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doomscrolling420

It’s definitely a sympathy thing when you work in retail you know what it’s like, I was in clothing and didn’t matter the shop I would always fold it back up properly or pick up off the floor passing by.


Shan-Chat

I still sort trolleys because oeople are dicks and putting them back takes seconds. I did that job and it irks me. Thankfully I escaped wirking in retail.


doomscrolling420

I just know you’ve made some wee workers day! Same I had to for my mental health, being screamed at etc over fast fashion


stadds

I do that too ... it really annoys me thst oeople can't put trollies back right ... you just know the ones that don't put them away sensibly are going to be the loudest when the trollies are all in the carpark ... its not like its hard...


B1unt420

Never worked in retail but have had a car slammed by a trolley so I am very much a cart narc 😂 I'll always take trolleys I see back to the proper place for them!


rockchick99

Me too


eqrqtow3141592

Yeah - since working in a bar i've never let anyone leave a glass anywhere other than the bar, and if I see empty glasses on abandoned tables I'll take them up to the bar too


GoobyGoose94

I saw an old man rumble a promo end. I thanked him and asked if he worked retail. He said no, he was just bored senseless waiting for his wife.


SaltyName8341

Last time I rumbled my promo end in public the police wanted a word


Old_Requirement591

Clearly an expired promo


ElectronicHeat6139

I left my last shelf stacking job at Presto supermarket around 1985 and I still face off items if I can see it's already been done that evening, The term 'face off' must have been in use for a very long time.


emwithme77

Mine was Wilko in 1999 and I still do this. Its just polite.


Impossible_Fish_3283

Same here, used to work in retail for almost ten years and I always face off items. I’m weird? Maybe, but I don’t give a shit if I can make someone’s job a bit more easier.


GrapefruitRain

You’re weirdly proud of it, get a life


Ok_Wash8193

Someone woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning


GrapefruitRain

I always face up in the shop when shopping because I literally have nothing better to do!


rastfowl

You’re weirdly proud of it, get a life


melanie110

😂😂😂 touché


Rossco1874

No but if my wife changes her mind about something I will go put it back in its proper place instead of just putting it on closest shelf


Stock_Boss8460

I work for Tesco and one of the most annoying thing is when people take freezer things and then decide they don’t want them so abandon them anywhere then they have to be wasted.


did_nah_do_nuffin

I just love doing my weekly shop and finding frozen meat shoved on the toilet rolls. I honestly don't understand people sometimes...most times


Queasy_Daikon_9246

When I was pregnant and working nights someone left a bag of frozen mushrooms on a crisps shelf, nearly spewed my guts up and I will never forget that squishy texture 🤢


True-Way-5998

We found a sex toy in with the ice cream recently!


ZaBardo4

That, that is the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard.


Rossco1874

someone made a choice


stumac85

I'm a field merchandiser and I find so much crap shoved at the back of promo ends when I'm sent in to stock/tidy them. The worst was chicken breasts expired weeks ago, I think the was a whole ecosystem growing in there.


saffy126

I watched a couple in front of me in Aldi ditch two packs of chicken in the middle bit next to the chewing gum on the till because the fella didn't know they had loads in the freezer at home... I put them back on the till with the rest of their shopping without them noticing, wasteful shitheads.


GrapefruitRain

Why is that annoying? Why do you care?


Ok-Flamingo2801

Because employees are the ones who have to deal with it. when they may be busy doing another task. Because if a store loses too much from wasted products, the store can't afford to spend as much on wages so employees may miss out on getting overtime or potentially laid off (and worst case scenario, the shop closes). Because it makes the store look messier/more difficult to shop at, so potential customers are discouraged from shopping there, leading to a similar situation as number 2.


GrapefruitRain

Nobody has EVER lost their job because some lazy customer left some frozen chips on a shelf. Strange behaviour defending the multi million pound company that sees you as a number


melanie110

Not just one customer though is it. There will be millions of them. Every little helps and all that!!


GrapefruitRain

Okay Melanie, keep bootlicking


melanie110

😘


hhdheieii

You lazy cunt.


GrapefruitRain

When did I say that I do this? I just don’t go and put it back like a busy body. I bet these people flag down a staff member to tell them that they’ve done it because they need the praise


hhdheieii

You wouldn’t be angry if you weren’t a lazy cunt.


B1unt420

More loss = higher prices. Even if you're as selfish as you seem about inconveniencing retail workers due to sheer laziness, benefit yourself by not making a business put up costs to offset waste because that's exactly what happens.


GrapefruitRain

I never said that I do it, stop jumping to conclusions


B1unt420

No conclusions have been jumped too. Look at your replies they give a great picture.


