Customer demands to charge her phone at supermarket

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She came into the supermarket wanted to pay for her shopping on Apple Pay but her phone is dead. I saw her talking on the phone in the store.

Supermarkets and other places that people pay for products and services - restaurants, retailers, leisure places etc are NOT responsible for people’s mobile batteries and them not carrying their physical cards on them.

True but if she has a massive trolley of shopping the store would have to allocate a staff member to return items. Any perishables would have to be binned. It’s probably cheaper and easier to charge a phone for a few minutes

I'm struggling to think this actually happened.
However as quite a lot of people seem to have no shame these days about behaving in totally entitled ways I suppose it did.
No doubt if customers are allowed to charge their phones in supermarkets then that will result in a rise prices to reflect the cost of the electricity involved.

Unless they were really rude, then the safety implications of a woman on her own without phone charge for the journey home would be more concerning for me. A little compassion doesn't hurt and phone batteries get zapped with how much the are used in one day for shopping apps, loyalty cards or the 20 million school platforms. You don't know what that phone call was for.

Hope she doesn’t get trampled by the shoplifters (you do nothing about) on the way out

She wanted to pay for her shopping, surely she could have charged her phone for five minutes. It would have used the shops electric but how does that compare to the cost of someone having to stop what they were doing to deal with an abandoned trolley of food?

Safety implications really.....really
Are women really incapable of getting home from the supermarket without a mobile phone??!!

I think most of us have had phones run out on us at some point. Appreciate that supermarkets don’t want to be providing free electricity to every shopper but allowing an ‘emergency charge' so someone can oay isn't umreasonable. The profit the store will make on tha shopping will cover the cost.

Jeez, many of us managed for many years before mobile phones. Pretty sure she would have got home ok. I always carry a card with me for this reason, but I always carry a power bank too.

Even if it’s just for a short time.
There are liability risks

Bloody hell. You realise there was a time before mobile phones and women managed to get along fine.

She was rude. Self entitlement achieves nothing

It costs less than a penny to charge a phone. I’m sure the store will have made more than that in profit.

Really? I often go out without my phone. I don't feel unsafe at all but then I managed for ages before mobiles existed, can you imagine!

She was probably in a tizzy that she couldn’t pay for her shopping. Just because she was speaking on the phone earlier doesn’t mean it couldn’t have then died on her.

You’re coming across as quite unkind and unpleasant. The store could easily have charge the phone for a few minutes so she could pay. Or lose the sale, of course. Which shops don’t usually want to do, though given the attitude of some of their trained staff, you wouldn’t realise that nowadays.

We get this in our outpatient hospital department too. I do frequently lend my own power bank to patients. We had a patient a few months ago that was taking photographs of the staff and then her battery ran out. I did not lend it to her, despite her asking to borrow a charger. It always surprises me the number of patients that ask.

Shops only give email receipts, your card is stored on there in a lot of cases to pay them with. Yes, a little bit of charge time is probably sonething shops are going to have to provide.

Surly this isn’t about charging a phone in the store which isn’t that bad a request but more about her being rude to the store workers ?

In the shop I work in we’d most likely allow her to charge her phone. Assuming she asked politely and wasn’t aggressive in any way. We’ve all had just about enough of rude people so our tolerance is now low. If she was rude she would be told to leave.

Considering how much supermarkets charge these days & their massive profits yabu, and considering most let shoplifters get away scott free yabvu. The woman just wanted to charge her phone for 5 mins & pay!

Liability risks to who??
I can’t believe any shop can be held liable for a customer’s lack of mocile phone charge? Many people will travel to and from the shop without a phone at all. Are the shop also liable for them too??

wot?? "safety implications"

I wonder how you think how we used to manage pre mobile phone and are still here to tell the tale.

Especially after doing the shopping!

I also often go out without my phone, usually if I am going out in town on foot, I manage to get home alright without it. So these idiots also want chargers provided, she sounds entitled.

Not the first time I have asked this on a thread, but how do you think everyone managed in the days before mobile phones?

Jeez she was hardly in the Bronx at midnight she was in a supermarket in broad daylight like countless other women shoppers !