tesco shopping trolleys.

[mummummymum]

hello,
yesterday when i went shopping with my husband and four children who are all under 4 i couldn't find a shopping trolley with a double seat so needing two i had to make two of my children walk around getting bashed by everyone else who was shopping. when i asked the customer service advisor he informed me a store of that size (extra) only had to supply 2 double trolleys for the whole store!!! !!!!
so on we went with great frustration as the kids pick up everything they see asking "can we have this" so it takes twice as long!!
at the end while we were packing the shopping one of my children went missing and after looking for a few minutes a kind member of public brought my son to us from outside in the middle of the road. not only could he have been run over and killed but could have been taken but god know who!!
still the customer service advisor did not see this as his problem and couldn't have cared less, he even suggested it was unusual to have twins and four children over all and went on to say they should have been on rains!!!! by this point i was very distressed and making a fool of myself
is it unreasonable to ask for a trolley with two seats? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

views please xx

some people cant shop online as they dont have credit/debit cards, like me#!!!

i leave kids and dh at home 2 do shopping, less stressfull#!!

hellooutthere i was not expecting them to know where my child was, just give me a hand to find him!!

Why could your DH not have taken the children to the car or outside or WATCHED them whilst you bagged or vice versa?

Its your responsibility to look after the children whilst shopping.

how much i would love to go shopping on my own, sounds fantastic. but yes i do need two trolleys worth however unbelieveable that is!!

sorry x-post with above post

two trolleys two separate isles for packing.

i would suggest shopping online from now on. supermarket shopping with 4 under 4 must be a total nightmare, esp with the volume of shopping you need.

FFS (wonders how parents coped before double trollies) just shop online or get some childcare

YABU.

Our Tesco child trolleys have a blue bit than you flap down to sit on, and 4 leg holes. If you have 1 child you put them in the centre with legs between holes 2 and 3, if you have 2 children, you put them side by side using all of the leg holes.
I hope this makes sense!
I did this just today with 1yo old DD. Not even a Tesco Extra but had loads and loads of trolleys of varying requirements.
YABU, and also a bit mad to go food shopping en famille. Online is your friend.

1: Two adults. So one pushes the trolly that has two of the children sitting in it and the other adult holds onto the other children's hands. Get the essentials or perishables in that trolly and have the rest delivered.

2: Get everything delivered.

3: One of you goes shopping whilst the other one stays at home with the children.

why should i have to though is also my point. i spend an absolute fortune at tesco is it so unreasonable to have a double trolley. lol. why have any if there not needed eerrrrmmmm because they are needed!!

I do actually quite enjoy shopping with DH and the DCs

My ds2 is 5 and still loves to run off, so I have to keep a vice like grip on him. But I wouldn't blame the supermarket because he's now too big for the trolleys and they haven't got any ones with bigger seats.

Ok so just say they buy an extra 10 trollies and all of them are in use when you get there? Do you think they should be reserved for you and your brood with their names on?

2 trolleys worth!!
bad experience with having shopping delivered.
as if i would have taken us all shopping if i didnt need the 2 trolleys worth.

Seriously, I still want to know why you go shopping with the whole family??? I wouldn't take DCs with me shopping, ever, no matter how well behaved they usually are!

worraliberty.........YES!! lol

so tesco shouldnt have helped me look for him?

In your position OP, I think it would have been easier to get TWO normal sized trolleys, plonked all four kids in one of them and given it to DH to take care of. You could have zipped around then getting what you needed, getting husband to load the kids into the car, load the shopping - getting yourself another trolley to go and do the last bulky bits.

Or shopped online... nothing would induce me to take little kids to a supermarket if I really didn't have to.

once again 2 trolleys worth.

I've accounted for your TWO trolleys-worth, OP.

i actually work full time. i dont have time to be going backwards and forwards from tesco. we go when we have a spare hour or two. iv taken responsibility for my child going missing yes i shouldn't have let it happen!! but what im saying is. is it unreasonable to have a double trolley and is it unreasonable to expect a member of staff to help me look for a missing child?