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.

its been a combination of the big supermarkets tescos, asda and co op and its been a few of the big superstores as i call them

I guess they don't think they will sell them even at further reductions.

Waste from supermarkets is a serious issue though.

thats the puzzlement because id presume that it would better to price early at the max discount eg 2pm in afternoon then 75% off etc

it was some of the staff either already doing the next stage reductions or someone at that section its been a mix of times and different staff members

indeed, its usually the generic that they remember the prices being cheaper but now they dont reduce by the cheapest amount etc

thats if im making sense with my posts

I do remember one Christmas Day and our then roughly 6 month old TV broke - refused to switch on..

DH phoned a local TV repair man who said he wasn't going to come out and fix it but he had a spare he could lend us. I'm a bit gob smacked that we phoned him now but DD was very young and we'd just bought a DVD player and DVDs for her. DH drove out to his house with the broken one and came back with the spare

He was a total legend that man and after he had fixed it that TV kept going for another 20 years

Yeah we were totally unreasonable but someone with a very kind heart made that Christmas special

Why can't I order my Christmas food? Ordering opened in October, delivery slots fill up quickly, turkeys sell out, ordering closed on 15th Dec, that's why you can't order your Christmas food on Christmas Eve.

Our Sainsbury’s is always moving the eggs.

Currently next to Christmas chocolate at the end of the fridges. Has been next to the toilet roll, originally across from the milk as the milk isle is one side refrigerator and one side ambient.

Morrisons in Portsmouth have loads of Cadbury selection boxes reduced to £1 if anyone needs one!

Brillo pads have the same reaction!

Ha ha, at least I can find my bread and beans together when I'm living off beans on toast for the duration of the 57 days of January.

Mistake

Really? I mean, I know I am in my 50s, but I wouldn't have thought of brillo pads as something only older people ask for. Interesting.

This afternoon I asked a Tesco staff member where the brandy butter was. He said there was none left, just brandy cream. I thanked him for answering my question when he was busy. I don't think he thought it was a stupid question.

Wondering if we share a supermarket as they're next to pasta in my local too!

Not Christmas specific, but working in WHSmtih at the end of the year - "can I have a free diary for next year because this one is so battered it obviously wasn't fit for use" no, it's getting like that because you've been carrying it round in your handbag and using it for a year!

So many shops seem to hide the eggs!

At mine there are eggs near the baking aisle (they're in the aisle next door by the jam), but also there's a special table of them RIGHT by the entrance. I always thought it was odd, but now I wonder if it's to avoid the constant questions about where they are!

As I said I always show them where they are not tell them and most of the people asking are regular customers and our eggs haven’t moved in the 8 years I’ve worked there! They’ve walked the aisles nearly as many times as I have

I worked in a small women's clothes shop that also sold jewellery. Without fail we would have a stream of men on Xmas eve making a beeline for the jewellery cabinet. We would also have several come in on Xmas eve asking if we'd still got the jumper/dress/whatever that his wife had seen 2 months ago. Every. single. bloody. year.

forget eggs - I was looking for chocolate brazil nuts in asda.
Were they in the snack aisle with all the rest of the nuts - favoured, crispy, selection, chocolate/yoghurt/magic fairy dust flavoured? No.
Were they in the chocolate/sweets aisle? No.
Were they in the 'miscellaneous christmas crap' aisle? Nah.
I even checked the baking aisle where they sometimes have nuts that for some reason are excluded from the normal nuts section. Nope.

Eventually found them on a 'special fancy festive nuts' mini section of their own at the end of the veg aisle! The only relevance I can see is that is technically the area where they sell whole coconuts but come on!

Supermarkets have got a lot better at this and they work a lot more with food banks.

You'd be surprised at how much less food waste there is now.

I was going to say at the end of the veg aisle!