Why do adults have to eat around supermarkets?

cybergibbons

NEH wrote: »

They may not say it to your face but they'll think and say plently behind closed doors..

But you don't care what you do anyway....

That's exactly the attitude that I'm troubled by - if people are bothered by something, they should do something about it, rather than go and have a token whinge about it.

Let's face it, none of you are actually going to do anything about the sandwich eaters, are you?

purplepardalis

This thread has been highly entertaining. I have to mention as well that I don't see this happen in my local supermarket. Probably because it's a Waitrose and therefore has a better class of clientele. (joke btw)

I could go on and on in response to everyone's comments but i won't. Instead I'll add my vote to those who do not like people eating food in the supermarket before they've purchased it. Immediately what springs to mind at the thought:

Bad manners
No respect for property
No respect for rules - a shop is private premises, you do not have a right to be in there
Lack of self control
Lack of education or good upbringing

These are just the things that come to my mind, I am not accusing the sandwich eaters personally of being any of the above.

I will certainly be bringing up my children not to have the urge to stuff their mouths in a shop unless they have just found one after wandering for months with no food and are about to expire from malnutrition and starvation.

Mrs_justjohn

I apologise in advance for resurrecting this thread and probably restarting the arguement....;)

....but I thought the posters on this thread might like to see the sign that I saw in Asda's in Romford (I live in Scotland but was visiting my mum at the weekend). I have not seen any signs in my local supermarkets (yet) but I daresay this policy will roll out across all the branches / stores.









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eranou

Its the stores wishes people should respect that.

I however will continue to do in my local supermarket until the staff ask me not to or put up a sign of their own.

chomsky_2

hee hee I am so glad someone bumped this old thread as weirdly enough I had a hilarious encounter in my local Asda. I picked up my friend 'the PHD' to do his shopping as he doesn't drive and halfway round the store I caught him eating a scotch egg, I told him that according to the good people at MSE he was a chavvy scumbag responsible for the nation's declining moral standards. He roared with laughter and said "you think this is bad? I've just had nuclear fall out in the disabled bog."

Clearly this is evidence that supermarket eating lowers morality.

Mrs_justjohn

chomsky wrote: »

hee hee I am so glad someone bumped this old thread as weirdly enough I had a hilarious encounter in my local Asda. I picked up my friend 'the PHD' to do his shopping as he doesn't drive and halfway round the store I caught him eating a scotch egg, I told him that according to the good people at MSE he was a chavvy scumbag responsible for the nation's declining moral standards. He roared with laughter and said "you think this is bad? I've just had nuclear fall out in the disabled bog."

Clearly this is evidence that supermarket eating lowers morality.

LOL - I didn't bump the thread to restart the debate as such....

I just wanted to prove that my post of about 10 pages ago was spot on....when I predicted it was only a matter of time before stores started putting up signs....LOL *insert smug smilie here*

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chomsky_2

LOL They proabaly saw this thread and thought "thieving !!!!!!s let's clamp down on these pond life!"

jumpycheese1

One thing that annoys me is parents going around the supermarket and their kid screams that they are hungry. They go down the crisps aisle and get a multipack of crisps, open them and take one packet from there - leaving the multipack minus one on the shelf. Only for someone to buy them and realise when they get home, they only got 9 instead of 10 packets. I've been a victim. Plus I couldn't return them as the shop wouldn't believed me.

If I'm on the manned checkouts and a customer puts an open multipack of crisps on the belt. Sometimes they tell me they have opened themselves and gave their child a packet of crisps. If they don't mention it or cannot see a child eating one, I count the packets just in case.

jumpycheese1

My friends that work in supermarkets with a hot chicken counter have lost count in the number of chicken bones they find in the store - usually in the bag where they came in. These customers eat chicken drumsticks etc around the store and toss the bones in the aisle at the time when they finished them. Obviously not paid for them

Mrs_justjohn

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

My friends that work in supermarkets with a hot chicken counter have lost count in the number of chicken bones they find in the store - usually in the bag where they came in. These customers eat chicken drumsticks etc around the store and toss the bones in the aisle at the time when they finished them. Obviously not paid for them

Well it would seem that if they are seen eating in the Asda at Romford and can not provide proof of purchase then they can/may be arrested. If this is true then it does blow a hole in the theory of a lot of the posters on this thread that it is not theft until you have left the store??