To have moved her baby?

So interesting. I assumed she meant the woman was trying to gatekeep the reduced items so she got first pick. You jumped to there being something to potentially judge relating to them.

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.

Really?????? That’s all you have to say?

haha I'm a slightly rabid, menopausal Glaswegian with the patience level of a banana. I've no time for bullshittery of this kind. She's lucky she got you. lol

You moved the trolley and didn't touch her baby, not unreasonable at all.

If she didn't want someone to do it then she shouldn't have ignored two people including a tap on the shoulder. Incredibly rude.

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.

Honestly the unreasonable person is the woman who didn't respond to TWO people trying to get her attention.

YANBU people do that all the time at the clearance section at the Morrisons near me, park their trolleys to make sure no one else can get anything until they are done. Like yours it’s in the dairy section and trying to get a block of butter is impossible! I just move trolleys too because otherwise you’d be there forever but they always give me a dirty look until they realise I don’t want the clearance section.

i Have a baby, there is no way I'd have my back turned to the trolley like that. 1 he could be stollen 2 he'd grab at something. Seriously though get what you want and move on or at least be aware you are inconveniencing people and let them at the food.

I absolutely hate people who obstruct entire freezers or shelves in a supermarket with their trollies. It actually featured on a repeat of Room 101 last week. I'd have said to her that I had tried to get her attention several times and it didn't work. I don't think it's unreasonable unless she was deaf.

Oh, if it had been me, she would have been leaving the freezer in Asda to go to the freezer at the morgue!

Why shouldn’t she?

I would never move someone’s baby but purely only to avoid the crazies looking for a yelling opportunity - which she obviously was given what she was doing.

However no, I don’t think YWBU. She was, the greedy weirdo.

I have no problem moving someone's trolley if I think they're deliberately blocking access. If I think they're accidentally blocking access, I'll ask first. I'll make every effort to ensure I'm heard. If I am ignored as OP is, I'll do whatever is necessary while ensuring the baby isn't moved away from its mum (just putting the trolley at a right angle to the freezers, rather than parallel to, would be fine. The baby wouldn't actually move).

You pop into the shops to 'grab' something or things... very common turn of phrase.

Must be exhausting looking for completely invented subtext to be offended over.

She wasn't being judgemental about people buying reduced things.

Of course her trolley is going to block a fridge while she is using the one next to it. Does nobody have any patience anymore?'

Apparently not going by this thread.

Just wait people! Stop your pushing and your tutting.

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?

Exactly. Good for you. Not unreasonable at all. She would have pissed me off.

It's rude to block everyone else's way and ignore them when they try to attract your attention.

You're welcome to respond to rude behaviour by being a doormat if that's what floats your boat but others are under no obligation to do likewise.

Her trolley could have gone wherever the OP moved it to.

I could be wrong, but I took it to mean the woman with the trolley was blocking it for other people, not judging her for buying reduced things! Maybe the older woman wanted to access the reduced section as well.

Yanbu
She deliberately ignored polite requests and deliberately blocked it so no one else could look.

Please stop typing 'grab'/'grabbing'! 🤮

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