'Humiliated' mum left crying in Greggs store after being 'accused of not paying'

27.06.2022 - 19:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A mum was reduced to tears after she went into Greggs to buy some sausage rolls - and was accused of not paying by a staff member.

The parent, who is in her 40s, stopped by the high street bakery to pick up some food and had left the money on the counter before turning to sort something with her child's pram, according to the Liverpool Echo.

Once fixed, she picked the sausage rolls and went to leave - but was called after by the till worker who said she hadn't paid for her items. The situation escalated and she was soon "properly blubbering" in the middle of the shop.

Wondering if her emotional reaction was out of the ordinary, she took to Mumsnet's popular Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) forum to seek advice. In a post titled "would you have cried?", she penned: "Went to Greggs to buy sausage rolls, counted out the cash and put it [on] the side, turned away to sort something in the buggy, picked up my sausage rolls.

"She says you haven't paid. Not rude just politely firm, I insisted I had as I'd paid cash, remember putting it on the counter. She maintained I [definitely] hadn't as till hadn't opened. I'm checking the buggy in case I've put it back my pockets, my bra the lot. No cash. So I'm saying but I must have, I don't have it any more and start getting upset.

"She calls a colleague over, someone offers to pay and by now I'm properly crying because I'm embarrassed someone might think I'm trying to steal sausage rolls. Someone else offers to pay, staff again refuse to take the money and basically put it through the till as paid. But by now I'm properly blubbering and saying I'm sorry and that I don't want them to think I'd try and steal it etc. They were [very] kind, reassured me it was probably a customer who'd

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