Do you allow things to be eaten before paying?

[georgousbold]

In a supermarket etc

When I walk around, I do open something to keep DS quiet. Works a treat.

Nobody has ever told me off or questioned me on it

Is this the done thing in the UK? Can think of a few countries it would be allowed in and nobody would say anything

But you could never do that in Japan for example, South Korea either

@JangolinaPitt

Snacking is disgusting. Feed the before you go out.

The NHS recommendation for pre-school children is to feed regular small meals including snacks, spaced throughout the day, as children have small tummies. Once you factor in exercise and playing, the window for shopping without a toddler getting hungry is very, very small.

I've been known to do it as an adult. Morrisons mini sausages are too good to wait for.

I've even asked the person on the rotisserie to leave the carton out of the bag so the checkout person gets an empty but clean bag to scan.

@icedancerlenny

No. What sort of example does this set? It’s disgusting and it’s disrespectful to the supermarket staff.

I worked in a supermarket for years and I've no idea why it would be disrespectful or disgusting 🤷‍♀️ I normally order online as I don't like shopping with a 1 and 2 year old but I've definitely done when I've had to go shopping, I really don't think supermarket staff care, plus they can't say it's theft as it's only theft if the person had the intention of not paying for it

I do it often, only way to keep DC busy unfortunately. But i always keep the wrapper or give them only half (e.g. a piece of baguette) and i pay at the checkout.

@sashh

I've been known to do it as an adult. Morrisons mini sausages are too good to wait for.

I've even asked the person on the rotisserie to leave the carton out of the bag so the checkout person gets an empty but clean bag to scan.

Morrisons salt and pepper baguette demands to be eaten as soon as it's in the trolley.

Those crunchy peppery salty ends will not wait.

Imagine seeing a young toddler kicking and screaming leaving the parent with no choice but to pick a battle to either ignore the pearl clutching crowd and let the toddler kick or scream which they will be judged or give them a pack of Pom bears from a multipack to quickly finish shopping and leave. All I know is that both choices would be judged. I don't agree with certain places to be used as a place to teach toddlers 'restraint' as some posters have put it, good for you for having calmer kids who sit. Home, park, birthday parties, soft play, friends house, beach side yes teach by leaving if they kick off but a parent rushing from work to do essential shopping, airports, train station, busses etc places that are needed to be used to be transported or get essentials where they have to be there, this isn't the place to use the naughty step. But hey ho, some people are better parents than others and those who are better like to judge tend to bring up the most shitty children who first become bullies and then judging adults who lack empathy.

@sashh

I've been known to do it as an adult. Morrisons mini sausages are too good to wait for.

I've even asked the person on the rotisserie to leave the carton out of the bag so the checkout person gets an empty but clean bag to scan.

This is just vitue signalling bollocks now.

How would the bag be unacceptable if it had HAD sausages that had been eaten in it?

If you didn't eat them, the sausages would be in the bag.

@LottyD32 because if you take them out of the bag to eat you end up with grease on the bag which is not nice for anyone and makes the fruit and veg greasy.

"Virtue signalling"
My God 🙄

No, and I would never have been allowed as a child myself, so that just feels normal to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Everyone wanging on about how shit parenting is these days.

You know what wasn't such a thing in the good old days? Arsey parents judging other parents for really inconsequential things. Fuck knows how some of the hoikypants on here would have coped in the days when a snack was an E number laden Supermousse in front of Rentaghost or kids were allowed (encouraged!) to wander the streets kicking white dog turds from dawn til dusk in the school holidays. That's what the Good Old Days were really like. And yes, we were given snacks in the supermarket. We've not all slid into a life if degeneracy because mam gave us a Curly Wurly in Kwik Save.

DD is 25 now and I'm so glad that I'm not a parent to a young child now. It seems that every move parents make now is judged to infinity. Fuck that. And god speed to all the parents just trying to do their best in the face of this nasty superiority contest.

I pick my own battles and I really couldn't give a shiny shite what anyone else thinks.

Are yours older than MNers on this thread? Because some of them say their parents did give them food in the supermarket
My eldest is 26. But as I said it was something that either wasn’t done round where I live or not commonplace enough so that I’d notice.
Either way it wasn’t an issue.

My eldest is 26. But as I said it was something that either wasn’t done round where I live or not commonplace enough so that I’d notice.
Either way it wasn’t an issue.

I'm in my 40's and I remember my dad giving us grapes while shopping. It is not some new fangled idea

I'm in my 40's and I remember my dad giving us grapes while shopping. It is not some new fangled idea hmm*

I didn't say it was. What's your point coming back at me like that?

Always had the end of the baguette as a kid and don’t have an issue with it. I’ve drunk a bottle of water before as I’ve walked round as I was gasping

This thread just keeps getting better 😂

Tacky 😂

Snacking is disgusting 😂

Sorry, but some of you are hilarious and it's proper made me laugh this morning.

Having worked in a supermarket I can tell you I never gave a shit if a parent handed me an empty packet of Wotsits or an empty fruit shoot. I scanned it and got on with my day. The bottom line is they PAID for it. They didn't hide it half way round. I've also scanned tons of french sticks with the end chewed off by adults. So fucking what?? Call the constabulary, clutch those pearls, how very shocking 😂

I did it on the odd occasion not with food, but water. Toddler would be very thirsty so I get a bottle, open it and give her to drink, but never with food. I always have snacks with me.

I do it everytime, no one seems to mind and they always laugh and say oh anything to keep them quiet. I do tend to use the self scanner though unless I forget my nectar card.

I do take snacks with me too if I can but sometimes I have to take three under three with me and I'll do anything to keep them quiet when I'm shopping.

Imagine seeing a young toddler kicking and screaming leaving the parent with no choice but to pick a battle to either ignore the pearl clutching crowd and let the toddler kick or scream which they will be judged or give them a pack of Pom bears from a multipack to quickly finish shopping and leave

or use online shopping or click and collect rather than subjecting your toddler to a boring trip around the supermarket and then wondering why they start crying and need to bribe them to stop. It's one downside about the end of covid, the return to the family supermarket outing :(

But you're right, if it's a choice between opening something before you've paid for it, and letting them scream, then open the packet, obvs. But it shouldn't come to that.

I've also scanned tons of french sticks with the end chewed off by adults

Hopefully not during covid. I know you can't catch covid that way or at least the likelihood is low, but still. Yuck.

Again with the 'these days' rubbish!! My eldest ones are 19 and 22 and they always had a snack in the supermarket! As did me and my siblings 40 years ago

Hmm it is vanishingly unlikely that you had snacks going round the supermarket 40 years ago. I know there are regional variations but the nearest large supermarket to where I lived opened in 1983. They were just small town centre ones before that and you would be round them in 20 minutes.

The only thing I’ll judge, and purely out of fear of choking, is giving grapes while going round the supermarket without tearing them into pieces first. Maybe use a knife from the homewares aisle first, as long as you also intend to pay for the knife.

@berlinbabylon

Again with the 'these days' rubbish!! My eldest ones are 19 and 22 and they always had a snack in the supermarket! As did me and my siblings 40 years ago

Hmm it is vanishingly unlikely that you had snacks going round the supermarket 40 years ago. I know there are regional variations but the nearest large supermarket to where I lived opened in 1983. They were just small town centre ones before that and you would be round them in 20 minutes.

Excuse me?? 40 years is 1982. Me and my siblings often sat in the actual trolley part with a carton of juice and a bag of crisps. So don't be telling me MY history thanks.