To think that Xmas food shopping isn't a sodding family day out?

YABU and weird

There's a time for family shopping, if you must, but the last few days before Xmas isn't it. Ditto people who struggle to drive/ Park in supermarket car parks.

Dh came with me today. I'd have been much happier without him.

I hunt alone.

Maybe it's not child-friendly because standards expected of children seem to have dropped over the past 2-3 decades. I'm British but currently spending a lot of time in the States for work. The US children are overall better behaved than British children. At home, when I go to a supermarket or garden centre, there are always children screaming absolute blue murder. They sound as if they're having their heads cut off. There is no way that kids in the US run as wild and make as much noise in public as British children do. When I've been out and taken calls from US friends, they even comment on how every time we talk if I happen to be out when they ring, there's a child screaming its head off in the background.

I have no idea why there's such a difference, and the only thing I can think of is that smacking is banned in the UK but not in many parts of the US. I'm NOT pro-smacking; I think it has to be banned or some parents take it too far, I only bring it up because it's the only thing I can think of that might explain the difference. I do think that there's a lot more wild behaviour from children than from when I was a child in the eighties. We knew that we might get a smack from Mum if we misbehaved! I'm glad it was banned though, because my own dad took it too far.

I don't mean to open a debate on smacking - I think it's wrong - but I'm just trying to put forward a reason why the UK isn't child-friendly.

Not necessarily! You run the risk too that they won't have some things and you will have to dash out to get them! I've already got my online orders - I was too slow off the mark to get later dates but 24th is too risky to me!

This was the discussion earlier. Don't fancy unstacked shelves, although we only really want veg/salad, milk. I'll do breakfast/dog walk first.

When working for the supermarket, had a few customers who bought things like they have absolutely nothing in! Including salt, pepper etc!

If people planned what they eat right to the veg, write a list based on what they do have and write a list what they need to buy. People will realise that they don’t need to spend as much money.

YABVU

As is Ireland. Most supermarkets here will either open 24hrs or 7am until 12am up to 6pm Christmas Eve

I popped in to tesco and it was clearly a family day out. Its not a place to bring the kids, and certainly Barbara should not hog the aisle when chatting to Peggy about her ailing health.

fuck off😂

Each time I read one of these threads, I make a mental note to incorporate more whole-family shopping trips into the following week to annoy the chronically miserable

Why are you telling me? I feel the same. OP is the one I was talking to, given she is the one with the issue.

Scotland. Scotland is open at 10pm tonight.

@visitbreakfast I dint mind if a family wants to shop together. But please don't block up the aisles, have the young ones running around, start shouting at them, and generally make it harder for everyone else.

Be big gaps on the shelves at that time in the morning, shelves are still being stacked.i would perhaps leave it till 9am as a lot of people hit the shop so they can buy alcohol after 10am .dw works at Asda I get the inside gossip.😃😘. can't delete last bloody emoji.

This I have seen a lot and I wonder the same! I've seen some of them scan half eaten packets of crisps at the till, so I'd assume some do...but it also makes the conveyor belt messy! Crumbs everywhere! I buy them a drink when we first go in and then carry the receipt with me like a shield the rest of the shop. 😂

Oh, they do ask for stuff for the main shop. Every year DS finds something bizarre and then doesn't eat it. Last year he found a jar of little pickled octopus/squid? 🤢 DH agreed to get them and not one of us even opened the jar. Repulsive, and I like seafood!

My online shop is coming on Christmas Eve so I will have better use by dates than you!
YABU Maybe children want to see what they want to eat to.

And you always get families bumping into other people who they haven’t seen in ages, who they simply must catch up with in the most inconvenient location ever!!

Shopping with kids is bad enough at the best of times…. but at Christmas it’s unbearable!!

I go by myself if at all possible.

Where is open at 10pm on a Sunday night? Our ‘24’ hour Asda in a big city closed at 4pm today, as it does every Sunday. Apparently it’s open at 5am tomorrow, which is tempting, given I’ll be awake anyway. Seem to wake earlier and earlier now I’m older 😢

No problem with large people in supermarkets at all! Apologies if sounds otherwise lol

But in that precise moment , that blokes large body size made him think he can shove everyone out of the way to get to the tills quickly 😡 I'm a petite person as was the elderly lady

YABU I would prefer it if all the grumpy gits stayed at home, so many of them about this time of year.

Afraid I can't drive and don't trust dh to do it by himself so kids have to come. Sorry!

It's surprising how many children are eating treats in the trolley that they haven't paid for - I wonder if the parents even do pay for them? It was something I was adamant my children couldn't do!

I definitely bought more shit when I had them with me though!

My dc have always loved doing food shops.

It's great because now they are late teens/early 20s they'll be doing the Christmas shop without me. <smug>

I overheard someone saying they had spend £350 on food alone 😂 it's madness this time of year. Each to their own