Greggs branch issues 'ban' on customers who don't follow one simple rule

Greggs issues 'ban' connected customers successful crackdown connected wont that's infuriating unit (Image: Getty)

A Greggs subdivision successful Croydon, South London, has enactment its ft down connected lawsuit etiquette by declaring it volition not service customers who garbage to instrumentality disconnected their headphones oregon AirPods portion being served. The fashionable bakery chain's bold determination is simply a bid to amended ratio and connection astatine the counter.

A motion successful the store sternly advises: "When successful queue, region your headphone/AirPods and travel disconnected phones oregon we whitethorn person to garbage service."

One unit subordinate conveyed the contented to The Sun, explaining: "We get much and much customers coming successful who look to beryllium mislaid successful different world. We effort to beryllium adjuvant and get everyone served rapidly during engaged times but it's intolerable if customers can't perceive a connection you're saying. The motion is beauteous blunt but we person nary option."

While this strict stance isn't company-wide policy, arsenic confirmed by a root from Greggs who stated the crackdown was branch-specific, the institution chose not to officially comment, reports Birmingham Live. 

Adding substance to the fire, different worker took to the net to vent astir lawsuit behaviour, pleading: "Can radical delight halt talking connected the telephone erstwhile placing an order! It's rude to workers due to the fact that we person to hold until you stop.

"I person got to the constituent wherever I volition conscionable inquire what we are required to. I bash not attraction if it interrupts your call, I americium not going to hold for you to decorativeness erstwhile determination are radical down you. Stop doing it."

Greggs declined to comment, but an insider astatine the institution stated yesterday that the headphone crackdown is not a institution policy.