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I witnessed a #meme actually happening in real life! A guy at the self service checkout was getting increasingly irate and bellowed at a passing staff member that he wanted to speak to the manager. The manager turned up and asked how she could help. What followed was a furious rant about how the machine wouldn't accept his Tesco Clubcard. The manager quietly delivered this immortal line: "Sir, this is a Morrisons." 47 comments
 @woodpunk Someone should make a meme of it and hopefully that guy will see it one day. @gkemp @woodpunk I mean, if it was the US, they'd probably be owned by the same 6 their cards would work universally. https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/about-aci/overview/default.aspx 16 grocery store brands owned by Albertsons. https://www.kroger.com/i/kroger-family-of-companies 19 owned by Kroger. And they attempted to buy Albertsons last year. That deal is still pending (from what I can find). @Shadowfalx @gkemp @woodpunk So, can I be the guy who says #actually here? I tried to use my Giant card at a Stop & Shop. It didn’t work and the man who worked the checkout said it didn’t matter that they were owned by the same company. So at least when it comes to Royal Ahold, you’re not correct. @rlpaulprodn @gkemp @woodpunk that's strange. I use my Safeway card at Albertsons all the time, so I just figured they all worked the same. Thanks for the correction.  @Shadowfalx @gkemp @woodpunk Reminds me of the time, I don't think I was even a teenager, when I ordered a Big Mac at a Harvey's....  @Rivetgeek @iuculano @woodpunk Baristas at the independent coffee shop in my office building can get really shirty if you order a grande latté. @woodpunk If You Be Illin' by Run DMC had been playing in the background, that would have been perfect  @woodpunk Had that with somebody trying to use a Waterstone's card in Blackwell's. I tried gently explaining that while book tokens are accepted in basically any bookshop, store cards don't work like that. Didn't help. Might have made things worse.  @Dtl Yes, but if they'd had any decency they'd have done the "What's the date? Yes, but WHAT YEAR?!" thing. Shoddy temporal navigators, no idea which decade it is... @_thegeoff they need to throw in a "who's the president/prime minister" too for added authenticity. @Dtl @_thegeoff And then you answer, “Do you mean the President of the European Commission?”, to mess with them. Would even work in current EU countries… 😜 @_thegeoff @woodpunk back in my Xbox support days I spent an hour or so with a difficult gentleman who refused all the normal "disk won't read" troubleshooting advice, only to learn that the root cause was "it's a Playstation disk". @woodpunk People are tired and stressed and get confused. Maybe we should just give each other a little more slack these days? @LaChasseuse It's very true that some people are tired, stressed and confused. Modern life is hard, for sure. Sadly, It's also true that some people are just appallingly rude, unnecessarily aggressive, and entirely unapologetic when they're politely informed of their mistake. @woodpunk One may hope that when a person in that state has had some rest and calmed down, that they will feel sad about what happened. @LaChasseuse I genuinely admire your optimistic and positive perspective on people. In fact, I think I envy it. I've spent so long studying the behaviours of the very worst people in society that I need that sort of reminder once in a while. Thank you. @woodpunk this is going to sound fake but it honestly happened at my brother's practice: a woman came in and asked to file a formal complaint. After some haranguing the receptionist calmed her down, saying she'd get the form but what exactly had gone wrong? "I was really badly treated when I was here for an optician's appointment last week..." (I'm sure you can guess the next bit...) I'm sorry ma'am but this is a dentists? (only about the 3rd weirdest thing that's happened there) @bazzargh Speaking as someone who has TWICE taken his dog to the dentist next door to a veterinary practice and didn't notice until he'd pressed the door intercom button, I have no problem believing this whatsoever! 😟 @woodpunk  @woodpunk Funnily enough, I did something similar to this at a Sainsbury's... 😹 I'd been aiming for Morrisons (I did know the area to well at the time), but finding Sainsbury's, I was faffing around at the self-checkout with my card, which the staff noticed, pointing out it was a Morrisons card! At which point, they began trying to give me directions to Morrisons, with me apologetically trying to explain it was fine, and I was happy to just pay for my shopping and go... 😹 @woodpunk Not only that but most likely completely accidental and without either person even noticing. Unless the staff member slipped it in there intentionally for the benefit of the audience and perhaps their own sanity, that is. @woodpunk  |
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@woodpunk Beautiful. Just beautiful.