Yellow Sticker Madness

geordie_joe

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

Manners cost nothing.

No, but they won't get you the best bargains either.

SoWhatIsNext

geordie_joe wrote: »

No, but they won't get you the best bargains either.

You can be mannered and stand your ground at the same time. But the problem is that you shouldn't have to.

A sign of the times? No, there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.

Tesco should clamp down on this as it makes the shopping experience far less pleasant and makes me and I'm sure others even less inclined to go there.

I already prefer to shop elsewhere as it is.

catwoman73

I buy the odd YS item, but won't fight through scrums to see what is available and I've noticed that some people's behaviour around the reduced counters has got worse over the past few years.

I'm sure that, in most cases, its not need but want that motivates most of the enthusiastic YS hunters, just like the 'Quick Grabbit' board on here, where greedy people will grab everything for themselves and leave nothing for others. I bet a lot of stuff gets wasted or takes years to be used up.

Look how people behave with Christmas supermarket delivery slots, bagging them all months in advance, with odd items, and then filling them up at the end. Normal people, with better things to do with their time, end up missing out.

I remember there was a really good toilet roll offer a couple of months ago but I couldn't find any and I bet that there are some people with loads of packs shoved into lofts and garages etc.

Edwardia

Organic food doesn't seem to get reduced much, all I've gotten lately is bread or tinned tomatoes. So as I'm unlikely to find anything I don't think it's worth me getting involved in the scrum.

The scrum mentality has been exhibited for years at village jumble sales but it is weird seeing it in supermarkets. I see it in ASDA but never in Lidl or Waitrose and only around the bread at Sainsbury's.

My nearest Waitrose keeps reduced stuff in its' section which I think is a good idea as it stops the scrum happening.

I do have sympathy for people finding it hard but people who do the shoving and pushing are actually committing assault.

I had a verbal go at a woman who ran over my dog's tail with her buggy and hurt him and she gave me a right mouthful. Another time I was on a train and a drunken yob poured a can of lager over my head while I was reading. Someone else I know was on a train and a teenager walked past and set light to a woman's hair.

When people take no notice and carry on they condone violence. What if that elderly man had a heart attack or slipped and broke an ankle ?

I'd rather see that food given to the homeless and food banks, myself.

geordie_joe

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

You can be mannered and stand your ground at the same time.

That won't help if "your ground" is at the back.

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

But the problem is that you shouldn't have to.

Of course not, the people at the front should leave the stuff for the people at the back who turned up late.

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

A sign of the times? No, there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.

I didn't say there was, but everyone, in a situation like that has a choice, either stand back and get nothing or do what the others are doing.

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

Tesco should clamp down on this

How do you propose they do that, hire bouncers to guard the reductions cabinet?

Edwardia

Maybe they could section off a bit of store, charge people to enter it and let them do a section sweep for 2 mins.

abailey54

Thriftygifty wrote: »

Everybody loves a bargain but I to have witnessed this and it's not nice. I love yellow sticker shopping and use to do it quite regularly when I could, but our local supermarket puts everything in one shelf unit at the end of the chilled section there is normally one or 2 sales people putting the stuff on it/reducing it further and there's loads of people round them/blocking them in it must be awful for the sales people, I certainly wouldnt like it, when I see it like this I just carry on walking past. I know lots of people are struggling and some people need the reduced food more than others but it really annoys me is that only 2 people get everything! Why can't the supermarket just reduce the various items and leave them in the section they came from, so that more people benefit, I know i'm looking at it from a customers point of view and the supermarkets wouldnt listen!

I think that is what Waitrose do, it definitely seems like a way of reducing the scrum. I wonder whether you'd get people following any SA carrying one of those machines to see where they'd go though

LadyCoupon wrote: »

the lady was marking down the fruit, there were about 20 tubs of those fresh mixed fruit things they do on the counter as the lady is marking them down, I noticed they all said 10p, I picked one up and this old lady more or less shouted at me, to say 'that's mine!' there were two ladies standing waiting for her to mark them further down from 10p, they had their hands on all of them.

It's just ridiculous, were they never taught to share as children?! It's almost like people forget themselves when they see a bargain, it really is greedy behaviour

catwoman73 wrote: »

I buy the odd YS item, but won't fight through scrums to see what is available and I've noticed that some people's behaviour around the reduced counters has got worse over the past few years.

I'm sure that, in most cases, its not need but want that motivates most of the enthusiastic YS hunters, just like the 'Quick Grabbit' board on here, where greedy people will grab everything for themselves and leave nothing for others. I bet a lot of stuff gets wasted or takes years to be used up.

I know others have said it's a sign of the times and I think to a certain extent it is, but I also think it is a case of want and not need.

I see just a couple of people filling their trolley with the ys and then you think that that food will last even a few people a week, but then exactly the same people are there the very next day doing exactly the same thing. In this case it's very difficult to believe that they need all that food, or even have the ability to store it all

I think with the grabbit board though, these are deals that are short-lived and that lots of people will go for, so I don't think it's always a case of one person shelf-clearing - though there are obviously individuals who do this. This website is all about helping each other in all things money, and taking everything so that there's nothing left for anyone else kind-of goes against that idea

DCFC79

Its just how some people are these days, they love getting a real bargain and manners just get left behind.

abailey54

geordie_joe wrote: »

Of course not, the people at the front should leave the stuff for the people at the back who turned up late.

This isn't necessarily people who turn up late, I've been there at the right time on my own before to have someone push directly in front of me, and even someone pulling the trolley away from me to stop me getting anything.

I either can retaliate with the same behaviour, or let them get on with it and hope that there's something left...personally I choose the latter

dlusman

I have seen the increase in scrum mentality myself as well. In my local Sainsburys it appears to happen mostly on a Sunday afternoon when the reduction times are usually more consistent than other days of the week. But what really drives me mad is the people who take a pile of stuff out of the reduced section a few minutes before they know it is going to be reduced further. When the Sales assistant arrives , they then stick it under their nose and demand the extra discount. Sometimes wish the SA would just take it out of their hand and put it back on the shelf.