To have moved her baby?

It's also highly dangerous for people to be asking this woman for her attention and her to be literally ignoring them. What if they wanted to inform her that someone had snatched her baby and run off with it? She clearly couldn't give a fck that people were trying to get her attention! This woman is the one putting her baby in danger by being completely unaware of her surroundings and whats going on around her.

Also, moving a trolley slightly to one side is NOT "wheeling it off" halfway down the aisle. Dont be so ridiculous.

A combination of people using their trolleys like a wagon train to block others and those pesky doors all the supermarkets now have make getting at stuff very difficult. I got stuck behind one woman holding the door and phoning to ask someone which item they wanted, no-one else could get anything.

I wouldn't move anyone's trolley let alone one that had a baby in it!

It is frustrating yes but the correct thing to have done in this situation would have been to wait or look at other items and then return.

Wow, that’s quite a reach! It’s nothing like moving a person in a wheelchair out of the way. The woman already wasn’t paying attention to her baby, so she’s lucky this is all that happened. OP - YANBU.

You should have lifted her baby out the trolley and hidden it.

I always thought ignorant when used in this context was a short way of saying ignorant of the way to behave properly which is another way of saying rude.

As for the woman, when you're in a public place you have to be at least somewhat aware of your surroundings.

Well if people behave in greedy ways they have to expect other people may judge them for it.

Because language changes over time as words acquire additional meanings? Anyone who does cryptic crosswords can vouch that most words have multiple meanings (and the crossword compiler will rarely use the primary meaning).

She didn’t move the baby. She moved a trolley. I do the same if people have their head up their arse and block shelves with their trolley for an unreasonable period. She didn’t wheel the baby away, don’t be so daft. If the woman was that bothered she could have spent less time snouting like a truffle pig hoovering up the bargains

And yet posters are saying this thread isn't judgemental

What a nasty thread.

Halfway down the shop 😅

It sounds as though it was a metre at most

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

Certainly where I shop the reduced fridge/shelf brings out the vultures who can only be described in this way

Yanbu

People go nuts over the reduced section in Asda 😄

This is a ridiculous analogy
the mum clearly isn’t paying attention and that’s on her

This

Bit worrying that she wouldn’t have been aware of anyone abducting her baby!

I actually disagree with the majority of posters - you can't move someone's baby like that. It's like wheeling away a disabled person in a wheelchair because they're next to something you want. It's totally unacceptable.

You couldn't wheel away an able bodied adult so you shouldn't wheel away a baby. What if the mum wasn't paying attention and the baby got lost or someone took off with it? You should have continued to get the woman's attention imo - I'd be absolutely furious if someone wheeled my baby away from me. Just be patient and wait for her to move.

🙄Don't be ridiculous. There's no 'judgement' OP is just explaining the scene!

Possibly. But you can only go on the language people actually use. I’ve said I thought the OP was right in what she did. But “head stuck in the freezer grabbing everything she wants” is a very judgemental at of looking at the world. And the insistence that the other woman was “old” “elderly” annoyed me too!

YANBU. I regular move people's trolleys if they have left them and they are in the way of something on the shelf.

I'm not sure on this one and might go against the grain, she was actively shopping and I imagine placing items in her trolley, not just blocking the way. Why do you and the other woman have a right to get in in front of her when she was there first? Admittedly she could have acknowledged you when you said excuse me, but I wouldn't like someone moving my trolley with child strapped in either.

Also, her being able to hear you when facing you doesn't rule out a hearing impairment, plenty of people are deaf on one side/struggle to hear if there's background noise or rely on lip reading.

Unless you lifted the baby from the trolley or span the trolley violently round, of course YANBU. But I can see the thread is going to go off-piste in several unrelated tangents so settling in for a good “ignorant v rude” bunfight with a side of “grabbing?!” 🍿

Well yes, obviously, that's the whole point of the thread.

Any other searing observations?

Moving her baby... 🤣 sounds like she had that outrageous response waiting, using shock value to belittle you for daring to do your shopping. You've moved the trolley, enough to squeeze in. You didn't pick her baby up or put ithe baby in any harms way... She likely, purposely, used the baby in the trolley as a shield to keep others from getting the better bargains before she'd had a look through it all.
What is happening to society, so much bizarre, entitled behaviour!