK the other week; I let an elderly lady with a few items in front of me as a kindness and her husband joined her shortly afterwards with a trolley full!! I had said "please go in front if that's all you have".

EmpressJewel · 28/11/2018 21:07

I was once in a supermarket queue and a man clutching a loaf of bread asked if he could go ahead of us. OH told him that he could. The man puts his bread down in the conveyor belt and as there were a few people ahead of us in the queue, he decided to run off and get a few more bits. So, he ended up with 5 items.

I was outraged, so I moved his bread and told him that he could get to the back of the queue. Sadly, the people ahead of me let him go ahead of them.

It was a matter of principle for me.

dustarr73 · 28/11/2018 21:17

I remember a few years ago,i had 2 huge trolleys.I was unloading 1 when i seen a woman approach my 2nd trolley.Stand behind it,look around.Make sure nobody was coming back for it.And then pushed it away.

She was delighted with herself.I was laughing and i said that was y trolley.Her face fell,said she didnt realise and it was like that when she got there.I said no,i watched you push it away.
She went and got my trolley and slinked away.It was hilarious.

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