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

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loveawineloveacrisp · 22/12/2024 14:47

Just been to M&S for final food shop and the bloody place was over run with entire families shopping together. Just why? If the kids are old enough to be left then they shouldn't be traipsing around and getting in the way when the place is crowded as it is at this time of year.

And as for people who can't drive the right way round a one way car park: kindly fuck off and don't drive if you can't follow road signs.

That's all. Now can someone please pass the 🍷

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Laserwho · 24/12/2024 06:36

loveawineloveacrisp · 23/12/2024 22:06

Ok. So I'm not allowed and fresh food at all and I have to buy everything frozen weeks before Christmas when the kids are in school. Fucksake.

It's a solution someone has given. I have to take my teenage sons with he when I go shopping to help carry it all as I don't drive. In your op you are suggesting I do it alone.That would take 3 trips so so no thankyou. It's not all about you

Nikkigriffin · 24/12/2024 05:49

I don't take my children anywhere unless I'm desperate.......but I can't leave the 6 year old at home to fend for himself, so I have no choice but to drag him with me. Besides, if I never took him shopping, how would he learn the proper etiquette of queueing patiently and respecting other people's personal space. These kids spend too much time on screens.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 24/12/2024 02:28

TheMerryCritic · 24/12/2024 02:25

Seriously you think you can dictate who goes to M&S and when? Bizarre 😁

I don't think she thinks she can - she's talking 'ideal world' territory!

TheMerryCritic · 24/12/2024 02:25

Seriously you think you can dictate who goes to M&S and when? Bizarre 😁

K0OLA1D · 24/12/2024 00:29

OonaStubbs · 24/12/2024 00:12

Supermarkets really need to crack down on this sort of thing.

Your little additions to threads are honestly my highlight sometimes

What do supermarkets need to crack down on?

OonaStubbs · 24/12/2024 00:12

Supermarkets really need to crack down on this sort of thing.

RegulatorsMountUp · 23/12/2024 23:54

Godihatehim · 22/12/2024 15:02

No we all needed to get out the house 🤣 we’ve all been bedridden for 10 days with flu.

Out of genuine interest did you have flu jabs?

Debtdolly · 23/12/2024 23:40

I mostly agree with you, I can’t think of anything worse than taking the whole clan out food shopping! That said, I did have to take my two daughters into Tesco with me earlier, as I needed a last few bits and was passing on the way home from an activity. I’m talking about 5 items though. Perhaps others are in similar situations?

The large number of people stood around having a Mother’s meeting in the aisles was highly annoying though!!

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 23/12/2024 22:46

LockForMultiball · 23/12/2024 22:40

If that many men are getting it wrong, maybe learning to shop isn't as simple as you think.

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Learning to shop isn't difficult. Most men are hanging around gormlessly because they have no reason or purpose for being there, and their partner is doing the shopping! Or because of learned helplessness. They're only there getting in the way. I had to trolley dodge one man and his three kids several times because they kept plonking themselves in front of the shelves I wanted to access. His partner was nowhere to be seen!

Plenty of men can shop like an adult.

LockForMultiball · 23/12/2024 22:40

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 23/12/2024 22:33

Why do small children need to "learn to shop"? It's hardly rocket science!

Was just in Boots and Marks which thankfully weren't too awful, but the number of gormless men hanging round shelves getting in everyone's way, with a tribe of children in tow, was striking!!

I don't want bloody frozen food either - I want fresh, and I am not inconveniencing anyone by getting it, unlike you people with your unruly, bored kids!!

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If that many men are getting it wrong, maybe learning to shop isn't as simple as you think.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 23/12/2024 22:33

MushMonster · 23/12/2024 20:06

We have always gone together, we do not bother anyone and we can choose what we fancy. As she has been shopping since tiny, she knows how to behave.
Children need to learn about every day life, including the Christmas shopping.

Why do small children need to "learn to shop"? It's hardly rocket science!

