Shock at the Supermarket.
By Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (24295)
United Kingdom
August 2, 2025 2:21am CST
I know groceries are getting more expensive but yesterday l was absolutely horrified. A visit to the supermarket yesterday was a nightmare. Friday being a very busy shopping day my daughter picked me up & took me to one of the UK's cheaper supermarkets. The prices are far higher than where l usually shop which is one of the UK's leading supermarkets. Prices seemed to be at least 20- 30% more expensive for certain things.
Once we had completed our shop we patiently waited in the queue to pay at one of the 4 open tills despite there being 10 tills. Lots of people with baskets were checking out at self service tills. Trust me to pick the wrong till. Every single transaction the guy had to call the supervisor. The lady in front of me kept rolling her eyes & sighing. I was becoming slightly impatient. It seemed that the system would not accept phone payments or tap & go. So the supervisor had to sort that out for them to pay. The lady infront turned to me rolling her eyes again & said thank God l have my card to pay. Her shopping went through ok she smiled winked & said good bye.
My turn the half trolley of fresh fruit & vegetables went through quickly as l struggled to pack everything in my 2 shopping bags. When l stopped packing & turned to pay l gasped & said good grief. The price shocked the life out of me. £116 ($154.06) The man called the supervisor he had charged me for 51times for a double pack of mangoes. I tod him I would be sitting on the toilet for a month if I ate 102 mangoes. He adjusted the price which suddenly dropped the price to a more realistic £59 ($66.40). That was more like it.
I put my card in the payment machine. Payment refused. I took the card out & shoved it in again firmly this time it was accepted. Once l got home l checked the receipt he had removed all the 51 mangoes. So I got the mangoes free!
Has this ever happened to you?
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19 responses
@DaddyEvil (176648)
• United States
2 Aug 25
Pretty watches the prices charged for our groceries and I just stick the card in the machine and watch money disappear. I know better than to look at the amount the supermarket takes from us.
Once in a while, Pretty waves her magic phone at the register and we get nice discounts on some grocery items. That's always nice! 
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
Yes l have some suermarket apps on the phone but which idiot forgot to take his phone
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@DaddyEvil (176648)
• United States
2 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I'm sorry that happened...
Pretty forgot her phone once but took my phone while the cashier was ringing up our groceries and put the apps on it and still saved us money.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
@DaddyEvil Quick thinking well done that girl!
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@luisadannointed (12086)
• Philippines
2 Aug 25
I always pay cash.
But price hike? It always happens, lol!
It really hurt our budget,
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@kareng (81066)
• United States
5 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I was wondering if you were going to call him a fruitcake !!
!!@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
Yes absolutely. He was a right dolly day dreamer!
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@snowy22315 (211692)
• United States
2 Aug 25
Not quite in that scale. Congrats on the free mangoes.
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@snowy22315 (211692)
• United States
4 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I am not sure I ever had sticky rice, but I would like to try it sometime.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
We might have them this evening with sticky rice.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
Good thinking but when I do self check out it takes me far longer as l end up calling the assistant. Sometimes after the umpteenth call they do it all for me
I think they do it because they must think l am seriously incomptent! 
I think they do it because they must think l am seriously incomptent! 2 people like this
@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
@jstory07 You are the best! I would always head to your till. I much prefer to go to the person operated tills as l usually chat to them & have a few laughs with them. They rarely make mistakes & the ladies are very friendly. Not only that they are faster. The younger cashiers less chatty & they look like they would rather be elsewhere.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
HI long time no see. Yes I keep a good eye on my trolly.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
@Shiva49 I have not popped in for a while always a pleasure to see regulars. I am sad to see so many people are missing.
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@Shiva49 (28616)
• Singapore
4 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I have been responding to others' posts almost on a daily basis.
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@GardenGerty (170377)
• United States
3 Aug 25
I did it with diabetic test strips once. Scanned it twice and it is something that cannot be returned so therefore could not be cancelled. The customer service person "helped me" and we rang up 23 total packages of 100 test strips. . . . that could not be returned. He had to send for help to someone who did have the magical powers to make everything alright. You would have had a hard time eating all those mangoes before the went bad.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
3 Aug 25
If l had eaten them all l would not be able to move off the toilet for a month!
