I got assualted in Tesco!

superscaper

taxi97w wrote: »

I think the banana should sue.;)

And those awful people should be locked up, you know, those murderous psychopaths who make a banana split.

cannyscot_2

You are all being a bit mean. Yes she probably got too worked up about a banana but the only point here is that they intimidated her and tried to stop her from leaving which is clearly wrong. It is important to protect civil liberties.

I think about my children in these cases -I don't want my children to be treated by anyone like that or for them(Tesco's) to think they can!

heather38

the police wont do anything. even if you have given a statement, they will file the report and forget about it.
this really gets my back up, people thinking that they are in the right. YOU interfered with a product that you did not own. the reduction offer was on the bag with the damaged fruit, by taking it out you invalidated the offer. you should have paid and THEN removed the offending item.
i should say that i work for tesco and i have been assaulted by a customer, the police did nothing then and i was assaulted worse than just being touched on the shoulder and i could itentify the customer!
you obviously went in with some kind of agenda if the first thing you thought of when seeing over ripe fruit was to call trading standards!

peterbaker

The OP was treated appallingly.

The first three or four respondents to the thread (and the last one before me I see :rolleyes:) have seriously questionnable attitudes which probably means they are under 40 and have been brainwashed or their standards are still under development ...

People like the OP and I help maintain standards in supermarkets, especially with regard to their sloppy hygiene standards when it comes to reducing perishable items for those of us that seek to save money by buying them :money:.

EVERYTHING on sale as food in Tesco's should be fit for consumption. If it is on sale and blatantly unfit for consumption then the manager should have his nose rubbed in it metaphorically speaking. I would have no qualms about opening the bag just like the OP and showing the dodgy banana.

What are you other questionnable types suggesting as an alternative?? Leave shoddy goods on the shelf and let some other sucker get home with it??

Confrontational?? You bet. I am not waving a gun. I am waving a dodgy banana. and making a damn fine point of showing Tesco that if they dare to pass off cr*p as food then they will get adverse publicity. Taking a photo with my camera? Yes. Now take my name and write to me if that is against your company policy. No you may not invade my space and try to physically stop me. That's total paid-heavy territory. If you want to do that for an employer then go get a job at a seedy night club as a bouncer.

I think that Tesco's staff behaviour as reported here was absolutely disgraceful, but I am not surprised as the whole country now is conditioned into blindly following corporate Ts & Cs instead of upholding the common law.

Well done OP :T !

PS I agree that the police won't be interested as most of them are under 40 of course and quite naturally they have also lost the plot

smartsuit

There is no law stating that you cant remove an item from the packaging. It is not as if the OP left the open package thee for someone else. THey opened the package to remove a bad item that as it was priced by weight would have made the purchase more expensive, that is tescos wrongdoing and rather than create a fuss the OP removed the item. Then was "assaulted" well, treated wrongly at least.
Then the op makes a reference to ethinicity. I read it as a way of describing a member of staff, you cant tell the police what clothes they were wearing as they all have the same uniform on! SO the next best way is to tell them the colour of thier skin. Unfortunatly in this over PC world, this is seen as racism by some narrow minded bigots!
Rant over

ckerrd

peterbaker wrote: »

The OP was treated appallingly.

The first three or four respondents to the thread (and the last one before me I see :rolleyes:) have seriously questionnable attitudes which probably means they are under 40 and have been brainwashed or their standards are still under development ...

Because you disagree with a point of view does not make it questionable, neither does it give you any right to denigrate the attitude or opinions of others

People like the OP and I help maintain standards in supermarkets, especially with regard to their sloppy hygiene standards when it comes to reducing perishable items for those of us that seek to save money by buying them :money:.
Do you get paid for this or is it some sort of voluntary work? How do you join?

EVERYTHING on sale as food in Tesco's should be fit for consumption. If it is on sale and blatantly unfit for consumption then the manager should have his nose rubbed in it metaphorically speaking. I would have no qualms about opening the bag just like the OP and showing the dodgy banana.
Was it? The OP said it was bad. What does this mean? (I have asked before) If it was not fit for consumption then it should have been pointed out to a member of staff BEFORE the OP took the action of removing it. This would have given the store an opportunity to reprice the goods for sale, or remove them altogether.

What are you other questionnable types suggesting as an alternative?? Leave shoddy goods on the shelf and let some other sucker get home with it??
As above point it out to the staff (and what do you mean by questionable?)

Confrontational?? You bet. I am not waving a gun. I am waving a dodgy banana. and making a damn fine point of showing Tesco that if they dare to pass off cr*p as food then they will get adverse publicity. Taking a photo with my camera? Yes. Now take my name and write to me if that is against your company policy. No you may not invade my space and try to physically stop me. That's total paid-heavy territory. If you want to do that for an employer then go get a job at a seedy night club as a bouncer.
From what the OP says it does sound heavy handed I agree - as I said in my first post


I think that Tesco's staff behaviour as reported here was absolutely disgraceful, but I am not surprised as the whole country now is conditioned into blindly following corporate Ts & Cs instead of upholding the common law.
Really? So that is everyone in the UK is it?
Well done OP :T !

PS I agree that the police won't be interested as most of them are under 40 of course and quite naturally they have also lost the plot

Based on what information?

debtdestroyer_2

ollyk wrote: »

I forgot that yes, does the op care to answer?

Just to clarify I didnt get the staff members name. As I pointed out my first post was an account of what happened, and this was the best way I could see to describe the offending staff member.

debtdestroyer_2

Jesus christ people talk about missing the plot!

First off I seem to have changed into a woman at some point during this event accoridng to some of your posts!

For those off you who have missed the plot completely and are talking about the actual banana itself let me humour you and explain. There was a box of 4 or 5 bags (the plastic fruit and veg bags you seal stuff in yourself) of bananas moved to the refridgerated aisle and discounted to 20p/kg. Every one of these bags had at least one foul banana inside. I picked the bag that looked best, opened it, and removed the foul banana (which was unfit for sale). I was then told I couldnt purchase the bag because it had been opened. Essentially what they are saying is you purchase the mouldy banana or you dont get the good ones! I said this was not on, and went to take a picture of the foul banana.

Obviously this inflamed the situation, but this does NOT give the shop assistant the right to lay his hands on me. It does NOT give tesco the right to have me surrounded and intimidated by 4 or 5 large men. It does NOT give the tesco security guard the right to try and barge me back into the store.

I can tell you categorically that it is NOT illegal to go into Tesco and photograph their produce. If they ask you to leave however you should leave. At no point was I once asked to leave the store, in fact, they were determined to keep me in the store!

What is this world coming to when you cant photograph a bloody banana. Those who are getting on their high horses and laying into me should take a long hard look at themselves.

debtdestroyer_2

kitchen_buff wrote: »

I am sure you wont make such a slip up in future. Did you a peel for any witnesses. I hate stories like this they get under my skin.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :T

superscaper

debtdestroyer wrote: »

If they ask you to leave however you should leave. At no point was I once asked to leave the store, in fact, they were determined to keep me in the store!

It's like I said, they were doing the complete opposite of what they're meant to do. By keeping you in, they're essentially negating any possible trespass (which also isn't an issue since you were willingly leaving).

As I've been saying, I'd have done things differently (and who knows if the staff would have reacted in the same way) but it still gives them neither the right nor the justification to act the way they did. They can't stop you leaving for anything other than a citizen's arrest for something you did illegally, which you hadn't AFAIK.