Shout out to the supermarket staff today

[IAmQueenWenceslas]

Posting for traffic! I just want everyone to join me in a huge Christmas shout-out to thank all the supermarket staff who have been up early replenishing the mountains of 5p veg and baking the croissants so we can all enjoy our Christmases!

I was in Lidl first thing as I forgot something in my big shop, and the same guy served me who I saw on Saturday. He looked haggard!

I remembered him saying he was on shift at 4am every day as they have to restock before opening early at 7am. And he had got stuck working “late” on Christmas Eve because his Scrooge management changed their minds about letting him leave at 8am which meant he was going to be late picking up his kids from his ex for his day with them. I could have cried for him.

So … to all the shop assistants but most especially the ones in Lidl and Aldi where they really work you so hard … thank you, and happy Christmas

Hats off to anyone working in retail, and anyone else working over the festive period! Hope people are kind to you.

Great post. Thank you to all workers working over the festive season to make my life a bit easier. Special thanks to the caring and kind supermarket staff who are still make their customers feel welcome.

Thoughts going out to the staff at the Aldi where the fridges stopped working a couple days ago, just as all the extra Christmas stock deliveries were coming in…

Amen! Thank you everyone. May anyone who was rude to a retail worker this Christmas get a hefty dose of the turkey shits 😇

DD is off to work in retail shortly until 5pm, back in on Boxing Day and also working both New Years Eve and Day 😩. She's already exhausted from overtime until 7pm last night. I just hope everyone is nice today! Thank you to anyone working ❤️

Thank you to everyone working hard over the Christmas period.

To healthcare workers, police, other emergency workers, who work throughout Christmas with increased workload as a direct result of others having time off.

Agreed, hats off to retail workers. Working retail is thankless most of the time, but especially at this time of the year.

The supermarket was so horrendously busy last time that I visited that I told a young woman on the Customer Services till, "I take my hat off to you and everyone who works in Customer Services at this time of year! I really don't know how you manage!" I'd waited until after the normal busy periods, so playing Tetris on the car park was quite unexpected.

I'm always happy to work on Christmas Day (farm worker) because I get to spend time with my girls (dairy cows), and it is always a pleasure to see them! Less so the sheep sometimes, who continually find ways to add to their 1,001 creative ways to die😂

DS has gone out for his late shift at Tesco Express. 12 hours today until 10pm

They're running a book on how many times they'll be told they've ruined Christmas...

100%! I was in the huge Tescos in my town yesterday and between restocking the shelves, the folks picking food for online shops and the hapless public who all seemed to HAVE NO LIST it was total bedlam. I took a 2 minute mental health break in the pet food isle (quiet) to get through my shop so I have no idea how they’re managing a full shift. Heroes.

DD does a 4am supermarket shift whilst at Uni - she’s weird though, she loves it! 😁 DH and I thanked the woman wrangling the queue for the self service tills yesterday and asked if she was in today too, she said yes but she doesn’t mind and that she felt more sorry for us because we were going to have to get out of the car park now (looking at her watch). Must be a specific time when it’s at its worst because she was right - took us absolutely ages 🤣

Thank you all for the thankless task of dealing with last minute arseholes who direct their frustrations at you!

For the really rude customers just imagine (wish) they will get a dodgy belly tomorrow 😉

@TheeNotoriousPIG “Less so the sheep sometimes, who continually find ways to add to their 1,001 creative ways to die😂”

If you haven’t started a thread on this previously PLEASE I beg you I would love to hear more about this!

Thanks to all the retailers. My son started at 6.30 and got to work to discover an attempted break in. They've only just replaced the glass from the last robbery. I hope all the staff have a great Christmas

We had this same fight every year. My husbands work wanted him to work till 11pm. There is no public transport at that time. Thank God he is retiring soon

My son has been working in Aldi for the past few months and it's been quite an experience for him! He's off today after a 7-day run without a break and he's still asleep at nearly 5pm. It's been exhausting for him but he says the vast majority of customers have been lovely (we won't mention the guy who tried to buy 60 bags of 5p spuds and left them for DS to put back out when he said he was only allowed to sell four bags per customer). Hats off to everyone in retail at this time of year, genuinely!

I was at Aldi a few minutes ago and the woman behind me had a full trolley so like a full shop
”what time do you open Boxing Day?” She asked
i was thinking “can you not last for 48 bloody hours?! With all the stuff you are buying?”

If you really want to show your appreciation for supermarket staff, just DON'T GO to the shops on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day. If people don't go, then there's no point to them opening and the staff can have the time off...

I did a stint in retail and Christmas was INSANE.

Fair play to anyone currently in a customer facing role this time of year.

I agree, my DS is working today and then back in on Boxing Day. (M and S.) Waitrose near me not opening Boxing Day, wish more would do this, surely we can all manage until 27th?

Less so the sheep sometimes, who continually find ways to add to their 1,001 creative ways to die😂

The wind blows the wrong way and the buggars keel over!

I was in M&S on Monday and it was manic, the poor staff looked frazzled. I hope they’ve all got their feet up now!

No they can’t and then they kick off because we don’t have deliveries on Boxing Day. I had to explain to a customer last year that if she wanted fresh bread people would have to be in work Christmas night to make it but she didn’t see a problem with that. Thankfully this year customers have been much nicer, you’ll always get the odd one that speaks to us like shit but it’s the ones that treat us like fellow humans that cancel them out.

15th Christmas in retail management in a supermarket.

Actually have 3 days off this Xmas - some years I've been in on night shift replen Xmas eve & day & slept through most of Xmas.

Only 3 days off so far this December & average 60+ hours a week so one good thing is when everyone is feeling the pinch in January I will be getting paid my overtime.

I enjoy December & the run up to Xmas but really dislike working between boxing day & new years. Everyone seems flat, the shop & warehouse are a mess & half the stock seems to be either damaged or reduced.

This year I've been in loss prevention monitoring, deterring, disrupting & reporting theft & other retail crimes.

Thank you to the lovely staff at my M&S. I dropped a bottle of milk at the self service check out which flooded about a quarter of the self-checkout area while they had a massive queue. I was so apologetic and they were so lovely about it.

I'm afraid that I haven't got around to it yet, due to working long hours and rescuing sheep that look disappointed after being saved, being the ungrateful beasties that they are 🙄

I swear that they have a points system, with extra points added for being an extremely grim death, and whether or not they took any of their woolly friends with them! Minus points for being saved by an unfeasibly small woman with a pair of foot trimmers, machinery or some baler twine, obviously.

I love to chat and answer questions about farming, but I can be a bit wary as you sometimes get bad reactions by non-farming folk. Funnily enough, though, the reason that I first joined MN was to defend dairy farming on a thread about milk. That was, um, enlightening! Anyway, I'm off to see what Father Christmas brought when he turned up on his quad bike at a friend's farm. Have a good evening!