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

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Hdlll · 25/10/2025 15:23

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?

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Runlikesomeoneleftgateopen · 29/10/2025 11:46

This unfortunately doesn't surprise me.
It's like the minute some people walk through supermarket doors they go into complete arse hole mode, basic decent manners go out of the window.
I feel so sorry for staff being surrounded by these idiots day in and day out.
I used to work in a supermarket once, it was absolutely unbearable.

Hdlll · 29/10/2025 14:53

Runlikesomeoneleftgateopen · 29/10/2025 11:46

This unfortunately doesn't surprise me.
It's like the minute some people walk through supermarket doors they go into complete arse hole mode, basic decent manners go out of the window.
I feel so sorry for staff being surrounded by these idiots day in and day out.
I used to work in a supermarket once, it was absolutely unbearable.

Have witnessed relatives who are nice but as soon as they talk to retail or hospitality staff, they are not.
I think there is an invisible sign only read by these people, at the front of the store "Please could you leave your manners here before you enter the main part of the store".

A neighbour works for a supermarket and she shares her stories with me. Nice customers are, literally, a dying breed. As the lovely, pleasant customers die, As she hears from either customer's neighbours, relatives or from another colleague that the lovely Dorothy died last week.

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nomas · 29/10/2025 14:56

I don't blame them for leaving (it's better they don't crowd around and gawp) but they should have turned back and gone another way.

It doesn't surprise me, I have seen people watch with detachment as people have fallen ill on the tube.

MyOliveStork · 29/10/2025 15:01

buffyreboot · 25/10/2025 16:37

I was doing CPR and people were stepping over my legs to get to stuff in the store. Ridiculous

Yes this happened to me too. Old chap collapsed in front of me in queue in WHS. We had to start CPR. They didn’t shut the checkout and continued serving around us (had another checkout towards rear of store). First responders and then paramedics arrived and they screened him off but still carried of serving. To this day, I can’t believe the staff and other customers acted like this.

TheZanyZebra · 29/10/2025 15:20

A neighbour works for a supermarket and she shares her stories with me. Nice customers are, literally, a dying breed. As the lovely, pleasant customers die, As she hears from either customer's neighbours, relatives or from another colleague that the lovely Dorothy died last week.

You really need to get a job or a hobby, you seem over-invested in the public visiting supermarkets

Then when you have a busy life, you'll understand about the condiment emergency😂

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