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 ..

Expullum Patronus!

I use Capon adLibitum

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!