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? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OK sorry, not impossible, difficult. And I agree the supermarket is not to blame. I just don't understand all the nastiness on this thread, sometimes think people sharpen their claws when they click on AIBU

in the last 5 mins the OP has been called a fuckwit and odd by two separate people. You should be ashamed of yourselves

supermarket not to blame.... iv said its my fault, my responsability to keep hold of my children yes. but is it unreasonable to have a double trolly and have some help to find a lost child?
seriously if you think it is then im glad i dont have you as a friend lol!!

How much do you eat if you need 2 trollys

Stealth I think folk are just exasperated that the OP doesn't shop online making it easier for herself.
Even if she'd rather pick out fresh stuff, she could get nappies, and loo rolls and tins and what have you delivered, so one of them could go to the store without the kids and only need one trolley.

kittybuttoon I've seen people being helped around my local Tesco in their wheelchairs/scooters by staff members getting all the stuff off the shelves for them and helping them out to the car. It does happen :).

You are too high maintenance to be an ordinary shopper, I'm afraid.

Take your business to whoever will provide you and the children with a free childcare service.

Good luck with finding that, then.

Why don't you get everything EXCEPT fresh stuff delivered and either you or DH go to the supermarket just for fresh stuff while the other stays at home with the children? Surely your fresh food isn't more than a trolley-load - most of your trolley space must be nappies, washing powder etc.

YABU taking 4 small children and DH to the supermarket

YABVU shopping on a Saturday at a store that is open 24 hours and then moaning that they have run out of ANYTHING, let alone trollies.

YABVVVVVVU punctuating all your sentences with lol.

yes it is their job to help. because it happens!! call me what ever you like, im a good mum. every health professional i have come across say they dont know how i manage and yes this one time he went missing im not perfect and neither is my son. anyone that thinks they are a perfect parent is obviously deluded.

as the girl in tesco told me the other week, and i relayed to their Head Office, "they dont give a monkeys about the customers here"

Head Office couldnt have given a monkeys either

You DONT though clearly if one of your kids managed to get far enough away from you to end up on the bloody road!

im saying lol as some of these comments really do make me laugh!!!!!! so small minded

I would be appalled if I got no help from staff when I lost a child. With the best will in the world it can happen very easily and surely the important thing then is that the child is safe rather than berating the parents for losing it?

Why didnt one of you stay at home whilst other shops. I neve understand why whole families trail round busy shops together. If DH and I do end up going at the same time we split up get the stuff and get out of there.

If your not happy with trolley provision I would shop eleswhere if you need to take all four children food shopping with you.

OP give up, you're clearly fighting a losing battle here.

to the road yes, we were at the till closes to the exit and he went straight out. no wise in hindsight. why is it you cant grasp that some children run off?!!!

I can grasp it but ffs there were TWO of you not one?

why didnt one of us stay at home while the other went shopping, oh i hadn't thought of that one!!!!!!!

yes at seperate isles

when I say whole families I dont just mean children I mean grown ups too - gangs wlaking side by side blocking ailes not moving arguing - this is a pet hate of mine.

However actually I di think it is reasonable that a 24 hour store which are the largest ones should have the correct troleys mine does have lots of those, but if it didnt I would go elsewhere.

Your kids therefore your responsibilty.

But why can't you. You haven't told us why you can't buy the non perishables online!

I want to know why you need two trollys.

as if i have time to go to every supermarket to check which ones supply double trollys, i wanted a double trolly so my children didnt get in the way of other customers, it annoys me as much as everyone else!!