Checking out other peoples shopping baskets/Trollys

sb44

ceridwen wrote: »

Its also a quick conscience check thing too (ie - have they got a conscience?) - as, if I see battery eggs (ie rather than free-range eggs) then I think that is revealing about them too...

Yep, I think it reveals they are more likely not to be able to afford the extra cost of free range eggs, rather than they couldn't give a stuff about how the chickens have been kept.

Not everyone can afford to have a conscience where their food is concerned.

williacg

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

Not for me either. I caught a woman peering and straining her neck looking into my trolley, I was tempted to ask her if she wanted me to lift the bread up so that she could see what was underneath. Furthermore, I'm not going to judge someone because they choose to buy battery eggs when I don't.

Middy

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!

Middy

I can spot the sleep walking shoppers as well. The ones that just pick up items without taking any notice of the price, offers and don't look at MSE.

At the moment, we have Weetabix £2 for 36. The 24s are 2p less and the 48s are £3.69. Still got customers buying the latter 2 sizes.

rosalie-lavender

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

It is a pity my elderly MIL can't see your one slice of ham. I have said to her several times that if all she wants is one sausage or one or two bits of ham, then that is what she can ask for at the deli counter and they won't mind. She will ask a butcher for just what she needs but is convinced that she can't do the same thing in the supermarket.

GlowGirl

Middy wrote: »

I can spot the sleep walking shoppers as well. The ones that just pick up items without taking any notice of the price, offers and don't look at MSE.

At the moment, we have Weetabix £2 for 36. The 24s are 2p less and the 48s are £3.69. Still got customers buying the latter 2 sizes.

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.

So which point of view do you agree with? Or is it your prerogative to just !!!!! about anyone and everyone who doesn't conform to your exacting standards? :huh:

Maybe people should only be able to buy whichever products are on offer; heaven forfend they should choose a lower branded/cheaper product :eek:


RE the free range egg debate: you may deduce that people are being mindlessly apathetic by not buying 'happy' eggs but you have to remember that, unfortunately, not everyone can afford the eggstra (:A) expense.

blossomhill_2

I like watching the people with a multipack of loo roll on the hanger part of the trolley who walk through without scanning them :whistle:
- I've seen it so so often

geordie_joe

GlowGirl wrote: »

RE the free range egg debate: you may deduce that people are being mindlessly apathetic by not buying 'happy' eggs but you have to remember that, unfortunately, not everyone can afford the eggstra (:A) expense.

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.

chuckley

geordie_joe wrote: »

Anyone who is too busy to spell out the words "you", you're" and "people" really needs to stop texting so much and get a real life.

Nobody in this thread has said they are too busy watching anyone. All they have said is they notice things, probably because they aren't glued to their phones waiting for a text full of meaningless letters from someone they hardly know.

if the best u can hit me with is the spelling of those 3 words then u really have no argument.

just read the thread from page 1. its all judgemental about why people are spending xyz on this and that and 'how much they could save...'

if u go food shoppin u really need to focus on what ur buying, why concern yourself with what others are buying?! if sum1 only wants to buy the more expensive 4 eggs instead of the '15 pack offer for 99p', then what the heck does it have to do with u? Not everyone can eat all foods due to all kinds of reasons, hence the variety about.

And then to top it off come on MSE and brag about checking/looking/analyzing/stalking ppls baskets and trolleys.

yet I'M the one that needs to get a life?! hmm... quite.

Edinburghlass_2

Middy wrote: »

I can spot the sleep walking shoppers as well. The ones that just pick up items without taking any notice of the price, offers and don't look at MSE.

At the moment, we have Weetabix £2 for 36. The 24s are 2p less and the 48s are £3.69. Still got customers buying the latter 2 sizes.

I can spot the rude SA's too, they are the ones looking down their nose at what shopping they see going through their till