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?

Then he should go to a shop that sells them separately. What sort of person thinks a shop has to sell what you would demand them too?

I think supermarkets should be held accountable for excess packaging and food waste due to customers being forced to buy more than they need. We are also in a CoL crisis, people should be able to be able to buy a carrot, a pepper, an onion singularly.

That is such a good point. I need to hang around near the peppers asking people for 'swapsies'.

There’s a counter argument about food packaging
well packed food last longer and not damage

personally I buy packs of peppers cheaper than loose then chop the lot and freeze it

then just out what I need

It’s not always practical to have loose veg in a smaller supermarket.

I only like green! Yellow at a push. Red is too sweet. Love green pepper in eggs or rice.