Woolworths worker slams ‘disgusting’ shopper habit

A Woolworths employee has taken to social media to rage over a bad habit many shoppers are guilty of – do you do it too?

We’ve all been there.

After rushing around a supermarket grabbing your groceries, you realise there’s an item you don’t actually need.

What do you do 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.

Others would do chuck it on the nearest shelf and shuffle away guiltily, hoping no one saw them.

The bold move is something many shoppers are guilty of – and now a fed-up supermarket worker has spoken out, labelling the move “disgusting”.

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A Woolworths employee has slammed a ‘disgusting’ habit many shoppers are guilty of. Picture: AAP Image/Dave Hunt

The unidentified Woolworths 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 on, 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.”

The Woolies employee added the habit was “f***ing frustrating”.

The employee raged about those who discard items on random shelves where they don’t belong. Picture: Reddit

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.”

Reddit users weighed in on the act, sharing similar stories and frustration. Picture: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg

Customers also weighed in on the issue, sharing their shock at seeing this occur regularly.

“I saw this the other day in ALDI, some s***stain left a whole tray of prawns in with the random weekly special items. F***ing PRAWNS,” one outraged customer wrote.

“This is horrible. Like modern art. We need more people to call out this sh*t,” another said.

But this comment really sums up the sentiment of the discussion: “People can’t even return a trolley so what hope do we have.”