Pensioners nicking ‘nanas

[Thegreatfruittheft]

Waiting in line at customer services in Tesco.
Well dressed older couple (70 ish) walk past pushing their trolley. Stop at ‘free fruit for kids stand’, select banana, peel and eat......
Is that CFery or AIBU?

@Swisskit wasn’t confident in spelling queuing correctly 😂😂😂
@LaMarschallin so wish I’d thought of that!!

I saw a well dressed older couple recently, selecting very carefully and squirelling fruit from the "free for children" bit into a bag. After a while I could control myself no longer (yes, even I can see I'm a twat sometimes ) and politely asked if they realised this was for children to which she said "Yes I know, we are taking it home for our grandchildren"

We don't have the stand at our local tesco anymore, might be because everyone was helping themselves? When it was there, it was often empty anyway. It's cheeky to take it when it's only offered for children.
I thought they had stopped doing it at all Tesco's until we went to a different Tesco's whilst on a day out.

They've only had to start offering this due to entitled fuckers feeding their kids from the shelves for free during shopping trips.

I can't find it within me to be bothered about pensioners helping themselves.

Robbing bastards. May have needed the energy to get around the shop? . What way does your bloody mind work, flyingspaghetti?!

Work for the big T currently, no one cares who takes it, the fruit literally costs us nothing and therefore we're happy for whoever to take it.

The only reason it says 'for kids' is a marketing stratergy to make parents feel like we care about their little darlings, when in reality all they care about is the pounds leaving your pocket.

Maybe they are on a tight budget.

They wouldn't be in Waitrose if their budget was tight

My FIL would take a few. One for now and some for the next few days. He is quite comfortably off....
I've seen free fruit for kids in one M&S branch too.

@clucky3 they weren't in Waitrose

I think more places should take care of the elderly, children have parents.

If I was granted an infinite number of fucks and was a billionaire with nothing else whatsoever in my life to trouble me, I still could not imagine giving a single fuck or even a fraction of one, about this.

Classic CF behaviour from the ever smug 'gravy train generation'

It is stealing, pure and simple.

Good on them.
It's fruit. It's free.

I certainly wouldn't begrudge a pensioner some food to eat, tis hard times

Judge not lest ye be judged

The free fruit is generally the bruised stuff that would otherwise have been thrown. What difference does it make if the person who ears it is seven or seventy?

Fairly sure that if this was reversed and kids were taking, say, biscuits put out for pensioners, the responses here would be far less accepting - strange how everyone is more willing to turn a blind eye to bad behaviour when it's done by the over 70's.

The Tesco free fruit where I live is usually well past.its best so it would only get binned anyway. They would be better off donating it to local.shelters.

Of course they're CFs. And what agist posts we're getting here. 'Think of the poor pensioners, they must be on their uppers'.

It clearly says it's for kids and they know perfectly well that it's there to keep kids happy while their parents shop. If they've got low blood sugar they can buy something just the same as they would if they were anywhere but tesco.

signed, someone not that far off their age who's really not looking forward to being patronised.

i've never seen this in local-ish Tesco so it's a new one on me. However I couldn't care less who helps themselves.

Waitress gives free cups of coffee.

School has started, who are the children at the supermarkets? Toddlers? If so, they will have enough with 5 grapes and leave the banana (and a mess) behind.

gravy train generation

Snort.