Supermarket Pet Hate

Sally_A

In our local shop with very narrow aisles, firstly I will lift my basket over an out of control child, the mother tends to say thank you, and call the child to heel, second time I will stop them just as they are about to run head first into my child head height basket, again mother calls them back.

Third time - tough titty :cool: Can't possibly be my fault as the mother has witnessed that twice I have tried to save their precious out of control youngsters (and it's probably on CCTV).

angelil

tori.k wrote: »

maybe they come across surly because of people with your attitude god forbid if your foie gras isn't on the shelf when you want it.

What a nice person you are! I don't give them attitude in the least. It's already not easy to get round when you have to carry the entire weekly shop home by yourself. The last thing I need is loads of stuff in the way every time I try.

And I love how you assume my supermarket sells foie gras Or that I have the income to purchase it as part of my weekly shop

maman

Edwardia wrote: »

I used to have my Waitrose shopping delivered but am now going to the store a couple of times a month because compared to Tesco, Morrisons and ASDA it's soo quiet and civilised. I've yet to see a single child standing/sitting inside a trolley, or some humungously fat tattooed man/woman showing sweaty cleavage. No horrible muzak or Hi-de-Hi style announcements either and definitely no Eastern Europeans fighting over reduced price stuff.

Would that be the fighting or the fact they're Eastern European that is your pet hate?

luxor4t

tori.k wrote: »

...... god forbid if your foie gras isn't on the shelf when you want it.

I've only skimmed the thread - could my 'pet hate' be that I can't afford to shop a Waitrose? even if there was one close, which there isn't.
Not that it sells fois gras, or that I would eat it anyway :eek:

lostinrates

maman wrote: »

Would that be the fighting or the fact they're Eastern European that is your pet hate?

I did wonder if the poster had seen me report this story before.....because they were actually eatern european but i could not determine from where exactly.

claire16c

I have to say I dont get the thing about not liking kids in trollies because of dirt on their feet.

There's all kinds of rubbish on trollies - theyre kept outside! They could have bird poo, mud, rain all sorts on them.

I cant imagine youd eat something straight off it, so why are vegetables any different? Wash them!!

BoogieBoo

The trolley thing doesn't really bother me so much although I have never let my son sit in anything other than the seat. However, picking up a few things in my local supermarket yesterday I did see one mother place her child on the conveyor belt at the till! :eek: I managed to resist the temptation to ask how much she was willing to pay for him!

Sally_A

I'm half Polish, and love a bargain...perhaps it's in my genes but I've yet to be seen fighting over a reduced item - apart from the time, I'd filled my trolley with bargains, and found an OAP sifting through it after I left it unattended, thinking it was the bargain trolley.:rotfl:

Dad was demobbed here, couldn't go back to Poland until after 1990, 1994 was his first return. He was a canny old wotsit when it came to bargains. Totally off topic, but when he died is 0% finance on the kitchen fell due.....G E Capital were fantastic -let me pay it off approx 6 months late with no penalties when the estate was getting sorted.

I think a lot of Eastern Europeans have to go for the yellow stickers, they are usually working for minimum wage, so without reduced items they would not be getting a sufficient selection of food.

As for the Romanian Gypsy pickpocketing gangs....well that's a whole new topic.

mrcow

flippin36 wrote: »

Wow. Please forgive me if I offended you. Not my intention at all. I'm sure I do say please and thank you . I'm always polite in the supermarket, and I don't think I offend people, certainly not on purpose. I'm just not sure why I'm being jumped upon for saying to another poster if you move someone's trolley its best to say excuse me and they usually don't mind. Out of all the petty unkind comments I've read on here it seem a bit weird that's the one you had palpitations over.

This thread has started to really upset me now . So sorry to anyone who was hurt or angered by my comments, I would never do that intentionally. (Kindness to stangers and forgiveness for minor errors also cost nothing).

lol I'm not having palpitations about anything and trust me, you'd have to be going some to offend me on here.

i just think that people who don't say please and thank you are rude. If you want someone to "Excuse you", then ask politely. It's basic manners. You're not the only person who doesn't do it. Not by a long chalk which is why I mentioned it as a pet nark of mine.

I didn't mean to upset you. Although if I have, maybe next time you'll remember to say please when you want someone to shove themselves out of the way for you?

Sally_A

OK, in hindsight, and I beg forgiveness Father MSE.

Approx 15 years ago, we played netball near to Asda, Longwell Green, Bristol, me and a mate with daughters aged approx 6 at the time would finish our match and then pop into Asda. Both daughters were obsessed with Supermarket Sweep at the time, so to entertain them we would send them off hunting for items on our shopping list, they probably ran around the aisles hunting for things, although always taught to be polite and have manners, I accept they may have been a bit caught up in the SS moment .

On the plus side they were on a positive mission, on the downside, if they ever got in your way: sorry: I beg forgiveness.