Shopping Pet Hates

Person_one

There's this brilliant thing called online shopping now. Somebody just brings everything to your front door and you never have to set foot in a supermarket if you don't want to.

aylesby

When I am with my wife and she is looking for clothes if she likes it the shop never has her size. Nothing I say helps.

lilymay1

embob74 wrote: »

Drive to the parent & toddler spaces only to find they are full with people who don't even have kids. I did look at a lady climb out of her car with no kids in sight and was fuming until she told me she was disabled but there were no disabled spaces. So now if there's no space I figure it's better I struggle with two kids in a normal space rather than a disabled person struggling.

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This I totally agree with. There isn't some sort of hierarchy when it comes to car park spaces. Personally, I see absolutely no reason why parent and toddler spaces should be near the front of the shop. All they need to be is wider and in a safe area of the car park that has some sort of route to the entrance. If they moved them further from away they wouldn't get used by lazy folk who can't be ar5ed to walk an extra 10 yards.

I also get quite irritated by people who go through the self service with a full trolley. I know at one supermarket near me it's not allowed and the assistant will ask you to go somewhere else as they're actually called 'express' tills.

My husband and I occasionally do the weekly shop together with our 19 month old but I don't really see why that would offend anyone. Having said that, when heavily pregnant with my son I did get hit square in the stomach by a woman pushing her trolley who was too busy trying to control her children rather than looking where she was going.

Oh, and I have previously broken the end off a French stick to keep my son quiet while shopping. A question to all the folk who that annoys - would you rather listen to a screaming baby or know that I've 'stolen' 3 inches of bread.

Maz

Just the thought of me doing a big shop in a supermarket is enough to bring on the red rage. :mad: I see it as a complete waste of my time and god, it's stressful. I don't need to be in that kind of a mood thanks.

Now, a lovely man from Sainsburys delivers my bulk shopping once a month, even carries it through to the kitchen if I ask him nicely. Bliss I even get cashback on all my Sainsbury shopping - bonus! If there are any freebies, I get them and pass them on. Last freebie I got was a pack of disposable nappies so I got those and passed them on to a friends' daughter for her little one.

For me it's worth paying £3.95 to have it delivered and avoid the horrors of the shopping 'experience' in my local Mr T or Morrisons. Fresh stuff I buy locally anyway and if I need to top up with bread and milk the Co-op is just round the corner, next to the market.

Ames

lilymay1 wrote: »

This I totally agree with. There isn't some sort of hierarchy when it comes to car park spaces. Personally, I see absolutely no reason why parent and toddler spaces should be near the front of the shop. All they need to be is wider and in a safe area of the car park that has some sort of route to the entrance. If they moved them further from away they wouldn't get used by lazy folk who can't be ar5ed to walk an extra 10 yards.

I also get quite irritated by people who go through the self service with a full trolley. I know at one supermarket near me it's not allowed and the assistant will ask you to go somewhere else as they're actually called 'express' tills.

My husband and I occasionally do the weekly shop together with our 19 month old but I don't really see why that would offend anyone. Having said that, when heavily pregnant with my son I did get hit square in the stomach by a woman pushing her trolley who was too busy trying to control her children rather than looking where she was going.

Oh, and I have previously broken the end off a French stick to keep my son quiet while shopping. A question to all the folk who that annoys - would you rather listen to a screaming baby or know that I've 'stolen' 3 inches of bread.

The car park thing annoys me too. At the massive Tesco in Leeds the parent and child spaces are nearest to the door, and the disabled ones are the safest to get to the door (along the side of the store with a big pavement running past). Surely it'd be better the other way round?

bravobeastie

Mine is that the wonky wheel on the trolley doesn't make itself known until i'm well into the shop.

sexylulubelle

ooooooooh shopping pet hates........ I probably have 100's but these 2 drive me mental
1) People who do not comprehend Shop ENTRANCES & EXITS, should really be a simple concept to understand but not for those morons who insist on pushing their way through the entrance with their overflowing trolley and 6 kids in tow.......... and then look at you because you wont get out of their way!:eek:
2) Those impatient people who stand so close behind you in a queue at the tills while you are trying to pay or put your shopping away, Ive wanted to turn around and say to them would you like a hug...... and when they ask why I will reply... well you are so close that I thought you were sad & needed some physical contact..........:cool:
I could go on but I better not;)

thegirlintheattic

Person_one wrote: »

There's this brilliant thing called online shopping now. Somebody just brings everything to your front door and you never have to set foot in a supermarket if you don't want to.

Some people don't have this option.

Person_one

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Some people don't have this option.

Most people do! I can't believe the supermarkets are full of irate people silently (or not so silently) detesting each other because they aren't eligible for deliveries!

miss_independent

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Some people don't have this option.

Good point. On the subject of this, I felt quite ashamed after reading the Blog A Girl Called Jack about a single Mum who had to feed herself and her son on £10 (sometimes) £5 a week. Even as a student, in the past I would have thought nothing of spending £6 on a supermarket delivery or on Coffee and a (Gluten Free!) cake whilst out but the reality is for some people that is their food budget for a week . Even for my household (and we thankfully aren't on the breadline), delivery costs would be around 20% of our weekly budget...and because of my limited diet and the expense of Free From foods, we are quite reliant on woopsied fruit and veg when I can't get to Aldi or Lidl. So yes, some people can't get delivery because of their
location, or not using internet and others simply can't justify the added cost.