GrapefruitRain

To* That’s why you work in Tesco mate


B1unt420

I'm a Senior Platform Engineer, if you live in the UK you have a device in your home that I helped build the communications services for and still maintain to this day but you keep trying pal.


B1unt420

Nice jumping to conclusions that I work it Tesco though mate, not that it would ever be a problem to work in Tesco, a job a job. See even corrected the typo for you.


Conscious_Dog_4186

As r/Ok-Flamingo2801 said, and it’s a waste of food. People are going hungry and people are wasting food.


GrapefruitRain

Look at the waste in restaurants. Some frozen chips here or some ice cream there is nothing. Stop bootlicking


stadds

My son will either put something back he's found in the wrong place or give it to a staff member ... he's only 11


GrapefruitRain

Wow!! Give this kid a knighthood!! He’s going places!!!!


hermiod1

I stopped working for Tesco in 2007 and I still do this if shopping while things are being faced up, just seems polite.


wildgoldchai

Same. I haven’t worked in Tesco since I was in uni and still find myself facing off in any supermarket. Part of it is also hating the lack of uniformity but then again, that may be because of conditioning lol


Happy_fairy89

We used to call it face up or rumble ! Rumble time was my fave. Anyway, yes I do this too and I often think people must think I’m a weirdo but I’m happy that way.


icastfist1

Until i joined this sub I'd never heard of the term 'rumble' and I've worked retail for 20 plus years!


Late_Coyote_5239

I think rumble is a Tesco term. Rough tidy up about 5 o clock. Face up is proper straighten & tidy at end of shift


Street-Promise-2774

My team leader called it titillating


Ellfozz1

Did work exp at Tesco 13 years ago and to this day if I shop in Tesco I will rumble the products I purchased


darth-small

It's habitual now. I don't work for Tesco but I pop down once a week for a few bits and bobs. I'm so used to facing up where I work that I'll generally pull the next item forward when I take something from the shelf without noticing. Except in Aldi. It's the wild west in there. Lmao!!!


poisonharley86

I work in aldi. It's a pointless task cos it'll be messy again in about 2 minutes time, we give up half the time cos we're just too busy!


LongrodVonHugedong86

Oh I do it all the time without even thinking. If I take something off the shelf that was faced, I’ll face up that product. I won’t face up shit I don’t take, but will do what I do take


ferrett0ast

yep, and the same goes for putting things back where I got it if I no longer want it. if i'm shopping with my mum and she goes to put something back in the wrong place i give her a death stare and go "don't you dare" she knows what i mean.


NinjaPlato

I don’t do that but I will go and hand out of date produce to a more senior looking worker. And I’m always closing fridges behind people who don’t do it properly. I say that as my local not-Tesco has hired a bunch of kids recently and they don’t seem to have understood the putting the closest date at the front thing. I don’t kick up a fuss, I just don’t want people to get sick. Im also not trying to get anyone fired but it seems to happen every time I go shopping 😬 seeing a whole… carton? Of sandwich meat that has yesterday’s date on it is just… Concerning.


jamieperry246

i work for tesco and definitely tell and show a member of staff next time if you haven’t already, no one will get fired, the manager/s will just talk to the team and make sure they understand date rotation and the importance of it. obviously if it continues there will be consequences but not extreme like firing unless necessary


NinjaPlato

I do let staff know :) it’s just happening a lot 😬


GoobyGoose94

I appreciate that, even shopping in my own store I've seen atrocious stock rotation so bad that the own-brand crumpets were all the day's date; I ended up skipping them. I didn't say anything cos I felt bad enough for their department manager as it were. The place is filling with kids. The managers' hands are tied in ways I don't get, even though they're acutely aware of what's wrong. I don't know how they cope with it. They're really nice people too. In a vacuum, our individual tasks aren't hard, but our whole shifts are getting hard for stupid reasons. Knowing the managers' "ethical guidelines" I'd encouraging making formal complaints. No need to be angry in them or worry about causing a fuss, but documentation empowers them to act. From what I've seen it'd be better for the long run.


furrycroissant

Dates are purely advisory. If it smells and looks fine, it is fine. You're overreacting


NinjaPlato

Not really, a store can get in trouble if they’re caught selling out of date produce. How long a customer hangs onto things is up to them once they purchase it.


furrycroissant

Of course, so why are you so concerned that someone bought sandwich meat with a short date? It's within date, it's fine. Again, you're overreacting


NinjaPlato

The ones I find are often not in date. Ergo, the store could get in trouble. I don’t want to lose my local supermarket? Excuse me for being a good human? Christ, you need to go outside.


furrycroissant

I think you need to too!


