Why do adults have to eat around supermarkets?

jblack_2

I really can't see why people get so wound up by this:rotfl:. As already mentioned it doesn't actually affect anyone.

What about the people who hang around the entrance to shops/hospitals/public buildings smoking? Is that acceptable? That does affect people, why should I have to walk through someones stinking smoke?

Tiddlywinks

jblack wrote: »

I really can't see why people get so wound up by this:rotfl:. As already mentioned it doesn't actually affect anyone.

What about the people who hang around the entrance to shops/hospitals/public buildings smoking? Is that acceptable? That does affect people, why should I have to walk through someones stinking smoke?

The very fact that so many have said on here that they can't see a problem with it is depressing in itself .

I do agree about the smoking though......... why hang around the doorway - can't they stand to one side?

eranou

I was in the supermarket today and asked one of the managers if they had problem with me eating the odd sandwich whilst doing the shopping.
She said "Of course not your one of my favourite customers youv always got a bit of the chat with us and I know you always pay for what you eat. why would there be a problem?"

To answer the question in the OPs title I dont "have" to eat in the supermarket whilst doing my shopping but its convenient I can have a quick bite to eat, get the shopping in and return to work all in the space of my half hour lunch break.

NEH

eranou wrote: »

I was in the supermarket today and asked one of the managers if they had problem with me eating the odd sandwich whilst doing the shopping.
She said "Of course not your one of my favourite customers youv always got a bit of the chat with us and I know you always pay for what you eat. why would there be a problem?"

To answer the question in the OPs title I dont "have" to eat in the supermarket whilst doing my shopping but its convenient I can have a quick bite to eat, get the shopping in and return to work all in the space of my half hour lunch break.

You know the managers of your supermarket personally and they remember you?! :think:

Mrs_justjohn

I have just thought of another angle to this.....

We have Co-Op store in the next village up from us which has to 'suffer' approx 150 school children every lunchtime (and I am sure that a larger supermarket in a town has a lot more!). If those 150 kids see grown men / women taking food off the shelves and eating it what sort of an impression is this giving those kids. Assuming they do not know that the 'eater' is a "personal friend of the manager and one of their best customers"...some will be impressionable enough to believe it acceptable to do. Now what percentage of those kids will have this thought go through their minds....." I could just walk out of here now and not pay - Who would know?"

Now before peeps get on their high horses and slate me for calling all children 'potential thieves'....I am not doing that. I have children, and they would not do this, but then I have instilled into them manners, principals, right & wrong and morals. Unfortunately there are far too many children that do not get this from their parents and look to the world round them for 'examples / guidance'.

bakerp

I am diabetic and on occasion I have to eat something or they would be picking me up off the floor.Always pay for what ever it was though.

Mrs_justjohn

bakerp wrote: »

I am diabetic and on occasion I have to eat something or they would be picking me up off the floor.Always pay for what ever it was though.

I have previously stated that in principal there is nothing wrong with this. Although I have a friend who is diabetic and always carries an 'emergency mars bar and an apple?' with her. It is not people with medical conditions that sit down to eat a couple of biscuits that I have a problem with. It is the shoppers that for no other reason than greed/selfishness/lack of etiquette...etc...walk around stores eating pork pies, spit roast chickens, sandwiches...etc and then plonk the empty wrapper on the till of the poor checkout operator.

unholyangel

Mrs_justjohn wrote: »

It is the shoppers that for no other reason than greed/selfishness/lack of etiquette...etc...walk around stores eating pork pies, spit roast chickens, sandwiches...etc and then plonk the empty wrapper on the till of the poor checkout operator.

:rotfl: The mental image that instigated has me giggling. A big hairy guy with a big beer belly thats not quite covered by his too small t-shirt with bits of pie and chicken staining his clothes.

Mrs_justjohn

unholyangel wrote: »

:rotfl: The mental image that instigated has me giggling. A big hairy guy with a big beer belly thats not quite covered by his too small t-shirt with bits of pie and chicken staining his clothes.

:rotfl:LOL...I have seen a few like that!!

I think the fact that you have said that is the image that you have conjured up, would be enough to stop me doing it (not that I ever have or will)....why would anyone want to associate themselves with that 'type' of image ??

crabyducky

crabyducky wrote: »

As said by someone else they may have had a medical condition. My ex is diabetic and has on occasion needed to ea somethin in a supermarket and has never had a problem from supermarkets when she does this.

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

That's a lame excuse - if you have a medical condition then be prepared and carry a couple of rich tea biscuits or glucose sweets around with you - simples.

The people that eat in supermarkets before they have paid for the items are just plain ignorant - no excuses.

yes i couldnt agree wit you more.

Its lame when a diabetic needs to eat something to control their blood sugars and they may have forgotten their glucose tablets (or whatever the person uses) for what ever reason.

Its lame that the only way in such circumstances that they are able to prevent a possible diabetic coma, is to eat something, and to help keep people like you happy they have to possibly travel from one end of a large supermarket to another. All to buy something to eat to prevent themselves from having a hypo. Oh and by the way whils they were halfway towards the checkout to get/buy the above mentioned food they slip into a diabetic coma, possibly further endangering thereselves and others. All because peole like you say they have to pay for it before they eat it.

Well done