Checking out other peoples shopping baskets/Trollys

hermum

Why do so many light hearted threads end up becoming an online brawl?
It is so boring.

GlowGirl

geordie_joe wrote: »

Or maybe they just don't care, when HFW had his campaign to get us the eat FR chickens and eggs, 60 million people didn't care enough to even watch the programme.

Perhaps; but you have to remember that correlation does not imply causation.

There are many possible alternative explanations; perhaps some of the 60 million were working the night the programme was on? perhaps some recorded - so the live viewing figures were skewed (though some do include time shifted viewing through appliances like sky+)? perhaps some simply decided to go out? and perhaps the rest do not own either a television and/or license. Not everyone is available to watch every single programme, no matter how worthy the cause.

In any case, my point was that it is foolhardy to automatically assume that every single person who doesn't purchase only ethically sourced produce is unthinking. Yes, there will always be people who make the conscious decision to suit only themselves, but you only have to look at the old style board here to see many people agonising between the choice of buying free range and feeding their families nutritious meals. I'm sure that, given a large enough sample size, this would also be seen across the rest of the UK.

antrobus

hermum wrote: »

Why do so many light hearted threads end up becoming an online brawl?

Because some people have no sense of hunour?

hermum wrote: »

It is so boring.

Well it can be something of a drag. But it can also be quite instructive for students of human psychology.

MrsE_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

Or maybe they just don't care, when HFW had his campaign to get us the eat FR chickens and eggs, 60 million people didn't care enough to even watch the programme.

Those programmes really do raise awareness. I used to buy battery eggs/chicken, tuna caught with nets. I never thought about the circumstances of the production.
Free range eggs have come way down in price now, because so many people buy them:j

Ches

fairtrade wrote: »

Trolley watching - not for me.
I live near Tesco and pop in most days after work.
Just a basket and the items I will need for that night or my packed lunch - and anything that is reduced that I will make use of. No standing around in queues either, straight through the self-scan.

Off topic I know but remember self scan does away with jobs. My local Mr S installed 16 self scanners and made 16 people redundant.

boltonangel

I always try to but free range eggs but at times feeding my family comes first and i have to buy battery hen eggs.
as for free range chicken etc the price difference is just too much for me to be able to afford it....or indeed want to afford.

people must look at me strangely sometimes....we run a restaurant so if we run out of something i often have to run to Tesco or Asda to stock up and will often be seen with a trolley full of bread or cream etc.

Middy

Ches wrote: »

Off topic I know but remember self scan does away with jobs. My local Mr S installed 16 self scanners and made 16 people redundant.

Look, no one at Mr S in any store has been made redundant. Obviously, with people leaving they aren't replaced.

Plus colleagues had hours changed as well.

Middy

GlowGirl wrote: »

But you've just made fun of the 'elderly sisters' and their clipboard, who obviously like to be precise about what price they're willing to pay - it may be that they are members here and know how much the the supermarkets attempt to hoodwink, or that they just don't have the money to waste and have to be canny.

I have not made any fun at the elderly sisters. On a few times, I went food shopping with my mum and they take bloody forever selecting a few loose FnV and not allowing any other customer to either pick up the loose FnV or the prepacked stuff which is above the loose ones. If any customer interupts and says excuse me, they get attacked by the clipboard! I don't mind them being savvy, but not allowing other customers to get whatever they want is not acceptable.

One visit, my mum and I continued to do the rest of our shopping before we returned to the FnV. Twenty minutes later, the sisters were still deciding which tomatoes they were going to get. Before anyone replies - they may gone around the store like we did, the trolley contents haven't been added to.

Bogof_Babe

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Not for me either to smirk at what kind of eggs someone has in the basket or their shape and size if they are buying coke. I will, however, have a joke and a laugh with young folk buying cases of beer and crisps and ask where the party is, or the couple of young lads who carried out a huge telly the evening before the Royal Wedding. Turned out it was for their mum to enjoy watching the wedding the next day.

I will now look out for prissy faces checking out my shopping when I buy one slice of ham when that is all I need

That brought happy tears to my eyes Bless 'em. :T :A.

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KimYeovil wrote: »

Since when was £3.33 'expensive' for a magazine?

Probably not but I never buy magazines I can get ones to read from my DD who loves reading them.I used to buy the 'Woman and Womans Own' but stopped when they became too full of adverts.I no longer buy a newspaper for the same reason.I get my news from the internet, cheaper and more up to date.
I too look in others trolleys and wonder about their lifestyles not to envy them as I am very happy with my own but it is interesting to see what others buy and wonder why.
I make my food from scratch as I like to know whats going in what I'm putting in my mouth.I don't like 'instant' food much anyway I just find it a waste of resources (my cash ) to buy something that I could make for a fraction of the price I have a vat of soup on at the moment and if I cost it out it probably costs around 20p at the most for a bowl.compare that with a tin at probably 60-70 p that at most would not give you much more than a bowl I think I am on the right side.Plus all those tins piling up in landfill