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?

The hand held bleep things the pickers use in sainsburys are awful and that advert they keep playing with the kids voice which must be the most annoying squeaky voice they could find

Someone did this to me when I was very heavily pregnant. I was a little bit slow granted, but woman behind was tutting and huffing. I’d only put a few things on from my full trolley and she put the divider down and started unloading. The cashier was smirking at me.
so when it came my time to put my groceries through just handed them one by one to be scanned from my trolley. Woman behind was going mental. We went very slowly.

Small children with scooters, toy buggies etc particularly on Christmas Eve and other busy times

Im not generally bothered by other shoppers but a couple of groups stood out for me recently when I had to do a series of shops on a Saturday morning. I usually shop midweek and so didn't understand the Saturday madness. The 2 groups were

1. Very elderly people shopping on a Saturday. Why? They move so slowly and create jams. Midweek, it's fine, even when they gather in groups and chat, but why do some choose to shop on a Saturday when it is mayhem?

1. Disney dads with their kids. Generally speaking, people, lets face it, mums, shopping with their children midweek keep a better check on their children. On Saturdays, you get all these dads letting their children run down the aisles, or climb on the shelves, or simply they don't keep an eye on their children and ensure they are not in other shoppers' ways.

Those are my 2 gripes, solely reserved for the Saturday shoppers though.

@MrsMoastyToastyi was just about to type out all of your list, thank you for doing it for me 😅

People who stand still in the middle of the aisles, people who leave their trolly blocking everyone’s way, families who shop en masse, walk slowly and seem oblivious to anyone else trying to shop.

t’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.

To be fair, I had a child who would have probably tried that had anybody suggested it to her. Fortunately, she stuck to doing kneeslides along the far end of the back corner of Sainsbury's by the dog biscuits.

I'd have put her on a leash, but all that would have done was result in dragging her prostrate body in my wake like a deal seal instead. And the staff were more bothered about the push and runs at the front of the store in any case.

Standing with the trolley blocking the aisle to discuss what cheese they want as one likes Edam but the other person wants Brie. Just get both and get out the way

This made me laugh, because DH does this. And yet the supermarket shopping is his job, and has been for the 16 years we’ve been married. Today I wrote ‘golden caster sugar’ on his list, and I’m expecting a WhatsApp with a series of photos of different sugars to arrive, because he will be flummoxed about which one. I mean, it’s not hard is it?

I feel like I need to make him a flow chart: Is it sugar? Yes ✔️ - what colour is it? White, brown or golden (pictures may be required here)? Golden ✔️ - which word is on the description? Caster, granulated, soft, Muscovado? Caster! ✔️ Congratulations you have successfully selected Golden Caster Sugar. 🎉

Alternatively, a Venn diagram would probably do the trick.

Men and women, usually women it has to be said, who are staring at a shelf where there are products of more than one variety and speaking to someone on the phone loudly in a whining voice,

‘They haven’t got cheese and onion, they’ve got cheese and tomato or just cheese on it’s own…..’

Then they proceed to block that area by swivelling their head and eyes all over the shelf as if the cheese and onion is going to magically appear!

I find it quite shocking that they can’t make their own decisions about which product to buy and actually have to phone someone.

It’s never over anything important such as a specific component, it’s always over something like what flavour yoghurt or snacks and they spend ages wondering what to do when faced with a product not being available!

I was behind one such pathetic woman once who was having a near breakdown because they didn’t have the fabric conditioner she usually buys so she was opening all the others and giving a running commentary to the person on the other end of the phone a description of the fragrance!

We have become a nation of indecisive people who can’t think for themselves and it’s so irritating when they clog up the aisles.

Can't think of anything indoors. I'm pretty tolerant.

Outside at the same supermarket though...
People who park up in the emergency vehicle parking space (rather than use a free parking space within 2 minutes walk), THEN they get out WHILE leaving the engine running, to go to the parcel lockers. Nobody inside their car at all while they faff at the parcel lockers.

I guess they reckon it doesn't A) pollute the air; B) use fuel; C) count as incorrectly parked... as long as they leave the engine running.

Cashier staff that put all your shopping through before you finish unloading the trolley, so it piles up at the end in an annoying way. Also impatient customers behind you that give you evils for taking longer than 5 minutes to pack your bags after a full trolley shop. Just use the self service tills if you're in that much of a hurry.

Blocking aisles/shelves to chat.
Feral children.
Loud phone conversations.
Buying all of something.
People who push their trolley right up to the person in front and try to rush them.

People who get annoyed and think everyone can/should pack at the same rate.

Suddenly walking backwards with a trolley.
Very long conversations at the checkout, be friendly but not a catchup! pay and go.

I work in a supermarket and this drives me insane. It’s not always children stuffing their faces with food that hasn’t been paid for either.

I didn't realise they age checked people when they entered the shop. Perhaps someone takes the 'pensioner' and it's the only day they can make? 🫣

@EverardDeTroyesElderly people are entitled to go shopping whenever they want. You are being exceptionally meanspirited.

Yes yes or the 'Tarquin darling- mummy needs the (x item) in the red packet not the blue one. Can you pop it back sweetheart whilst Arabella picks the veggies for tea? And this is in Lidl - and the kids have a kiddie trolley each!
People putting stuff on the conveyor belt behind me before I've finished loading mine (and I do put my stuff close together)
If anyone only has a couple of things, I always let them go in front of me.
People leaning on a trolley whilst pushing it
Deliberate slow packers at tills particularly in Morrisons for some reason.
They'd never cope in Aldi or Lidl 😁

30 seconds is a remarkably long time to find your phone, to be fair.

No, it isn't.

Individuals or couples who somehow manage to take up all the space in an aisle or walking space that could easily fit double the number of people across. I don't know how they do it, plus 99.9% of the time they will also be meandering about, not paying any attention so you have to say "excuse me please" about 5 times; and by the time their wandering attention finally returns to planet earth, your tone has somewhat darkened and now you sound like you are yelling at some poor innocent random.

It's so simple: Be aware of other people existing in the same public space as you, and walk in a straight fucking line.

It really is

Oh to see a Sonic spinball attack in Aldi 😂

People who come as a whole family to do the shop. If there’s two adults there along with multiple kids, one of those adults could have stayed home with the kids whilst the other did the shop.