Sainsburys disability discrimination

Ames

pollypenny wrote: »

It’s the comment that she didn’t eat for seven days which puzzles me.

Why wouldn’t a mother make her meals or give her ingredients to make her own? :cool:

It sounds like the daughter won't accept food anyone else has cooked (possibly touched), and needs to see where ingredients have been all the way from store to being used. There also appears to be an issue with how long ingredients can be left before being used, if she has to shop every day and doesn't have stocks at home.

I agree that the biggest issue is how she's been left to get so bad, it seems that the woman has been let down by a long list of people.

If the story is true as told, that is.

Red-Squirrel_2

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Perhaps the OP and their daughter should try living in Russia where their attitude to the elderly and disabled is "f you".

(And, btw, my wife is Russian and told me this herself.)

What's that got to do with anything?

Gravedigger

My concern is the fact the daughter wiped items with cleaning wipes. This could have been seen as detrimental to other customers, particularly as some items were placed back on the shelf. Email/letter to head office should hopefully get some response.

marliepanda

Gravedigger wrote: »

My concern is the fact the daughter wiped items with cleaning wipes. This could have been seen as detrimental to other customers, particularly as some items were placed back on the shelf. Email/letter to head office should hopefully get some response.

It sounds very likely that items are frequently ‘put back’ or abandoned, if people go near her or clean near her.

Due to the length of time she spends examining the food that could well make some of the thing put back unsuitable for sale if they have been out of the fridge/freezer too long.

Pollycat

Gravedigger wrote: »

My concern is the fact the daughter wiped items with cleaning wipes. This could have been seen as detrimental to other customers, particularly as some items were placed back on the shelf. Email/letter to head office should hopefully get some response.

marliepanda wrote: »

It sounds very likely that items are frequently ‘put back’ or abandoned, if people go near her or clean near her.

Due to the length of time she spends examining the food that could well make some of the thing put back unsuitable for sale if they have been out of the fridge/freezer too long.

I think it's possible that this behaviour with food could have contributed to the ban by the store.

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peachyprice

It can be, but OP has let her daughter get this far, she didn't suddenly wake up one morning and think 'I'm only going to eat food from one branch of Sainsbury's that has been bought at 10pm and that I have cleaned with wipes and am only going to buy if nobody goes near me'. OP has enabled her to get this bad.

Pollycat

peachyprice wrote: »

It can be, but OP has let her daughter get this far, she didn't suddenly wake up one morning and think 'I'm only going to eat food from one branch of Sainsbury's that has been bought at 10pm and that I have cleaned with wipes and am only going to buy if nobody goes near me'. OP has enabled her to get this bad.

I agree with the 'enablement'.

But where does 'entitlement' come into it?

marliepanda

Not saying I'm necessarily on board with the entitlement aspect however, OP seems to think they are entitled to have their preferred tills open despite it being almost closing time, therefore feeling their needs take precedence over the needs of the store to close up and go home on time...

peachyprice

Pollycat wrote: »

I agree with the 'enablement'.

But where does 'entitlement' come into it?

The entitlement to be enabled to live an unrealistic life.

vacheron

Gravedigger wrote: »

My concern is the fact the daughter wiped items with cleaning wipes. This could have been seen as detrimental to other customers, particularly as some items were placed back on the shelf. Email/letter to head office should hopefully get some response.

Exactly my thoughts.

If someone wants to wipe their food items immediately after the checkouts then that is fine. But the OP stated her daughter "has to wipe every item with cleaning wipes" and the wording clearly suggests this is before the checkouts.

She then stated her daughter "went around and put all her items of food back".

Had these chemical wipes been provided or approved by Sainsburys as compliant with their COSHH regulations for use on their retail food items?.

If not, this probably caused all kinds of concerns to the store management as food products which had all been wiped with an unidentified substance had all been returned to the shelves in an uncontrolled manner by a member of the public.

What if these unidentified wipes contain a substance to which another member of the public may be highly allergic?

This presented a genuine potential risk to other customers and may have been the reason for the ban on its own.


I'd also second the concern of other posters that that despite the daughter clearly having a severe disability the food shopping was done right at the end of the day with absolutely no contingency plan in place in case of a small change in routine caused by a third party (of which there could be potentially hundreds) and indeed was the case in this example.

Could there not have been at least one days worth of food at home bought on your daughters terms which was available for such an emergency?