Has anyone else experienced being tailed by workers in a local supermarket ?
I was in my local Dirk doing my weekly shopping. I was looking for dryer sheets and I noticed one of the young workers coming to touch items on the shelf and watch me. At first I thought he was actually doing something but I noticed he was just aimlessly moving objects on the shelf. It had an epiphany moment when I realized he had probably been sent to watch me so I moved over to another aisle to see what he would do. He also moved over to the aisle I moved to and just stood in the aisle aimlessly while watching me while I paused to stare at him.
So it seemed that I was being profiled and watched as if I was about to shoplift. Interestingly, I had a similar experience at the same supermarket a couple of ninths ago - I think with the same young worker. At the time I concluded that there was no way I was being followed around since it would be so preposterous for them to even consider me a thief but since it happened again, I am not sure.
I was wondering if other foreigners have had a similar experience in a Dutch supermarket of being not so subtlety tailed by workers?
I’ve been coming to this supermarket for years and now I am feeling that I would rather spend double on my weekly shopping in another supermarket than to be profiled and tailed around the supermarket so obviously.