To take an extra bag?

[TotoroElla]

Just having a rant!

I went into Sephora yesterday to get some birthday presents for my DD and DN. Also wanted to get a couple of things for myself. I spent over £200. I was at the self checkout and I put the things for DN in one bag and the things for myself and DD in another. The reason being I wanted to give the gifts in a Sephora bag as DD and DN both find Sephora very exciting and would like the bag. As I went to leave the shop an assistant rudely told me I was only allowed one bag - I was taken aback in the moment and just walked out saying nothing.

AIBU in thinking when you've spent over £200 it's a bit mean to quibble over a paper bag?

People often use high end and designer shopping bags to package counterfeit goods to sell on, apparently. Ex-SIL worked for Pandora and it was common. It’ll be a head office directive - though yes, sales assistants ought to be apologetic or polite and explain why.

Sephora isn't really that high end though.

And neither is Pandora.

Are you supposed to pay for the bag?

If so and you didn’t then YABU. If not then YANBU.

They’re brands with a following which, clearly, people like the trappings of - OP, after all, wanted the carrier bags because her DD and DN are excited about Sephora as a brand.

Thanks for explaining that.

But plenty of the products on there are counterfeited. My DD showed me Sol de Janeiro on Ali Express the other day.

There was no indication that you had to pay for a bag but if you did I wouldn't have minded if the sales assistant just politely told me that.

Yes, it is incredibly popular for their age group (young teens).

I'd have done 2 transactions. They've got a fucking nerve when you're spending that much money.

I'd have pointed out (as per @TakeOnFlea's comment) that I would be able to put the items through in two transactions and then take 2 bags while complying with their 1 bag per transaction rule - then ask them if they would like to refund my existing (combined) transaction so I could do that, or if they'd prefer I just take a second bag without them having to do that.

And if they didn't see sense, I'd enable maximum bloody-minded mode, and do one transaction (and therefore one bag) for each item in my basket.

Haha - I never think of these things on the spot! Thinking about it afterwards I would have just offered to pay for the extra bag while offering 50p or something! The rudeness unsettled me - everyone else in the shop had been very nice.