Tesco Yellow Sticker/Reductions - Customer behaviour vent!

SallyForth_2

It's very frustrating I think. I like to have a poke around that shelf, and sometimes you can't get near it, I hate that vulturesque feeling you get when everyone decends upon it at the same time (usually when the poor assistant has a new load to put there).

Why can they keep the reduced stuff on the shelves where they were originally, or have smaller sections at the end of each isle so people are not all trying to get to the same shelves.

DKLS

I feel for the poor sod who has been assigned to mark down goods in my local asda, its like a pride of lions descending on a wounded buffalo.

mrsmortenharket

People are utterly bonkers aren't they! I don't think they have any shame!

Lisa

emmell

The trouble with all these ideas about leaving reduced products on their own section, or taking them away to reduce them, they will take longer to sell and the whole point of reducing items is to sell fast so they are not destroyed.
It doesn't matter whether twelve people buy one item each or one person buys twelve items the result at the checkout is the same. What I can't stand is people who scoop everything up then walk round the store discarding the items they don't really want, that spoils it for everyone.
ML.

Claire_Bear

I love looking through the reduced things and thankfully I've never really seen any of this kind of behaviour apart from when I was standing in front of the reduced section, I'd turned my trolley around so it wasn't blocking the shelf at all and other people could get in to have a look, but some awful woman on one of those electric scooter things rammed my trolley into my side while trying to barge me out of the way so she could get in and grab loads of stuff! It hadn't even been reduced that much as it was still quite early but I think sometimes the yellow stickers drive people into a frenzy :eek: Incidentally at my local Asda I've got loads of stuff just before closing for 2p or 4p and there's been no-one else even looking at the shelves, one time the SA came over and asked my flatmate if he wanted a bag full of loaves of bread and stuff for free otherwise it would just get chucked out.

But, to turn it on it's head, once I was in Sainsburys and there was a SA reducing some cakes and bakery goods, there was 3 women standing talking to her and from the conversation I think they worked there too. I was standing patiently looking at what was being reduced and waiting for her to put them on the shelves, but she was just handing everything straight over to the three other ladies and they were going straight in the trolleys, I didn't think that was right either.

kinglewis121

its embarassing to say the least when people are like vultures its the same at car boot sales when people havnt even opened their boot and you get about 20 odd people with torches shining through the window

Dizzy_Ditzy

kinglewis121 wrote: »

its embarassing to say the least when people are like vultures its the same at car boot sales when people havnt even opened their boot and you get about 20 odd people with torches shining through the window

I tape cardboard to the inside of my windows. I've been known to put messages on them beforehand as well!

Back to topic- my local asda on a thursday night is the worst for reductions- i think its giro day locally and its like a saturday night in town for all the pushing and shoving!

I've had some good bargains but I'm not afraid of saying something if someone pushes past me- "excuse me would have been sufficient" etc.

The old ones tend to be the worst- I've even heard one telling their daughter that this was what they fought in the war for...

Mankysteve

Kayteehee wrote: »

I agree... the SA in this case reduced all items "out the back" and brought them through in a trolley to put them on the shelf, still all of this behaviour carried on.

I suppose they could leave them in trolley but the goods may get further damaged don't you think?

While that would be nice in thoery it would mean the Poor Ca would have to stand in one of the fridges out back make sure that the item dont get too cold.

TBH its the pll behaveing like children and should know better fault.

I had one block follow me half away across the store where I work just because I had zapper on me, I just doing Sel maintenance and I'm not authorised to make deduction. Sad individuals I do get stuff from the cheapo counter but I would just walk away in this case.