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Asked to leave asda because of folded manual scooter

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fashu · 21/09/2021 19:01

So, I took my son to school this morning on a manual push scooter that folds into a back pack and then needed to quick get some milk from Asda. After dropping him off I went to asda and then started to fold the scooter up. They asked me to leave it at the door I said it might be stolen there.
Long story short I had to leave the shop.
Went back later when I had to pick him up and they told me when I went in that it was a health and safety risk, but surely leaving it next to the door unattended is even more of a risk? What if someone tripped on it.
I said I'm an adult with my kids scooter folded up, my kid wasn't there.
He said it would be age discrimination against younger people if he hold me and not them, but isn't making assumptions about younger people discrimination?
Very strange.

OP posts:
lockdownmadnessdotcom · 22/09/2021 11:00

@Daphnise

I am very glad those things are not allowed in Asda, as I find them a nuisance- whether being ridden by horrible, clumsy children or carried.
This.
lockdownmadnessdotcom · 22/09/2021 11:01

@Shade17

I used to put my son's in the trolley.

That’s beyond grim

?
FangsForTheMemory · 22/09/2021 11:04

People letting their kids use these things in shops are irresponsible and the kids are a pest. I'm glad shops have this blanket policy. The security guard wouldn't know whether or not you were following your OH and kid into the shop with the scooter, for example.

FinallyFluid · 22/09/2021 11:10

They are all marching out of step except for my Johnnie.

Original poster
fashu · 22/09/2021 11:11

Just to answer a few points. My son was not with me, he was in school. Once I folded it, he came over and asked me to leave it in the door. I think if I had just walked in then he wouldn't have seen it. It was 2 doors and he asked me to leave it in the middle which would have been more of a trip hazard.
He said if he told younger people they couldn't ride their scooter inside and not me it would be age discrimination, but then continued to say a group of teenage boys would cause trouble, making assumptions about younger boys. In my opinion if you were riding a scooter in a shop no matter what your age it would be more than reasonable to ask them to remove the scooter.
It doesn't conceal in a bag but it acts like a back pack.
He didn't stop me the 2nd time. I had my youngest in a pram and my oldest on foot. I asked if I was OK to come in.

Just to add, I have used this shop many times, with and without the scooter.
I've also never ever been stopped in the 8 years of having this scooter, even on the London Underground.

His whole attitude was wrong and that is what has annoyed me most.

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Original poster
fashu · 22/09/2021 11:13

[quote CovidCorvid]www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1981966/Gand-bike-thugs-terrorise-customers-rampage-Asda.html[/quote]
Yes, I'm sure these were all on 3 year olds scooters!

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Macncheeseballs · 22/09/2021 11:14

Lemontt - any chance we can get intolerant entitled people off the pavements too?

VelvetChairGirl · 22/09/2021 11:16

Strange I have a big off road scooter, it only folds in so far as the handle bar strut can fold flat against the footboard.

its out of action right now due to a punctured tire, but my son went to school on it and I schooted it home and back to school and back home with him on etc for 4 years.

I have taken it to many shops without complaint except in the co-op local which is small and the security guard wants them left parked near the door on the inside where he is standing.

I have taken it to asda, sainsbury and morrisons many times and tesco. I just fold it flat and lay it in the trolley, altho for hygine during the pandemic incase anyone moaned I just reduced the handle bar height down low enough for it to hang on the side of the trolley by hooking the handle bar over the side then it just wheels alongside the trolley with the front wheel off the ground.

if I am only getting a couple of bits I just rock up with it and hang a basket off the handle bars and walk round with it.

never has anyone in ASDA or Sainsburys etc said a word to me about it.

HeAteItWithASpoon · 22/09/2021 11:16

Why on earth is it “beyond grim” to put a scooter in a trolley?

KittenKong · 22/09/2021 11:23

(Poo on wheels maybe?)

safariboot · 22/09/2021 11:27

YANBU. Obviously they don't want people riding them indoors, but it's petty to stop people who are carrying them.

Reminds me of Toys R Us who would demand you not take any bags in, assuming everyone had a car to leave them in. TrU went bust, just saying.

It would have me shopping elsewhere.

Droite · 22/09/2021 11:35

@melj1213

I work in a supermarket, we have this rule too - no bikes or scooters are allowed in the store - it doesn't matter if you're 6 or 106, you can't bring them in - and we cant go ignoring the rules for one person and not others because either we get discrimination claims or people start arguing with colleagues who are just enforcing the rules and it puts them at risk.
Surely the answer is for the store to say they won't allow them in unless they are folded up and are being carried by hand or in a bag.
Droite · 22/09/2021 11:36

Why on earth is it “beyond grim” to put a scooter in a trolley?

