Anonymous
I need therapy to get over this Chandlers Ford East visit. Very upsetting. I Wanted three items. Arrived early in morning OAP hour and queued and told by Intimidating door security guy that I could not go in without a trolley. There was no sanitiser to wipe the trolley. He said that the trolleys had already been cleaned. I said I did not want a trolley as I only wanted three items. I never use a trolley because of Coronavirus. He said well you cannot come in then. I went through the door with a trolley as instructed and saw a dirty till receipt in the trolley. I said this one has not been cleaned. He said we only wipe the handles. The trolley was dirty. I picked up my three items and had to put them in the dirty trolley . I Saw two suited managers as I went to pay and said I was not happy at being forced to use a trolley that was not clean. The manager quickly took the rubbish out of the trolley. He said quite discourteously ‘what do want me to do’ He refused to get me any sanitiser. I felt my hands were contaminated. He said there was hand gel in the toilet which meant more hygiene disruption. I walked to the self service till with him following me. He was arguing the whole time saying that none of our other customers complain. This is so completely the wrong thing to say. He said that I did not have to shop there. I am a local and the mere fact that I had shopped there for 20yrs did not seem to matter probably from when this manager was still in nappies. I kept asking him to leave me alone and to stay away as I did not want him less than 2metres away. I said none of the other supermarkets treat their customers like this. I told him that all other supermarkets have had sanitiser at the door for weeks. He kept arguing saying no they don’t. I asked him if he had been in Asda Or Tesco recently. he said he had three days ago and didn’t notice any sanitiser. Well I thought so much for a floor manager who is in charge of helping to prevent customers and staff from catching Coronovirus and does not use sanitiser. He kept still kept arguing and was quite aggressive. He stood with his back at the glass window still arguing. He watched me struggle with my bananas as the scales would not work. I was shaking with upset. I Kept away from him. He deliberately intimidatingly watched and waited for me to finish paying and as I went out I had to walk past him. I could not wait to get out of there. He then shouted at me and lied that I was abusive and hounded me out of the shop chasing me from behind making me feel very uncomfortable shouting at me so that all the staff and customers were watching. I thought he was going to hurt me. I felt he tried to take away all my dignity.I never turned round but kept walking with dignity. He kept following me shouting he wanted me to leave the shop. His behaviour was embarrassing. I spotted some sanitiser hidden at the side of the customer service. I grabbed a squirt if that’s but he came right up to my intimate space and tried to grab it to stop me using it. This squirt of sanitiser could have been the one thing stopping me getting the virus. This is nearly a week ago now and I am still very upset. I had immediately put a complaint in to customer services but nothing was done. I don’t think they believed me and weren’t really interested. There response implied they were more interested in me writing a good rating for there response so I could be entered into a prize draw as a way of saying thank you for bringing the incident to their attention. Just to say I am an NHS hospital front line worker and have been for 40yrs. This manager needs a lesson In how to treat customers and get over himself. He should not be allowed to intimidate, humiliate and bully female vulnerable customers in this way. I suppose the moral of the story is to not dare to criticise the supposed wonderful Waitrose for fear of reprisals from an intimidating bullying rude floor manager. It is hard for the NHS when people like him and Waitrose have so little respect for people who are saving lives. I will never ever shop at any Waitrose or John Lewis again. The treatment I received was appalling. It will take me a long time to get over this.
4 years ago
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