Major pet peeve, just me?

I sat in a meeting once where the parent of a young child with complex needs was saying how difficult her child was in the supermarket. He attended a specialist setting every morning.
When I suggested that it would be less stressful for both of them if she shopped whilst he was in nursery (rather than afterwards when he was tired and hungry) she said “ but he needs to learn how to shop”.
I said maybe when he’s a teenager but he’s 3 he isn’t ready to learn. Sadly he may never have been.

But could also do her shop on a Saturday if she wanted as it’s nobodies business 🤷‍♀️

We're retired and I make no apology for the fact that we mostly go together.
Never on Saturdays or Sundays unless we miscalculate what we need.
I can't remember going enmasse when the kids were little unless we were away on holiday but I see no reason why we shouldn't have done that if we wanted to.

It would be bearable at our Aldi at that time on a Sunday morning as it doesn’t open until 10.30am 😁

I go at 9.30am on a Sunday morning. Only bearable time for Aldi!

Im quite impressed when I see that. Mine were a pain when shopping, particularly when they were younger.

I'm popped into a supermarket on my way home from meeting a friend today. I was unaware I had a neon "I'm retired" sign on my head and sincerely apologise for being unaware that I was breaking my curfew.

Yes, in the time I’ve been on MN I reckon I’ve read 50+ threads on the same subject.

What annoys me MORE than that is the constant bloody threads about it.

Im with you op. Bloody performative parents too, where darling hyacinth is reading out the food labels or picking every single item up and touching everything

Id rather take time off work and shop during school hours (or at midnight)

Yes 😂 In the seats

We do it as a family every weekend through this rainy season in order to tick the box of "getting out of the house". We're skint right now so the only other place is the library. DD does the scan and shop scanner and we all enjoy ourselves. This is the first dry weekend in months so we're going to parks instead and doing an online shop.

Yes it's annoying but they might have a reason.

What really pisses me off is people that have no common sense when choosing to stop their trolley. Sorry to say but fellow women are the worst for this.

I didn't drive, the supermarket was 15 miles away down country roads and a motorway, If using public transport it was even longer involving 2 buses a train and a mile walk. Try doing that with a big shop. And yes he was a useless bastard and that is why i divorced him nearly 20 years ago.

There's a child in my son's class who's parents seem to do everything together... school drop offs, pick ups, parties, play dates. It baffles me! Why the need to be together all the time? Don't they have jobs or other things to do? They look nice and normal otherwise and have a couple of kids but always en masse

Apologies, I meant you could search for the dinner party shopping list already so AI isn't an improvement

I didn’t say it was a good idea. I just said that they didn’t mean that AI would just order you the same thing every week. You can do that now.

One of the things I miss about not being able to visit supermarkets is a quick check of the yellow tickets. You don’t get them online 😥

By the time you've added all the variables you could do that yourself and there are already searches which would throw up suggestions anyway.

Yet again, AI isn’t always the panacea.

I do, buy the majority online but not fresh produce which my DP likes to buy himself. He goes to our Sainsbury Local almost every day including ether Saturday or Sunday because he enjoys getting out, something he cannot do much as he is disabled.
I forgot to order online this week so off out I went today to buy urgent groceries. It's a free world and just because we are retired don't assume we can go shopping at a time that suits you!
WTF is there so much ageism on MN?

Good point. No doubt they are all white or grey haired using a stick or Zimmer frame and dawdle in the aisles...

Using AI doesn’t mean no intervention. AI needs to be told what to do, it doesn’t act on its own free will. I think the OP was talking more about a scenario where you would say to AI ‘please add ingredients for a dinner party with 7 guests, one is vegetarian, one coeliac, one hates lamb’ etc etc than just the same list being ordered week after week. You could do that now.

Yes, but the previous poster was suggesting AI would just order your groceries for you, suggesting no intervention needed.

That's what I found miserable

I often wonder this. I get the big food shop delivered so I don’t have to trudge through the aisles.

Well… you can change your weekly order! You don’t have to buy the same things every week just because you do it online. You can still try new recipes and vary quantities…