4:24pm Wednesday 16th June 2010
By Ziggy
Hey, I’m the first to lay everything down when it comes to defending the community. But sometimes I am truly lost for words.
When we see a cheap deal on it really does become a free for all.
Just this month I witnessed the fiasco in our local Tesco for vegetable oil and washing powder offers. I saw parents sending in school kids (BEFORE school began!) to buy items because the offer had a limit to how much each individual could by.
And to top it all, I have to report on an Asian woman who went in with her burkha on and returned with her burkha off within minutes to buy some more items!
Now, I know there is a recession on but come on! I am always keen on getting a good deal but I am not willing to stock up for a year on one item just because it’s cheaper by a few pennies today. What actually is the motivation behind all this?
Well, I’ll tell you it’s not only about saving a few pennies but also about making sure the next man does not have the same opportunity to buy these products because you have grabbed the lot.
The problem is it is not the ‘poor’ person who does this at all. Your average man or woman doesn’t care about these offers. Why I have a beef about it is because these people are usually made-up of wealthy shopkeepers, landlords and professionals.
Whilst I realise it is not illegal or wrong, there has to be a sense of decorum in the way we behave in a queue and respect others in the store at the same time.
When alcohol is being sold at cheap prices you don’t see a rush of people arguing fighting over booze. Although the same can’t be said when it has been drunk!
I would not mind normally if the items in question were very expensive or hard to get hold of, but these items can be bought for next to nothing anyway.
So all I would ask is for you to act sensibly and respect others before stores decide to not bother with you as customers because they don’t need the headache.
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