Do you shop weekly or monthly?

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm a singleton, what the heck would I be using a shopping trolley for?! A basket is plenty.

Plenty for how long?

Doom_and_Gloom

Like LameWolf I do the basket on lap as going a around, the wheelchair trolleys are arctic trucks and best avoided in my opinion. We do a trolley/big shop once a month or so now. I have a wheelchair backpack, an under bag and have two cloth bags. OH will usually bring a bag also. We only ever need all bags when we have used a trolley.
There are two of us and we shop 2-5 times a week depending, I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but most can last more than a few days. We don't have a car.

We do have two chinchillas but we buy their food and sand in bulk online. Their hay is bought when they are down to the bag we are using and one more bag. Again buy in bulk. Treats bought when I deem the jar to be too low so they don't run out.

Feral_Moon

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm a singleton, what the heck would I be using a shopping trolley for?! A basket is plenty.

Actually, I have just acquired (50p, from a chazzer) a tall, narrow basket which fits perfectly into my pushbike's basket. I shopped with it two nights ago, put my goods into it, offloaded onto the conveyor, showed its emptiness to the cashier and re-loaded it. Simplicity itself.

Advantage for me being that I knew that what I'd bought was a perfect fit for the carrying capacity on the pushbike.

I'm single yet still manage to fill a shallow trolley to overflowing, although that would no doubt lady at least a month with top ups for fresh food.

Feral_Moon

jack_pott wrote: »

Because the way most people signal that they aren't shoplifting is by keeping stuff they haven't paid for separate from the stuff they have.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

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Feral_Moon wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

If people see you putting stuff you haven't yet paid for into your own bag rather than a supermarket trolley, how do they tell the difference between you and a shoplifter? If you act like a shoplifter you're likely to get mistaken for one.

Feral_Moon

jack_pott wrote: »

If people see you putting stuff you haven't yet paid for into your own bag rather than a supermarket trolley, how do they tell the difference between you and a shoplifter? If you act like a shoplifter you're likely to get mistaken for one.

You're not a shop lifter until you attempt to leave the store without paying for your items.

LameWolf

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

the wheelchair trolleys are arctic trucks and best avoided in my opinion.

Also nigh-on impossible to clamp onto the wheelchair if you have arthritic hands - ouchy!! :eek:
We've been to @ldi today; spent the grand sum of £9.75. They had no porage oats though; just an empty space on the shelf. And Mr LW does like what he calls "Oat Cuisine".

Ilona

I shop when I need some more food, on any day of the week, not weekly or fortnightly, or monthly, just any time. I am very low on food at the moment, nothing left in the fridge, so I am eating out of the freezer. I have a voucher for £6 off to use, so I want to make sure I reach a £40 spend to use it. Last time I had one I was no where near £40 and had to give up, my trolley was full of yellow stickers.

Ilona

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MatthewAinsworth wrote: »

You could cycle round the supermarket picking stuff up, that'd be a quick shop

When I used to live in a top floor flat I would sometimes order 200 odd cans of baked beans and some 2l fizzy drinks, I'd pay £1 for delivery and they'd carry it up the stairs

Dear me. I'm guessing your good self would not need a bike or any other form of transport. You would have your own jet propulsion! :eek:

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Feral_Moon wrote: »

You're not a shop lifter until you attempt to leave the store without paying for your items.

I haven't said that you are.

How is the store detective supposed to tell whether you've paid if the items have been hidden out of sight inside a private trolley along with a load of other stuff? His only option is to treat you as a potential shoplifter, search you at the door, and check everything off against your receipt.

The moment you put unpaid for items into your own trolley you make yourself look like a shoplifter, and hence invite the store detectives to treat you like one.