Is this acceptable acceptable supermarket behaviour?

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Nipped to the local supermarket for a few bit (yes I mean wine)

Bloke in front of me at the checkout has 3 loose green peppers, lovely assistant on the till looks bemused and says they don't sell loose peppers - only in packs if 3. Bloke responds that packs have red, yellow and green peppers and he only wants green do he's opened 3 packs and taken the green ones.

Lovely checkout assistant says cannot scan them - bloke then gets the opened empty packaging from his pocket and tells her to can barcode!

Is it me or is this totally bonkers?

Would you do this?

I'd happily buy a pack of yellow/red with no green. Others have said they would also.

So true 🤣

What happened to shops reducing unnecessary plastic packaging?

He's an arsehole let me guess he was about 50 years old. Purposely picked a young female checkout operator to go to and was hoping for it to be an argument so he could shout at her for 10 minutes about how she should sell loose fruit and veg.

Why is loose not the main option anymore, why does everything need to be pre-packaged? It's pretty silly that he opened the packets up but I can understand his frustration (though green are the worst colour of peppers)

I wouldn't do it.

No, that's not remotely acceptable. You can't just go unpackaging things and taking out what you want, when things are packed and marked for sale as a group.

I hope she didn't let him get away with that nonsense!

And this kind of behaviour is why we pay more for our food. It's one of the reasons I quit retail, unfortunately this entitled behaviour is more common than people realise.

That's not weird at all. Lots of small Co-Op style "local" supermarkets have limited ranges of that sort of thing. I know that my local Co-Op doesn't sell loose fruit and veg at all, it's all pre-packed.

Of course it's not acceptable, and I can just imagine the cashier's bemused face.

What a plank. You just don't do this. There are plenty of times you might have to buy something you don't want to get something you do. Multipacks of yoghurt, crisps, coffee Minstrels, the Bounty in Celebrations.

They are meant to be moving back towards loose. The target is 30% by 2025.

https://m.packaginginsights.com/news/wrap-targets-50-slash-in-uk-fresh-fruit-and-veg-packaging-by-2030.html

So what happened in the end?

I'd love to take the bountys out of one pack and refill it with the Malteser ones from the other pack that would be amazing 😍 but I'm not a thief or an asshole

I would imagine she sold them to him to keep the peace and 6 perfectly good peppers got thrown away

I think you should be able to buy loose fruit and veg, irrespective of the shop size. Packaged just encourages food waste.

I some countries it is acceptable to separate multi packs of things like beer or water. I’ve seen it in Greece and Germany.

The Bounties are the best ones.

I don't mind them at all. But the galaxy truffles were the absolute best.

I might go in and open a tub of Celebrations and take out all the Malteaser. It’s clearly fine as some people don’t like them.

And did she scan it?

This is part of the problem though. If this is a small store that doesn’t sell loose veg then they might not be able to put single items through the till.

Yes they range in bitter to sweet.

I only learned recently that the peppers are different colored because they're picked at different levels of ripeness. So if a red pepper were picked much earlier it would be green.

mind blown.

Another one here who would take the yellow ones.
In fact I really like orange too.

I think this was fine.

Supermarkets that package peppers like that are annoying. It's stupid to make customers feel they're being forced to buy food they don't need in order to get food they do need.

I don't buy veg in my local Aldi because they package it all.