The shops are only shit for one day

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If I hear this once more

Yes, they are closed for one day. It's Tuesday. Tuesday the shops are closed. I shop on a Sunday night, for the week. Every week. Why are friends and family, who seem to be overly invested in each other's shooing this week, insisting I do not need to buy a trolley load because the shops are shut for one day?

I'm not going shopping on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday either. I don't care the shops are only closed for one day, it's Tuesday, I don't shop on a Tuesday anyway.

People are nuts. Don't buy your weeks shopping because the shops are only shut for one day. WTF. I do a weeks shopping on a Sunday night every single week.

OMG at my autocorrect error

Fabulous typo!

Although it does have a ring of truth about it.....

I COMPLETELY agree!!! I’m sick of people saying this lol and love the typo

They're closed for two days here (St Stephen's Day as well). Nobody's really mentioning it though. Perhaps because we've had a hurricane (almost) and a snowpocalypse which both caused huge shopping sprees at the supermarkets so Christmas seems a bit tame by comparison.

I completely agree with what you're saying op!

I do my weekly shop every Friday. This week I had plans with ds on Friday so I went Saturday instead.
Coming in from car and NDN who is a nosy cow anyway pipes up " ooh how much have you bought?! " well it's the same I buy every single week plus Christmas food.
What's not to understand?

Bangs head on wall...

I've just had my first moment of horror after DP text me saying he was in Asda. Its nearly 2am! It's not normally a 24 hour store, they shut at 4:30 then opened again at midnight. A lot of my friends who work in retail are finishing in the early hours of Christmas morning then are back in the early hours of boxing day. Some are paid double, some are paid time and nothing else. The way some people carry on about Sunday opening hours though...

Wonderful post! I don't do shooing on a Tuesday either :-).

Online grocery deliveries are good (if they get everything right), mine came on Friday, not a shoe in sight.

Happy Festive Season (hic).

PS - you will find some shops, of the 'corner' variety, open on Tuesday....not that you will run out of anything, nor me, of course.

Yep. I know that the shops are shut onTuesday because the silly morons of facebook keep posting the same meme.

I'm cooking a five course meal for sixteen people on Tuesday, followed by a couple of days with half a dozen houseguests. This is why I buy All Of The Things NOW - it's got fuck all to do with the shops 'only being closed for 12 hours' and everything to do with the quantity of food required, is it really that fucking hard to understand????

aaaaaannd breathe ….

Every payday i go to Aldi and buy loads. Meat, cupboard stuff, etc. Bugs me too.

I think this every year! I do a big shop every week and try not to go to a supermarket in the intervening time - and of course you want all the normal stuff and Christmas treats on top. Kids don’t stop eating cereal or sandwiches or fruit in their usual huge quantities just because it’s Christmas...

I need to buy more food because everyone is in the house spending time together and needing to be fed while at the same time I don’t want to be going to the shops every five minutes to buy more food.

i was in asda yesterday and i heard quite a few people saying it, its like trolley shaming
Quite ironic really as they were in there shopping too

I love the mistake on the title! I think the shops are shit pretty much all year around!

I do think people forget that as well as bloody Christmas, I do have to feed my family for the rest of the week. The last thing I want to do is go to the supermarket during the Christmas holidays with two young children on my own. It might be open all week, doesn't mean I want to go every single day!!

We always get comments like these because my payday is the 20th. If I don't do my monthly shop in the Christmas madness then we're out of toilet roll, washing powder, toothpaste etc along with all the normal food bits. Yes I bought a couple of extra things because it's Christmas but less than half a dozen things.

I'm not stockpiling for Christmasgeddon. I'm just doing my monthly shop!

Fresh bits I can fortunately get from local retailers so we do that weekly as needed anyway. Smug hypocrites can go swivel and spit old insult from my childhood that feels apt today

I agree OP, and I tried to keep it sensible this year with just a slightly larger than usual online shop delivered on Saturday.

So why do I today realise I'm out of tea bags, milk, squash and bread?! FFS, I am officially rubbish and am going to have to brave the shops probably to find there is a national shortage of these items.

I don't care about the turkey, the alcohol or the presents but I can't cope without tea!

My. Own. Stupid. Fault.

Argh!!!!!

We haven’t one item of Christmas food in the house

There needs to be a supermarket where no Xmas items are sold, for people who just need to do their regular weekly shop

Round here the shops are shit for the whole of December. Full of Christmas food (good), but so busy.... ive been shopping for Britain all month and i still need to go today for.... drum roll.... eggs and bread

Accurate typo there op
Not much to disagree with there

I hear you loud and clear OP. If I hear it one more time I’ll poke someone’s eye out!!

I normally shop in a Monday, for the week. Not a cat in hells chance am I doing it today!! Did it last Friday. Wasn’t too bad.

Ive heard it said several times - and all of them were men.
I pointed out to the last that it might be one day but usually I have no intention of going anywhere near a shop except for bread and milk for the foreseeable future. I wont be going to the sales and only once the fridge and freezer are empty will I embark on another shop.
I also pointed out to my DH that unless we want to be the scrooge family we need to have stuff to offer guests .How embarrassing would it be to have people turn up (as they do round these parts) and not be able to offer them a mince pie or a glass of something reviving? The bonus for him that if none of it goes to guests then he gets to eat it all as I will be on a diet come december 27th ...

I agree. Some people want to spend the Christmas break not having to go out to the shops... surely this concept isn’t hard to understand. People eat more at Christmas so people do bigger shops - a weekly shop with extra, maybe I am in the minority but I fancy nothing less than having to go out for a top up shop on the 26th or 27th of December.