(Poo on wheels maybe?)

Given that people let their children stand in trolleys, and people may be coughing and sneezing over them, it's a very foolish shopper who assumes that any trolley is clean and hygienic.

SoupDragon · 22/09/2021 11:38

How is carrying a folded up scooter dangerous?

Macncheeseballs · 22/09/2021 11:42

I've been hit by trolleys and push chairs in supermarkets, I don't think they should be banned

KittenKong · 22/09/2021 12:02

I was once hit in a playground with a scooter - it was a fenced off area for small children and some older ones were zipping down the small hilly path towards the sandpit. It was supposedly a ‘no bikes/skates/scooter’ area. It hit me right on the back of the ankle and there was blood all over. He scowled at me and his gormless mother just looked up blankly from her phone. It bloody hurt but I’d rather get hit than a small child knocked off their feet.

One also bowled over my elderly MIL on a path in the park. He came belting out of nowhere and hit her from behind. His mum came panting up (had been on her phone) and gave a grudging apology. Poor MIL has her wrist in a brace for weeks.

SoupDragon · 22/09/2021 13:16

@KittenKong

I was once hit in a playground with a scooter - it was a fenced off area for small children and some older ones were zipping down the small hilly path towards the sandpit. It was supposedly a ‘no bikes/skates/scooter’ area. It hit me right on the back of the ankle and there was blood all over. He scowled at me and his gormless mother just looked up blankly from her phone. It bloody hurt but I’d rather get hit than a small child knocked off their feet.

One also bowled over my elderly MIL on a path in the park. He came belting out of nowhere and hit her from behind. His mum came panting up (had been on her phone) and gave a grudging apology. Poor MIL has her wrist in a brace for weeks.

On neither of those occasions was the scooter folded and being carried.
KittenKong · 22/09/2021 13:20

yup - I was just having a general scooter grumble. I used to carry DSs one in shops when he was little (never asked to park it)

CovidCorvid · 22/09/2021 14:06

Surely the answer is for the store to say they won't allow them in unless they are folded up and are being carried by hand or in a bag.

But then they will get idiots carrying them inside folded up and once inside unfold them and rampage around. Sadly a minority of idiots spoil things for the majority. Yes it’s unlikely to happen on a 3yos scooter but they will just have a blanket ban so the security guard doesn’t have to waste their time arguing with people that they should be an exception. Because where do you draw the line? A 6yos scooter? A 9yos scooter?

Droite · 22/09/2021 15:24

But then they will get idiots carrying them inside folded up and once inside unfold them and rampage around.

Surely it's easy enough to take a hard line on those? (a) it will be very obvious, whereas a folded up scooter in a bag won't necessarily be; and (b) you'll get less argument, because that is so obviously dangerous, whereas there is no obvious harm being done by someone just carrying a folded bike around. And it would also save an awful lot of staff time, too.

SoupDragon · 22/09/2021 15:35

But then they will get idiots carrying them inside folded up and once inside unfold them and rampage around

Yes, lots of people will smuggle their scooter in folded up and then unfold it in order to rampage round the store, all with no one noticing.

Lesserspottedmama · 22/09/2021 15:58

I went in Asda a couple of years ago and it was a horrendous experience, it seems to attract some shocking people and I could barely find anything I would be happy to feed to my children. I felt uncomfortable to even be in there with my daughter, exposing her to such an unpleasant environment. Do yourself a favour and go to a better class of shop. (By the way - I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination - quite the reverse! So I am not saying that from a position of privilege.)

CovidCorvid · 22/09/2021 15:59

@SoupDragon

But then they will get idiots carrying them inside folded up and once inside unfold them and rampage around

Yes, lots of people will smuggle their scooter in folded up and then unfold it in order to rampage round the store, all with no one noticing.

Did you see the link I posted earlier? 🙄. I’m not saying lots of people will do it. Obviously they won’t. Like I actually said a minority spoil it for the majority.
Kaley3043 · 22/09/2021 16:08

Reminds me of something it witnessed recently. Someone left their bikes by a shop door. Security guard moved them to the fence outside and the bike owner kicked off. I can see both sides in this situation but it's a cold up scooter ffs!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 22/09/2021 16:14

That would just never happen where I live. You’d have to actually be causing a nuisance before they asked you to leave/ leave the scooter.