[Closed] Middle class supermarket drama!

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4 out of 5!

And what did the wife say when you returned without the Avocados and chablis?

they claimed it was because an item had mis-scanned

So they did nab a shoplifter?

Chablis and avocado are both available at Lidl. 🥑 🍷

Maybe they’ve seen your Amazon thread.

I walked out of a sainsbury's once because the person in front of me had a voucher that wouldn't scan and they wouldn't let it go.

Left about £80 worth of shopping on the belt.

Take that, system!

And what did the wife say when you returned without the Avocados and chablis?

Luckily she was still out at yoga.

'A friend' might have let go (quite violently) of the handle of a 20L tub of fence treatment when the manager refused to exchange it for a different shade because the receipt printed less than 24hrs previously was apparently too smudged for her to be satisfied that it was purchased within the T&C timeframe for exchange. She 'might' have looked a little like an umpa lumpa from the splashback when I, sorry my friend, walked out of the store. Not my friend's finest hour.

Waitrose - same shite as other supermarkets but more expensive.

yeah, but free coffee...

Seems you've been identified as a wrong 'un then - we've only ever been rescanned once in years, despite doing most of our weekly shop there. Do you have a particularly shifty expression?

It's cutting down on shoplifting that keeps the prices so low...

Did you mention you were a Doctor?

I had a spell when I seemed to be re-scanned almost every time. However stopped that by getting my better half to do the shopping - she went to Morrisons!

Waitrose – same shite as other supermarkets but more expensive.

Significantly better wine section than most

I won't use self scans anywhere after a run in with a rude and shouty security guard at Sainsbury's. I'd paid correctly for everything but I guess the self scan process doesn't turn off the security tags in stuff and a joint of meat I'd bought then triggered the alarm at the door. Cue rude shouting from guard, then being told to empty my bag. I asked where he liked me too do that 2 it 3 times with no answer before, still stood in the middle of the only exit doorway, I up ended my rucksack and emptied the entire contents, including sweaty boxer shorts and other worn clothing, onto the floor. That flustered him but other than a moment's hesitation he carried on. Picking up the joint he asked if I'd paid, so I gave him the receipt. The last straw was then reached when, while peering at my receipt he asked how much I'd paid for the joint. I may then have shouted, ' you've got my receipt, you tell me, or can't you (sweary bit) read!' He decided to let me leave at that point.

Was in Lidls Sunday eve. Woman in the till queue in front of me dropped a bottle of wine on the floor, smashed. Lidls girl walked over to see what she had to clean up... "Great." Said she. Wouldn't get that in Waitrose, and that is what you pay the big prices for 😆

Your not Judy's husband by any chance or 5' rotund cheffy who introduced us to rocket

Good to see Waitrose maintaining standards by keeping out the riff-raff.

When I was a bit bored one evening, after a couple of beers, I sent an angry email to the local Waitrose complaining that their "buy 1 get 1 free" and other multi-buy offers were discriminating against cyclists and pedestrians.

They did actually reply too, but it wasn't very interesting. They just said buy it online.

Still, every little helps. or is that the other one?

But now it’s got silly – it’s a waste of time and an embarrasment.

Oh oh the Ironyz.

You do know you can scan from your phone?

And anyway, Waitrose are stopping the hand held scanners... looks like they stopped yours working 🤷‍♂️

Those quick Waitrose scan things are a bit lame now compared to their quick checkouts which are the best I've come across - super fast and not Windows based (I'm looking at you Co-Op).

Middleclass??? Have you actually seen the people (if you can call them that just) go in there.
It’s open to the masses nowadays and for many years now with liquorice all sorts shopping there.

Also Seems to have turned into a clinical layout/look in stores with the ultimately brain dead Tory voting winge bags blocking waiting hrs in cue.

I use to be a loyal customer up until service got silly slow and the blanket rudeness from fellow food shoppers.

Then there’s that dawning sense of reality that hits one day as it might with you - THE OVERALL COST.

Don’t get me started on m & S Shytely sugared and salted (tarted up in the looks and flavour dept.) then marked up to the nearest fiver 😡💩bags

Waitrose is convenient, but annoying, with entitled customers.
If you want properly annoying and massively entitled then I suggest trying Whole Foods.

