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Owain_Moneysaver

Pollycat wrote: »

Just been in Oxfam whilst kicking my heels waiting for my bus.
Found a BNWT M&S sports bra in my size.
Was a bit unsure how supportive it would be so asked to try it on....
I pointed out that I could walk 100 yards up to M&S, try as many bras on as I liked

So find the same bra in M&S, try it on, then go back to Oxfam to buy it. When a different person's on the till.

Pollycat

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

So find the same bra in M&S, try it on, then go back to Oxfam to buy it. When a different person's on the till.

Now why didn't I think of that........?

It's not current stock, at least it isn't in my local store and not online.
And having pondered on it, I don't think it would have had enough support for me.
And I already have a drawerful of sports bras.
Not to mention the principle. :whistle:

It was the (imho) odd behaviour of the sales assistant that I was commenting on.

Miró

Pollycat wrote: »

Just been in Oxfam whilst kicking my heels waiting for my bus.
Found a BNWT M&S sports bra in my size.
Was a bit unsure how supportive it would be so asked to try it on.

'Well if you do, we can't sell it'.
'Really? Why not?'
Well, it's underwear' (in a 'are you stupid?' tone of voice)

I pointed out that I could walk 100 yards up to M&S, try as many bras on as I liked and they would still put them back on the rack to sell.
And that I could understand it if it was knickers or bikini bottoms but not a bra.

She just stood there, with a 'I've spouted the company policy and don't know where to go from here' look on her face.

'Tell you what, I'll leave it'.

Is it me?

I think I met her twin sister today in another Oxfam. I spotted a basket of perfumes and toiletries this afternoon including a 3/4 full bottle of Davidoff Cool Water Woman EDT which I really like. Had just taken off the top to have a quick squirt to check that it wasn't stale, (having been caught out before!), when 'the woman' came flying at me and grabbed the bottle, shrieking that I couldn't spray it in the shop. The reason given was that if everyone did it there would be none left in the bottle to sell! I explained about having previously purchased perfume-ey things that were so old they had gawn orft only to be told it was 'purchase as seen only'. I told her curtly that on this occasion I would now not be purchasing and stomped off out of the shop. Put me in a bad mood for the rest of the afternoon! Especially as I didn't find anything else of interest at all on my weekly trip to Otley. Did bump into an old acquaintance tho and spent a nice half hour chatting on the bus home so equilibrium restored

silvasava

Gawd protect us from 'jobsworth's' !!

VfM4meplse

silvasava wrote: »

Gawd protect us from 'jobsworth's' !!

The sad thing is, they probably don't realise what a disservice they do the charity

dolly84

Quite a few years ago I was in a CS and they had a basket of barbie clothes, my DD was having a look through them and whilst she was still looking (she was about 6 at the time) an elderly volunteer came over and snatched the basket away muttering furiously and started to re-organise them. I told her what I thought and we left.

VfM4meplse

dolly84 wrote: »

Quite a few years ago I was in a CS and they had a basket of barbie clothes, my DD was having a look through them and whilst she was still looking (she was about 6 at the time) an elderly volunteer came over and snatched the basket away muttering furiously and started to re-organise them. I told her what I thought and we left.

:eek:

I would like to think that we've moved on from those days. We've had a paradigm shift from caning backsides to revering our kids.

Pollycat

dolly84 wrote: »

Quite a few years ago I was in a CS and they had a basket of barbie clothes, my DD was having a look through them and whilst she was still looking (she was about 6 at the time) an elderly volunteer came over and snatched the basket away muttering furiously and started to re-organise them. I told her what I thought and we left.

OK.
Whilst I'm on a 'whinge-fest' , does it annoy anyone else when assistants are so concerned with sorting rails of stuff out that you can't get to look at what you want to browse?
I thought the idea was to sell items to benefit the charity, rather than annoy potential customers because a previous customer just happened to put a size 10 dress back with the size 14s or put the hanger back on the rail facing the wrong way.
Or should I go back to bed and get out on the OH's side? :rotfl:

TBH, assistants getting in my way annoys me whatever type of shop I'm in.
I know you're doing your job but if if you didn't have customers, you wouldn't have a job at all.

Miró

dolly84 wrote: »

Quite a few years ago I was in a CS and they had a basket of barbie clothes, my DD was having a look through them and whilst she was still looking (she was about 6 at the time) an elderly volunteer came over and snatched the basket away muttering furiously and started to re-organise them. I told her what I thought and we left.

Frequently happens to me in one charity shop when I'm looking through the basket of scarves. How on earth do they expect to sell things if you can't have a proper look???

Pollycat wrote: »

OK.
Whilst I'm on a 'whinge-fest' , does it annoy anyone else when assistants are so concerned with sorting rails of stuff out that you can't get to look at what you want to browse?
I thought the idea was to sell items to benefit the charity, rather than annoy potential customers because a previous customer just happened to put a size 10 dress back with the size 14s or put the hanger back on the rail facing the wrong way.
Or should I go back to bed and get out on the OH's side? :rotfl:

TBH, assistants getting in my way annoys me whatever type of shop I'm in.
I know you're doing your job but if if you didn't have customers, you wouldn't have a job at all.

Yup, infuriates me too :mad:

Pollycat

Air Ambulance had 2 baskets of items donated by Asda.
One full of socks and knickers (and a very glam basque :eek:) 3 for £1 and the other with vest tops, pj bottoms & tops etc 2 for £1.00.

The knickers were samples and had big labels on with quite interesting comments about fabric etc.
I bought 3 pair of white 'shorts-style' ones for £1.00.