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Would you have bought the fish?

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FuckingHateRats · 09/07/2022 16:38

My DH has just gone to the supermarket. There was a young lad reducing stock, had been told to reduce a whack of fish (mainly salmon). Reckon he's made a mistake - instead of reducing it BY 10%, he reduced it TO 10%. About twelve packs of fresh fish fillets, reduced in value from about £80 to £8.

Another employee had clocked it and came over to say 'You're going to get a row for that'. So there was a very limited number of these really, really cheap packets of fish.

He bought the lot. Was this unreasonable, knowing it was a fuck up? And was it unreasonable, as in greedy, to take them all?

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AgentProvocateur · 09/07/2022 16:40

Not unreasonable, but yes - greedy.

ThinkingaboutLangClegosaurus · 09/07/2022 16:40

Unreasonable because that kid is likely to be in trouble for making a mistake. Could even lose his job, if he’s unlucky.

Sweatinglikeabitch · 09/07/2022 16:42

I do think it's selfish but just don't let it go to waste.

Harridance · 09/07/2022 16:43

Unreasonable and greedy

ShirleyPhallus · 09/07/2022 16:45

What does he need 12 packs of salmon for?!

Buying 2-3 would have been fine

Blossomandbee · 09/07/2022 16:46

Very greedy yes, I can't stand the grabby people who clear the shelves of anything cheap. And knowing a shop assistant was going to get in trouble for it too.

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FuckingHateRats · 09/07/2022 16:47

ShirleyPhallus · 09/07/2022 16:45

What does he need 12 packs of salmon for?!

Buying 2-3 would have been fine

Well, we're trying to live more frugally with rising costs so it's already in the freezer and he's googling recipes he can make to feed us for weeks (two adults, three teenage kids here)

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Sweetmotherofallthatisholyabov · 09/07/2022 16:47

Dick move. So he noticed his colleague made a mistake and instead of helping him correct it he bought it all? The nice thing to do would have been to tell him the steps to take to rectify it.

snowstorm2012 · 09/07/2022 16:50

I couldn't screw someone over like that, the young lad may get the sack or have to make up the money out of his own wages.

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FuckingHateRats · 09/07/2022 16:51

Blossomandbee · 09/07/2022 16:46

Very greedy yes, I can't stand the grabby people who clear the shelves of anything cheap. And knowing a shop assistant was going to get in trouble for it too.

Yeah I wouldn't have taken so much if it was me - enough for two meals and then I'd have left some for others.

He came home so happy with himself though!

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Shangrila · 09/07/2022 16:51

Right place right time. Can't say I wouldn't do the same with the price of food these days. I'm sure the supermarket won't miss the loss.

SlashBeef · 09/07/2022 16:51

He's a greedy git.

SirenSays · 09/07/2022 16:52

I wouldn't have taken all of it. I think I'm hardwired to never take the last of anything.

Ladiz · 09/07/2022 16:52

what’s the use-by date? Nobody wants going-off fish so maybe the lad was right. Hope you’ve got space in the freezer

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 09/07/2022 16:52

He was in the right place at the right time. Good for him.

Blossomandbee · 09/07/2022 16:52

Yeah most people are trying to live frugally now too...

bloodyplanes · 09/07/2022 16:54

Usually I would have taken only 3-4 packs and left some for others however with the massive increase in food prices and if it was something I would easily use then now I would have taken them all.

TeresaBlue · 09/07/2022 16:55

I would have bought them all too and stocked the freezer 🤷🏻‍♀️

ShirleyPhallus · 09/07/2022 16:57

FuckingHateRats · 09/07/2022 16:47

Well, we're trying to live more frugally with rising costs so it's already in the freezer and he's googling recipes he can make to feed us for weeks (two adults, three teenage kids here)

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So is everyone, it’s not necessary to buy 12 packs of salmon. A few would have been fine and leave the rest for others in the same position

(IMO)

Tweeeezer · 09/07/2022 16:58

Both unreasonable and unkind as young person will have got into trouble for that mistake, and he’ll have known.

Ishacoco · 09/07/2022 16:59

I would have bought them all too.

GodisaBC · 09/07/2022 16:59

If they had just realised the mistake they were probably about to remove it so your dh wasn’t unreasonable as no one else would have been able to buy it anyway.

TyneTortoise · 09/07/2022 17:04

Greedy, I wouldn’t be impressed

ChagSameachDoreen · 09/07/2022 17:08

He's an absolute dick.

ProfessorFusspot · 09/07/2022 17:13

So, he heard the other colleague saying a mistake had been made and rushed in mid-conversation to take advantage of it before it was fixed? Yes, unreasonable and rude not to wait a moment until they resolved it (although I'm not sure why one of them didn't stop him from taking it or ask him to wait, saying they were in the middle of reviewing/changing the price.) It would have been more of a grey area if he'd just noticed what HE THOUGHT was a mistake and quietly bought his fish without questioning it.

Also if the fish was fresh (not prev frozen) it's a shame to buy it specifically to freeze.