Bit upset. Just got told off for adding up my groceries

VfM4meplse

Janey3 wrote: »

I too, use my calculator when going round the supermarket, totting up as I go, and have had strange looks but I blank them.

I daresay the looks relate to your choice of device - for many, using their phone will be the norm!

flipper_72

Janey3 wrote: »

How awful - what a horrid person.

I too, use my calculator when going round the supermarket, totting up as I go, and have had strange looks but I blank them.

I get even stranger looks, as I also take a magnifying glass with me and spend ages peering at the small print on stuff!! I also carry a shopping list and biro!

Nobody has actually said anything to me yet about it, if they did, I would glare and carry on with my shopping. I just don't get it these days, why some folk think they are entitled to pass some derogatory remark, involving something which has nothing to do with them whatsoever.

I do get a few huffs and puffs now again, when someone wants to shop quickly and I'm in their way, but I then just move to one side and let them get on with it.

I would say, there was a touch of jealousy with this woman too, she was probably thinking, 'why didn't I think of that'.

Carry on my dear, you are doing just great, don't be put off. You're saving money, and that's all that counts.

You may have been shopping in my Aldi on Thursday, I assume the lady needs to check ingredients, I have allergies in the family so I also check them. My eyesight is ok now but I will be adopting the idea in the future I am sure.

As for adding up as you go along, my shopping list is on a post it attached to the trolley, I tot up in my head and every time I get to £5 I note it on there, that way if I lose track I will never be more than that out.

Cheel, just remember you didn't get told off, you were the unfortunate victim of verbal abuse, it could have happened anywhere so please don't let it put you off.

SpekySquarehead

Try and treat it like water off a ducks back. You're the better person and be glad you don't live with it.

cheel

What a lovely lot you all are. Thankyou so much! Xxx

Pollycat

cheel wrote: »

What a lovely lot you all are. Thankyou so much! Xxx

I can just imagine this woman having a go at you and a couple of dozen MSEers rounding on her and telling her off. :rotfl:

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Pollycat wrote: »

I can just imagine this woman having a go at you and a couple of dozen MSEers rounding on her and telling her off. :rotfl:

Too blooming right we would probably have tied her to the nearest ducking stool as well :):) we are all behind you honey and ignore lame-brained folk like her She after all was in the same shop for the same reason to save some cash

moneyistooshorttomention

meritaten wrote: »

I worked in retail for many years - and was just thinking what I would have done in the SAs place. Sorry, but, possibly nothing more than alert security.
Store Assistants are not there to protect customers property - and it was silly of you to put your bag on the floor frankly.
If the store assistant HAD intervened and got badly hurt - the bosses wouldn't have cared less, as she wasn't protecting the stores property.
A complaint to the manager would have got you precisely nowhere as the assistant actually did nothing wrong. no she wouldn't have got sacked - not even reprimanded - nothing in her contract would have compelled her to intervene.

There wasn't any specialist "security" (ie the assistant was both money-taker and she WAS security too by implication). It was a small shop (greengrocers to be precise) and I had put my bag down (as we are entitled to do) in order to pick out which fruit and veg. I wanted. There was no-one in the store apart from myself, the assistant and the thief. We would have been 2 of us v. 1 (the thief).

Personally - as her boss I would have at the least reprimanded her - ie for not protecting my shop's reputation. If she'd kept her job - I would have been keeping an eye on her from there on in (courtesy of wondering how honest she was that she wasnt outraged on behalf of the poor customer getting targeted by a thief). An honest person like myself would have been "straight in there" without pausing for breath to think about it to defend a customer against a thief.

We are talking about simple "humanity" there too. If the thief had targeted her instead of me - then I would have gone to her aid. That's how life works...

lemontart

nasty nasty woman, you are being sensible -

pollypenny

cheel wrote: »

Wow what a lot of lovely supportive posts. Thankyou all so much.

I will keep going with the budgeting its a bit like learning a new language!!, I am losing weight (3st so far) its on the slow side but I'm going about it my own way I'm now wearing a size 16 but I'm only five foot so still as round as I'm tall! Lol!

I think its a good Idea to keep a running total on a piece of paper then I wont forget my total when I'm trying to work out if a 3 pack of bananas is better than buying two individual ones (it was)!!

I did think I was out of the way but it was busy, so I expect I was unintentionally blocking something!

Cheel xx

Keep using your calculator. It's no one's business.

We've had vouchers from Sainsburys, originally £4 off £20, now it so good. But we used to go there especially to use the vouchers and aim for the discount, with my phone.

Janey3

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I daresay the looks relate to your choice of device - for many, using their phone will be the norm!

Could be :rotfl: - it'll give them something to chunner about anyway!