Why is it that it is your countrymen that tries
to rip you off at every opportunity they get? Our last holiday in London went
without any incident except when we transacted business with our own
countrymen.
With other nationals, you would be sold stuff
and be given receipt where they had the facility without you having to ask. Sometimes,
when you were frustrated with the numerous coins in your wallet, you just
dumped them on the table and asked the shop owner or sales clerk to pick the
correct value of money for the stuff you bought. They would just do that, push
the balance towards you and proceed to show you and explain what they took out
of the lot.
On the contrary, our experience with a Nigerian
cuisine restaurant, Tasty African, Maryland, Stratford, was that there was
always a scheme to nick one or two pounds off you. The same items were sold at
different prices every time we visited. We discovered this and started
insisting on them giving us receipts for our purchases and a couple of times,
the sales girl would feign forgetfulness.
If they had told you some prices for some items
when you were picking stuff, once you tell them you wanted receipt, they
started giving you different prices for the same items.
Sometimes when you remembered how much they sold
something the previous day and ask why the difference, the sales girl would
tell you, how, that must have been hard chicken. ‘This one is soft chicken!’
We found their food much better than the other
restaurants we had used and our schedule was to tight that we couldn’t look for
new restaurants. So, unfortunately, we had to keep going back.
The owner of that business needs to pay
attention to his sales staff in that outlet particularly.
