The Dogmother Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8291536.stm Oh for goodness sakes! I am sure that the person serving her was just being helpful, sounds like the customer took it wrongly and decided to complain, which was not at all necessary. Before all the rumpus about unpasteurised stuff started, i was addicted to bacon and (unpasteurised) brie baguettes while pregnant with Rosie, didn't hurt me or her, but it's a personal decision and I think the sainso's employee was right to remind her. Perhaps she was just too forceful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Good grief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Her baby her decision surely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 I can see both sides of this one, but surely it doesn't warrant a complaint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Depends on the attitude of the staff member in question. If she was patronising about it,then I would have complained. Up to me what I buy & what I eat,preggers or not I hate it when shop staff poke their noses in when its really not necessary. Would be interesting to know if they are as vigilant when selling alcohol to under 18's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Depends on the attitude of the staff member in question.If she was patronising about it,then I would have complained. Up to me what I buy & what I eat,preggers or not I hate it when shop staff poke their noses in when its really not necessary. Would be interesting to know if they are as vigilant when selling alcohol to under 18's I agree checkout staff where I shop leave they're common sence in the locker room I'm just waiting for one to ask my age when I buy my weekend bottle of beer I'm 40+ need a shave and if you ask my doctor over weight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 does make me titter, why do people think that because you are preggers you have no mind of your own, I have to remind folks at work that pregnancy is not an illness, you may be able to climb a flight of stairs go out of the house alone & even make your own decisions, all be they hormone derranged ones I'm sure the shop girl ment well but REALLY!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Te$co refused to sell Pimms to OH because our DD was with him - he was obviously buying it for her - as if! That was in Chineham - what eejits. He said we're going on holiday and I'm already buying other stuff to take - they still refused, so that's the last time any of us has gone there. So anyone wanting alcyfrol - don't shop with your children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Dogmother Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 He must've looked guilty, Koojie. I was in Te$co (spits in corner) the other week, with Rosie (aged 11) and bought loads of bottles of their cheapest gin and voddy. Girl at the till didn't even ask me for ID, which was lucky as I hadn't got any on me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Madness Gosh Koojie even if your OH was buying it and your daughter was going to have some, that would have been his decision to make as a parent surely, or can parents no longer bring up their children and make parenting decisions the way they want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I was in tescos a while back wanting paracetamol and ibruprofen as my son had a raging temp and I was told to use them at staggered times to get a better result. Well they wouldn't sell me both, said I could only have one sort. So I called to a neighbour who was shopping two rows up and said "bung these on your shopping I will sort the money with you in two secs" I then poked my tongue out to the snooty lad at the till Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Thats wrong - Paracetamol & Ibuprofen can be sold together,its larger amount of one that they can't sell. Next time call for a manager! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 yes I only had 1 box of each type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Definitely wrong, I've bought Calpol and Calprofen at the chemist at the same time, plenty of times. I think the person on the deli counter should have just stated the cheese was unpasteurised and left it at that. It seems to change all the time what you can and can't eat while you're pregnant anyway, and whose to say the cheese was even for the lady buying it anyway. I got ID'd at Tesco a few weeks ago - I'm 28! Luckily I had my driving licence with me, aswell as a husband, 2 children and a trolley full of shopping Bit of common sense needed I think. We were only buying 4 cans of beer, after he carried on putting the shopping through the till, I did point out the beer wasn't for me, but for my husband. The guy on the checkout did look a bit sheepish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I also got ID'd recently in the supermarket - aged 27! Unfortunately I didn't have any ID with me so they refused to serve me - despite the fact that I was buying an expensive bottle of chateau neuf du pape (sp?) for a birthday present. Not exactly the stuff that underage drinkers pass round in the park! I was most unimpressed as I had to send my dad round to buy it for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 My 70 + year old MIL got asked her age when buying wine in M & S. I am surprised the person on the cheese counter knew about unpasturised cheese and pregant women. I bet she has been waiting for years to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I once got ID'ed for a U film.... . I got my ticket in the end after explaining that it was a U and no ID was required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 What a mountain out of a molehill . I bought 2 packets of paracetamol and a box of Lemsips yesterday. I couldn't buy the 2 boxes together so I paid for all my shopping except one and she then rang through the 2nd box and I paid for that. So that law works well . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Actually I feel really bad when reading this post! When pregnant I had cravings for everything that was banned. The worst being blue cheese and pate (I never really bought them before). I managed to stay off the alcohol but did have a nibble on the cheese a few times! Luckily both children born healthy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I remember when I was pregnant with my eldest many years ago a good friend who happened to be French was making a fuss of me and urging me to eat lots of brie as that's what they recommend for pregnant women in France. He was horrified when I explained the advice in England at the time was for pregnant women to not eat soft cheeses like brie He was convinced it was a ploy to reduce sales of French cheese and promote English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcat Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 hey I once got ID buying cold sore cream. Not quite sure what that was about. Seems a bit daft if you ask me compared to everything else eating cheese while pregnant hardly seems worth the whole effort on the shops part and it also seems daft to be majorly complaining and talking to the papers because some well meaning fool won't sell you some cheese. dear oh dear do these people not have lives? They should get chickens then they'd have better things to do with their time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chookiehen Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I think you all need to understand that no-one works on a till in Tesco, or any other supermarket through choice. The majority of checkout operators are mothers, trying to work around children and are lured into working for large supermarkets by the promise of a family-friendly shift pattern, and easy money. In return they get sat upon by managers, who are in turn, being sat upon senior managers, who are in turn being sat upon head office managers, who have never worked instore. And no family friendly shift patterns, and plenty grief if you dare to take time off for any reason (I talk from experience - I worked for Tesco, and was given a written warning for daring to be signed off for a fortnight after a particularly traumatic miscarriage) When you try to ring certain products, whether it be alcohol or paracetamol through the till, you get a warning message flash up on the till, asking if you've a)checked for id (as the till has no idea how old you are), or b) that you can only ring through 2 packets of painkiller on one transaction. Now, when this happens, you think back to the warning you had the week before from an over-officious jobsworth from head office, who watched you ring through a bottle of cheap wine for a woman, who was most definitely over 21 as you went to school with her, without asking for id. And the promise from that very same jobsworth that if you are caught selling alcohol again without proof of age then you will be given a warning. What would you do? Id the customer, and take all the that is then sent your way, or risk not being able to feed your children next week. Don't take it out on the staff - they're beaten down into doing a rubbish job, most of the time because it's all that's available, and then they're beaten down by ridiculous working conditions, then beaten down for following company policy by the customers. How would you feel if it was you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I ate loads of liver before they changed their minds - both mine are fine, well DS is a bit of an oddbod, and then DD is bonkers - perhaps they were right after all. Oh, with regard to OH's shopping experience, I'm sure they thought she was the hardened drinker out with her sugar daddy. Bet the woman thought they were boyfriend and girlfriend - no doubt seen too many soaps and was imagining that he had ditched his wife for the young bit. Darn it, I wish I could have seen him spluttering and getting cross - he very rarely loses his temper. And sorry Chookie, don'r take this personally, but it was referred and the officious twits decided that he was going to purchase the booze for the teenager - and as she doesn't have a passport to hand she was unable to prove her identity. Who the hell goes shopping in blooming Tesco armed with a passport for their children - especially if they don't have a passport in the first place? They were only going to Devon. And by law you are able to give your child alcohol beverage at a lot younger than 16 and in restaurants to boot. We don't, but we could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick wiggle Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Wow, Chookiehen. good point, well made. I would imagine most people working in stores are in that position, however as has been mentioned, it is all in the way these things are said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
