"This is horrible": Woolies worker calls out most hated habit
It happens to everybody - after rushing around a supermarket grabbing your groceries, you realise you picked up an item you don’t actually need. You start to panic and what next?
Some of us would return the item to its original spot, even if it means walking all the way back to the other side of the store, however all others would do is chuck it on the nearest shelf and run away.
The bold move is something many shoppers are guilty of and a now a fed-up supermarket worker has spoken out, labelling the move “disgusting”.
The unidentified and strongly opinionated Woolies employee slammed customers who ditch items on rogue shelves around stores after finding a 3L bottle of juice abandoned in the baby section.
Sharing a photo of their gripe, the Melbourne-based staffer whose job it is to re-stock shelves urged people to stop the annoying act.
“Please stop doing this,” the worker wrote in a post shared to Reddit. “I work in replenishment at Woolies it is disgusting.”
Many agreed with the anonymous employee, with the post garnering hundreds of comments from fellow supermarket workers who shared their frustration at the issue.
“I worked at a supermarket and one time there was this foul smell in the snacks aisle,” one person wrote.
“Took me 10 minutes of searching, but eventually I found a wrapped fish from the deli shoved on top of the chips.
“Some d***head obviously couldn’t be bothered walking back to the deli and saying they didn’t want it anymore and left it to rot instead. Love that.”
Another wrote: “Worked at Coles while I was at Uni. Found both a used nappy and a used pregnancy test on shelves. Both big nopes on a supermarket wage.”
“Saw that exact thing happen in Coles Glenferrie about 20 years ago – still haunts me to this day...” someone else stated.
As one former employee said: “I’m sad to say this happened more than once when I worked in Woolies about 15 years ago.”
Customers also weighed in on the issue, sharing their shock at seeing this occur regularly.
“This is horrible. Like modern art. We need more people to call out this sh*t,” another said.
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