Shopping Pet Hates

JemmaM91 · 10 May 2013 at 8:58AM

Right I've been seeing a lot of threads lately about pet hates. So I was wondering if anyone had any whilst shopping with the kids.

Mine are the fact all the stuff my son will scream for are right at the entrance! (At the moment in Tesco there is a bouncy castle) So I'm usually shopping with a screaming toddler.
Then at the tills are the chocolates and my son likes to grab.
Also the parent and child spaces being taken by a bunch of 17 yr olds whilst they watch you struggling to get your toddler out of a tight space.

A shopping trip never fails to raise my stress levels ! :rotfl:

Lagoon · 10 May 2013 at 9:04AM

People that go to the self-serve tills with a full shopping trolley.

Almost every shopper - people that cut you up, leave their trolley in the middle of a narrow aisle, push in, pretend they haven't seen you, crash into you because they're so desperate to get around the shop as quickly as possible...

Every time I go shopping I get annoyed by how many rude people there are, thinking that they're the most important person in the supermarket. Some time ago, I felt someone push their trolley into my back whilst I was looking at some products on a shelf. That's usual behaviour, and had happened twice already on this particular trip, so I turned and gave the person a nasty look. It was a friend, smiling at me. She'd done it deliberately to get my attention. No doubt she wasn't expecting the look I gave her. Oops.

Dunroamin · 10 May 2013 at 9:06AM

Couples who both go to busy supermarkets with their children - why?

Hermia · 10 May 2013 at 9:07AM

JemmaM91 wrote: »

A shopping trip never fails to raise my stress levels ! :rotfl:

That's why I love online food shopping!

What drives me mad are the people who leave their shopping trolleys or pushchairs right in the middle of the aisle at an odd angle so no one can get past. If you need to leave it whilst you go and look for something is it really that hard to park it to one side?? And, woe betide you actually lay a finger on a pushchair to move it!

The thing I find depressing about supermarkets is just all the unhappy couples I seem to see in them. I can't walk around my local supermarket without passing loads of bickering couples. The thing that is depressing is that they don't seem to be bickering in a 'we love each other, but we are just tired and grumpy' way. They are talking to each other with absolutely no respect at all.

Hermia · 10 May 2013 at 9:09AM

Dunroamin wrote: »

Couples who both go to busy supermarkets with their children - why?

What about those couples where the mum is dragging the bored kids around the supermarket whilst the father sits in the car playing on his phone/listening to the radio/reading the paper? I have never understood that! Why can't the kids stay in the car with him and the mum could get the shop done quicker?

JemmaM91 · 10 May 2013 at 9:12AM

Hermia wrote: »

That's why I love online food shopping!

I have tried online shopping a couple of times, but I just can't get my head around it. I find it easier when I see what I'm buying.

JemmaM91 · 10 May 2013 at 9:13AM

Dunroamin wrote: »

Couples who both go to busy supermarkets with their children - why?

I have been guilty of this. Although OH is more of a child than DS, constantly picking up things that cost a ridiculous amount.

aileth · 10 May 2013 at 9:13AM

Last night in Marks & Sparks, which of course doesn't by any stretch have the biggest aisles, an elderly couple saw another elderly couple who must've been friends. They both had trollies. They then decided to stop and catch up the past 5/10/15 years they haven't seen each other while blocking the entrance to the veg aisle AND the entrance to the self service, and were totally clueless why people were getting annoyed!

AND people who motor through supermarkets, you're walking behind them, they then decide they're going the wrong way and stop dead in front of you, glare at you and storm off!

AND people who stop suddenly e in the doorway to the shop!

AND people who seem to get to the till and seem really confused that they are going to have to pay for something, and then take an aeon to get their purse out, and then instead of moving aside to put the change back, they have 3578353 compartments in their purse where each coin must be sorted and stand at the till doing it!

fluffnutter · 10 May 2013 at 9:14AM

JemmaM91 wrote: »

Right I've been seeing a lot of threads lately about pet hates. So I was wondering if anyone had any whilst shopping with the kids.

Mine are the fact all the stuff my son will scream for are right at the entrance! (At the moment in Tesco there is a bouncy castle) So I'm usually shopping with a screaming toddler.
Then at the tills are the chocolates and my son likes to grab.
Also the parent and child spaces being taken by a bunch of 17 yr olds whilst they watch you struggling to get your toddler out of a tight space.

A shopping trip never fails to raise my stress levels ! :rotfl:

Thing is... all of that is deliberate on the part of the supermarket. Get the kids screaming for this, that or the other as soon as you go in, then mum or dad will give in just to keep the peace. It's really cynical. That's one of my shopping hates - not the customers, the bloody supermarkets

Shop online. Then you don't need to be swayed by their dirty tricks.

peachyprice · 10 May 2013 at 9:17AM

Pensioners who go at peak times, then moan about how busy it is.

[Deleted User] · 10 May 2013 at 9:19AM

It is the supermarkets person picking up the things people have ordered online,they take over the isle, very ruderly push in front of customers, have there zapper wire across the customers and they seem to be so many of them. Why cant they do it in the stock room?