AIBU to think DH should stop taking discounted food out of peoples trolleys.

[ByWarmViewer]

This happens every time we're in Tescos on a Sunday and they put the discounted stuff from the bakery out. Lots of customers surround the racks and DH just waits outside pushing each other over the goods and DH just waits a couple metres away then takes the goods out of peoples trolleys and shouts at people if they try taking it back.

AIBU to think he is completely in the wrong here, even if he other customers are pushing each other? I don't even know why he does it when we're not exactly short of money.

I can absolutely confirm that this happens, maybe we worked in the same supermarket 😊I used to hate final reductions and living in a small town recognised some of the culprits as neighbours. You start to look at people differently...

This just cannot be true.

I refuse to believe this would ever happen

WTH

Why do you not say ' oi dickhead, what on earth are you doing!!'
I know i would in the never going to happen scenario of my dh doing that!

LTB.
Total deal breaker!

Yes, this.

And pp saying they couldn't imagine pushing and shoving for some stale bread should think themselves lucky they don't have to.

Then on top of that you've got an idiot bully like op's DH to contend with!

I'd be completely disgusted.

I really hope this is made-up shite (rage bait?)
The prospect of this being true is just too awful.

Is your husband Jean Valjean?

He isn't being kind though is he? He's being mean and spiteful to others. He's taking food off people who could be below the poverty line with hungry children. Think hard about that. He could be taking food from children.

He's also mentally not there. Nobody "steals" food from another person's trolley. Nobody. Is he successful at other things because he steals (ideas) and cheats in those areas too?

I wouldn't want to be with someone like that. It's disturbing behaviour.

They aren't stale at all.

I have no idea how traits like this don't instantly cause the ick for people.

What a pair!🤣

Could you film it and post here? Just for research and learning purposes. 😆

You don’t know whether taking items out of other peoples trolleys is normal/acceptable or not, and have to come on Mumsnet to ask this question?

Do you just stand there and watch him behaving like an absolute dickhead, without saying a word?
Do the Tesco staff say nothing?
What a lunatic!!!

It's not a quirk. It's a particular type of obnoxious behaviour. He's not putting any effort in but benefitting from someone else's effort. He actually spends his time, loitering, so that he can steal from someone's basket. Is that how he got to be "successful in other areas of life", walking all over people? Does he steal other people's ideas? Take the credit for good things he hasn't done? Accept the bonus/salary rise when he has, in fact, contributed very little? The fact that he actually waits so that he can do this .... I'm speechless, to be honest. It's stealing from people, however you like to see it. What a horrible little life he must lead inside his horrible little head. Why are you not disgusted by him, OP? I assume you don't eat any of these baked goods yourself. Oh and he's not kind, at all.

Your husband sounds like a grade A dickhead.

One day he'll get a punch in the face for that sort of behaviour, and he'll deserve it.

Is he mentally well? Because those are the actions of someone quite disturbed. Hope you're okay OP.

Me either. It's so disturbing.

Those saying they couldn't imagine going for reduced bread, etc. I hope you know how lucky you are.

he is very wrong

It's not a quirk, it's bullying.

What would he do if you took it out the trolley and gave it back to the person? Why don’t you do this? (And divorce him)

What does he do when you tell him this behaviour is wrong?

You see people grabbing everything that is reduced and you know it'll end up in the bin. There is no way someone can eat (or have room to freeze) 7 reduced chickens. I can't imagine many people having 7 people they can give a chicken with a use by date of that day to.

Is he mentally well? Because those are the actions of someone quite disturbed

Quite. There’s only two possibilities with such action. Either, the person is so mentally unwell that they have zero concept of normal accepted behaviour; or, an absolute psychopathic arsehole, who knows what they are doing is absurdly wrong but just doesn’t care. There is no other possible category.

The confounder is that OP is here seemingly asking whether this is normal/okay or not🤔.