To have moved her baby?

And yet you're still not telling me where her trolley is meant to go while she's accessing the freezer next door?

How dare her trolley block a freezer, rather than the alternative of sticking it out horizontally and blocking off the whole aisle!

I'd love to know where you park your trolley when reaching into a freezer? Maybe you climb in it so you're only blocking the freezer you're using, rather than the one next to it?

Look, it's quite simple. If you can do what you need to do without getting in other people's way, it's rude and entitled not to do so.

People can do their shopping I whatever order they want, name of Christ

Why do people think that ‘ignorant’ means ‘rude’?

How is that in any way similar? Loading your trolley while shopping with limited space is unavoidable, people should wait their turn. This situation is more similar to rattling on a toilet door stall knowing someone is using it and then berating them when they exit, would you do that?

How is walking away to return shortly later being a doormat? It's called being patient. It's a virtue so severely lacking in today's society.

Believe it or not, confrontation is not needed when someone else is simply doing their shopping. I actually agree it's rude for her to ignore, if that's what's she was doing, but if it really worth agro? The yoghurt could wait a few minutes while OP picked up some other items instead. OP didn't need to grab that yoghurt right that second.

Why are we so obsessed with other people 'blocking' our way, as if we have some divine right to get what we want before they're actually finished getting what they want? Where else was she meant to park her trolley? That's not 'blocking everyone', that's simply someone doing their shopping.

It's just not nice is it to sneer like that. Who cares if it was reduced or 'the finest/best/whatever'

I think this thread says far about the op than it does about the poor mum buying reduced items.

If you were shopping and turned around to grab stuff to put in your trolley, would you genuinely be OK to see your baby wheeled off halfway down the shop?

I don't have any issues with moving other people's trollies, but it's so dangerous to wheel off a baby (or any vulnerable person tbh). It's a completely different situation to moving someone's trolley and I think OP is BU

Op she says she wanted to 'get something' for herself.

OP says she 'just wanted' something.

But the other woman is describing as 'grabbing what she wants'.

'Grabbing what you want' implies greediness.

Ummm what? So if I sit down in the train, put my work backpack on the seat in front and my handbag on the seat next to me, would you politely stand?

Op she says she wanted to 'get something' for herself.

OP says she 'just wanted' something.

But the other woman is describing as 'grabbing what she wants'.

'Grabbing what you want' implies greediness.

Woman has her head stuck in the reduced freezer grabbing everything she wants.

YABU for being judgemental about people buying reduced things.

And I've agreed that was indeed rude!

The 'blocking' whilst doing her own shopping, not so much. I'm with you on it not being about the trolley but so many on here keep coming back to how apparently rude it was that she was blocking the other freezer with her trolley. I'm defending her on that, as I'm unsure what else she was meant to do with her trolley. I do see the rudeness in her ignoring people, and have acknowledged that several times.

Do you not think that, since time is linear, perhaps the language OP has used is a reflection of how she feels about the confrontation at the end rather than how she conducted herself earlier in proceedings?

Suspect she was ignoring both you and the other woman because she wrongly assumed you wanted a go at the discounted stuff she was blocking. She was fully aware of you ... obvious as she reacted when you moved her cart slightly.

YANBU

It’s not really about why the trolley was there though? Isn’t it about her ignoring everyone politely asking her to move it a little?

Woman has her head stuck in the reduced freezer grabbing everything she wants.

YABU for being judgemental about people buying reduced things.

I don't think the interaction the OP describes, with two people making several attempts to get the woman's attention, is likely to have taken place in 20 seconds.

She could have put her trolley in the place the OP moved it to. She could have put it so it was only blocking one fridge and not two. Or she could have reacted and moved it herself on any one of the multiple occasions the OP and the other customer tried to get her attention. If she chose not to do any of those things, she doesn't get to have a tantrum when someone takes matters into their own hands and moves her trolley out of the way.

I have actually agreed that it was rude of the woman to ignore. I just really don't think it's worth all this drama. Personally I would have walked away. Not everyone likes confrontation. That doesn't make one a 'doormat', that simply makes one a person who'd rather not get into an unnecessary argument with a stranger at the supermarket.

Again we're back to her blocking with her trolley, so again I ask where was her trolley meant to go while she was shopping? I love how everyone just assumes, based on the original post, that this woman was 'blocking' for ages. That's an assumption, based on the limited information we have from OP. It may have been 20 seconds for all we know. Some people really are that impatient! Clearly many on here have magical powers to not block freezers with their trolley when reaching for items in the freezer next to it. Someone doing their own shopping is not blocking people! They are simply shopping.

If we want to talk about really annoying blocking behaviour in the supermarket, how about staff who leave big crates in front of shelves, blocking their own customers from accessing the items on those shelves while they are nowhere in sight to move them? Now that is annoying. People carrying out their own shopping momentarily blocking a freezer with their trolley, not so much. I have been known to passively aggressively move the crates to one side to get what I need, tutting as I do. I'd never dream of moving another customers trolley who is clearly shopping themselves though, just so I can get to what I want a nanosecond quicker.

OP wanted opinions and, as with most things on here, they were clearly going to get a range of opinions. I guess some of us are just more patient and understanding than others.

I have actually agreed that it was rude of the woman to ignore. I just really don't think it's worth all this drama. Personally I would have walked away. Not everyone likes confrontation. That doesn't make one a 'doormat', that simply makes one a person who'd rather not get into an unnecessary argument with a stranger at the supermarket.

Again we're back to her blocking with her trolley, so again I ask where was her trolley meant to go while she was shopping? I love how everyone just assumes, based on the original post, that this woman was 'blocking' for ages. That's an assumption, based on the limited information we have from OP. It may have been 20 seconds for all we know. Some people really are that impatient! Clearly many on here have magical powers to not block freezers with their trolley when reaching for items in the freezer next to it. Someone doing their own shopping is not blocking people! They are simply shopping.

If we want to talk about really annoying blocking behaviour in the supermarket, how about staff who leave big crates in front of shelves, blocking their own customers from accessing the items on those shelves while they are nowhere in sight to move them? Now that is annoying. People carrying out their own shopping momentarily blocking a freezer with their trolley, not so much. I have been known to passively aggressively move the crates to one side to get what I need, tutting as I do. I'd never dream of moving another customers trolley who is clearly shopping themselves though, just so I can get to what I want a nanosecond quicker.

OP wanted opinions and, as with most things on here, they were clearly going to get a range of opinions. I guess some of us are just more patient and understanding than others.

How do you know the OP wasn't in a hurry?

How do you know the woman with the baby didn't have literally all day to do her shopping?

It's basic courtesy in the supermarket, or any other public place, to ensure that you are not taking up too much of a space and blocking other people's access or keeping them waiting unnecessarily while you take your sweet time. Behaving otherwise is acting as though everyone else's time is less valuable than your own.

If someone moved my trolley by about a metre because it was blocking a fridge they wanted to look in, I would smile and apologise for blocking them, and that would be the end of it.