Tesco staff member blasts 'b***end' customers after being shoved out the way by frenzied bargain-hunters
The member of staff took to social media to express his disbelief at the customers' commotion
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A Tesco employee has blasted "b***end" customers after he was shoved out of the way by frenzied bargain-hunters last week.
The customers swarmed around the reduced section in the supermarket aisle to snap up deals from its Anglesey branch while disregarding the unnamed individual attempting to add more reduced yellow stickers to the store items.
In a video shared online, the employer recorded the customers pushing ahead of him, highlighting one woman who had left her basket behind her to get ahead, and a man who had pushed him in the stomach.
He said: “Unless you’re Erik ten Hag in that [Manchester] United dressing room or me at this f***ing reduction bay, no-one knows what it’s like to be surrounded by a bunch of b***ends.
Pointing out one woman, he said: "Wow, what an annoying woman. Just pushed me"
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Pointing out one woman, he said: "Wow, what an annoying woman. Just pushed me."
Once the clustered customers had dissipated slightly, the employee returned to see how the customers had left the freshly organised aisle to comment that it "wasn't half as bad" as he had expected, although it was "still messy".
Criticising their behaviour, he declared that he "didn't care what state the world is in financially" because everyone is "struggling".
He added: "[It] Doesn’t give you an excuse to be a b***end and be like a fly on s**t whenever I put a yellow sticker on something, because that was f***ing bonkers."
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The member of staff took to social media to express his disbelief at the customers' commotion (Stock)
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The video has gathered an abundance of online attention, with over 20,000 likes and almost 2,000 shares.
The comments below the video are vastly critical of the customers and their behaviour, with many drawing comparisons between their feverish, rabid nature to livestock and wild animals.
Urging customers to calm down and allow workers to do their jobs, one user commented: "I've witnessed people follow the clearance trolley like cattle following their feeder... It's embarrassing."
Several commented that, in their local stores, the employees are fenced in by a barrier to protect them as they organised the yellow sticker shelves.
Another compared the flock of customers to "vultures", while a third said: "Reductions are the worst, feel like I've brought food out for seagulls."
Many also recounted their personal experiences of working in similar stores.
One commented: "Christmas I got swarmed by M&S customers snagging my reduced smoked salmon. Terrifying."
Another said: "I did reductions and stock control on Christmas Eve and I had people grab items out of my hand before I even put the stocker on."
However, amidst the overwhelming amount of criticism, one individual insisted the opposite was true: "I was in Tesco today in Scotland and people just take the time - no one is in a hurry.
"They're certainly not vultures, thank you."
The author of the original post confirmed that he had raised the customers' actions with senior members of staff.
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