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@BarBaraPrz (52069)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Aug 25
Grocery shopping is quite the adventure these days.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
Not my favourote past time I have to admit.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17293)
• China
2 Aug 25
The waiting for payment was torture for you!The level of expertise of the guy at the tills and the supervisor is hardly commendable !
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
Exactly I think he was a bored teenager who would rather be elsewhere. It will make me even more vogilent.
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@LeaPea2417 (40198)
• Toccoa, Georgia
2 Aug 25
Groceries are high here in the USA.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
I noticed that many years ago when we stayed with some friends. I offered to cook dinner bought all the ingredients to cook from scratch. I think it would have been cheaper to eat out!
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@LadyDuck (506645)
• Italy
2 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I usually go shopping on Tuesday or Friday and I avoid those who use the self-scan because often the system asks the cashier to scan again. I never use it for this reason. We always go early in the morning.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
How frustrating for you I would be annoyed too. Friday is the worst day for shopping here & I never go shopping at the weekend. We usually go much earlier in the week usually Tuesday or Wednesday when most people are at work & kids are at school. When I was working l always went very early Saturday morning often before my wife got up. There were less people in the shops early morning & I was quicker when she is not with me. I go in know what I need get it & out again whereas my wife is dreadful & is all over the place.
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@RasmaSandra (99682)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Aug 25
I order my groceries online so I know what I have to pay and what to expect unless there are substitutions and then I have to be sure they do not make the substitution more expensive than what I was going to order, Of course, there is also delivery to pay for but I am used to that,
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
Good thinking. I am veering more to that idea.
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@Traceyjayne (12784)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 25
I am intrigued now …..which supermarket was it ?
I always check the receipt and will go back if necessary.
Last week in Morrisons I had two packs of cheese as it was £2.69 each or 2 for £4.50.
I checked and it wasn’t sold at the offer price , I had been charged full price for both. I went to customer service and after about five minutes she gave me the difference back.
I checked and it was a G&S offer ….i asked two members of staff but neither knew what G&S was.
I don’t care…..I bought two more packs of cheese ….and the difference came off.
Yay !
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
It was a Lidl. I do not usually shop there but l was taken there by my daughter. Morrisons will quickly reimburse you if they made a mistake.
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@Traceyjayne (12784)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I thought it must be either Lidl or Aldi.
Yes, Morrisons were quick at refunding the money. Had it of been our Tesco it would have been a different story I think …..the staff there are dreadful. I don’t think they know the meaning of customer service.
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@aninditasen (18254)
• Raurkela, India
2 Aug 25
In my city malls have the same price as other normal stores or else people won't visit malls.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
Yes some supermarkets here have different prices based on location.
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@aninditasen (18254)
• Raurkela, India
4 Aug 25
@garymarsh6 I see. This is not the case in my city but I have seen this in Delhi and Kolkata.
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@allknowing (153526)
• India
3 Aug 25
You only noticed it when you got back home but would you have alerted the cashier that he had had not included the mangoes of up found that out in the Mall?
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
3 Aug 25
No I noticed it immediately in the supermarket. He removed the mangoes & never added the pair l had bought so they ended up as free.
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@Marilynda1225 (91865)
• United States
5 Aug 25
Prices here have skyrocketed too but I've never been so overcharged like you did with the mangoes. At least you wound up getting them for free once they adjusted the overcharge.
I had a grocery delivery the other day and all the fruit was missing. At least they credited me for the missing bag but I was mad that now I didn't have any fruit.
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@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
5 Aug 25
It is annoying when your home delivery items are missing even though they refunded you. That does not solve your problem of having no fresh fruit! They should redo your order & deliver it free!
@Kandae11 (57253)
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2 Aug 25
Wow! - Just three mangoes a day - even less depending on the size - and you would be going to the bathroom regular. He charged you for 102 mangoes - what was he thinking?. Good that you were alert and noticed the error.
I don 't suppose you will be shopping there again.
. Good that you were alert and noticed the error.
I don 't suppose you will be shopping there again.2 people like this
@vilma143 (2915)
• Dipolog, Philippines
3 Aug 25
Yes, it happens to me once, but I really give patience 'cause we're humans. Maybe we 'cause sometime a mistake. I think reason also is the sign of our ages, we forgot or maybe there is time that our kindness is abusing. The circumstances sometimes brings us an error.
@garymarsh6 (24295)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 25
I think the young man didn't want to be there!
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