Checking out other peoples shopping baskets/Trollys

Middy

I work on checkouts and see customers buying cr4p such as pizzas, crisps, sugary pop, sweets, chips, lard, bacon, pies and nothing healthy.

I also get old dears buying one mushroom, 20 things from the deli with one slice of each etc.

Middy

Last time I went to M&S for getting a Dine for £10, I was behind an elderly lady with a basket of about 20 items - £78!!!!!!! That was just some ready meals and a couple of puds.

DianneB

I love looking in other peoples trolleys, in fact I thought it was compulsory. The only time I felt the need to explain my purchases was when I brought a pack of spaghetti, tube of tomato puree and a tin of beef dog food, I just had to explain that the dog food was for the dog!!

Bogof_Babe

When we were quite newly married we often used to stop off at the little shop near work and buy a loaf of bread and a tin of catfood. Those Whiskas butties were yummy! :rotfl: (not really, we had a cat)

Recently a lady in Sainsburys carpark offered me her trolley as I walked towards the store, and I could see her boot was full of about 30 loaves of Basics bread and nothing else. She saw me looking and explained that she buys it every week for the wild birds in woods near where she lives. I thought that was really awwww.... She said they weren't keen on brown, preferred white!

hermum

I always look in others trolleys. Several years ago though I suddenly realised that I always bought 2 of everything in my trolley. Being paranoid, I was concerned about what other people would think & concentrated really hard on not buying pairs the next time I shopped.
As I got to the checkout, really pleased with myself as I was sure that I'd succeeded, I started to put my shopping up & had picked up 3 of everything.
Lord only knows what people would have made of that.
It's the same in restaurants, I always want to walk around & check out what the other diners are eating before committing myself, you can guarantee that someone else's dinner looks loads nicer than yours.
By the way, what supermarket sells boiled eggs?

geordie_joe

hermum wrote: »

By the way, what supermarket sells boiled eggs?

Morrisons, or they did just before xmas. If I remember, I'll check tomorrow.

thatguy1

the stuff you see when you work on the checkouts...


makes me think of the women that comes in everyday 2 bottles of wine & a random food item.

mum26

My dp once went to our local 24hr Tesco late at night and bought 2 chickens and a bumper pack of condoms! Nothing else,lol, he didn't think anything of it until I started crying with laughter imagining the checkout workers face with that little lot sailing down the conveyor belt! I still tease him that they probably have a cctv picture of him printed out in the staff room with a Beware this man notice.

We'd gone earlier then i'd told my grandparents about the chicken offer and they'd asked us to pick some up for their freezer, hence the late night visit before the offer finished.

The condoms, he's ever hopeful

Some people would be horrified at my trolley some days, we have a big family (waits for the jokes ) so if i'm buying ice lollies during a warm spell I have to buy lots as most boxes contain 6 lollies, I look like a lolly addict! I shop around for the best deals so sometimes a shop won't have any fruit or veg but we eat tons of the stuff, i'll have already got it from the better priced shop

geordie_joe

mum26 wrote: »

The condoms, he's ever hopeful

He's also smart enough to have a couple of backups in case of a headache

RHYSDAD

I'm always amazed at the amount people spend. I very often see a retirement age couple (but not necessarily pensioners), late 50's i guess, spending circa £150 on food. It may be for a month, i don't know, but i have seen one couple a few times spending the same amount in the space of 3 or 4 weeks.