Shopping Pet Hates

Ames

securityguy wrote: »

At least the nonsense of stopping people from buying alcohol if they have a child with them, on the grounds that they might be illegally buying alcohol on behalf of the child, has pretty much stopped. That was absolutely ludicrous.

securityguy wrote: »

And of course, it would be entirely legal for her to be buying wine to give to her five year old. The whole thing was an example of trading standards over-reaching themselves, and supermarkets gold-plating.

It is illegal for you purchase alcohol "on behalf of" someone who is underage.

It is entirely legal to buy alcohol and then permit your own children to consume it in your own house, so long as they are over five.

You can argue that it's bad parenting, although "feeding six year olds vodka" and "allowing your seventeen year old to have a glass of wine with Christmas dinner" are rather different. But the same could be said of ice cream, if you were sufficiently neurotic.

Has anyone heard of this happening recently?

Not very recently, but a couple of years ago I was in Sainsburys and a woman and her teenage son were ahead of me at the checkout. Everything went through fine, and then the mother said 'aren't you going to ask for his ID?' 'Er, no' said the checkout guy.

Apparantly they'd tried to pay once and been refused because he didn't have ID, so she'd waited in the shop while he went home for it.

My pet hates, most of which others have already said.

1. Children pushing trolleys when they're not tall enough to see over the top. I was in Tesco a few months ago when a father was off looking at DVDs and his daughter was running around with the trolley. She knocked over a massive boxed TV, he shouted at her, put it back and walked off... and a few minutes later was back looking at DVDs while she ran around with the trolley.

2. People who bump into friends and block the whole aisle while they chat about how next door's auntie's friend's cat had kittens three years ago.

3. People who can't understand one way signs painted on the ground in supermarket car parks. They wouldn't drive the wrong way down a one way road (actually, I saw that happen last week, but most people wouldn't!), so why do it in a car park?

4. People who give me dirty looks for going through the 'hand baskets only' with one of the little trolleys and half a dozen items. Especially if they've got a hand basket piled high with enough items to fill my small trolley. (I struggle to carry a basket, walk with a stick so it's obvious that I have health problems). In fact, hand basket checkouts in general - I much prefer the '10 items or less' ones, I've seen people go through the handbaskets one with two baskets piled high.

geoffky

My pet hate is people not understanding what fun food shopping is...
Life is too short to get stressed about doing something i really enjoy..

fluffnutter

red_devil wrote: »

those who dont like people chatting, chatting makes the world go round, for some people they dont get to chat to many people.

Its nice hearing people be friendly rather than acting like zombies at the checkout.

It's not chatting that bothers me. Chatting's nice. It's chatting whilst blocking an aisle and then glaring at someone who's simply trying to get past. That's just rude. Your conversation is not so important that the entire world needs to change its behaviour to accommodate you.

fluffnutter

geoffky wrote: »

My pet hate is people not understanding what fun food shopping is...
Life is too short to get stressed about doing something i really enjoy..

As you say... something you really enjoy. It's a bit arrogant to demand that everyone else enjoys it too.

sassyblue

Stuff near the tills just ripe for your toddlers to grab it whilst you're trying to get money out of your purse and pack shopping.

people blocking the aisles, so rude!

People blocking the whoopsie bins and fridges.

sassyblue

fluffnutter wrote: »

It's not chatting that bothers me. Chatting's nice. It's chatting whilst blocking an aisle and then glaring at someone who's simply trying to get past. That's just rude. Your conversation is not so important that the entire world needs to change its behaviour to accommodate you.

Why can't l thank your post? (Thankyou)

zaksmum

I hate it when I've been in a really slow queue for about ten minutes at the checkout and the woman in front of me, when about to pay for her stuff, starts rummaging in her bag for her purse.

Then eventually finds it, fishes out a credit card, examines it, changes her mind, has another rummage, produces a second credit card, puts it in the card reader, gets a vacant look on her face as she's trying to remember the PIN, gets it right the second attempt then starts bagging her shopping at a snail's pace while completely blocking the conveyor belt.

And the checkout girl sits making not the slightest attempt to help her or speed things up a bit.

NoAngel

Not being able to reach something and there being nobody to ask! Stood and looked at a thermos flask in desperation for 15 mins one time because I couldn't reach it.

gingin_2

Ames wrote: »

3. People who can't understand one way signs painted on the ground in supermarket car parks. They wouldn't drive the wrong way down a one way road (actually, I saw that happen last week, but most people wouldn't!), so why do it in a car park?

I'm guilty as charged on that one, I did it just a few hours ago. Whoever mapped out my local car park had a degree in lack of common sense, so I just go the quickest exit.

Just to add - I'm a considerate inconsiderate driver. I'll move out of the way if I see someone actually obeying the road rules.

geoffky

fluffnutter wrote: »

As you say... something you really enjoy. It's a bit arrogant to demand that everyone else enjoys it too.

I insist you like it...:cool: