accompanied shop sainsbury after complaint

MysteryMe

I hadn't even thought about people putting beef through as carrots!

I can understand people just hitting onion or apple and making a genuine mistake but carrots instead of beef? That's just stealing

StuartMacpherson

Middy wrote: »

I work on Sundays and we get customers shouting abuse at us at 9:55am because we can't serve them until 10am! Nine times out of 10, they are just buying a paper. Yet there is a paper shop over the road where they don't have Sunday trading laws inflicted on them. The Sunday Mirror is the same Sunday Mirror regardless where you buy it. Either go other the road or stay in bed for another 5 minutes! Simples.

We opened at 6am on Sundays, after packing 1000's of news papers. I was sick of people banging on the door at 05.55am asking when we open when there was a sign next to their face stating 06.00-23.00 every day... This customer would then come in, and try and pull a Sunday Times from the middle of the pile, there for dropping 20+ other paper on the floor because "I wanted a fresh one"... He was the first person in the shop... Some customers are idiots.

Middy

StuartMacpherson wrote: »

We opened at 6am on Sundays, after packing 1000's of news papers. I was sick of people banging on the door at 05.55am asking when we open when there was a sign next to their face stating 06.00-23.00 every day... This customer would then come in, and try and pull a Sunday Times from the middle of the pile, there for dropping 20+ other paper on the floor because "I wanted a fresh one"... He was the first person in the shop... Some customers are idiots.

We get customers that do this as well. What is so special about getting a 'fresh' paper?

Plus I got yelled at by customers as I didn't keep their papers flat! Do they keep the papers flat when they read them?

1trainer1

Middy wrote: »

We get customers that do this as well. What is so special about getting a 'fresh' paper?

Plus I got yelled at by customers as I didn't keep their papers flat! Do they keep the papers flat when they read them?

the smell of a fresh paper is the only reason they buy a newspaper, they dont want to read it just want to smell it

StuartMacpherson

1trainer1 wrote: »

the smell of a fresh paper is the only reason they buy a newspaper, they dont want to read it just want to smell it

Why do I fully believe that?

blufish_2

Middy wrote: »

We get customers that do this as well. What is so special about getting a 'fresh' paper?

Must admit I'm guilty of the paper thing, but never go that far down in the stack - just one or two below the one on top. I've done it ever since I took home a paper than had about nine pages missing — and all the scratchcards...!

s_b

blufish wrote: »

Must admit I'm guilty of the paper thing, but never go that far down in the stack - just one or two below the one on top. I've done it ever since I took home a paper than had about nine pages missing — and all the scratchcards...!

me too
i even think people nick sections and put them in their cheaper rags
i wouldnt go 20 down though

oh loved this too and agree

Some customers are idiots.

when i first started in retail i was told the customer is always right
ive never heard such bumkum

Shower-of-roses

We used to put the top paper under the next one just before certain offending customers came in! It was a small moral victory...

About 7 out of 10 pick the next paper down and it is flipping annoying when they all slide to the floor cos somebody wants a paper half way down the stack. I don't know why people do it, it's not like getting the freshest milk or bread from the back to beat the stock rotation. It's the same paper wherever you get it from! :rotfl:

Glad to be out of it.

StuartMacpherson

Shower-of-roses wrote: »

We used to put the top paper under the next one just before certain offending customers came in! It was a small moral victory...

About 7 out of 10 pick the next paper down and it is flipping annoying when they all slide to the floor cos somebody wants a paper half way down the stack. I don't know why people do it, it's not like getting the freshest milk or bread from the back to beat the stock rotation. It's the same paper wherever you get it from! :rotfl:

Glad to be out of it.

I once got in a lot of trouble for asking a customer if he was going to pick up the 10+ Sunday broad page news paper he had pulled over when grabbing a paper from the bottom. He said "no, that's your job"... I rather angrily explained that it is not my job to clear up after stuck up idiots like him... Apparently speaking to people like that when they have been rude to you is "inappropriate... It's ok though, he said he'd stop shopping with us and go to the Co-Op haha

I'm not a bad person... honest.

JAG

Shower-of-roses wrote: »

I don't know why people do it, it's not like getting the freshest milk or bread from the back to beat the stock rotation. It's the same paper wherever you get it from! :rotfl:

I think one reason is that the top copy is usually the one that is most read by different people, and any leaflets, coupons or magazines may be missing from it.

Some customers treat the newspaper stand like a library and pick and read the newspapers, before putting it back on the pile and leaving without buying a copy.