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.

And yet I have just come back from the supermarket with bread dated 26th which was the best date available. It's nice to be nice at Xmas - especially if that's what you're paid for. It's a lot of work for all women

They had Cadbury Creme Eggs out in B&M on Friday.

I love stories like this one.

Stop moving them then! I swear our Sainsbury’s moves them once a month just for laughs.

I once heard a bloke giving off loudly about there being no hot cross buns in Tesco on Christmas Eve. I was visiting my Dsis at the time and we both still laugh about how outraged he was!

Isn’t this The Housemaid

Whispers - when it says 'best before' it doesn't magically go off at the stroke of midnight. A toaster will solve most issues and you are unlikely to have penicillin at that point.

The number of people who will just bin the bread is insane.

See? THIS is what I'm here for! Not people asking for bread and eggs...

(I used to work in a bank in Scotland; by 8:30am the day after Hogmanay, people would be pressed to the doors, trying to get in like it was the last helicopter out of a war zone...).

When I was at uni I did two Christmas stints at a well known supermarket on the tills. It was good money and I didn’t pay much tax as I was a student. We were told that some customers were trying to get away with not paying for crates of beer etc by placing them on the ring underneath the trolley. They told us that we needed to stand up and make sure they didn’t leave the store without paying for it.

I put the whole shopping through that they gave me and then before pressing the total I would look at the customers, most of them would give a smirk at each other thinking they would get away with it and then I would stand up, look at the trolley and get them to pick up the beer for me to scan. They never even apologised for not putting it on the belt in the first place. The amount of customers trying that on as well, so disappointing. It’s not as if it was food and they were in need. It was alcohol.

I try my best to be a good customer when I shop in person as I know what the retail staff have had to go through.

I do not have an organised mind.

I remember mindless shit and it gets added to the mindless disorganised shit in my head.

But they do also tend to sell out of King Edwards and Maris Pipers (yes I know you can make roast potatoes from other varieties, but these are the two most recommended). I got my potatoes the other day, but still have to revisit for sprouts and parsnips so they are fresher. Fingers crossed.

One year I went to 5 different shops (not on Christmas Eve) that had all sold out of marzipan.

My parents used to run a newsagents shop and we lived above it. The best one was the guy who came,and knocked on the door on Christmas morning- as we were opening our presents- wanting to know why his newspaper hadn't been delivered......

Newspapers, like eggs, are often difficult to find in supermarkets. In our local Tesco they are on a large wheeled trolley, which is wheeled to different spots on different days. I'm not sure what you mean by 'we're a fucking supermarket, what do you think?' Not all supermarkets sell newspapers, although most do. Perhaps it's as well you've left retail as you don't sound very tolerant of customers!

Which might indicate that the shopper was disorganised. There is nothing wrong with a disorganised person going into a shop hoping that they might still have some crackers in stock. How is it a stupid question to ask? The shop may or may not have any and the shop assistant is the obvious person to ask.

If ever you wonder about the zombie apocalypse happening or just generally what would happen if credit card systems went down for more than three days, remember that being polite won't save you because you are up against these fuckers.

My dh runs the sorting office in the next town.
All of the the above have been said. One Christmas morning he had to get a sack and take the access mail out of the post box that was overflowing onto the street. Why would you shove a card in that will fall out?
His Christmas eve question is always 'will this get there tomorrow?'
I'm ex retail and I loved a Christmas Eve.

Is that actually strealing though?

Customer asking where the vegetarian Brussel sprouts were...

I don't work in retail but my least favourites in healthcare are
'you must be so sad you have to work' 'bad luck' 'what have you done wrong to work'
Mainly because I'm a massive scrooge, hate Xmas and would rather work because the hospital is quite festive and no one wants to be unwell, I find caring over the holidays the only thing that soothes my hate of Xmas.
Can't say that though so I just smile.

I particularly enjoyed trying to book a clinic appointment with a gent who said 'my ghastly children will be here, they think they know everything so I would enjoy the break' 🤣

It does vary depending on the type of bread, they differ between 7 & 11 days. 95% have 7 days exactly from the moment it is put in a bag. Obviously once it’s shipped to a supermarket, that’s generally 5/6 days. Longer if preservatives are used, less for all natural ingredients.

Agree that it is OK to ask where things are.
Nearest Sainsbury's has packet bread sauce at end of an aisle against back wall. Not in table sauces or cooking sauces aisles.
Asda: cream isn't near the milk, cheese, butter, no it is at the far wall with the chilled deserts.
Unsalted natural peanuts could be anywhere and no where in both.
Home Bargains is my favoured discounter but the aisle labelling is completely wrong. Pet stuff in toys, veg in under home wears.

Newspapers

Either right by the door (often tucked away) by the lunchtime grab me food aisles.

Or

Second aisle in by the wrapping paper

Or

Eight aisles in by the books.

Depending on which supermarket brand and which branch you use. Also see individual bottles of water (multi packs are in a different aisle).

It is with scanners, because you've put something on your list to pay for - someone is taking something that you've bought. Same as if they stood at the end of the conveyor belt and lifted your stuff.

Also - manners?!?! 🙀

No. People are being criticised for simply asking. No strawman involved.

iwasfineandlight · Today 09:12
Terrytheweasel · Today 09:11
Literally none of the questions asked are stupid so far ..
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Asking if they have crackers at 3pm on Christmas Eve, when they’ve been on sale since sodding September, is stupidity.

Did you tell them what had happened?