Apparently I'm a 'vulture'!

galaxynicole

The_Old_Bag wrote: »

By the way, I personnally find it disgusting when I see staff filling huge bin bags with bread etc to be binned. I have heard staff say they are not allowed to send the stuff to shelters/soup kitchen etc 'cos of all the H&S rules, and fear of legal action if someone becomes ill with eating out of date items.
Maybe someone who works at the supermarkets and knows anything about this would care to comment.
I cannot abide waste of any type - Any old bread goes to the ducks - and even then I hand out bread to other children who have come "unprepared". It makes their day to be able to feed the wildlife

I used to work in a restaurant and threw lots of stuff away each night! Some of the girls sometimes were allowed to take stuff home (when my boss was in a very good mood) My mum worked at a homeless place and I asked whether we could save the food for them but I got told NO!

My boyfriend used to work in a supermarket and he always buys on the reduced bit.

Us both working in retail can make you see the other side. We all have bad days. We all have our "regular" customers who are timewasters or just plain annoying or we just don't agree with a customer's attitude or what they are doing but we do not talk about them or make any comments about them if they are in earshot. For example, like the woman I had in last week, swearing and shouting out her kids, violently shoving her kid into the pushchair but none of us said anything. It's not our place to. Like it wasn't her place (or the other customer's who original said the comment) to judge you for buying reduced items. Lol she would be judging me too and my boyfriend and most of my family! Then again, I don't really care what people think of me but I can understand why it annoys or upsets other people.

Schamansky

Last time I struck at Asda, buying heavily into the plummeting markets, my comment was (loud, for everybody to hear):

"You gotta LOVE this store! Everything is 10p!"

Someone give me an economically sound reason based on rational behaviour why you should not strike when prices hit rock bottom.

Because some stuck up nobody outta nowhere could make an unfavourable guess about my buying power?

Could I care less?

crazyloon_2

Hey look what i found...http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=55 " The (Consumer) Vent Board
Fed up with a product provider? Need to get it off your chest? Just have a rant about poor service and let others know...

so the 'reduction woman' reduced 'loads' of food which you looked at,she carrys on reducing items which you also go through whilst talking to another person about 'filling up the freezer', she then moves to another isle where she see's you approaching again, another customer (who may have saw you at the other isle maybe?) then makes the 'vulture' comment--im not saying the reduction woman had the right to pull a face but come on...from her point of view you may have come across as one of the 'bad' vultures if you know who i mean, and to be honest you picked up £76 worth of food and was 'congratulated on getting so many bargains' at the till, that dosent sound to me like 'just bits and pieces'. its all about peoples opinions in the end and i would just take what happened with a pinch of salt as itseems a very minor matter:D

myrnahaz

I think I must be an entire flock of vultures, because if it wasn't for the meat etc from the reduced shelf then my family wouldn't eat - our tea consists of whatever has been reduced at Asda/Tesco that day. I wash my hair in my mega-bargain charles worthington shampoo from Tesco, drink lovely ground coffee that was reduced to 74p in asda - I could go on and on.

hm71_2

Just thought I'd mention the other side of the coin today, I've been reading this thread with interest and up & till last nite thought that the OP was right to be so put out by the comments but... then I happened to visit ASDA at Beckton, long story but my DS is at West ham training and we were running late so I popped in there for a snack for him before training, this co-insided with the 'reducing' beginning at the store. I have never seen such a free-for-all. The chap bringing out the reduced fruit was not even through the staff doors before people charged at his trolley I was actually shuvved out of the way ( I wasn't even going towards it).:eek:
I never realised people could be so full on. I would not want that job for love nor money. I'm of course not saying that the op would ever do that but just when you see what does go on how some people may get frustrated.

lolly5648

I was in Marks & Spencer in Watford and as I went up to the sale rail a woman said to her friend "look at all the vultures". Couldnt decide if she was an MSE reader and being ironic or she was just being rude. There were only 5 people round this rail at the time.

markray007

Last time I was in Tesco's I didnt even realise that the bakery bloke was reducing stuff......he pointed out the bread reduced to 10p, when I took one and said thank you he asked why i wasn't taking more and freezing it. Didn't have an answer to that one, so plonked another 2 in the trolley!

I guess he knew that they would only finish up in the skip if they didnt go with the customers.

Nice to meet a really nice shop asistant though, in fact thinking about it, have had quite a few nice interactions with both Tesco and ASDA staff recently.

Quick funny story, was looking at the new TESCO in Mansfield the other day and wanted to buy a bed from the new TESCO direct counter. Apparently if they had sold me the bed they would have been breaking local planning laws!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Words failed me.

sco0ter

Triker wrote: »

Sco0ter, yet again, you have got the situation wrong, you appear to be on a personal campaign to save the 'poor' shop assistant.

Yet again I'll point out for the record that I neither, grabbed, followed, pushed, snatched, shoved, invaded personal space, snarled like a rabid dog, blocked anyone or anything. I was simply doing my shopping in a supermarket and the shopworker came into the aisle I was already in and proceeded to reduce some items..

I never once said you did.. You are obviously not reading the posts correctly. I just think it is terrible for wanting to get someone into trouble for what YOU think was a dirty look when you continually show that you are not good at reading situations but allways think people are against you.

Triker wrote: »

It was when I went around the corner and I saw the shopworker again when the other shopper came up to her and at my expense and humiliation basically sniggered and insulted me. Not in a friendly, we're all bargain hunters together, way but in a snidey, insulting way..

Story changed now I see... No sign of "sniggering"in your original post.. It was a "shifty sideways look".. Who did the sniggering??? How do you know it was in a snidey, insulting way. I didnt post a "Poor you" reply and you accused me of being unfriendly. You obviously have a knack of wrongly reading situations

Triker wrote: »

Be as wary as you like Sco0ter of what I say, in fact why don't you stop commenting on this thread if it bothers you that much...

yet another quote from you "people reply to threads Sco0ter, that's what forums are for."

Triker wrote: »

Why you seem to have taken personal umbrage to an incident I experienced is anyone's guess. ...

Because you are blaming someone for something that never happened.. You are taking umbrage at a shop assistant who did nothing but look in you general direction, although now there was sniggering added. By the next post she will probably have ran over and slapped you.

Triker wrote: »

I also stand by my earlier comments that the manner in which you respond and accusations towards my account are un friendly.

And I stand by mine that you are not as good at reading situations as you think. What part of my original post was unfriendly????

You are constantly attacking everything I say and yet get upset because someone looked at you in a shop. You are trying to paint a picture of yourself as a victim when you cant get your story straight . None of my first 3 posts said anything unfriendly. You are the one who launched in to the attack on me accusing me of being unfriendly

sco0ter

And one other point Triker Have you ever thought that since you "neither, grabbed, followed, pushed, snatched, shoved, invaded personal space, snarled like a rabid dog, blocked anyone or anything. I was simply doing my shopping in a supermarket and the shopworker came into the aisle I was already in and proceeded to reduce some items" that maybe she didnt notice you and when the other shopper made the comment and she agreed you THEN came into her FOV and she turned round to see who it was???

That would account for the "sideways look" as she may have thought it rude to full on stare at you.

Anyway I am done here. My posts say all I need to and I know that you need the last word so you can get to sleep tonight..

SUESMITH_2

im a vulture !!!!!!!!!!- we eat fantastically well because of it. i always chat to the people doing the reductions and wait patiently for them to finish although i have to say ive been pushed out of the way by others who are more rude and less patient. sainsburys have the best reductions by far