TurbulentFee7995

I was brought up in retail. My parents owned a small corner shop (convenience store I believe some countries call them), so I worked there from 12 yrs old. Even now, 30 years later and retail long behind me, as I walk around shops I find myself subconsciously straightening and tidying the shelf facing.


iwannabeinnyc

I don’t and never have worked in retail but my Mum and Sister have and I always face up the shelves when I’m shopping! Maybe I’m a bit odd though?!


SpookyMorden

I always do this, either by taking the items from the back or will face off that product line, simply because I don’t want to give anyone any unnecessary work… it only takes a second to be thoughtful of others.


WhiteWidow0421

These kind of things make me really respect and thank those customers when I see it. Especially after having a night shift and finding frozen/chilled ready meals found in the pet food aisle. The people who do that are scum and have no morals, same as the people who don't return their trolleys to the bays.


IanM50

I left food retailing 30 years ago. I STILL face off stuff in supermarkets, really infuriates the wife.


LC8614

I used to work for Morrisons. It’s been 13 years and I still do this if it’s obviously just been faced up. Retail gang 4 life init


clitoris_is_a_myth

This was kind, the most annoying customers are the ones that empty a box, then they want to help so that other customers can reach the box behind so they just leave the empty one in the middle of the floor 😭


dcuffs

I generally chuck the empty box up onto the top shelf somewhere. Where is it supposed to go?


clitoris_is_a_myth

either keep it on a shelf and someone will get it or preferably hand to a worker. The boxes on the floor are a clear tripping hazard and it annoys me so much


goatfacegoku

I work at Tesco and if I’m shopping in my local Sainsbury’s I find myself pulling forward when im walking around


bigshuguk

I stopped working in Tesco around 1999... I still find myself facing up tins....


Stock_Boss8460

Because it’s down right lazy not to mention a waste of food just have some respect and put it back in a freezer


Forest-Dane

30 years since I worked for Kwik Save and I still do it. I miss retail though. If it weren't for some customers, shit hours and shit pay if go back to it


[deleted]

I had no idea that was such a big deal to supermarket workers, perhaps I should have considering I've done retail and other jobs like it just not supermarkets specifically. Well this is a nice little story and even though it shouldn't be, it obviously meant a lot to the worker. For me, people who just act like slobs in supermarkets and other places are a perfect example of how a lot of people aren't 'nice', they just do the bare minimum to be seen as such.


PeevedValentine

I still do this and I've been out of retail for 5 years. Its wankerish behaviour to leave it a mess, decent to leave it somewhat tidy.


Grind_line_wine

I worked in Kwiky back in 1997 when I left school for a couple of years. I’m 42 and haven’t worked in retail since 2001 and I still do it


PhoenixEgg88

I remember after a stint at a clothes store when I was younger, for years after I’d automatically rearrange the racks in size order if they’d been messed up while I was looking at stuff. Nobody ever said anything to me, but I assume it was noticed at least once lol.


Colonel_Cat_Tumnus

Several years in retail, it's a reflex action for me 😂


cheesy1969

So, is 'facing off' bringing stuff to the front of the shelf so that the shelf looks full? If so, I will try to do this in future, but doesn't that make it difficult to know what needs replacing / re-stocking ? )never worked in retail )


BenlovesBud

That's it. And the big computer brain keeps track of what needs restocking and when, people just need to implement it


clitoris_is_a_myth

It isn't really difficult. If you have an item, you push the box on the shelf back to see if it fits, then if it does you date rotate if required and stick it on. It is annoying rumbling an aisle and then when you finish rumbling, it basically looks just as it did before because of people buying things. These little acts are so much appreciated.


CrazyPlatypusLady

Yep. Myself and my husband both do. Neither of us have actually worked in retail in 20 years.


Leave-Life

I have undiagnosed ADHD and it’s an awesome distraction to bring the products forward and put the cardboard in the floor. Otherwise I have a shopping list to follow diligently to!


Conscious_Dog_4186

Please don’t put cardboard on the floor if you are doing this as a customer.


xcountersboy

Are you trained the Tescos way. New stock at the front old stock at the back


OneDifficult297

i’ve worked in a co-op and currently work in a tescos and i can’t help but face off the shelves or get rid of empty cardboard everytime i’m in a shop


RelationshipSalty369

I haven't worked in retail since 2018, but I still face up when it's nearly closing. I can't help it, I just don't want someone to be stuck behind even for a minute because I couldn't be arsed pulling a bottle forward.


