In expecting not to get thrown out of a charity shop for having a pram?

[lucy5]

I am fuming! I was asked to leave a charity shop today because they no longer allow prams in. When I asked why, I was told that prams lead to stealing! I have donated and bought a lot of stuff from this shop, well never again!

Unbelievable!!! Whatever next?!

I am flabbergasted by this!

My God! Complain to their head offices. A case of blue rinses getting their support stockings in a twist?

Oh Gawd, they don't help themselves, do they?

Maybe an email to the charity's HQ?

name and shame them!

"prams lead to stealing"

ROFL

Are you sure the assistant didn't have it wrong? If it a small shop its more likely to be because of the risk in case of fire. The helpers in charity shops are usually temporary volunteers doing a fantastic job but might not always be altogether in the know.

I'm in Spain, bored expats with too much time on their hands but you are right I will email the head office.

No I deffo got it right as I challenged her, in a polite way of course.

Lucy5 where abouts in spain are you im in cabo roig about 10 mins form torrevieja
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'prams lead to stealing' - there really are no words to describe how i feel about that statement.

While we're on the subject, i have to share what happened to me whilst i was shopping, sans pram for christmas presents in the PDSA..

I was rummaging through the clothes section, when a shop assistant, looking straight at me, walks over and starts to speak into her intercom. ( i know, an intercom in a second hand shop. who the hell was she even talking to, i wonder?)

'Yes, that's right, we have a female in her mid-twenties, short, medium build, over. Yes I'll keep you posted when we have any developments, over.'

I can't describe how much that stung. not only to i look like a shop-lifter. i look like a charity shop-lifter, surely the lowest kind.

Yummers I am so sorry but I am PMSL. Please feel free to give me a piece of you mind but that me me LOL!

I'm in Estepona between Marbella and Gibraltar.

Yes I felt like a thief too. The ironic thing is that this is a children's charity!

Yummers, I'd complain to the PDSA head office if I were you. That's terrible. Bet they'd be very embarrassed.

Well, actually prams are very useful for stealing things, especially if you've got a baby in there to swipe things as you go round.

I think there is a stigma attached to people with pushchairs, especially if you are on your own and you are young. A security guard in boots looked at me funny when i went in the other day, and then I couldnt help looking shifty!

i know, tbh i didn't know whether to laugh or cry. as i winced out of the shop, it did cross my mind to call the head office and complain, i must admit. but i cooled down eventually and let it slide

Ridiculous.

I was invited to go to a 'Christmas Fayre' at a local church hall the other day. I was thinking it might be nice - until I saw the flier said 'no prams or buggies inside the hall'. What, so nobody with a baby or toddler can come in? Talk about alienating your target audience.

PMSL yummers! You master crimimal you!

The truth is I am not that young and I was with my Mum!

Get onto your local newspaper now! You'll probably end up in The Sun with this one too. I'm a journalist in Nottingham so I know what I'm talking about.....

yummers

Me and buggies in charity shpopshave a bad history

Some nutjob woman once tried taking Ds2 out of the double pushchair when he was only about 7 or 8 weeks old. What she was planning to do with himI shudder tio think

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have a bad experience, thought I must look particularly dodgy

Inter

IW, that's bloody terrifying, you poor thing, that's the kind of thing i try to convince myself is sooo unlikely i shouldn't worry about it. but it clearly does happen