Lidls girl walked over to see what she had to clean up… “Great.” Said she. Wouldn’t get that in Waitrose,

Very true, none of the staff in waitrose have been able to walk unaided in years. It's like a nonagenarians meeting behind their checkouts.

with entitled customers

This - I hate shopping there purely because of the type of people it attracts. And I live in Harrogate so you can only imagine what I have to go through when I rock up in my 13 year old knackered Mazda and having the audacity to park near their Range Rovers, Bentleys and F-Types.

Childish but amusing

For who?

with entitled customers

This – I hate shopping there purely because of the type of people it attracts.

I shop in Waitrose, down here and in R’ogate.

I too am entitled, mostly annoying, hugely arrogant too 🥴

Don’t park your shitbox anywhere near my SUV, fankuverymuchly..

🧐

You do know you can scan from your phone?

Yes I do(*). And?

(*) But I don't like doing that as it stops me from listening to Radio 4 while I shop.

I refuse to slum it in Waitrose when there is a perfectly good Booths I can shop at. Obviously some of you poor benighted southern folk don't have access to one, so have to compromise.

@johndoh I shopped in the Harrogate Waitrose regularly for a couple of years when I lived there. Not once did the security guard take his eyes off me. I think he thought I was going for a world record in the longest planning stage of a shoplift ever, that or his magnificent presence made me think twice, every time...

Never used the self scan either

Years ago I lived in Morningside, our local celebrity was JK Rowling as it was at peak Harry Potter time. I was in Safeway (which is now a Waitrose I believe) and JK was in the queue in front of me. Brilliant conversation followed with overly helpful / officious checkout bloke

Bloke: This chicken is on buy one get one free, would you like another one
JK: Its okay, I only want one chicken
Bloke: Yep, but the second one is free, I'll get one for you
JK, Really, its fine, I'm in a rush and would just like to pay
Bloke: You can't turn down a free chicken
JK: Really, I'd like to pay, now.
Bloke: (now becoming quite forceful and loud) Mrs Rowling, I know who you are and I know you can well afford lots of chickens but you mustn't pass up offer like this!
JK: enough now, take my money.

She didn't flounce but it was close

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He was just letting her know about the fantastic breasts and where to find them.

fantastic breasts and where to find them

We have a winner. Sub 15 mins. Mega!

annoying, with entitled customers.

Imagine a place like that.

fantastic breasts and where to find them

If I was wearing a hat I would doff it to you Sir.

Imagine a place like that.

Classifieds anyone?

johndoh

with entitled customers

This – I hate shopping there purely because of the type of people it attracts. And I live in Harrogate so you can only imagine what I have to go through when I rock up in my 13 year old knackered Mazda and having the audacity to park near their Range Rovers, Bentleys and F-Types.

I feel very entitled when I pull up into the Waitrose car park in my 15 year old Subaru...

Was in Lidls Sunday eve

You were in Lidl, unless this happened in more than one Lidl.

I hate it when the people at airports try and foist a copy of the Daily Mail on you.

"but the water is free if I zap the Daily Mail - you don't have to take it"

Too right - and I don't have to take part in boosting their circulation, either.

I feel very entitled when I pull up into the Waitrose car park in my 15 year old Subaru…

Ha I see your 15 year old Subaru and raise you an 18 year old Passat. I like my local Waitrose and I don't really see the stereotypes you mention (despite it being in Cheadle Hulme). Unless that means...

Speaking of posh cars in odd places, mate of mine saw over the weekend a Ferrari at Sainsbury's and a Rolls Royce Wraith at Decathlon! In Stockport!!

Careful now, I received some abuse on here for laughing at a Bentley exiting TKMaxx.

Those quick Waitrose scan things are a bit lame now compared to their quick checkouts which are the best I’ve come across

can they scan the contents of an already packed bag?, as that is the advantage of the quick scanners, your bags are packed by the time you get to the checkout.

fantastic breasts and where to find them

Winner winner chicken dinner 👏✊

can they scan the contents of an already packed bag?

IT's done on trust... you scan on way round and they accept you're telling the truth 🙂

TBH when I used to self scan in Canary Wharf I’d get pulled once every 10-12 scans.

