An interesting comment came up while I was reading through the anti-muslim garbage about this issue - M&S employs underage checkout staff who are not allowed to legally sell alchohol. If they get a customer with alchohol at the counter they are supposed to call for a supervisor to put the sale through.

The comment from the angry customer didn't specify the reason why she couldn't be sold the champers. Simply that "'I had one bottle of champagne, and the lady, who was wearing a headscarf, was very apologetic but said she could not serve me. She told me to wait until another member of staff was available".

Sounds like a beat up to me.

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@icyfroth wrote:

I spose if you touched it, pork mainly, you could accidently touch you lips with your hands and be contaminated that way.

 

But as it says in the article, it's a lack of common sense both of the retailer to roster muslim staff in a position where their religious beliefs would be compromised and on the part of the muslim staff member to consent to even work in a department where they could come into contact with such items.

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then you wash your hands after touching pork or wear plastic cloves.

can you imagine the restrictions on the types of supermarket duties?? 

i have never worked in a supermarket but what else is there apart from serving customers, stacking shelves and cleaning?  all those carry potential 'risks'.

i dunno......as Martini said, something smells fishy lol

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

An interesting comment came up while I was reading through the anti-muslim garbage about this issue - M&S employs underage checkout staff who are not allowed to legally sell alchohol. If they get a customer with alchohol at the counter they are supposed to call for a supervisor to put the sale through.

 

The comment from the angry customer didn't specify the reason why she couldn't be sold the champers. Simply that "'I had one bottle of champagne, and the lady, who was wearing a headscarf, was very apologetic but said she could not serve me. She told me to wait until another member of staff was available".

Sounds like a beat up to me.

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but if M&S have issued a statement that they give permission to their Muslim Staff to refuse serving customers who buy pork or alcohol then maybe it was not a case of underage checkout staff restrictions to sell alcohol.

i have read that comment from the customer, she didnt seem angry, just surprised:

One customer, who declined to be named, said: “I had one bottle of champagne, and the lady, who was wearing a headscarf, was very apologetic but said she could not serve me. She told me to wait until another member of staff was available.

“I was taken aback. I was a bit surprised. I’ve never come across that before.”

For heavens sake....the alcohol is in a bottle and I have no doubt the pork is appropriately wrapped/packaged.  How is that going to contaminate a person who scans it through the checkout?

What happens if everyone refuses to handle foodstuff that are not allowed by their religion?  Muslims will not touch pork or alcohol, in fact many religions do not allow pork, Catholics won't touch meat on Fridays, many Hindus will not eat beef....the list goes on.  Surely, as long as they are not expected to handle the raw, unwrapped product it is not unreasonable to expect anyone to scan items through a checkout.

hard to know the true story from that source.  newsltd love to stir up racial /religious tripe because it seems to have a following..

the reaction of many to the action of one person lacks common sense imo.

My step mum once gave a hand over to other nursing staff naming each patient and saying they had died (which of course they hadn't) 

It was up to those who supposedly had common sense to think and not stampede the hospital and/or think all nurses (as a group) everwhere would do as she did ..because of her actions and words.

at that stage she had an undiagnosed brain tumour .

I've had meat leak blood out of it's wrappings ... I don't care if the staff member is a vegan or pregnant and queasy or if it's due to anything else that individual may not feel comfortable with.I have no problem with being made aware of that (like I might a worker with hearing/sight impairments ) and working around that as I suggested previously.I don't understand other people not thinking that's reasonable and seeing that that is easily overcome.

Why the outrage ,the fb complaints? from the reactions and actions of one person ? Where is the common sense in those reacting ?

Why the outrage ,the fb complaints? from the reactions and actions of one person ? Where is the common sense in those reacting ?

So what actually happened?  What are the customers actually complaining about?  What are the comments on M&S Facebook about?

it appears, from what i have been able to read (the posts are being removed) the customers are complaining about the store's policy, since it has been announced.....or something like that.....

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@**meep** wrote:

Why the outrage ,the fb complaints? from the reactions and actions of one person ? Where is the common sense in those reacting ?

 

 

So what actually happened?  What are the customers actually complaining about?  What are the comments on M&S Facebook about?

 

 

 

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 disgruntled UKIP members .