Today, I tried a soup sample at a supermarket. An employee then came over and started asking me questions about how I got the cup for the sample, telling me it wasn't store policy to just give out sample cups. I was so stressed that I broke down crying in the middle of the supermarket. FML
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Just to clarify: I wasn't just crying because of the soup. My college apps are due Monday, I was going to have to be at school from 7:30AM - 8:00 the next morning, I have a huge part in a play and expectations are very high, SATs are Saturday, LOTS more. The store's official policy is to have an employee come with the customer and get a soup sample. The soup sample cups look exactly like the salad dressing cups so she probably thought I was trying soup without asking or an employee made a mistake, which is actually what happened. I normally don't ever cry in front of people but for some reason that just set me off. Hope that clears anything up :)
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cjwayy 22
Aww. :( It's okay, you didn't know the store policy.
Mauskau 36
Well unless you took it from somewhere, you weren't to know. They're the ones that will get in trouble, not you. Don't worry too much about it.
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cjwayy 22
Aww. :( It's okay, you didn't know the store policy.
EverestMelting 23
Agreed, it's not OPs fault, still sucks that OP was thrust in that situation, though.
datkenna 20
It was souper stressful
cjwayy 22
Hahahahaha
kristabelli 19
Agh I'm sorry OP, I accidentally clicked "you deserved it" - but you didn't! That wasn't right for the employee to pick on you that way in the middle of the store, when they were probably the one who messed up.
slutfactory 17
Poor OP :c I can relate; I've got some pretty bad social anxiety. I hope the employee treated you kindly afterwards.
DarksideDoll 31
There there OP.
Shy_Anne 10
Was it clam chowder?
Mauskau 36
Well unless you took it from somewhere, you weren't to know. They're the ones that will get in trouble, not you. Don't worry too much about it.
Enslaved 38
My local store (Publix) has a buffet section that sells things like soups, salads, fountain drinks, doughnuts etc... You serve yourself and then they either charge you for their container or weight of the food. It is not for sampling! But I've seen customers not care and stick their nasty hands in and sampler things off the buffet like olives, sausages, you name it. Where ever the OP got the sample cup, (most likely it was not directly next to those soups) took it upon herself to get it from another part of the store. Perhaps meant to store togo salad dressings on the side?
HairIsEverything 15
what #28? How is store going to give out samples of SOUP with no cup to put it in? Everyone just drinks out of the ladle? I didn't think so. Sorry OP, that's makes no sense at all.
Dt33345 13
#46, they are saying THEY DONT GIVE OUT SAMPLES AT ALL. They are saying OP might have taken a container from somewhere else and filled it with soup, thinking the soup was for free samples.
silencebabyy 23
#28/51 I know Costco gives samples so for you to say the supermarket she went to doesn't give samples and to assume she went to Publix and not another supermarket is wrong
Enslaved 38
I wasn't saying that the store doesn't give out any samples, just that the soup was NOT one of those sampling items for that day. Samples are usually handed out by an employees. Yes exactly, like how they do it at Costco's. This doesn't sound like the case here. OP found a sample container somewhere else and took the soup on her own thinking it was meant to taste for free. It wasn't.
Brandi_Faith 34
Maybe I'm wrong but I took it as there was a soup sample in the store but the employee was wondering how Op got the cup for the sample because they don't usually give out cups. If there was indeed a free sample, than I assumed that Op was given it in a cup by an employee (maybe after running out of what they usually use?) and therefore the employee that gave Op the cup is the one at fault, not Op. After reading the other comments I realize there may have not been a sample all, but that's not what I gathered from the FML. I think a follow up would be nice.
more4me 27
I understand what #28 is saying because I shop at a store that sells food ready to eat , buffet style, and the same thing happened to me. It sounds to me like maybe OP sampled the soup in good faith, using the little cups they usually leave near the salad dressings but maybe they were near the soups that day. And then an employee showed up and told OP those c u ps are not to be used for sampling soup (usually these cups are not made for heat , so not for soup sampling). and then , poor OP got really embarrassed.
Vahex 19
How is this an fml...
ZoroMiHawk 25
because she started crying in front of everyone and was embarrassed about it?
sarah5745 41
I'd think that it was the supermarkets trouble not yours. So don't worry much op!
ZoroMiHawk 25
Well...you must've got it from someone/somewhere in the store. Just tell them from who/where you got it. You have to defend yourself OP.
Soundslikeothers 15
When I'm stressed out and start to cry a nice cup of soup makes me feel better
MarshalR 11
In this case I can say that it's the opposite
MidnaLink 35
Is there not a sign saying "Please try the Soup"?
Ltsdragons 19
No one can blame you for taking the soup if you were trying the sample soup they handed out for you. The employee who did hand out the soup might not have known they weren't supposed to . So more or less it seems the store is more to blame than you
Dodge4x4Ram 46
you need a chill pill,,I'm sure they got that
ladytigerhunts 20
Costco? And it's not your fault!
sayyestothedress 24
I was thinking the sane thing! The minute I read samples immediately thought of Costco!