Teso Shopper Accused Of Trying To Steal A Wire Shopping Basket.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3264708/The-moment-Tesco-shopper-accosted-security-guards-trying-carry-groceries-car-wire-basket-avoid-paying-plastic-bags.html

In this case the security guards were only doing their job, why did this person need to make such a fuss.

/// A spokesman for Tesco said shoppers could take baskets to their cars, as long as they were brought back to the store. ///

Oh yes, and how many would? some can't even bother to wheel the shopping trolleys back where they are stored.

But it appears she managed to get a £10 voucher out of it along with press coverage, the only saving grace is that the security guards also happened to be black, else it could have been even more serious.

[Gavmacp]

Duck!!!

[sp1814]

AOG

The security guard were not doing their job.

Customers are allowed to take their shopping to cars in wire bags.

Says so in the link you provided.

[sp1814]

AOG

Looking on the bright side, this story gives you an unexpected chance to shoehorn race into a story that has ***-all to do with race.

And we speaking on behalf of those AB members who have no idea I'm speaking on their behalf, I can only express gratitude for that.

[Canary42]

Why did this person have to make such a fuss ?

Perhaps she loves making a mountain out of a molehill - something you must surely empathise with.

[Mamyalynne]

It would have been a darn sight quicker if he'd carried the basket to he car then clarified with his employers what the rues really are.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Customers are allowed to take their shopping to cars in wire bags. Says so in the link you provided ///

Only if they take them back to the store, what guarantee is there that they will, or are the guards to chase after the shoppers car when they see that they haven't?

So you think they were just intentionally picking on her then?

[Mamyalynne]

^ her car

[vulcan42]

mamya, we don't do common sense in this country any more.

[trt]

Security guard out of order and rude.

I have just had my Tesco delivery, and the driver told me that a customer was so rude to a cashier in Asda yesterday about paying for the bags, that the cashier put it over his/her head, and said have it free then.

And yes, he/she was fired.

[sp1814]

AOG

There is no guarantee that they will take the baskets back to the store.

But unless Tesco wants to implement protocols only seen thus far in 'Minority Report', they will have to allow customers to leave their stores with baskets.

[fiction-factory]

She was spoiling for an argument- she had so little in her basket the matter was not worth all that shouting, even if the guards were wrong.
Was she on her own anyway as there seemed to be people there too supporting her

[B00]

There does seem more to this story.

She claims she was going to put the shopping in her own bag which was in her car- so why accept one from another woman when it was offered?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Looking on the bright side, this story gives you an unexpected chance to shoehorn race into a story that has ***-all to do with race. ///

Just making an observation, that it could have been much more serious had it had been a white on black thing, then it is certain it would have been very much about race, according to some.

[Mamyalynne]

B00 from what I read , she accepted the bag offered to end the impasse and as the lady offering it was upset by the public row.

I would have walked to my car , got my bag and returned to him and silenty removed my shopping.

[fiction-factory]

I assume the other voice was her friend who was with her, according to the article. Assuming her friend wasn't carrying a basket too I'm sure they could have managed to get the stuff to her car, especially if she was in a rush, and then made her point to Tesco later.
The guards should have done as Mamyalynne suggested. Tesco (and other stores too i suspect) also needs to train its guards and communicate to customers exactly what customers may do with regard to baskets.

[Mamyalynne]

Exactly, if any blame is to laid it is at the door of Tesco for insufficient staff training.

[trt]

I dont really believe that in Scotland there have been 70% stolen, below.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3261642/Supermarkets-braced-hundreds-thousands-metal-baskets-stolen-5p-plastic-bag-tax-bites.html

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3261642/Supermarkets-braced-hundreds-thousands-metal-baskets-stolen-5p-plastic-bag-tax-bites.html

Overzealous staff or not, one can see Tesco's concerns.

/// A Tesco store in Denbighshire, northeast Wales, had 97 per cent of its baskets stolen in the first year of the charge being brought in after only 16 baskets were left out of 500. ///

[sp1814]

mamyalynne

Yep.

That's what I would've done.

Or I would have said to the security guard on the way out, "I've got a bag in my car - do you mind if I just take this basket out?"

Or indeed, I might have gone back into the store and put my shopping in a trolley (if one were available).

Alternative, and this is the most sensible course of action - I would have taken my bag (which was reportedly in my car) into the shop with me.

One thing I would not have done is run to the papers with the story once it had been resolved.

This 5p charge is doing a fine job of identifying the surprisingly large number of jerks we have walking around today.