Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

[Mokel]

I have done enough years in supermarkets at Christmas.

I remember one question raised by a few customers when putting out bread.
”do you have any bread dated after 28th”
I said if you go to a supermarket on any other 23rd, the latest date on loaves is 28th. As the bakeries always put the date as X days ahead, regardless of the time of year. I remember seeing one of these customers on Jan 23rd and asked them could they find a date longer than 28th. They couldn’t. Retail worker 1 customer 0.

”Is it possible to collect my turkey on Xmas Day?” Erm no.

Why should people have to store Christmas things from a quarter of a year before they are needed? It’s nuts. Stock enough and don’t start displaying Christmas stuff quite so early. Much more sensible.

But I guess other people would want them to be near the sausages and bacon for their full English...! In Canada where I live the eggs are stored in fridges, because they're washed and go bad quickly at room temperature unlike (superior) unwashed British eggs! At least they're easy to find in the store though.

Could you please elaborate about what you mean by this?

The battiest two questions last year were

"Do you sell garlic bread but without garlic ~ I don't like garlic"

"Is Christmas Day on the 25th this year?"

😂
Good on ya

In my local Co-op the eggs are at the end of an aisle in a shelving unit with big signs down each side stating “eggs” and there is a massive “eggs” sign hanging off the ceiling just above it, with an arrow pointing to it, and people still can’t find it! 🤣

My favourite when I worked on the turkey selection at a supermarket was
Customer: can I have the fresh turkey I order
Me: not a problem I will just go and get it
(Go to the fridge and pick up the turkey)
Customer: that can't be my turkey- a fresh turkey can't have blood on it ..
Me: yes madam fresh turkeys like chicken and other meat often have a little blood on them
Customer: get me a manager this is ridiculous.....
Manager came and gave her a money off voucher for her turkey having blood on it... I was cross.....

The OP didn't say anything about people complaining and I was responding to that.

I refuse to shop on Boxing Day on principle. Retail staff have worked hard enough on the run up to Christmas and deserve the time off.

Legally you can't do that ...

Though perhaps Ellie has engineered all this on purpose... she's been having doubts about boyfriend and wants to see how he reacts to the inconvenience so she can dump him if he kicks off... or perhaps wants you to call out his lack of consideration so she can have a big blow up and blame Mum for 'splitting us up' but be secretly glad... Oh, it's a minefield... 😧

If you are looking in the dairy section then that might be why you have difficulty finding eggs in many supermarkets. Eggs are not dairy. They have nothing to do with milk from any animals (cows mainly, but also goats).

Cows and goats etc. don't lay eggs. Hens, ducks, geese and chickens do, though eggs themselves are not meat so don't look in the meat aisles either..

Eggs are often in the baking ingredients and bread aisles in our supermarket.

Maybe they said read?

I'll see myself out!

Coop literally anywhere!

If Ellie is this manipulative and cowardly then Ellie deserves to have it blown up in her face.

Maybe Ellie will learn to be a grown up then.

Tell me that posters on here have never worked in retail or hospitality without telling me

to add to the "silly places shops put things" moans, DS's shop has the jam in a really daft place (I mean it's by the bread, but right out of the way). He is always being asked where it is (reasonably enough) and really wishes they would move it to a main aisle, maybe next to the pickles?

I worked in retail for many years, always displayed the high price tag items prominently on Christmas Eve as the ludicrously inept men would buy anything if we wrapped it for them. It's Christmas not Easter, the date never changes 🙄.

Retail is bloody hard work at Christmas for minimum wage with no tips. Staff are regularly verbally abused and threatened. A lot of the staff are temporary who spend the entire time 🌕 filling shelves in one section so may not know where to find other items.

Cocktail cherries are the hardest thing to find, usually hidden in the tinned goods aisle. 🤞

Mr Monkey works for specialist running shoe retailer (£170+ for shoes).

Last week and this week he has had a steady stream of confused people looking to buy trainers for "someone who runs", he had had to gently explain x1000 times that shoes at this level need to be fitted for the person's gait and what they want to use it for. Without that information he cannot recommend a shoe for them to buy.

No it certainly isn’t unreasonable to ask, and the shop assistants generally don’t mind that, but often it’s the way they ask. When you get someone rudely shouting just “Eggs?” rather than a polite “could you show/tell me where the eggs are please?” that’s unreasonable.

That’s absolutely mental! 😂😂😂

Yeesh, this little bit of banter went a bit AIBU 😂

Yes, ELLIE, you are being VERY U. How old are you? Is this a reverse? A&E, NOW! <Insert your favourite AIBU phrase here>

Or end of aisle with the dried fruit at my regular Asda....

I actually saw this happen a few days ago. A shopper had left a full trolley at the end of the aisle while they nipped back to the top for something. In the space of the minute or so it took, a woman had begun to rummage in the trolley and was about to put a few items from it into her own basket when the shopper returned and pointed out it was her trolley !!

Who wants a christmas tree in October? I mean businesses might, but not households!
It sounds like there is space in the market for December only trees. Did they not grow enough or do the christmas tree industry stop work t the end of November?