Why do adults have to eat around supermarkets?

POPPYOSCAR

SallyForth wrote: »

Okay, very funny, and in the grand scheme of things, a bit trivial, but it doesn't alter the fact that the item can't be put back. It is permanantly gone!

Yes but we 'consume' lots of things before we actually pay for them like gas electricity telephone calls etc.When you sit down in a restaurant you pay after you have eaten your meal.

I have seen people give the SA empty packets etc to pay for them so those that eat and don't pay are essentially shoplifters anyway.

As I have already said I don't do it but have no problem with those that do, there are much bigger issues around than this.

little_girl_lost

I just think, if you're hungry when your going shopping drive through McDonalds get a little cheesburger and then do your shopping like a normal person. And not like piggy wiggy


Everyone knows you buy more if your hungry aswell so I always try to eat before I go.

jinky67

little_girl_lost wrote: »

I just think, if you're hungry when your going shopping drive through McDonalds get a little cheesburger and then do your shopping like a normal person. And not like piggy wiggy


Everyone knows you buy more if your hungry aswell so I always try to eat before I go.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww MacDonalds:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

never:p

BigMummaF

eranou wrote: »

So can you explain exactly how its disrespectfull to others? what effect does it have on them?

Ok, one more go & then I'm taking my ball home.
There are things you just do not do in 'polite' society.
You do not push in front simply because you have a bigger car, want the red one before someone else snaffles it or the best seat on the bus.
You refrain from arguing in public.
You try to control your bodily functions as best you can & say 'excuse me' if you can't.
You keep a stronger control over your children & pets.
You ask before sparking up a ciggie when in a social gathering.
You use civilised vocabulary.

At one time it was not acceptable to smoke in the street, let alone eat a sausage roll & that is why I find folk eating while walking around a supermarket disrespectful.

Standards cannot be reset once we have lost them.

POPPYOSCAR

BigMummaF wrote: »

Ok, one more go & then I'm taking my ball home.




Oh don't do that.

Although we don't all agree I think we are all playing nicely!

Monkeynut

Having just come across this thread, and sat and read the entire lot (I know I must really have more important things to do while the baby is asleep !), it's actually really got me thinking!!

Whilst I find it all really amusing, a lot just because some people feel so strongly either way, I can't quite work out how I feel about the subject! I can agree with both sides!

Generally I don't like it, but that's probably because when I've seen people doing it, it has tended to be the chavvy scummy people I've just spent the last almost hour reading about!!! Or at least they are the ones I notice doing it more, because they are more obvious about it. But it doesn't bother me, so long as they're not messy about it.
But at the same time, I think people are being a bit too demanding of people to state in exact terms, with full explanations of reliability and validity, why it is that they don't like it.
And kudos to those who have spent endless threads attempting to do so, but I genuinely do think that it's one of those times that "just because" is sufficient!! Same as not saying Please & thank you, it doesn't affect anything really, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't, or indeed shouldn't, bother people.

When I was pregnant and me and OH were in Sainsbury's I felt like I was about to throw up on the spot, and I did actually pick up a bottle of water (a big bottle at that!) as we were right there in that aisle at the time, and have a sip. I don't thik anyone really minded, I think they were more concerned that I was about to go into Labour (9 month pregnant and leaning on the trolley looking faint can apparently make some shoppers feel uncomfortable!!) So in the interest of good manners, my deepest appologies to said uncomfortable Sainsburys shoppers that day!
But I then went to the checkout and paid for said bottle of water, while OH carried on shopping, and I explained to the SA why it was opened and appologised! I then sat on the bench outside while OH finished the shopping as I felt ok.
I wouldn't have gone back into the main shop again, even after paying, and continued to drink it as I was walking around. Just because!!
And also because I'd be worried people might think I was being rude, or wasn't going to pay for it. Maybe I should have cellotaped the receipt onto it if I'd gone back in!!


Maybe my mindset/morals are set like that from the day my parents took me to a Pick your Own strawberry place, and Dad caught me nibbling a couple -shhhh don't tell anyone , and jokingly told me the man at the shop bit would know and call the police!! I even confessed to the man at the shop when we paid! :A (Please wait while I polish my halo!), and said how sorry I was. Just like to the SA with the water in Sainsburys!!

Mrs_justjohn

BigMummaF wrote: »

Ok, one more go & then I'm taking my ball home.
There are things you just do not do in 'polite' society.
You do not push in front simply because you have a bigger car, want the red one before someone else snaffles it or the best seat on the bus.
You refrain from arguing in public.
You try to control your bodily functions as best you can & say 'excuse me' if you can't.
You keep a stronger control over your children & pets.
You ask before sparking up a ciggie when in a social gathering.
You use civilised vocabulary.

At one time it was not acceptable to smoke in the street, let alone eat a sausage roll & that is why I find folk eating while walking around a supermarket disrespectful.

Standards cannot be reset once we have lost them.

Couldn't agree more with this post.

I, like BigMummaF am at a loss to understand why people do not see this behaviour as 'unacceptable'. I do not see any other way we can explain it so I will make a request......

BigmummaF - When you take the ball home - Can you take me with you??:rotfl:I wish to live with BigMummaF in a 'civilised' house and shop with her in supermarkets that attract polite, well mannered shoppers with a modicum of etiquette and standards.:T I come with two very well behaved children and a partially house trained husband (although he wouldn't dream of eating in a supermarket!)

Valli

justjohn wrote: »

Maybe the standards in society are slipping...
I mean eating in supermarkets, pajama parties. Whats next. booze parties.

Where will the line be drawn?

Food for thought lol

Tell me about it!

When I was a kid no-one ate in shops

Now I see people walking around shops eating chips or ice cream CLEARLY bought elsewhere...and touching clothes/items for sale with greasy sticky fingers.

Does it matter?

Well - WHO pays for all the shop soiled goods? US! - that's right! We ALL do as shops put up their prices to cover losses...

and DON'T get me started on the idiots who pick up chilled items then decide they don't want them and leave them elsewhere in the shop...thus rendering them unsaleable...

Please may I reside in BigMummaF town?

Please?

(and can we ban chewing gum?):p;):o

ailuro2

I have been known to eat something going round a supermarket, but if you care to watch me a couple of minutes before that I'll have taken a couple of migraine tablets.

I find if I can get a couple of tablets and raise my blood sugar I can sometimes head the migraine off, or make it less bad.

I do apologise for this, and always pay for whatever I have opened, never have anything that would be sticky or make a mess of the conveyor belt.


When DD was little if she got hungry I would let her eat an apple from the supermarket but got some funny looks when I asked the checkout assistant to weigh one of the apples twice as my DD was alreasdy eating one - I assume most people would just let their kids carry on eating it and not pay for it.

purt

Human nature.

The same reason I have caught adults farting in supermarkets... oh yes!