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Pensioners nicking ‘nanas

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Thegreatfruittheft · 13/09/2019 21:48

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?

OP posts:
Rockbird · 13/09/2019 22:38

Our Tesco free fruit is lovely and fresh. I see them unloading boxes of beautiful bananas. DD2 often takes a piece then decides she doesn't want it after one bite. I eat it because I don't want it wasted but I feel like a total cheeky fucker!

Don't begrudge anyone else though. I also could never have enough fucks to give about this.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 13/09/2019 22:38

Tesco management must know this is happening and presumably if they cared they would do something about it. They still benefit because pensioners who take the free fruit will probably shop there more often because they like a bit of a freebie.
I just can't bring myself to care about this, to be honest. I would assume that there is an amount of fruit set aside for this, and no profit would be made from it anyway (aside from the goodwill aspect) so it's hard to see why anyone would get actually angry about this.

ClaraThePigeon · 13/09/2019 22:40

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

Oh enough with the ageism bullshit. It's a free banana not a fucking kidney.

Bojangles33 · 13/09/2019 22:40

Do you really begrudge an old lady a banana?! It's not like the took it out of a child's hand!

EleanorReally · 13/09/2019 22:41

first time i saw it it just said free fruit, so i took one, but the next time it said it was for children, so i didnt, i assume this couple have misread and sign

ozymandiusking · 13/09/2019 22:43

As it happens my husband went to Asda shopping this afternoon He is 80.Feeding today was somwhat arwy, and was feeling a bit shaky from low blood sugar. Actually I wish he could have had a banana!. But I have just told him, to eat one and weigh the skin.
I hope that would be alright!

WalkofShame · 13/09/2019 22:43

Why should only kids be able to eat it?

OneHanded · 13/09/2019 22:44

I will admit to having done this more than once as I have panic attacks in supermarkets, shopping centres, etc. The blood sugar crash after is something else.

walkintheparc · 13/09/2019 22:48

Mind your own business - they were taking from a huge corporation, not a charity. It's Tesco's money to lose, and if they choose not to enforce who takes it, then it's on them. Nothing is stopping you from taking it! Maybe listen to an audiobook on your way around the shops for something more interesting to think about.

saraclara · 13/09/2019 22:51

Why don't you take something with you if you know you're likely to get a blood sugar crash though?

I mean, yes, it's just a bit of fruit. But we all coped without a free piece of fruit when we went shopping before (and still do if it's not in tesco).

Seriously, people go on about young people being entitled, but it seems to be pretty much everyone now.

donquixotedelamancha · 13/09/2019 22:53

Yet another bigoted post on MN. Clearly they identified as children and were just as entitled to a banana as any cis child. You horribly mis-age them in your post OP- trans children are children.

Educate yourself:

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/08/dutch-man-69-starts-legal-fight-to-identify-as-20-years-younger

saraclara · 13/09/2019 22:53

I'm not going to do anything about it if I see someone take the kid fruit, of course. I'm just really surprised that almost everyone on this thread is going 'it's only fruit'....'poor old people' etc. Would they think the same if the old person just helped themselves to fruit from the usual display and didn't pay?

ClaraThePigeon · 13/09/2019 22:54

So likewise why can't kids cope without a bit of fruit?

WalkofShame · 13/09/2019 22:55

But why should kids have access to free fruit and no one else?

Grandmi · 13/09/2019 22:55

Does it really matter...who cares ? !! Sorry for lack of support !! Get a life and worry about the oceans etc !!

ClaraThePigeon · 13/09/2019 22:55

No, because unlike the fruit elsewhere in the store it's free.

Goodlookingcreature · 13/09/2019 22:55

Little crotch goblins are more likely to waste the fruit anyway, I’d rather it be taken by someone who’d eat it

LaMarschallin · 13/09/2019 22:56

donquixotedelamancha
Smile

Ounce · 13/09/2019 22:56

Tesco doesn't give a shit about your kids, people. All the 'free' fruit, the p&c spaces, it's all just mugging.

ClaraThePigeon · 13/09/2019 22:56

Now that I think about it I've never actually seen a child eating the fruit in my local store.

SummerBreezemakesmefeelfine · 13/09/2019 22:57

If Tesco are bothered about who eats the free fruit, let them police those taking it. It would cost them much more to put a member of staff on duty beside the stall.

I wouldn't take it myself when you can buy 2 or 3 bananas for not much more than 30 pence, but if the elderly want to eat it then fair enough.

walkintheparc · 13/09/2019 22:58

Would they think the same if the old person just helped themselves to fruit from the usual display and didn't pay? of course not, because this is free, on the side, with a big 'help yourself' sticker. There's no survey or height barrier to check you're the right age to qualify.

SummerBreezemakesmefeelfine · 13/09/2019 23:01

ClaraThePigeon

DH recently saw a family with a number of children eating the fruit. Once they had finished one piece, the DM sent them back for more. Fair play to them.

Haffiana · 13/09/2019 23:09

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

Brexit voter alert!!

saraclara · 13/09/2019 23:15

because this is free, on the side, with a big 'help yourself' sticker. There's no survey or height barrier to check you're the right age to qualify

No. It has a Free Fruit for Kids sticker.

It's not the sin of the century, but the OP asked if it's CFery, and of course it is. They can read. It says Free Fruit for Kids, and they're taking it when they're not kids.