To not want the electricity company in my face upon leaving the supermarket?

[PassingStranger]

Coming out of a well.known supermarket yesterday, an electricity company was in my face asking who I have my electricity with/do I want to save money etc?

I just object to this intrusion. There's often charities outside/set up in the foyer, I think businesses is taking it to far though.
It's like running the gauntlet when you've done the shopping?

Yes you can ignore I know but it's the fact they are there and questioning you that annoys me .you have got to start thinking how to act?
How does this work? I'm assuming they apply to the supermarket and then they pay to be there?

Do the supermarkets not consider their customers might not want to be accosted?
I don't really get it. I've gone into a private shop to do some shopping, then outside I've another business wanting my attention and asking me questions?

Am I the only one it annoys?

Agree, this one was particularly hard to ignore too, perhaps lll have to practice more.

Was it asda? As they also do it online with "you've qualified for £20 voucher/free case of beer" and all sorts of other things that are actually paid monthly subscriptions when you look properly and I always think i bet people sign up not realising and it's really not on from Asda to allow it. I assume they are paid by these companies, surely they make enough money!

I’ve been rather terse to energy company supermarket sellers when they’ve blocked my way and I’ve been very visibly on crutches.

It seems like such a strange thing for them to do.

Supermarket probably charges for the space. So no, they dont care if you’re annoyed

just say a firm no

We had this in ASDA today! Was one of the electric companies.

TBH with the way charities are these days, with those silly monthly subscriptions and taking all your details, I don't care if it's a charity or a regular company, anyone stopping me getting my ice lollies into a freezer can feck off.

Breeze past them, saying something obtuse like "I don't believe in electricity" or "I'm more of a gas person" 😀

YANBU just say a firm -No thanks, and keep walking.

It really annoys me. A few years ago a charity, can’t remember which one, were outside a supermarket. Asked me to sign up for regular donations. I said I can’t afford to and said “just a pound” So I stopped and said I’m overdrawn. They didn’t have a response.

No thank you.. with a smile.
Any persistence..fuck off.

YANBU. I just pretend I'm on my phone, OR don't make eye contact and just ignore them. #SorryNotSorry I don't owe them a conversation.

Aldi had people outside trying to get you to play some sort of lotto a few months back. Didn't pay them enough attention to see what it was for.

Yes you can ignore I know but it's the fact they are there and questioning you that annoys me .you have got to start thinking how to act?

Really? Seems like making a mountain out of a molehill if you have to think about how to ignore someone!

Some of them shout after you when you say no thank you. For instance “Don’t you care about saving money?” Or whatever disease/demographic/animal etc. Then people turn to stare and it’s embarrassing.

We also had this with Air Ambulance. We too would have been happy to make an immediate cash donation but they wanted us to sign up to making monthly payments, I think to a raffle or lottery. And one of their guys was calling out comments to store customers who were looking the other way. It didn’t help their cause, which at the end of the day was a worthy one.

Just say "Happy with who I'm with thank you" and keep walking. No need for ignorance or a rude comment.

They're just trying to earn money and clearly can't get more lucrative or appealing work. Just decline, but don't be rude or treat them like beggars. I often make polite convo with these direct sales people. They're just normal human beings. You don't have to engage with them at all.

I walk very slowly and obviously struggling and with obvious pain on my face (can't help it, even though it must look like I'm an ugly, grouchy harridan, when I'm actually usually very tolerant and friendly) and they seem to ALWAYS jump infront of me literally forcing me to jerk to a stop and ignoring the fact that I'm always (deliberately) in deep conversation with the person I'm with and looking away.
They actually block my stick and then get really surly when I politely say "No thankyou" - to be honest, it's usually the women who are the worst for jumping infront of me and getting into my personal space and then giving me the look of death when I say no thankyou.

I wrote my comment before reading yours and yes, they do this to me too, when I'm obviously in a lot of pain and struggling and it's obvious I need to get out of the store.
They always block my way too.