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.

In my head, that would have been a 'crime scene clean up' 😂

Bottles of champagne and expensive wine, fancy biscuits , chocolate and cheeses . Unusual for the area. The young man buying them said they were for a band playing locally. Unfortunately I don't know which one.

That's a well-known muggers tool! You put the melon down the tights and then swing it round your head before whacking your victim on the noggin

Many tins of ready to bake croissants-me. I had 180 kids at school who all had the day off timetable to do various things, this was nice and easy. Weighed a ruddy ton, tho.

Bloke in Tesco this week had as many tins of Roses as would fit in his trolley. DH was impressed!

I'm a Squirrel leader. I once bought two packs of cotton wool balls for a badge. Both the same item but one scanned as tampons for some reason. The treasurer never questioned why I was buying tampons for 12 young boys and just paid it.

This was my initial thought too. Glad I'm not the only one! 😂

I am disabled, with a neurological condition that worsens with activity. So every element of cooking takes from my "activity" budget for the day. I am actually going to look up crumble topping as I have been longing to make a crumble.

I can imagine people with many other conditions eg. Arthritis etc might find making a crumble hard

So, did you not buy the kitchen roll?

I buy crumble topping as I’m lazy.
In fact peach crumble using tinned peaches and crumble topping is the sort of thing I’d make for dessert - but I’d accompany it with squirty cream or ice cream rather than salad cream!

I've seen something similar and the lady on the check out commented that they were probably stocking a 'corner shop'.
(It was Anchor butter so not branded to Asda.)

Probably mine at Lidl. Two espresso cups and a 10kg kettle bell.

A woman in our local supermarket had about 20 bottles of the same surface cleaner, some sandwich paste and a huge box of condoms. I love wondering what all these people are doing in their daily lives same as when I’m stuck in traffic and see weird things in other people’s cars.

I look at them and imagine them deciding to buy it, wondering what their thought process was. I do the same with clothes, I wonder whether the person thought 'Ooh, this blue flowery top would be just the thing for summer and would go really well with my linen trousers'. I love imagining other people's mundane thought processes.

Perhaps it was for an assassin lining up telescopic sights on a rifle, have you not seen "The Day of the Jackal".

Good shout!

Surely a half brick, à la Rincewind, would be much easier?! 🤣

Why carry it all the way from the UK? Surely she would just buy it in portugal.

Have you been stalking me?! 😂

Have quite a few purchases of large amounts of high end whisky. It gets our loss prevention officers attention!!

It turns out that some Scottish whisky especially macallan is really hard to get hold of in parts of Asia. Something £75 here is worth £300 over there so obviously they want to take it home with them.

I've seen a trolley load of sweets, chocolates & tea for a group of US tourists.

We have one customer who buys loads of virtually every type of organic fruit & veg. It's not huge amounts of each type so don't think he's cooking for a large number I think he just genuinely eats extremely healthily.

I was in the queue at Costco last week behind a guy that bought only 12 cupcakes and a washing machine.

DS works in a shop and was telling me about an Uber Eats order they had recently which was just Imodium and toilet paper, nothing else.

My online order when it went through last week.

Ive always bought bananas where you say how many you want. So a clicked on 8.

Turns out Sainsburys freetrade ones are per pack...

I took the penultimate tray from the drivers pile to suddenly see.....8 packs of 8 bananas.

Cant imagine what the picker thought of me!

I'm sure there's a scene in ? Day of the Jackal? where the assassin practices head shots with a watermelon suspended from a tree in a pair of tights...edit: already spotted!

Do you live at 29 Acacia Road? 😁

(Google that if you don't know!)

Haha!

Several bottles of lambrini and some packets of jelly babies.