to be seriously contemplating legal action????

[WaitroseHater]

Shopping in Waitrose this afternoon trying desperately to get baby to sleep in the process. Can't stay in the house currently during her big sleep as have builders in, so planned to do the big weekly shop. DD normally goes off to sleep like a dream but today decided she didn''t want anything without a fight.

I've learned to tune her out, apparently others havent. In the BABY aisle of all places, 2 OAP's blocked my trolley and said I was not allowed to leave the aisle until the baby stopped crying or I left the shop . DD in a sling btw. One of the OAP's SHOUTED that if I needed to 'shove your teat in its mouth then you better do it or I will take her myself and get someone to take you out'. Obv attracted other shoppers and security.

Manager came to see what the fuss was and after me explaining asked me to leave. I abandoned half-full trolley in serious flounce mode. I honestly they were being absolutely horrendously discriminatory against my crying newborn!!!! DH is being extremely unhelpful saying I should have left to 'take the high road' Do I actually have a legal case about this?

Sometimes you have to get things done no mater what the OAPs think. Sometimes life is difficult and the baby will scream, toddlers will have tantrums. That is just life. I was astonished at peoples' attitude to DD3 crying , but frankly I had yo just get on with things.

I do my main shop at Waitrose.

What I spend is worth it to save my sanity.

Plus, I don't really think it is all that much more expensive really.

Small orange ... and sometimes OAPs don't give a f*.

they don't have Waitrose's in the north of England

Oh yes we do AF.
Clearly you were not invited.

as to legal action, shops are private property and the management has the right to ask anyone to leave without giving any reason.
however, as someone with over 10 years of retail management experience i find it very hard to believe that you would have been thrown out in such a way if you were behaving reasonably. this is either untrue or you have left something out.

Hello OP - can we have the name of the Waitrose store please???

where ? where is a Waitrose ??

there are none in north Manchester, I assure you

sheffield is miles away from me

They do have Waitrose in the north of England- I have been to one in Formby, for my WHOLE shop once

And the OP is not me, wannabe, I promise

I believe you.

Partly because a shop keeper had a go at my son for daring to be disabled today and partly because I have seen oap's throwing each others items off the belt in sainsbury's before.

I think just chalk it up to experience.

Absolutely right Bumble- and sometimes neither do I ;)

Hexham, Northumberland has a Waitrose as does Newcastle, so there.

I have never been in Waitrose to actually shop I went with my friend when we were visiting her in Lunnon .

We are too common and underevolved to have Waitroses. We have just been granted Sainburys. Prior to the we had bartering, poaching, robbery and Asda.

It's all a bunch of lies isn't it?

Written by an inadequate and disturbed person who wants lots of attention. And believed by gullible people who are sucked in repeatedly by this sort of crap.

Obviously get a different type of OAPs in some places.

I have never witnessed OAPs rounding on people casually doing their shopping, hurling abuse, or lobbing food around at the checkout.

Mine communicate displeasure with a raised eyebrow and possibly a light sniff.

It's the old gits out of the fast show isn't it? Do I get a prize?

right, I rest my case here

Waitrose in Formby=posh

Altrincham=posh

Hexham=posh

Newcastle=not posh, but large city

Sheffield=not posh, but large city

there is probably one in Mancester somewhere=not posh, but large city

there are no Waitrose's local to me=not posh

Wot about Ocado AF? Do they deliver where you are?

formby one is my local

I go to Lidl though. and asda, for a treat

'looks round at heads nodding vociferously'

If those heads are nodding vociferously that's terrifying, Lauriefairycake.

I'm not in t'North!