Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

I'm very gentle but will check sell-by dates and bananas for bruising. I don't squash bread.

Am I the only poor sap who feels sorry for the cucumber monkey? I hope they gave him some grapes after the experiment 🥹

Ditto

My mum breaks the stalks off broccoli so they weigh less and therefore cost less!

The worst is the bakery. People picking up loose bread and rolls, handling it while coughing and spluttering and then putting it back. Minging, and I’m amazed these open bakeries are still allowed, or that anyone wants to buy from them.

It's a play on NAMALT (which you will find).

I hear you OP. Its got to the point I despise going shopping at the supermarket.

I went yesterday, and my trigger is people who wander around at a snails's pace in the middle of the aisle blocking it for everyone else or stop to look at something for 5 minutes and leave their trolley horizontally across the aisle so that every person has to say excuse me and wait for them to move it.

I have no problem acknowledging that not everyone is able to go faster -totally understand that, but if you cant, why not move just a few steps to the side so that others can pass you? its not difficult to do that and its so bloody selfish not to.

It's not even just going slow, the amount of people I saw yesterday who seemed completely oblivious as to why they were even in the supermarket! they were just aimlessly wandering around looking confused AF as if they were aliens who had just been dropped there by their space ship and had literally no clue why they were there- zero situational awareness. I dont get it- surely if you deliberately go to the supermarket you must have even a vague idea of what you might want to buy?

Harry Belafonte was standing behind a banana feeler in his local Sainsbo, they'd been there for ages... 'Daylight come and me wan' go home,' he muttered to himself - and a classic was born...

🎶🍌

Not all greengrocers are like that (i think)

Not the best thing to do, it can only legally be out of the fridge for a certain time before it is deemed spoilt and has to go to waste.

I will pick up and check any fruit where you don't eat the skin - bananas, mangoes, melons, avocados etc. I don't see why I would mind if other people do this too, I don't think it is unhygienic or rude or damages the fruit? And I've never had a queue of people build up behind me doing this.

What is 'NAGALT', please? Even Google doesn’t seem to know!

I used to shop in store (before I started getting it delivered during Covid & never stopped) & what used to rile me in the fruit section was people eating the grapes! They knew they were stealing because they would get a glazed or shifty loook & try to palm the things before stuffing them in their mouths - sometimes repeatedly. Yuk. I don't think stores have open displays of grapes any nore, do they?

Nowadays I sometimes shop in store in a naicer area & a more expensive store, & I will admit to tapping the openly displayed bread with the tongs to see how crusty it is -- but that's as far as it goes. No squeezing.

I lived with a man from Loughton; this would not surprise me in the least.

Shame you don’t seem able to cope with people disagreeing with you!

On the 'putting stuff back on the shelves'

Thieves often use a method where they will 'hide' a big ticket item they had in their trolley behind cheaper stuff on the shelves, carry on shopping, then come back around and pretend to shop in that area again, then snaffle it away in their coat/bag because cheaper items are often less observed.

If you DO find an expensive item hidden behind other stuff, inform a member of staff, or take it and hand it in.

I eat a banana first thing every day so I buy a lot of bananas! I have never seen this happen, ever. And I don't do it. I look at them and pick up the bunch I wish to buy.

Bananas have a skin on that you remove so it doesn't matter one bit to me if someone has touched the skin. Other fruits get washed.

If I did see someone prodding bananas, I would assume that they are being careful to buy something that is just the right amount of ripeness to avoid waste.

Waste and a COL crisis are worse problems than someone handling a banana.

How would we ever know how many people have handled, or how much care & attention they’d paid if we didn’t see it?

however, on another note of 'supermarket triggers'

mine are - when a couple is blocking the whole shelf with themselves and their trolley while having a discussion about what's for dinner. At least leave people room to get to the stuff while you chat.

people who come across friends and end up having a whole-ass chinwag while blocking the aisle.

Abandoning something you don't want on a random shelf.. either put it back, or take it to the checkout and let the staff know you no longer want it so they can arrange for it to be put back ('reverse shopping' is often fave of the staff in Tesco, gets you a wee break)

I'm on crutches.. i can't STAND people who barge into me with their trolley because i didn't move as fast as they expected.. happens at least once a week...

Me too. I don't even buy them, I just touch them, sometimes for hours at a time... guess I must be of a 'certain age demographic'...

No, not in this case.

Why don't you just say "Excuse me, may I just reach the bananas?". I do, if someone is taking a while imo, and - like magic! - they nearly always say "Ooh, sorry!" and make room for me to pick up a bunch. Nobody's ever got annoyed at being asked to move their trolley a small amount.
Or do you prefer to stand, waiting, being "triggered" all the while, just to feel superior (or younger or older - what is that certain age demographic you were too coy to mention?).

It's the incompetent trolley drivers blocking the way that piss me off.

If you must stop for minutes at a time in the aisles. PARK YOUR TROLLEY TO THE SIDE AWAY FROM OTHER TROLLEYS!

Fecking morons!

Oh OP, I actually agree with you re the bananas but you could have easily talked about this without resorting to ageism.

Wonder if the OPs supermarket sells grips as well as bananas. If so then they could do with getting one next time they're in.

We had one of those old-fashioned greengrocers around 15 years ago. I could have swallowed (arf) the fact that his prices were double the supermarket prices IF his quality had been twice as high, but he was notorious for slipping a couple of dodgy pieces of fruit into the bottom of those nice triangular brown paper bags. He had to be watched like a hawk and given precise instructions about which ones to take. So I was doing the work of choosing, which I would have had in the supermarket, while paying top whack for it. I know NAGALT, but it was galling.