Why do adults have to eat around supermarkets?

Slinky

go_cat wrote: »

I can understand parents resorting to feeding their young children just to keep the calm and the child is too young to understand why they cannot eat there and then.

Adults on the other hand are old enough to either wait or eat before they go ( obviously excluding urgent medical reasons ) it is bad hygiene to eat biscuits then handle other products, put them back and then another poor unsuspecting customer picks them up!! ( i.e hand to mouth contamination )

I was never allowed to eat stuff in the supermarket when I was a kid, my parents wouldn't have dreamed of allowing it.

Another thing that gets me is children sitting or standing inside ordinary trolleys (not the ones with the kids seats). How hygenic is that for the next person to be putting their food into the trolley where shoes/bUms have been. Nobody from the supermarkets ever seem to stop people doing this though.

chomsky_2

As long as he pays for them, I don't see a problem? But then I don't really tend to pay much attention to what other people are doing when I go to a supermarket as I have my own shopping to contend with.

reehsetin

MrsE wrote: »

I frequently grab a bottle of water & open it & hand the cashier an empty bottle at the check out:D

why not take your own bottle with you?

pulliptears

daniel.thomas4 wrote: »

it is theft.... its like driving out of a car show room with a nice new car and not paying or telling any one your doing it.... pulling up 2 hrs later and saying I will take it.

I have a feeling the police may have something to say about it

It isn't theft. Your analogy makes no sense. The Car has LEFT the showroom, this biscuits have NOT left the supermarket and until they do without being paid for its not in any way theft.

The police would laugh themselves silly.

MrsE_2

reehsetin wrote: »

why not take your own bottle with you?

I will often go food shopping after doing something else (working, visiting my mum, other shopping, 101 different jobs) & on hot days like we've had this summer be dying for a cold bottle of water (which wouldn't be cold if I had taken it around with me all day;)).

I get a headache when I'm really thirsty.

Foggster

As kids I remember picking off the corner of the crust on fresh baked bread in the supermarkets - mmmmm

I am also one of those scummy people who will open a bottle of water to drink on the way around the supermarket.

Life is too short to fret about us scummy peeps!

DCFC79

Yes its a bit weird(i control myslef and eat at home) but as long as they pay for the items they have opened and most people do pay for items they have opened

Becles

go_cat wrote: »

I can understand parents resorting to feeding their young children just to keep the calm and the child is too young to understand why they cannot eat there and then.

I can't.

I've got three children and none of them has ever had a need to eat during a supermarket shop. When they were younger, they liked holding things on the way round, but they knew they must not eat anything.

It's a pet hate when people eat their lunch wandering round the shopping centre etc., dropping pasty crumbs everywhere. Our doctors had to put a notice up as people were buying food at the chippy over the road and eating them in the waiting room!

vyle

pulliptears wrote: »

It isn't theft. Your analogy makes no sense. The Car has LEFT the showroom, this biscuits have NOT left the supermarket and until they do without being paid for its not in any way theft.

The police would laugh themselves silly.

So if I ate the food in the shop, didn't pay for it, and then....deposited my waste... in the shop's aisles, it isn't theft because the food hasn't left the building?

I think it's scummy behaviour, it's messy, disrespectful, and I wish I was allowed to slap everyone who did it with a wet fish. A wet fish I, of course, bought prior to use.

The people who say, "oh but I got hungry in the shop," bring your own food to eat, or pay for the food, then continue shopping. Ugh, people are such slops these days.

pulliptears

vyle wrote: »

So if I ate the food in the shop, didn't pay for it, and then....deposited my waste... in the shop's aisles, it isn't theft because the food hasn't left the building?

I think it's scummy behaviour, it's messy, disrespectful, and I wish I was allowed to slap everyone who did it with a wet fish. A wet fish I, of course, bought prior to use.

The people who say, "oh but I got hungry in the shop," bring your own food to eat, or pay for the food, then continue shopping. Ugh, people are such slops these days.

It becomes theft when you leave the building without paying, regardless of where the food is left.