What’s the most annoying thing people do in supermarkets?

[purpledaze24]

LIGHTHEARTED. Don’t need any “well you should keep your child on a leash in the supermarket” responses 🤣

When I’m in the supermarket with my 4 yo he usually walks beside me while I push the trolley. Sometimes he does a little run in front of the trolley. I’ve noticed when he does this, sometimes someone further down the aisle will freeze and do this passive aggressive look as if to say, “well which way are you going, make up your mind!” He is nowhere near them and not affecting the direction they’re going in whatsoever! I’m talking 20+ feet away. Sometimes it’s this look of faux panic on their face as if they’ve just seen a bus that‘s about to hit them. He’s not a toddler and is fully aware of where he’s going but it’s like they think he’s going to roll into a ball like sonic the hedgehog, roll down the aisle and smash into their trolley. It’s so annoying!

Anywaaay, got me thinking, what’s the most annoying thing people do in supermarkets?

OP, you say he’s 20 feet away. I bet he’s not 🙄 I wouldn’t have let my 4 year old run 20 feet away in a supermarket. Kids are really annoying when they’re not your own.

Personally, I find it annoying when kids won’t stop yelling and their parents are just ignoring them.

Kids running is completely unacceptable in a supermarket and I think @purpledaze24 is bei g deliberately goady as she/ he knows its unacceptable.

might be that person . I have severe osteoporosis and if I take a tumble/get tripped up by a child, I will break a bone. I do freeze until I'm sure which way they are going
Similar to @RosesAndHellebores I have a health condition, mine causes severe pain
So yes I will look if I see a child running as I need to keep clear.
Tbh when they inevitably whack their head/ hit a trolley and start wailing I give zero shits.

People standing in front of the milk (or whatever) glued to their mobile phones and taking 10 fucking minutes to tell someone that they are, in fact, standing in front of the milk. In their zombified state they don't even notice you waiting patiently or even that you've had to resort to contorting your body to reach a 4 pinter of semi skimmed. Nope - completely oblivious. They might well be on heroin.

People who stand blocking a whole fridge or shelf with their trolley while they um and ahh over something in front of them. Leave the trolley in the middle while you ponder!!

Kids running around is also extremely annoying. Sticking them in the trolley is fine with me. You have to wash everything with no wrap anyway, and if you’d seen the back of a supermarket warehouse, you’d know nothing is clean anyway. They’re dusty and horrible.

That was us. DS has ADHD and zero ability to remember to stay close combined with tics that sometimes involved flailing limbs. But shopping still has to be done. I prefer it to kids running around.

Your shopping isn’t clean anyway. There are frequently rats in and around warehouses, and they are incontinent.

Deposit chilled or frozen goods in an ambient area when they have changed their mind, meaning the items have to be disposed of. So lazy and thoughtless.

Those ‘organised’ people with the colour coded bags that sit in the trolley that make sure the items are placed in the correct colour bag at the checkout and it takes hours, then the added bonus of rummaging their payment method instead of having it to hand.

In the supermarkets around me (not UK) the payment bit is up by the cashier, not down by the end of the conveyor belt like in most of the UK supermarkets. What bets on my nerves is people who are next in line to be scanned who load their stuff on the conveyor belt (which is fine) but then move all the way forward and stand blocking the paying bit. They are just holding themselves up by stopping me from being able to pay. Someone did it to me again yesterday and I had to ask her to move..she gave me a real look of incomprehension, but how can I pay if you are standing right in front of the card machine thingy…and breathe

People (men) with no sense of special awareness who physically back into me. I have actually been stepped on twice by these idiots.

Spatial not special!

That’s strategic, it is to make sure you walk past more things in the shop and hope they catch your eye and you buy them, same as having the basics As far away from the wine / beer as possible, Tescos are the main culprits for this. So yes you are right and it is so annoying !

Dithering. E.g. staring at the apples, picking them up and putting them down whilst I stand there and wait for you to finish. Just get in, get the item and go FFS.

Also stopping in the aisle to talk to Vera from down the road who you’ve met half way up/ down the aisle and blocking the way.

Children running amok.
People standing with the freezer doors open gawping at the contents. It's a glass door, you can see the items. Then they walk away and the door has clouded.
People at self scan picking items up slowly then putting them in bag. Often with one hand holding a bag/phone. Get thro as quick as you can please if it's busy.
Items going thro the checkout and 1 person is packing. His/her children are just watching or his/her partner is watching and not helping pack just looking at their phone.
Leaving trolleys randomly in the car park.

I'd like to second:

1. Disgusting people who put their children inside trolleys (not in the seat). Unhygienic arseholes.
2. Staff who are in your way, stacking shelves/ labelling. Shift yourself for two seconds so that the customer can get to the stock.
3. The veg squeezers. Stop touching everything!
4. The performance parents. We all eat rocket, you know. Little Evie and Elijah aren't the only ones.

Men standing in the way, on the phone to their partner saying "do we want salted or unsalted?"

For goodness sake, write a list and get on with it, or keep out of the way. Or order it online.

People who come up too close with their trolley when I am still paying for my shopping

stay back

Don't forget parking arseholes. A Mini Cooper doesn't require two spaces.

people who start adding their stuff on to the conveyor belt before you have finished loading all your stuff on

They are supposed to be flat to stop them toppling over onto the floor if upright 🍾

Go around in couples - barring a small number of people who may have eg dementia - it doesn't take two people to do the shopping. Such a waste of time, and clogs up the aisles.

People chatting to checkout staff when they know there's a queue behind them.
Checkout staff who want to chat to me or, worse, start asking me questions like what I'm doing at the weekend - so rude.
I've said it for years, but can we please have chatting and non-chatting queues - I just want to get in and out ASAP, with zero interaction.

People who park their trolley right up against the side of the aisle, blocking the very thing I'm trying to get to while they window shop.

Leaving me with either having to move their trolley out of the way if it isn't obvious who it belong to or doing the old 'excuse me, so sorry, could I just squeeze in here' thing.

I also find myself in a weird state of anxiety with the number of elderly people who leave their handbags sitting in the kids trolley seat. I did once interrupt Mildred and Betty from their weekly mid aisle catch up to let Mildred know her purse was hanging out of her unattended bag and could easily be stolen.

If you'd seen the back of a warehouse, you'd know the bottom of someone's shoes are the least of your worries.

Why don't you put a towel or blanket in your trolley then for your child to sit on?

Yes, that's why she meant. Lie them down but LENGTHWAYS!

I think PP means put them lengthways on the belt, not upright.