Checking out other peoples shopping baskets/Trollys

valk_scot

Oh, I always trolly watch. It's interesting to see what other people buy. Sometimes you look and think "Mmm, that's nice, must try that". Other times you do the opposite. There was a young couple in front of me buying a bottle of value vodka in Tesco the other night. Value vodka? I must live a sheltered life.

Gawd knows what the person behind me thinks of my trolley though. It's usually full of whoopsies and stuff on 2-4-1. Are they full of admiration for my MS ways or are they sneering at my obvious meanness? Do I care?

shandypants5

Value Vodka is ok, its the people that buy Top brand expensive vodka and then mix it with supermarket own brand cola that I dont understand.

valk_scot

shandypants5 wrote: »

Value Vodka is ok, its the people that buy Top brand expensive vodka and then mix it with supermarket own brand cola that I dont understand.

My kids only get Tesco cola and they know they're lucky to get even that (I don't much approve of cola and certainly not the expensive kind!) I don't think the vodka is an issue just yet though....:rotfl:

wik

A friend of mine met her OH due to trolly watching..

She kept bumping into him in Mr T with a basket - doing a small shop of ready meals.. one week she said hello hows you, and they started chatting - that was 2 years ago..

Snakeeyes21

Middy wrote: »

My mum shops in Asda on Friday mornings. Most Friday mornings, she encounters a pair of elderly sisters that have a huge clipboard and they put the price of things as they buy them. They are a bloody nuisance as they spend half an hour deciding which 4 tomatoes to chose from and blocking everyone wanting to buy loose tomatoes. My mum got hit on the back of the head with the clipboard when she politely told the sisters to move as they were blocking the loose carrots!

the cheek of it.. its like other people think they have as much right to be in the shop as you do

Snakeeyes21

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

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

But what wasnt said is that they didnt pay for it, they scanned it through the self service as a bag of smartprice spuds :rotfl:

babyshoes

valk_scot wrote: »

There was a young couple in front of me buying a bottle of value vodka in Tesco the other night. Value vodka? I must live a sheltered life.

Wasn't me was it? :rotfl:

We buy the value gin/vodka on occasion, but not to drink per se, rather as a base for fruit liqueurs - in the end you can't taste what alcohol is in it so you might as well use the cheap stuff! It certainly must look odd in our trolley, especially at fruit time, as we might also have a load of one thing which is selected for the jar, rather than the contents - value honey for example, which can be decanted into a giant old mayo jar and used up through the year, and the handy sized jars used for jam type presents... Won't have to do that this year though, friends have been saving up jars for us and now we have too many!

I often look at my own trolley and wonder what people think, especially when I am stocking up on something.

When looking at others' trolleys, I try not to judge on first impressions, but sometimes you really can't help it! I always feel a bit sad to see someone with fairly decent pet food and a cheapy human food because it reminds me of someone who would do the same.

Jennikay

I always have a look, but never judge. I always, always worry that people judge me though, particularly as I'm overweight, and this year as I'm catered all I buy is snacks and junk whoops!

I bet people judge more for the fact that in the same basket I'll have jumbo peeled king prawns at £3/box and then basics pasta at 9p/500g! :rotfl: and the silly amounts of coke that I drink...

Ida_Notion

My most mortifying checkout moment probably came not long after my daughter started pre-school, to which I'd send her with a packed lunch that created the (mistaken!) impression that we all indulge in a healthy lifestyle here. The ugly truth was revealed when I discovered that the woman who runs the pre-school also worked evenings in our local supermarket - something I didn't know until I found her manning the till as the boxes of beer, pizzas, custard doughnuts etc that I'd just bought sailed past in front of her. Oops. Rumbled

Occasionally I'll sneak a peak at other people's trolleys, but it's because doing so is sometimes like seeing anew what the supermarket has to offer, as people often put quite sensible and interesting things in their trollies that I'd never have considered. The idea of adding a few full-priced goods to a basket of cut-priced goods so as not to appear a cheapskate is definitely one I won't be trying though - I'm such a passionate 'Oopsie' hunter that meals around here often consist of nothing else, and I almost feel like a failure when I have to start adding full-priced items. I love that 'victorious hunter-gatherer' feeling that comes when I make it to the checkout with nothing but yellow stickered items so much that I'm half tempted to hold my purchases aloft for onlookers in the way that football teams hoist a trophy to the stadium. Come out proud - premier league 'oopsie' hunting talents aren't something that should be hidden

pozalina

Oh, the comments about cashiers made me laugh!

Once I was buying a pregnancy test and the cashier actually asked me 'Do you want it to be positive or negative?' Luckily I already knew I was pregnant and was over the moon about it (was doing an obsessional 'just checking' test) but imagine if I wasn't!

And once my oh bought a bottle of wine and chocolates on the way to my house and the cashier said 'someone's in the doghouse!'