Supermarket etiquette?

Dunroamin

Why do two parent families both go shopping with their children? Why doesn't one of them do the shopping while the other stays at home/goes to the park/etc with the children?

KateBob

I always do my shopping monday morning after dropping the kids off at school, bare cupboards after the weekend.

Today I encountered a family of 3, all fairly wide. Elderly mum, daughter and presumably grandson who insisted on walking abreast down the aisles.

The 3rd time I turned down an aisle to see them coming the opposite way I decided to just turn around and go with them :cool:

MarilynMonroe_2

Those are the sort of people i would accidently ram the buggy into

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

Those are the sort of people i would accidently ram the buggy into

Someone tried to do that to me once. It hadn't occurred to them that I was moving slowly because I was ill.


They realised it wasn't a good idea when I lost my balance and fell backwards onto the buggy where their little darling was plonked, munching on some pastry item.

Triangle

I always go shopping at 8am on Monday mornings now - it is the only time I get a trolley with a space to put a car seat for baby

mazza111

My fella moans about this too.

People with kids should shop when I'm at work!! No matter how many times I tell him they are probably working too....

Old people should shop when he's at work too. They should be tucked up with a blanket over his knees when he's shopping!

The one thing that annoys me is the trolley nudgers at the checkouts. Sorry, but any1 nudges me, they get an earful.

I've also lost count of the amount of times my disabled dd has been shunted around from pillar to post trying to have a look at the reduced bit. When she was in the wheelchair last year, one old dear almost landed in her lap after squeezing in past her while she was trying to have a look. Now DD takes the motability scooter in the store and people get out her way faster. The checkout staff also assume she's older when she uses that rather than her crutches and she doesn't get ID proofed when she's buying booze. Not that she buys it very often, a bottle of wkd every month or so :rotfl:

OrkneyStar

We cannot get online shopping here so I have to go. The amount of times some old person (not generalising as it has 99% been 'older' folk) ram into me, growl, I end up apologising and then they give me their 'look'.(Of course I don't ever mention my lower back problem and how they have possibly just set it off for the day!). I hate it. I now try to go when DS at school, so he doesn't have to put up with it also. For the record he is generally well behaved and doesn't push, shout or otherwise hurt folk. I do think there is a phenomenon of shopping trolley rage, akin to road rage, behaving in a way you wouldn't do on foot!

kimbyanne

I have to admit, when I am on my lunch break and I want to go to somewhere like M&S for a quick sandwich, I get really annoyed with all the OAP's who decide that between 12 and 2 is the perfect time to head out. I understand what they can shop at anytime they like but they have all day, why do they choose to head out during the busiest time (then complaint constantly about the queues!)

OrkneyStar

kimbyanne wrote: »

I have to admit, when I am on my lunch break and I want to go to somewhere like M&S for a quick sandwich, I get really annoyed with all the OAP's who decide that between 12 and 2 is the perfect time to head out. I understand what they can shop at anytime they like but they have all day, why do they choose to head out during the busiest time (then complaint constantly about the queues!)

I kind of agree, however, they may have been out since about 10, and are working their way round where they need to go. They may take longer than you or I to get from a to b, so are not necessarily just heading out at lunchtime.
I used to travel in Glasgow, at rush hour, had a job where I was on my feet most of the day, and I did really resent being expected to give up my seat at 5.45pm on the way home (generally I didn't). Again of course, some of them may have had genuine reason to be out, but then so did I!
It is a hard one really. Overall I don't mind if the OAP's are nice and decent, its when they expect everyone to bow to them really.....noone should expect that!

Melaniep101

My pet peeve at the supermarket is when there's only one space for a trolley to get through, you hang back to let other people through, and they can't even be polite and smile or nod or say thank you!

Even worse when you let someone through and then they stop to browse the shelves, leaving you standing there like an eejit!

Yes I am a very grumpy shopper!!