Goods too high to reach.

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libra10

If we took an extender shopping Tom, they would probably think we'd flogged it!

tom15387202

libra10 wrote: »

If we took an extender shopping Tom, they would probably think we'd flogged it!

Fine,

I know most supermarkets don't stock these so you should be ok

System

You are not allowed to use the kick stools as if you fall off and injure yoyrself, the supermarket will not give you any compensation if try to sue.

Me being 5ft 9 find it difficult to pick stuff from the bottom shelf.

Every time I go to the Sainsburys near work and go down the aisle with the milk, there is an OAP asking me to reach down the 1 pint milks. They are on the top shelf and pushed back. Majority of 1 pint milk are bought by OAPs either because they live alone or due to arthritis cannot lift heavy things. It is higher than the normal shelves. As the shelf directly above the milk carts are the organic and soya milks plus milkshakes.

Though it's an exception to other stores that it does not have tins of pilchards in the top shelf.

If supermarkets removed the top and bottom shelves, in order to fit the same amount of stock, the size of the stores will need to increase by about a third more. Then people moan about the size of stores!!

Those shop staff that look reluctant when helping customers with fetching stuff from top or bottom shelves should not be working in a customer service role.

DigForVictory

For anyone wondering about judicious flinging of child - I've been chucking them around since they were trusted to grab the right thing. Unfortunately the eldest is both now a teenager and taller than I am, so young 'un (12 next week) is my secret weapon...

Will suggest to eldest that he either help or curl up with embarrassment as I use re-located kitchen tools (potato masher is a lovely blunt hook) to relocate my intended shopping.
And that if he refuses, I'll shut the freezer lid on him... Why have I not seen this awkward design as a feature rather than a bug?!

The upside is that they just won't telescope down to peer into the fridge & so I've relocated much of my chocolate stash to the back of the top shelf of the fridge.

juno

I'm 5'7 so not really short, but I struggle to reach the tonic water in Asda. Before Christmas it was worse than usual, as more people were buying it and it was towards the back of the shelf.

Another customer walking past saw me jumping up to try to reach it, and after laughing at me helped.

eyelinerprincess

I'm 5'0" and struggle at times. When I was pregnant, Asda were doing some kind of offer on nappies, and when I got there there were only a few left at the very back. OH who is commented on as "quite tall" was affronted that I made him scale the shelves for these nappies! All in the name of money saving though!

eyelinerprincess

DigForVictory wrote: »

Third - I shop with a child. They're getting a *bit* big for it, but we identify the item & I then heft them upwards, they snag the article & we perform a controlled drop.
(We did this for a deligthful elderly lady - I realised that while child is good at obeying instructions, his receiving a compliment gracefully protocol still needs work.)

I may have to employ this technique with my 2yo. He does like to help after all...

(just nothing breakable like eggs or flour)

DigForVictory

May I suggest a spot of practice on kitchen cupboards so the young master knows the difference between red packet & blue packet etc? As the controlled drop is loads of fun but done rightly less hazardous to the lower back.

As for eggs, flour etc, mop the floor first & then make pancakes... Most supermarkets are wonderful tolerant of young customers!

Edinburgh65

Ha ha ha, found this thread by accident, and until now thought that it was just my imagination that more things are out of reach these days (Aunt Bessie's Mash is a particularly difficult item for me to catch in my local Tesco).

I use my telescopic umbrella to batter things into reach (not when it's open obviously, I just extend the length of the brolly as far as it will go, which gives me about an extra reach of about 2 feet to play with).

The last time I had to fight for a bag of mash in this way, I then had to stretch myself senseless, leaning into a big crate to catch a box of eggs. My whole shopping "experience" felt like an army assault course.