Would you have bought the fish?

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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?

If my husband proudly returned from the hunt with a few smelly kilos of fish obtained by dodging a teenage shop worker and whizzing past pensioners with hopeful expressions and empty baskets, that would really really give me the ick.

What a small man he is.

I doubt very much the boy will be sacked and it could've gone to waste. Times are hard I don't blame him. The supermarket won't be losing money. Enjoy the salmon!

Ps o don't know half as many goody two shoes in real life as there are on mumsnet!

How shellfish !

I would have bought it too. The shop assistant was going to get in trouble anyway.

Years ago I was on a night out and there was a new girl behind the bar who didn’t realize that a house double was already a double, so she was sticking 2 double shots of spirits into a glass. Nobody told her!

Also OP it’s not the buying it all really that’s the issue.
It’s that he knew it was mistake (enough to repeat the entire conversation). That someone else could get into trouble.

Instead of feeling the slightest modicum of guilt, he’s pleased with himself! Screw the young lad, who might be made to pay.

I’d think differently if he just came across it, or if it was a cash machine dispensing the wrong note but in this case it was a clear mistake, there was a witness as the other colleague. To have no thought for the poor lad at all is what disgusts me.

Greedy git.

Eh it wasnt greedy but it was absolutely taking advantage of and revelling in a poor young guys mistake.....not a nice quality.

Despite the fact they were watching her commit a criminal offence. Poor girl

Sort of greedy, but I guess they’d have been re-sticked if he’d let them out of his hot little hands?!

I hope there are a few of you OP, salmon isn’t great if you leave it in the freezer too long.

Doesn't sound like he was depriving other shoppers as the mistake was noticed and about to be corrected, so in that sense he did good to make hay while the sun shone.

I would have been a bit concerned about the shop assistant. But if he could hear the conversation they were presumably close enough to tell him "Sorry, there's been a mistake, we'll need to reprice those.". If the shop workers didn't try and stop him I can see why he thought he might as well.

I have the proper ick

It's the luck of the draw. You snooze you lose. This lad might get a ticking off, if the other employee grasses him up. Its highly unlikely he will have to pay it back from his wage. The company won't go bust for a few wrongly priced packs of salmon

Wasn’t there a DH ‘chicken grabber’ a few weeks back ?

So your husband knew that it was a mistake and took them before the lad had chance to correct them even though his colleague had said he’d get in trouble? Your husband is a total nobhead. Maybe karma will get him and the worms in the fish will finish him off. 🤣

There was a thread like this about chicken a few weeks ago.

was your partner unreasonable? Yes. He was greedy. Very greedy. He should have left some for others. Being polite is always better.

If my husband proudly returned from the hunt with a few smelly kilos of fish obtained by dodging a teenage shop worker and whizzing past pensioners with hopeful expressions and empty baskets, that would really really give me the ick. What a small man he is

😂 That's quite an imagination you have.

I've stocked up on plenty of good offers in my time. I once bought twelve punnets of strawberries from our local Coop that were priced down to 50p each and perfectly fresh.

Never dodged any employees or given any hungry pensioners the finger as I did it though 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

To clarify, he would have totally given them up if they'd asked. Neither the lad nor the colleague to him that they'd been wrongly priced (DH just overheard the convo between them).

I can confirm he is not the chicken-grabber, although I suspect without knowing the story he'd have a kind of tight-fisted camaraderie with this man.

I'd have taken 2-3 packets. It's not like other people won't be snapping them up too. If it was something no one eats much like muscles and you do then fair enough

Shellfish 🤣

Are you the same poster whose husband bought all the cut price chickens the other week and used them for dog food?

This.

It may not have been totally off the mark with pricing. I got lovely salmon reduced from £8.50 to £2.14 last Saturday afternoon. I took 2 - one pack for tea and one for the freezer 😀

Definitely not.

Although I'd be lying if I said he hadn't grilled one of the fillets this afternoon and let the dog have a decent taste 😬

It sounds like they didn’t get chance. The lad was probably trying to figure out what to do, whether to hope it doesn’t get noticed or draw attention to it by causing a scene with your husband. What a twat your husband is. He knew it was the wrong thing to do, the lad had made a mistake.

The fact is was a young person as well makes it more likely that he may be new or inexperienced, possibly less likely to approach your husband. My niece works part time at a supermarket as a he’s at uni, she’d have felt shit if she’d have done this and would be worried about getting into trouble.