Goods too high to reach.

tealady

This thread made me laugh.
Once I was in a supermarket when I saw a shopper trying to get something from a low shelf (item was right at the back). I lay on the floor and stretched myself as far as I could (I am "vertically challenged" but don't telescope well due to old age and general decreptitude). When I told my friend the reply I got was "do you think you are a bit old for planking"!
If there are things on the top shelf I usually ask a tall shopper or use things such as brollies however am now thinking of sticking a fish slice in my bag next time I go shopping, you never know it could start a trend.

Rachel*

Being 5ft11, I have helped many petite shoppers reach items higher up, sometimes they've assumed I work there and proceeded to ask for opinions/location of other items...:huh:
I'm always happy to help, I'd hate not being able to reach stuff.

hullight

Sometimes the goods are not too high up, but they are too far back to reach! The shelves at big supermarkets are so deep, and it's especially difficult to grasp a bottle of wine:beer: that has almost sold out. How do they even stack the shelves - do they only hire people with arms longer than an estate car?

Cycrow

hullight wrote: »

Sometimes the goods are not too high up, but they are too far back to reach! The shelves at big supermarkets are so deep, and it's especially difficult to grasp a bottle of wine:beer: that has almost sold out. How do they even stack the shelves - do they only hire people with arms longer than an estate car?

you dont need to reach the back of the shelves to stack them

You just push the items on the front and anything already on the shelf gets pushed to the back.

when i worked at Tesco, the only time i didn't help customers was when i was on my breaks.

jezebel

I always get embarrassed asking a tall person for help, but at 5ft I don't always have that choice.

I like Aldi as they don't unpack the stuff in boxes so you can often pull the box foward to reach inside it (just be careful it doesn't fall on your head).

My local farm foods has some really helpful staff who get stuff from the bottom of the freezers (I admit to having a fear of falling in and the lid closing on me )

I do a lot of my Tesco delivery online in order to avoid the issue in there...

Mr_F_Dorsetty

I'm in a power wheel chair... if I get really stuck and no one will help me I tend to have an 'accident' using my walking stick as a prodding tool to bring things off the shelf and onto the floor :A

That always gets someone's attention.

Cottage_Economy

Another 5ft 3 shopper who can't reach the top shelves.

If there's no-one around to reach it for me and I have something long in my basket, like tin foil, clingfilm or a breadstick, I can usually hook what I want. If all fails, I carry a small umbrella that extends out to let me gently pull things to the front of the shelf. Then I can usually hop up or jump up and grab it.

However, I noticed yesterday that my local Tesco has lowered its shelves in the homeware section. Shame I don't go in that section. Hopefully they will extend that round the store, especially in the deep freeze section which has head height freezers. Head height for giants that is.

Don't get me started about shops with deep chest freezers :rotfl:

hullight

I saw a woman in Aldi climb into one of the open fridges. Bit extreme!

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I'm 6'6" and it galls me the way clothes shops have developed the habit of hanging their stock 15 feet up the damned walls.

rustyboy21

6 footer here and am always helping out people ( including staff) in supermarkets with stuff off top shelves. Have also dragged ladders over to stuff I want in the Range, which seems to have very high shelves around the outside walls.


I noticed on here what people call the wheeled stools in shops. Most call them Elephant feet or step stools. When I started in retail at 16 we used to call them Daleks. Get looked at weird now if I call them that when shopping. Weird the way things change