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.

Mix in some tinned pears too - one of our favourite, super quick puddings! Peach and pear crumble. Yum!

People Actually buy crumble topping? It’s butter, flour, sugar and sometimes oats. Why don’t they just make it themselves

People also buy pancake mix, which is even more bizarre, especially on pancake day when the whole point is to use things up, not buy more.

The same reason people buy grated cheese, or chopped vegetables etc... time and ease.

Those pancake mix shaker bottles always make me chuckle! 😁

All the sage derby cheese, every bit that was on the shelves, and nothing else.

Oh crikey yes, it’s absolutely awful the situation over there.

We were behind a bloke one morning who had 4 things in his basket:

A bunch of flowers
Vanish carpet cleaner
Kitchen roll
A bottle of Lucozade

Oh dear!

Years ago the young guy in front of me had 6 grapes, 1 spring onion, 2 tomatoes, a potato and a sprig of broccoli.
The cashier had real problems getting the items to register on the scale!
She and I couldn’t imagine what on earth he was cooking.

I wouldn't dream of buying a mix, but I wouldn't judge those who do

If you have very little money, it's probably cheaper to buy a mix, given the cost of butter.

Also lots of people don't have the hand function to rub butter into flour (arthritis) and then wash up the mixing bowl or they may lack the cognition to weigh out ingredients etc.

Can’t use their hands well, disabled in some other way, only want an amount equal to a tins worth , just easier. Buying one item rather than four, someone buying it for a housebound person so it will keep until they want to use it.

you’ve a terrible imagination!

That is so left field... 😄🦉

Thing like this, along with pre-grated cheese and ready chopped veg allowed my Grandma to remain living and eating independently despite arthritis which prevented her from cooking and baking in the way she would have like.

Pretty easy to imagine reasons people might need support or help in this way.

I know! And they haven't caught me yet...

They won't approach you anyway! It's a 'no tackle' policy 😁...

I think this may have been my husband !

I used to work the tills at a supermarket when I was in school. We used to have a guy who would come in and buy a trolley full of distilled water every week. I mean like 100 litres of it at a pop.

Apparently, the end times were coming and it was only safe to drink distilled water because the government was putting chemicals in the water to control our minds. This was mid 90s, pre-internet conspiracy theory weirdos, so I can only guess at what fantastic underground newsletter he must have subscribed to where other loonies traded this information. I always quite looked forward to him.

During the summer holidays, whilst I was a student, I worked at M&S. Some of the time in the food department. I do remember wondering about 1 shopping basket containing multiple packs of chicken thighs and 5 or 6 grapefruit.

I saw a couple on Aldi once who had about 30 packs of spaghetti in their trolley and then we're counting out cans of condensed milk. When I walked off they'd added 38 cans and the man was still picking up more. There was nothing else in the trolley so I was trying to Google what recipes require condensed milk and spaghetti.

Other than crime scene clean up I have a thought. Was the language eastern European sounding? People who are orthodox Christians mostly celebrate Xmas about a week after the Gregorian Xmas.

So it could be the great clean up before relatives arrive.

Sorry I realise the crime scene is more interesting.

@Igneococcusi worked in a supermarket and they wouldn’t have been allowed to buy that much bleach where I worked. It’s a common ingredient in home made b*mbs.

They were behind me in the queue I actually don't know if they sold the bleach to them or if they were refused.
@sashh They were a Chinese couple in their 50s and I always assumed that they might have been the owners of one of the two Chinese restaurants/takeaways in our small West coast Scotland town. There were very few non-white people living there then (still not that many now) and a local checkout person would have known them.