Weirdest trolley contents you’ve seen at the checkout

[Goatymum]

DH and I doing a quick supermarket shop yesterday and ended up behind a lady (who looked a bit eccentric) at the checkout whose basket contained approx a dozen tinned peaches, about half a dozen bags of crumble topping and 10 jars of salad cream 😂

We thought maybe she’d got confused between custard and salad cream, but she was chatting to the checkout lady telling her she was going to Portugal where apparently they don’t sell tinned peaches, salad cream or crumble topping (the last one I get, but such random items, and a lot of them to boot!).

I mean I’ve seen probable cafe owners buy a lot of bread or baked beans but this was something else.

Yeah she was doing that, but so much of only 3 items, and not particularly hard to source in Portugal (maybe the crumble topping is). Any Portuguese mumsnetters on here can verify?!

Depends if you have room to store or time to ship around!

well I bought a packet once to have with the plums off the plum tree, but nobody taught me how to make crumble at 5 years old.

Maybe a family on their way back from a dairy farm holiday ?

Like a fisherman heading to the fish counter after a blank fishing trip :-)

Could be her! Was she about 70 w grey hair and in a colourful dress/kaftan type outfit?

I still remember more than 20 years ago I was behind a man at the till who was buying 3 huge glass jars of sauerkraut and two six-packs of Newcastle Brown Ale and nothing else. All I could think about, both then and still now, is how horrific his farts must be.

Sounds kinky!!

😂 trying not to …

I find it hard to believe that you can’t get tinned peaches in Portugal! Even if they don’t grow peaches there, they definitely do in Spain which is much closer than the UK!

Sainsbury's in Bath several years ago. A young man in front of me had a pregnancy test kit, a packet of condoms and a bunch of red roses. Presume if all for same person, he had all bases covered.

I was once behind someone who seemed to have bought every banana in the shop! I did wonder if there had been a problem with food deliveries to the local zoo...😂

I worked in a food factory when I was a student. The dairy delivery hadn’t turned up (think it was for mashed potato!) so I was sent to Asda to buy 40 litres of milk and 20 lites of cream.

I also bought myself a tub of strawberries as I fancied some….the cashier must have thought I was crazy!!

I was going to say that @BirdLandedonmyHead ! I have also done some strange shops in my time both for camps and for activities. What is she planning on doing with all that cornflour, baking soda, vinegar, food colouring???

We live in France now and the thing that always mystifies me is that no matter who is in front of you at the checkout, no matter what else they have in their trolley, they will be buying endives.

Little Old lady…cat food, couple of slices of cold meat from the charcutier, some biscuits and a bag of endives.

Harassed looking young mother…mountains of yoghurt and fromage frais, cereal, ready meals, chocolate, wine and a bag of endives.

Single bloke…box of wine, stack of frozen pizzas, few cans of energy drink and a bag of endives.

Group of young men…multipack of Desperados, bottle of pastis, Doritos and a bag of endives.

It’s often the only vegetable or fresh item in their shopping. I mean I do enjoy endives but they are a bit of an acquired taste. Their status as the universal vegetable of choice is a bit of a mystery!

Gosh she will be paying for excess weight! My DD flew on Friday from Miami and 2lbs over they wanted to charge her $100! I’ve been charged here.
Anyway nothing weird but I do wonder about people who just fill up their trolley with 10 big bottles of 2l milk, I mean if they are a business why not get it wholesale? If not where do they store it? Or bulk of any single item like 20 bunches of bananas…

I have no clue what community work looks like in Portugal as I don't live there and wouldn't have commented if you said that you did. But you didn't.

I was in Lidls today when an ice cream van pulled up, a man ran in, filled a trolley with vanilla ice cream, paid, ran out and drove off!

Not a strange shop but it was a strange thing to witness at the checkout. Woman loads some items at the checkout in Tesco and me and dh are stood behind her. Last thing in her trolley was a bottle of red wine. She opened it and drank almost half of it straight from the bottle. She was a smartly dressed woman and me and dh just stared at her then at each other. We said to the cashier she must have had a hell of a day!

My strangest was probably 20 broom handles

American tan? Was it in the 1960s?😆

About 60 Easter eggs that were on a special offer! Then I realised it was the man from the small corner shop! 😬

I have to admit, if there's a checkout queue; I do look at what the person in front is buying and make up a little story about them in my head 😂

As long as you don't live in a bedsit it doesn't take up much space.

I pass just about every supermarket on my way home from work so it doesn’t take any more time to go to Aldi one week, Lidl for a top up shop, Asda the week after etc etc than it does to go to the same shop every week

Quite a few years ago, a few days before Christmas at Tesco, there was quite a queue. The couple behind me had 12 large bottles of Domestos bleach in their trolley, nothing else, then the woman pointed at something in my trolley and a discussion started between them in a language I didn't understand. The man walked off and came back a few minutes later with one net of chestnuts. I have no idea what they needed all that bleach for.

I buy it, I hate rubbing in fat and can't be arsed to get the food processor out 😆.

I was behind someone who was buying about 30 special offer Easter eggs. The cashier had to get the manager to allow that many to be bought, presumably to stop other retailers from buying them. It was for her child's birthday party, she was giving them an Easter egg instead of a party bag, so she was allowed.