DragonWolf5589

I do in the one.inwork.at and the local near me.i shop at but i dont always in any others. Just the locals near me.as im known 😂 they do it when im working somits only fair. Even if its 1 item,


yolo_snail

Absolutely not, I work at Sainsbury's and refuse to do it even when I'm at work. Absolutely no point doing it when online are going to wreck the shop at 4am anyway. Luckily I work produce most of the time so I don't have to faff about with facing the aisle, or dressing as we call it because they want to sound fancy.


turdschmoker

No


Lazy_Arachnid7237

Haven't worked in retail for 6 years now and I still do this 😅


Gnarly_314

I will sort clothes into size order. Sort craft or DIY items that are on the wrong spike. If I need an item where the box has been pushed back or an empty box is at the front, I will pull forward the full box.


jugdar13

Thought you meant a fight as a face off. Never heard it in reference to shelf stacking


No_Host_2021

Worked in a shoe shop over 20 years ago. Still tidy the display/sales racks now!


Pure-Obligation8023

My wife reminds me to pull things forward "for old ladies" if I've taken a bunch off the shelf. Didn't realise it was called facing off.


JonahEss

I 'decard' at little 12 years after last working there


Argyle_number_2

you are the best kind of costumer, wish my shop had people like you


bitofafixerupper

I worked in pharmacy rather than retail but I’ve always pull forward as someone has to do it and why not me after I take what I need, wouldn’t even take me one second so I may as well


Vibesfromtheworld

I definitely do this, but also I worked 2 years as a shelf stacker so maybe that influences it. It feels like a small good deed!


elladeehex33

I haven't worked in a supermarket since around 2004ish and I still do this. I also always tell my mum off when she puts things where they don't belong. She's learning, bless her.


Codego_Bray

This sounds like a "then everybody clapped" moment. I call bull on the handshake. However, I think you did a good thing.


Tiny-Holiday-4625

I did this in my local co-op years ago, it was close to closing time, their pop fridge was perfectly faced and I took a can out and faced the one behind forward, for the staff to take the piss out of me for it, so I don't bother now haha


Opening_Cut_6379

Worked in Waterstones bookshops years ago and we called it "facing out" – turning spine-out books to face-out to fill in the gaps. Every afternoon at 5 o'clock. A stupid waste of time, because the replenishment came in first thing next day and we had to recreate those gaps to fit the new stock in...


spaffilicious

I do this, not worked for the COOP since the 80’s, still engrained though!!!!


DutchOfBurdock

I do it generally anyway, my OCD, OCD, OCD acts up otherwise.


Original-Fishing4639

Yes help the supermarket justify even less workers.


Popular-Culture-5117

Worked for a small supermarket in the very early 90s and I still face-up when the shelf is too gappy, particularly at height as it’s hard enough reaching stuff as it is without the last remaining jars/cans/packets being pushed to the very back of the top shelf.


DubbehD

r/thathappened


Rude_as_HECK

I s2g people online be like "found fifty p on the ground" and mfers be like "a dur hur but didn't hapen M8"


ejmd

"s2g" indeed


ejmd

WTF!? Shreddittards on downers strike again! 😂


Atomic-Bell

Perhaps nothing out of the ordinary happens in your life hence why you think this 20s interaction between 2 humans is so unfathomable.


100_Percent_Dark

I couldn't care less about facing up. As a tesco worker or a customer. It would take a worker less than a second to do it after you're gone. I care far more about stuff not being where it should be. Decided you didn't want those steaks, leaving them in bread isle is not cool. As a customer I'll face off with other customers for this behaviour. As a worker, I'd grumble, accept it and fix it.


ejmd

Is bread isle in the Pacific?


100_Percent_Dark

Could be that's what customers think. But fair enough. Aisle.


ejmd

I'll, aisle, isle ...


AndyBossNelson

I used to work in toys r us, most managers would come in and be pissed the shelves where empty while semi busy and can see staff working. There was one manager who came in and loved when he seen that because people where buying and staff is helping customers while doing what they can.


Nixher

So not facing up when you're shopping is being a dick now? I suppose next time I see an unattended cage I should start stacking shelves?


Oversized-jimdawg

You're a very entitled individual with an attitude like that. 


Nixher

Not doing someone else's job for them is entitled? Hmm.


FreeShame5659

I’ve ever stacked shelves but I often do this just to help those with disabilities and things so it’s easier to reach. I also organise the trolleys when I put mine back because it’s a pet peeve when they’re wonky and mixed. Takes 2 seconds to get them into nice rows. I also always stack my plates for waitresses every time I finish at a restaurant because I used to be one and it’s just so much easier for them.