I think it’s just random innit??

I think it’s just random innit??

So what is the probability of being randomly checked 4 times in 5 visits ?

6,783,543-1

Every time I go into our nearest branch I encounter a man wearing shorts sporting very red and sore looking legs and stinking of piss (he, not I). He doesn't appear to like being overtaken by other trollies either, as there was a coming together as I attempted to speed past him so I wasn't in his pissy wake. Urgh.

TBH when I used to self scan in Canary Wharf I’d get pulled once every 10-12 scans.

So what is the probability of being randomly checked 4 times in 5 visits ?

going with 1 in 10, chance of exactly 4 out of 5 times is 0.00045.

Waitrose claim 5 million shoppers per week, so if it is random, 2250 people will be checked 4 out of 5 times

This is why I shop at Farm Foods.
None of this pretentious nonsense.

going with 1 in 10

You think they check 1 in 10 ? No way.

I got some reduced bangers at Morrisons a while ago which wouldn't scan so the checkout lass got a manager type over, he had a few goes at inputting the very vague barcode number but in the end said, 'here, take the bloody things or we'll be here all day'

🙂

Up here on sunny wirral, we dont have a need for a Waitrose, we all get food delivered, to dangerous to go shopping, we might meet a tory

So what is the probability of being randomly checked 4 times in 5 visits ?

Considerably less than the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field or surviving a direct attack on an Imperial Star Destroyer...

probably.

"You think they check 1 in 10 ? No way."

The Guardian says 1 in 200.

But it's not fair to compare that with 4 out of 5 because they scan people who can't work the machines more often.

20 year old Saab when I park at Waitrose. Anyone have an older rot box with which they terrorise the aspirant classes?

You were in Lidl, unless this happened in more than one Lidl

S’why I can’t afford Waitroses innit, cos I”m fick as shit, me.

Aahh..supermarket sport.. it's a great game ..I'm a lowly Tesco shopper who self scans and have had my fair share of security checks ..but what's even more fun is the " security shopper " ..easy enough to spot as they put totally random things in their trolley and I love playing the game with them as they are never too far away checking to see that you scan everything ..a quick double back on an aisle you have already been in to return an " unwanted " item puts them in a right tizzy ..especially if the other half stays put..
It ends with a smile and a wink near the end of the shopping as you let them "know " they have been rumbled...
It only happens occasionally but always amuses when it does ..

security shopper

?

Wrreely?

I’ve heard of mystery shoppers, but never security shoppers..🤷‍♂️

The only people I bumped into in CW Waitrose were those Banker Types buying Chablis... and me, buying Chablis..

Down in lowly SarfCarst Waitrose (used to be a co-op and retained the staff) it gained a reputation for being the only “decent” shop to shop in and gathered glitterati from the nearby Hamble View set, complete with mahoosive SUV’s and silly low sports cars with ginormous doors.. until the locals parked really closely and dinged the doors of thier vehicles.. now it seems they just get Ocado to deliver because I’ve seen hundreds of them round my way.

Glad it’s there though, far moar civilised.

Its got an Iceland next door, just for balance 😱

Bikebouy ..I may have just invented the "security shopper " name ..but couldnt really think of any other way to describe them ..they do exist though and maybe it was easier to say that they form part of an instore security team ..

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Though why do we bother when bearnecessities has already closed this shit down ?

I can confirm Waitrose do indeed have unmarked security self scan polis operating in store. Not every store , every day though.

I may have just invented the “security shopper ”

Good description, I always thought “someone” was employed to follow “suspects” around the store, but  you’ve titled them perfectly 👍

S’pose it’s just like when the tannoy reverberates into action and the coded message “can Ingrid from underwear please come to till 9 or Mrs Jones to cauliflowers, Mrs Jones to cauliflowers please bring package”

Datkindafing.. 😱

I'm always escorted around my local Waitrose by a security guard. Our's is full of the some of the most loathsome, self entitled wazzocks I've ever encountered. Especially in the car park. I do like their pasties though.

" in my 15 year old Subaru…"
Proper old money, or pikey, or anywhere in between...
But none of this Range Rover on tick chavness!