To think if you behave like a twat in the supermarket...

[SachaStark]

... then you kind of deserve to be treated like a twat in the supermarket?

I went into our local 24 hour Asda yesterday (NEVER usually brave this on a Saturday. DH and I either shop extremely early or extremely late, so it’s only shelf stackers around. Plus, we live in a tourist area, so it’s particularly overrun at the moment) because I hadn’t realised I’d run out of hair conditioner, and I didn’t want to wash my hair without it.

Run in, run out. A couple of minutes maximum.

Fuck me, but there are some twats in the world.

People stopping at the top of the travelator- you have an extremely slow journey to make up your mind, with a very clear view of what’s at the top. And there are only two options, clothing or toiletries! Make up your damn mind, and move out of the way!

People gathering their ENTIRE family to have a reunion with another ENTIRE family in the middle of an aisle. What the fuck? This is not a social outing, and your combined mass of 20 people are blocking everything.

And grown-ass adults with their mates having a ride. On. The. Fucking. Trolley. Oh my word, grow up and get on with your shopping! One of these guys was having a slow whizz ride right in front of the aisle I needed to get to. I’m not waiting for his twattery to finish, I grabbed the front of the trolley to stop him, and carried on with my day.

AIBU to think this sort of behaviour just isn’t on in the supermarket?

It's the Christmas time supermarket shoppers that always get me... I'm sure it must be the only time they ever venture into a supermarket as they seem to be utterly clueless and have no idea what they're doing or how to do it and usually just end up standing in the middle of an aisle staring blankly at the shelves.

Worked nights in 24 hour Asdas for almost 20 years. Seen just about everything in that time. Lonely old people who just came in for someone to talk to, a topless photography session, drunks ramming each other with shopping trollies, and a zombie film being made by students. I've been grabbed, abused and sworn at by members of the public who think that is their right as customers. Used to have an old chap who came in every Thursday about midnight who would ask a different assistant to show him where things were, same items every week, while he discussed the merits of leather and rubber next to the skin. We found out after he was banned from the store that he did this just about every other day of the week at other stores in town.

Are you in Weymouth, OP?

Supermarkets are just warehouses full of shit that you have to do all the work in yourself. And yes full of arseholes. Twice now I've seen people with those fucking stupid rat-dogs in handbags in our nearest one. In a fucking food shop for shits sake.

I was absolutely livid in Morrisons yesterday when a man knocked a load of cheese out of the deli onto the floor, acknowledged it and quickly walked away without picking it back up.

Had I not been in uniform and mindful of the ramifications, I'd have torn him a new one. Entitled twat.

Are you in Penryn, op?

guess the ASDA!

It’s the amazement some people show when told how much their shopping is. What you want me to pay for my food, gasps, sighs, mutters of disbelief. Then very very slowly the purse comes out and the hinges creak as they open it. Eventually sorted and then only then will they start moving their -shit- shopping out of the way.

What I particularly hate about self scan tills is the bagging areas which won’t allow you to put your shopping bag down on them. Banal mechanical voices shrieking ‘remove unauthorised object from the bagging area’. Time spent then packing shopping afterwards with furious puce faced shoppers waiting to use the till and muttering dark curses under their breath.

Tot I like this game

Another vote here for the Weymouth Asda. It's a hell hole on earth!

Perp I want to win!

This is why I shop at Waitrose and use a scanner. I'd kill people else.

I so feel your pain, OP. I came out of Tesco yesterday and said I was never leaving the house again! I don't understand the need to stop in the doorway. We have flowers and newspapers to the left, self scan handsets to the right and also a big space just inside the door where people could stop for a minute but no, they choose the actual doorway. And don't get me started on the oned who meet long lost friends in the cheese aisle or the ones who go as an entire family complete with sullen teenagers standing around in the way, glued to their phones.

I vote for Brighton.

I am happy to tell you that there is a “Guess the Asda” winner on this thread.

You may claim your prize if you venture to the correct branch of Asda, where an obstacle course of Twat Shoppers has been laid out for you to tackle.

First one to the freezer aisle wins!

And since it’s half three on a Sunday and Asda shuts in twenty minutes, they’re bound to be Extra Twatty.

I went into an Asda once. Scarred for life.

Ugh there are many many supermarket twats in most of our local places. Doesn't matter what time you go, some will be there. The meetings of loads of people in the middle of aisles (or worse, at the ends of aisles, blocking anyone from getting to the next aisle rather than just blocking everyone in the middle..) makes me rage sometimes, though I try to ignore it, but usually, along with being just..there in their lines, they also ignore if you say excuse me. Ignorant fuckers.

My bugbear is whole families, with all the kids, going shopping together. I wouldn't mind if they didn't then ignore the kids sliding up and down the aisles and playing hide and seek.

Yeah, it's normal for loads of twats to be behaving like this in the supermarket. You have to just let it wash over you. Expect that the supermarket will be full of twats, expect that the shopping will be much more difficult than it needs to be, and then you aren't stressed out and disappointed at the end of it all.

Wow, I rarely go to supermarkets, but come on people. It's the weekend if people want to have a slow wander round the supermarket and the occasional chat that's up to them. Sounds like my idea of hell rushing around the supermarket tbh!!

When we holiday in N Wales DH takes DC X4 to the local supermarket for a day trip when the weather is iffy. Apparently it is more fun than the butterfly farm.

I deny all connection with him or the kids.

My old lady was in M&S. I know Asda isn't great but it's my nearest supermarket if I've forgotten to order something in my weekly delivery. It's bearable on the few occasions I've been there. What I don't get is why you would want to shop in Aldi or Lidl - both of which are like shopping in a jumble sale and I get twitchy because none of the brands are recognisable.

OP, don't ever visit south west Ireland otherwise your head will explode.

We don't have any self scanning tills in our little supermarkets and staff will happily leave the till to fetch a few items that the old lady has realised she's missing. Another operator will 'kindly' ask you to return in 40 mins when her pal is back from her lunch break as she doesn't know how to take a coupon on the till, even though she's worked there for years. You'll often have to wait whilst the check out lady and the customer in fr0nt of you catch up on local gossip before completing the transaction.

No-one is ever in a rush.

Old men park their cars up the kerb on the pavement just outside the doors so you have to squeeze your trolley between the door and the car. Yes, I have seen this. Friday is cattle market day so there'll inevitably be the odd tractor parked across several spaces in the car park.

It's grand.

I'm with you OP. I can do a full weeks shop for the four of us in around 20 minutes if I don't go at peak times. Shift your trolley, stop your gossiping and get your shopping done so I can crack on with mine. Gives me the rage

This all ties in with the theory that the majority of the general public are cunts .