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?

Oh God, if I had been there the death stare would have been so bad he would have incinerated on the spot. 😳🔥👹🤬

People placing their trolley alongside the produce so nobody can get to it until they’ve moved, which seems to take ages.
Magical options at the checkouts so they take bloody ages to pay and leave.

This whole thread is about the personal choices others make 🤣

It's more about personal choices that make life harder for others and/or are stupid/unsafe - entering a pin number isn't exactly one of those. 🤣

Walk into me like I don't exist. I went into the supermarket once dressed as a vampire right before a fancy dress party and still they walked into me. Maybe a lit Xmas tree next time and see if that works.

Sorry, but people who let their small children run a little ahead of their trollies is a problem. A child's head/ eyes/ nose/ mouth are going to take the brunt of a collision with a trolley. Nobody wants to hurt your child and not everyone has the ability to maneuver a trolley around a small person whose movements are not necessarily going to be predictable. This is without the added wrinkle of a trolley with a wonky wheel that has a mind of its own. Please keep your child safely at your side. The supermarket isn't a place for running ahead or for small children to be allowed to make their own way up the aisles when there are others with hefty trollies using the same space.

Apart from that, adults who park a trolley in a stupid spot and block access to shelves or a refrigerated section, and adults who block aisles with their trollies while they have a good catch-up together.

People who eat or drink things before paying for it.

This sounds like an adult daughter of a very particular elderly parent who wants very specific items, sizes, flavours, or scents and whose nose would be put seriously out of joint if the shopper made executive decisions on the spot. Been there, done that.
Or possibly a carer doing a shop for a client.

Don't knock it til you've tried it...

That's not what I was describing in my original post. Simply put I've just got there before someone else, yet they feel the need to barge in. I'm here and I know what I'm looking for. Wait your turn.

Mostly get my shopping delivered, so apologies for those who need an online shop quickly, I've probably taken your slot - though it's always the cheapest one.

I just wish supermarkets would bring back packers, like in the olden days of the early 2000s.
I’m sure it would improve customer flow, and entice customers in.
Kids running around, I don’t mind really but I’d probably stop still if I thought they could bump into me. And I like seeing parents chatting away to their children, especially as so many are probably working full time and it’s become a little bit of family time.

Apparently on Mumsnet it's perfectly ok to do that, as well as feed snacks to kids to shut them up, before paying for them.

You must have missed the ‘lighthearted’ bit.

Faffing about when you can just tap is an eye roll for me.

Woman walking at a snails pace in front of me in the alcohol aisle. Speed up woman, I need booze!!!

admittedly, she did look about 145.

Kids in the shopping part of the trolley with shoes where your food goes, gross!!

Posh people can be skint, posh doesn't mean rich and rich doesn't mean posh, is Rooney posh?

Taking a shopping trolley of stuff through self checkout. Being slow on self checkout.

Groups of people standing chatting in the middle of the aisles, and getting in everyone's way. People who walk in front of you and stop dead when you're looking at something on a shelf. People who put all their stuff through the checkout then spend 5 minutes looking for their purse or wallet. People who let their kids whizz around supermarkets on scooters. It's a shop,not a bloody playground!

My husband always used to get super annoyed about elderly/retired people shopping on a Saturday. His reason was they have all week to do it so they should do it on a weekday rather than adding to the crowds of working people who can only shop on a Saturday. He took his own advice, now neither of us work on a Friday we shop on a Friday.

For some reason seeing people - seems to be really common - haunched over pushing their trollies with their elbows. Why?!

This.

Free range toddlers (as well as being annoying, I worry they'll get hurt).

People who turn up mob-handed like they're there for a day out.

Groups of people dithering to chat / dithering in front of popular items & preventing other folks accessing them.

The single most annoying family I have ever seen had all of the above and it was also clear that at least one of the parents and both teens had stinking colds at best. (This was when a lot of people were still taking precautions due to high levels of Covid btw.)

Can't understand the thinking whatsoever, but then I dislike shopping so can't imagine anything worse than doing it with 2 grumpy ill teens and a free range toddler while also unwell. Madness!

Stand with their arms folded in the way or ditto hands on hips

Is that you Vardey? Remember, chat shit get banged!!

Also people using trolleys to barricade the reduced items section so they can get dibs on whatever is in there!

No, I didn't miss anything.
Entering a pin also isn't 'faffing about'.

Our self checkouts allow trolleys - perhaps if they opened more tills people wouldn't end up using self service.