Checking out other peoples shopping baskets/Trollys

mum2twinsx2

Lol I have just been to asda and the lady in front of me was buying a box of durex, tampons and pregnancy test. Think she was covering every base.
The lady opposite to me was pregnant, and looking rather concerned about the amount nappies, wipes and baby toiletries I was buying. But it was all in the baby event.

mirry

singledaddy wrote: »

its certainly easier than following people home and looking through their fridges

or going through their bins .

slbhill

I can spot a scouter / guider / youth leader or similar a mile off, sometimes (takes one to know one). When I'm buying for my guides I often wonder what people think when I'm buying 20 packs of sweets, a couple of boxes of icing sugar and 6 packs of digestives Let alone what the online delivery guy thought when I got a Thursday night delivery of all the food I needed to feed 24 people for a weekend!

I am always fascinated by the people at the checkout with alternate "top level" brands and "value" products. Good on them for having tried down-pricing for at least some things !:T

pink_princess

slbhill wrote: »

I am always fascinated by the people at the checkout with alternate "top level" brands and "value" products. Good on them for having tried down-pricing for at least some things !:T

Sounds like our trolley. We tried to downshift all products but some were just awful. We have several items that only the best make does:)

I do trolley watch, but out of noseyness only. I really shouldn't do it though as it makes me want to try other things:o

blackandwhitebunny

I always look at other people's trolleys:o the one's that amaze me are the one's with no fresh food in them at all and somehow even though they're laden they end up costing less than my modest amounts.
I do think that people must wonder what I'm doing sometimes as I shop a lot for various things at school so sometimes will have 20 bags of flour or 10 packates of fish fingers, or I might be buying for a bbq for 50 as I did recently. And then I try to make ethical shopping choices and save money so I'll have a mixture of things like organic chicken and smartprice tuna:D
The best I've ever had though was buying about 60 bottles of wine, partly for a function and partly a good 3 for £10 offer, the trout at the till was giving me and my MIL really filthy looks so I said loud enough for her to hear, 'well hopefully that will do the weekend at least and we can come back next tues' she really threw the bottles down after that:D

shy-but-need-help

My Dh came home the other day laughing as he'd followed a little old lady through the checkout who had 4 bottles of bacardi, 2 bottles of coke and a tin of corned beef... nothing else. One way to spend a pension I supose.

I did then point out to him that the week before he'd been the insane man with 13 skipping ropes, 17 colour change cards and 30 Freddo frogs and a packet of tights. I'm sure more people raised an eyebrow at him than they did the old lady.

justAnotherGirl_2

I don't even want to think what people must think about my shopping basket :eek::rotfl: Usually, it's something like:
-bread/sugar/flour/oil
-spices/sauces
-a few types of cheese
-ice cream
-a few types of biscuits/chocolate bars
-tortilla crisps
-coca cola
-some frozen/chilled meals

Almost never any fresh vegetables, fruit or meat.

I have vegetable and fruit markets and butcher about 10 min walk away Very rarely shop in bigger shops, so when I do, it's usually basic ingredients the market doesn't sell and loads of sugary unhealthy stuff. And some ready meals for the days when I can't be bothered (though I do try to freeze my own, when I can, but limited space).

I try not to judge people, because every time when I catch myself thinking 'oh god, why, healthy things are not going to kill you', I realise how bad my own shopping looks

myalphabetgirls

Only the other day I wombled a receipt from Asda which had 2 packs of durex and 3 old el paso fajita kits on it.

Ive also been behind a shopper in Tesco who bought 6 fresh chickens and several packets of glue.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

she_who_can_not_cook

hornetgirl wrote: »

Funniest one I ever saw was in Asda once - it was about 5.30am and the couple in front of me were buying a tow rope and a pregnancy test.

next door to where i work there is a POUND SHOP and in the window for about a year has PREGGIE tests bogof lol so why two of a pound?

Taliahmai

Im guilty of this too, i like to wond what and how people live too....not to make a judgement on them as im usually way off the mark, but i like to think my way of thinking is nicer lol. Like today i saw a young lad (early 20's) with a basket of ingredients for a steak dinner for two, or at least thats what id of made with them, and a choc pudding and a bunch of flowers....so i foud myself wondering if he was trying to impress a lass on a first dinner date....or if he had upset his mrs and was grovelling lol....the old romantic in me hoped he was on a first date

I also find myself often impressed by the contents of what look like single lads, when its full of ingredients and veg etc. Of course they may not be but i like to think, good on you!

Mind you i dread to think what people think of my trolly as me and my mum shop together and we share a trolly. Now my mum has a huge double cupboard of utter crap, crisps, cakes biscuits etc and also buys lots of the microwave burgers and meals etc....whereas im on slimming world so all my things are fruit and veg and low fat things lol