Tesco workers have vented their frustration over a “very annoying” customer habit that leaves them seeing red.
An anonymous Tesco staff member took to Reddit‘s r/tesco forum to express their anger at “lazy” shoppers who don’t return items to their original location if they decide against purchasing them.
The post read: “Customers that leave frozen items on the shelf, when the freezer is right next to them. How lazy do you need to be to just to open the freezer and put the item inside. I found three ice creams which were on the shelf right beside the freezer.”
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One frustrated Tesco employee responded in the comments section suggesting customers need to be schooled about food wastage. They wrote: “I get very annoyed with customers who do that, I really wish we could educate them. See if people could see the amount of food we have to put in the waste system because of laziness from selfish customers then they would be disgusted.
“Customers complain about the price of food going up and yet they don’t seem to realise that they are part of the problem as it costs money to waste products and the business has to recoup the money somehow.
“Yes customers can change their minds which is fine but the least they could do is put the product back where they took it from in the first place even if it means going back to the start instead of being selfish and leaving in random places.”
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Another Tesco employee shared a similar experience, explaining the problem can also happen the other way around. They said: “Or vice-versa. You could’ve dumped that pack of biscuits/tin of beans/loaf of bread/random veg absolutely anywhere and it would have been okay to just put back on the shelf. Now it’s frozen solid and has to be wasted.”
The person who started the whole discussion chimed in again, revealing they had actually “confronted” a shopper about the issue. They recounted: “I actually confronted one of them today (Monday, June 10), the guy just left two frozen pizzas and the ice cream with the basket on the floor. I asked him why are you leaving on the floor and leaving.
“He said he is going to Lidl because he couldn’t find the items he wanted. He said sorry and said he will put everything back after I explained to them if I didn’t see those items they have to be wasted.”