Alcohol and Aldi?

hollydays

Hmm.. Talking to yourself and all that marching..
I think you were having a bad day.

Tua

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

you stumbled in, dressed like a tramp, muttering to yourself and lurched around the store looking for the booze?

Eh? Since when do un-ironed trousers equate to being "dressed like a tramp"? And what makes you think the OP "stumbled in" and then "lurched around"?

Sooler

hollydays wrote: »

... all that marching..

yes, that is what it would have been, see here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opgXJ8VD5nk

yangptangkipperbang

I'll have a pint of what he's on .............

Prothet_of_Doom

ljonski wrote: »

Life is too short -sometimes to worry about ironing!

Agreed None added value. I love winter cause I can cover my un-ironed shirts with a jumper. But you look so much nicer in clean clothes and less tramp like.

Yorkie_Pud

This is how I see it, you walk in the store not looking your best, a security guard(on not much over minimum wage and probably not the most thorough training) has been told by his manager not to let any undesirables in, sees you from a distance, comes over and decided actually you're fine and tells you to Carry on.
Fair enough really.

specialboy

geerex wrote: »

Incorrect.

It is an offence though.

No it's not, the OP wasn't buying drink so no it's not an offence to serve him even if he was pi55ed.

firesidemaid

This happened to us in Sainsbugs once years ago. Security guard refused us to purchase alcohol as he thought we were intoxicated. I think it was because he witnessed up having a slight tiff in the toilet-roll aisle.

I was also livid because a) i had drunk no alcohol and b) i had driven there. I went to see the manager and said that they should call the police as i was about to drive home. They obviously weren't that bothered as they didn't.

on a second note, recently an elderly friend went with her teenage granddaughter to aldos get a few bits with which to make a trifle - at the till she handed the heavy bits (including the bottle of sherry) to her granddaughter to hold as there is no room at the end of the tills in there - they then refused to let her buy the sherry as they thought she was buying it for her to drink!

meer53

firesidemaid wrote: »

This happened to us in Sainsbugs once years ago. Security guard refused us to purchase alcohol as he thought we were intoxicated. I think it was because he witnessed up having a slight tiff in the toilet-roll aisle.

I was also livid because a) i had drunk no alcohol and b) i had driven there. I went to see the manager and said that they should call the police as i was about to drive home. They obviously weren't that bothered as they didn't.

on a second note, recently an elderly friend went with her teenage granddaughter to aldos get a few bits with which to make a trifle - at the till she handed the heavy bits (including the bottle of sherry) to her granddaughter to hold as there is no room at the end of the tills in there - they then refused to let her buy the sherry as they thought she was buying it for her to drink!

The OP was buying groceries, not alcohol.

Money-Saving-King

ljonski wrote: »

I admittedly must have mumbled to myself in a low voice about how i just want to get in and out without having to play hide and seek to get my groceries

I can imagine a lot was all down this this, you say low voice but you wouldn't have mentioned it unless you knew it was obviously heard.

Then you did this.

ljonski wrote: »

In a much louder voice after getting the stuff that i required i spoke to an assistant going into the office , very much in earshot of the others waiting in the queue, i mentioned what had happened to him and suggested to him that if Mr Aldi disaproves of people drinking so much, then it might be a good idea not to sell the stuff in the first place.

If you go around behaving like that don't be surprised if people don't want you there.