Customer collapsed in store customers were stepping over whilst first aiders attended to him

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Man fell whilst I was shopping. It was by the condiments. First aiders attended whilst awaiting an ambulance.

I saw customers stepping over the ill man to get to the shelves. Fucking rude and disrespectful. There was a colleague who wasn’t a first aider but was holding onto the man’s hand. She was not best pleased with customers acting like this with her facial expressions. I shared my disgust with her. She said she was able to pass customers what they needed.

How would these customers that stepped over the man liked it if someone stepped over their unwell relative?

Some people are rude, impatient tossers who don't care about others.

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What did you want them to do? He was ok. 🤷‍♀️

Was that Freudian slip?
Condiments add to the flavour of the story

'He was ok'

Was he? He was waiting for the ambulance. What condiment could you possibly need so badly you need to lean/step over someone awaiting an ambulance??

There was a similar incident in our little co-op and the staff just shut the shop. But they only have 2 staff on most of the time.

A bigger shop, surely they could just shut the aisle?

He was not OK - he was being treated on the floor.
I would expect people to give him respect and space, not literally step over him!

Our local co op would have (since closed) but they'd close an aisle if someone burped!

I imagine our Waitrose would evacuate the shop IF they saw him amongst the fuck off cages & staff restocking the shelves!

Not sure about the others.

Years ago an old chap collapsed at the counter - whilst we were trying to resuscitate him the owner of the corner shop was serving people through the door that we couldn’t open properly because of the old chaps body - surreal thinking back!

Duchy tomato chutney

Clearly the Op just stood there and looked on in disgust

not exactly great either

I worked in retail very many years ago and experienced a customer passing away in store…management put those ‘wet floor’ signs around him while waiting for ambulance. Didn’t occur to them to actually close.

Bingo is surprisingly expensive 😁

Petersfield? The manager there was talking about it and said they had to as people were stepping over him too at first.

I didn't gawp. I asked if they wanted any more help etc.

What a bloody disgrace. I would have banned the complainers from the pub and, depending on how many of the chain in the area, those too.

Closing the store would cause a lot more disruption and attention. I doubt (hope) such decisions are not entirely profit based.

The staff should have cordoned off the isle to stop people. I worked at a supermarket and we had a screen like those in hospitals which we deployed when someone collapsed, and posted a staff member telling people the aisle was closed

Maybe he was shocked at the price of olive oil?

Doesn't surprise me. I was walking to work through our busy city centre and a young woman was obviously having some kind of fit. The ambulance staff were already there so I carried on walking but there were people filming on their phones!

Be a decent human and go to a different aisle? Maybe do without the ketchup or get it somewhere else.

Doesn't surprise me. So many people these days are rude and disrespectful. I fell over in the street a couple of years ago and couldn't get up (osteoarthritis in my hip). 2 men just walked past me before one nice guy stopped and gave me a hand to get up. I think the first 2 thought I was sitting on the pavement for fun!

I remember when we were doing CPR on a man who had had a cardiac arrest on the ward and another patient opening the curtains around his bed to ask for a cup of tea - no dementia etc just being a twat

And then looked on in “disgust” whilst you crafted your Mumsnet thread you’d start about it

There's a chap that lives near us who goes bright red and puts his head down every time he sees one of our family as 5 years ago when one of my DDs and her colleague were held up at knife point he complained that they wouldn't re-open the shop for him to put his lottery ticket on. He apologised profusely a few days later, but is rightly still mortified by his complaining on the night.