Was just in Boots and Marks which thankfully weren't too awful, but the number of gormless men hanging round shelves getting in everyone's way, with a tribe of children in tow, was striking!!

I don't want bloody frozen food either - I want fresh, and I am not inconveniencing anyone by getting it, unlike you people with your unruly, bored kids!!

Thistlewoman · 23/12/2024 22:26

TiramisuCheesecake · 22/12/2024 16:06

@K0OLA1D you must be near me! My local Asda closes at 10pm tonight, I wasn't aware that the Clydebank one was open 24/7. I was in Asda about 7pm on Friday and it was quiet, if that helps. My immediate thought was that the big Tesco in Maryhill Rd was 24/7 but apparently not any more.

Every time there's a thread like this though you get some English poster putting "On a Sunday???" as if they're super clever pointing out a flaw in story as a massive gotcha - when in fact they just have never thought other parts of the country might be different.

Oh totally this!!!
Honestly, some of the parochial comments (especially from posters in the South/SE/ London area of England) are unbelievable-they clearly have no concept that Scotland can-and does-do things differently from their little corner of the UK...🤣🤣

Judecb · 23/12/2024 22:21

Completely agree. So sick of seeing mum + dad + kids at supermarkets. *and kids often in wheelies charging around. So annoying!

Upstartled · 23/12/2024 22:19

God, the whining is relentless.

Honeycrisp · 23/12/2024 22:08

MouldWoes · 23/12/2024 22:03

Frozen food?

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Quite.

OP will likely reply that she prefers fresh but, well, that's a choice not a need. Just like the people who preferred to bring their kids to the shops yesterday.

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loveawineloveacrisp · 23/12/2024 22:06

Ok. So I'm not allowed and fresh food at all and I have to buy everything frozen weeks before Christmas when the kids are in school. Fucksake.

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FluffyBenji23 · 23/12/2024 22:03

Totally agree. I went for a pre op appointment last week and could barely get a seat in the waiting room. Everyone, other than me had one and sometimes two family members with them. There was even a family of five - for a 20 minute pre op! This meant everything took much longer than it should which was incredibly annoying as my daughter was getting married the next day!

MouldWoes · 23/12/2024 22:03

loveawineloveacrisp · 23/12/2024 21:29

How does that work with getting fresh stuff in date for Christmas? 🤯

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Frozen food?

NoDought · 23/12/2024 22:00

I generally couldn’t give a toss about who goes where but I do object to whole groups of people 4 abreast in the aisle with no awareness that anyone else exists and making it their mission to ignore you despite asking to be excused.

Mummadeze · 23/12/2024 21:56

I don’t get it. I normally go alone but don’t pay attention to who else is in different sized groups. I also wish my DD would come with me as it would be nice to have some company. If people enjoy doing family things together it’s up to them.

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loveawineloveacrisp · 23/12/2024 21:29

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 23/12/2024 21:22

You could have gone alone during the day in the week in last few weeks if you wanted to avoid children Tbf

How does that work with getting fresh stuff in date for Christmas? 🤯

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Tomorrowillbeachicken · 23/12/2024 21:22

You could have gone alone during the day in the week in last few weeks if you wanted to avoid children Tbf

andpeggy1 · 23/12/2024 21:08

Hi Rosie! Nice to see a celeb turn up on here 🥰

Marine30 · 23/12/2024 21:03

Yanbu - totally agree. Normally it’s just me, a few elderly ladies and a handful of single men in my local M&S early in the morning.
Today it was everyone in the whole city and they’d managed to bring their entire extended families with them 😭
Give it two weeks and it’ll be lovely and quiet again.

Mamasperspective · 23/12/2024 21:00

Although I agree, I need DH to help me with the shopping when it's a big Christmas shop and my mother passed away so I don't have a babysitter. I would love to have the option to leave my kids with a sitter so I can get round the shop quicker but I don't have that option.