Do you have fights/other shenanigans happen at Asda/Tesco/etc. like we do at Walmart in the US?
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Sasspishus@reddit
What are they fighting Iver at Walmart? And what kind of shenanigans happens? Kinda hard to answer the question without knowing exactly what you mean
siobhanmairii__@reddit (OP)
Sometimes over food. Sometimes just regular arguments between people. Sometimes it’s strangers getting into it. And as far as shenanigans just odd behavior in general (people shopping in costume when it’s not halloween, people bringing in animals that arent pets etc)
FrauAmarylis@reddit
We have machete fights and people throwing acid.
WilderWifey@reddit
I’ve seen a “tug of war” over a yellow label reduced loaf of bread at The Asda. Be afraid… do not venture near the reduced food section an hour before closing.
LingonberryPossible6@reddit
A colleague of mine used to work in Tesco. And told me this
Picture the scene
Xmas eve, there are about a dozen of the massive fresh turkeys. These things go for about 60 to 70 quid.
There are about 20 people milling about waiting for them to be reduced (they knew they'd be going down to less than a tenner)
When the time comes, 20 people can't share 12 turkeys, fist fight breaks out, police are called, these fucks are spending Xmas in handcuffs
Police later told the store manager that it was early Xmas morning by the time some of them were let out, all over a 'whoops' label.
PotatoPortal123@reddit
Just last night, I was in my local Tesco and a shoplifter was being challenged by staff and escorted to the tills to pay for the items he had allegedly been trying to steal. He was shouting something at them, but I kept on shopping. Didn’t want to appear too nosy and get dragged into it.
Capable_Tip7815@reddit
I mean, drivers seem to forget the Highway Code when using the roundabout in the retail park and there's some tooting. Sometimes you might hear a shout!
WeRW2020@reddit
Someone accidentally crashed into my trolley once. That annoyed me, but I let it go
LoveBunny1972@reddit
So from the replies so far no OP, we don’t have fights in supermarkets - much like we don’t have mass shootings. Perhaps the two are somewhat correlated - who knows.
WeRW2020@reddit
Mental health issue
KonkeyDongPrime@reddit
Bickering and passive aggressive snark at the yellow sticker section can be quite common.
Have seen some kick offs but mainly with shoplifters who 5 minutes earlier I had seen stuffing their pants with Bollinger bottles and looking to bum rush the exit.
JT_3K@reddit
I worked on the checkout in Sainsbury’s (mid-mid-upscale standard national option) 20yrs ago. They decided to swap “Reward Cards” to “Nectar Cards” in the weeks running up to Christmas., promising to move your points across automatically.
A guy came to my checkout with a litre of Smirnoff vodka and a duck crown. He’d queued for ages as our queues ran down the whole supermarket and we just couldn’t get people out quickly enough. His Nectar Card hadn’t transferred the points and he lost his temper. He threw the litre of Smirnoff at my head and then the duck crown. I caught the Smirnoff (no idea how, it’s one of two sporting achievements of my life) and then somehow used it to cricket-bat the duck crown to the side (the second).
He ran off and security rugby tackled him in the car park.
MillyMcMophead@reddit
I've never seen a tale sum up Christmas in British supermarkets more than this one! Take my up vote.
Either_Reality3687@reddit
One night a man came into Tesco with a machete he was banging it on cages.he wanted somewhere to sleep. Police had to be called. He wasn't threatening anyone.
Oghamstoner@reddit
Expect the police found him somewhere to spend the night. Heard of people doing stuff like this, never seen it myself tho.
shelleypiper@reddit
What are people fighting about in Walmart?
PinkElanor@reddit
I used to know someone who worked on security in tescos and he said people were always having sex in the furthest away aisles in the middle of the night when they were open 24 hours.
RecommendationHot42@reddit
My friend witnessed two women fighting in Asda in front of their terrified children. No idea what started it but security had to break it up and remind them they were grown women
MCDCFC@reddit
A woman stabbed another woman at Asda in Derby only last week
DavitoDaCosta@reddit
Never seen/been in a fight.
Did have a rather long awkward staredown with someone over the last pack of chocolate digestives though.
ChiliSquid98@reddit
Got shoulder barged in asda once
Real23Phil@reddit
Once I saw it kick off, it was when the staff put out reduced items, people queue and fight for that food.
skibbin@reddit
Our fights happen because of gangs, drugs, alcohol, or football. Not consumerism.
ashleebryn@reddit
The fights at Walmart tend to be a result of narcissism and entitlement or "feeling disrespected" more than consumerism.
chroniccomplexcase@reddit
I used to work for a British upscale supermarket called Waitrose. In the 3-4 years I worked there, I saw 1 fight. Said fight broke out because a fairly big celebrity came into the store to do his weekly shop (he came in every week, lived locally and was super lovely to us staff) and two middle aged woman started fighting over him. Not including him, but over who was the biggest fan. They would have been 18-25 when he was in his peek fame and it’s wasn’t uncommon for people to cover their walls with his posters and “crush” on him.
It started as just a verbal argument giving examples of why they were the bigger fan and ended with them having an hilarious but pathetic fist fight that two senior staff had to split up. They reminded the woman if they were banned from our store, it was a 30 minute drive to the next branch or they had to “slum it” in the cheaper supermarkets- that soon shut them up.
When we told him what had happened he laughed and said sadly it wasn’t the first time and he was always embarrassed to see grown woman embarrass themselves and for what reason. But also he was upset he had missed it, as he was finishing off his weekly shop.
In my 38 years of life, this is the only fight I’ve seen in a supermarket in the UK. I did see one in a target in Florida though.
Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit
"No uncouth behaviour, please, we're British"
SwordTaster@reddit
Depends on how shitty the area is. There was a single fight in the Tesco I used to work at over the 12 years I worked there
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