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

well why didnt one fo you stay at home then?

OP I think you had a bad shopping trip which was series if events thats got you worked up.

My DS (an only child) ran away from me one the way out of school and got to the road, so yes this does happen and can happen to anyone and he has run away from both of us too.

Why are some people calling the OP names, you can disagree without being nasty FFS.

The thing is even if they DO supply them they may all be in use- you can expect the world to revolve around you and your kids on a shopping trip! In my local tescos on a weekend you would be lucky if there was a single trolley available let along two with double seats!

Well you could ring up! Or through trial and error re trolleys, I think that is a poor excuse.

i could buy non perishables online. why cany tesco supply double trolleys?
i have 3 children in nappies i need two trolleys to fit nappies mild as well as all the food shopping, but its irrelevant why i need two trolleys

Your child ran out of the shop and was in the middle of the road and you're blaming Tesco for not having enough trolleys! What on earth were you and your partner doing when your DC ran away like that? How about taking responsibility for your actions rather than blaming someone else.

OP, what is wrong with you that you are blaming everything on Tesco?

Can't you accept just a tiny bit of the responsibility for putting your kid in so much danger that he had to be rescued from mid-road by a stranger?

Are you going to tell the health visitors who admire you so much about this incident? Or would that spoil their rosy view of your capabilities?

1. Get food delivered. There are other supermarkets than Tesco.

1. If you think your child has ADHD maybe get him assessed.

1. Consider buying reins or wrists straps.

1. Organise it so one parent shops and the other stays at home with the kids.

1. Some stores have trolleys with enough seats for four children.

1. How much you spend has no baring on how many trollies there are available.

4 kids under 4 yet you have been responding on here since 5 o'clock, surely you should be seeing to them, bedtime and stuff?

the trolley provision and the child running out are two seperate issues here.

i cant predict my child running off if i could it wouldnt happen obviously!
we actually got the shopping done really quickly and they were very well behaved apart from picking a few things up. i had no warning he was going to run off. it would be better for me and other people shopping if the children could be out of the way in a shopping trolley so the dont get in the way or run off! its best all round for everyone im happy, other customers happy, tesco should be happy as i would have more time to lokk around a nd buy more. i cant see why they wouldnt have double trolley!

hello..... iv taken responsibility!!!!!!!!!! it just wouldnt have happened if there were sufficient trolleys

this is a joke surely?

If you cannot control 4 children in tescos then maybe you shouldnt have 4 children... bigger age gaps may have made it easier for your shopping....

you should be ashamed that YOU not tesco allowed your child to end up in the middle of the road

You hant as you are blaming it on the lack of trolleys. Why did you all need to go?

Really?
Because you say in your OP that the kids picked up everything and it took twice as long, also that they got bashed by other trolleys.
Why put all of you through that when the kids could have fun elsewhere and one of you could shop?

OP - you've had some very unfair responses I think. As a mum of twin boys, one of whom is a runner - YANBU

Our nearest Tesco extra also has very few double trolleys and I regularly couldn't find one. Customer services frankly couldn't give a shit and never made any effort to try and find one for me when I complained. End result they no longer get my custom. Which given how much we spend per wk on groceries is really short-sighted of them.

I do as much of my shopping online as possible but sometimes you can't get a slot, or you just need to physically look at stuff in the store. I did actually scope out our local supermarkets when DTs were born to see what double trolleys they had before I went because trolleys with 2 baby seats were even harder to find than ones with 2 toddler seats. I am shortly going to have another but I'm not sure I would brave shopping on my own with 3 of them.

No matter what anyone else says the op isn't gonna blame anyone else but Tescos,

So op, Don't shop there again, i'm sure they will manage without your custom.

lol!! even if i had just two and was on my own the same could have happened. i shouldnt have 4 children so il send a couple back shall i? wtf!
if i shop on a saturday its not because i want to, i hate it!! its the only time i had free. once again im not blaming tesco for my child running off. but not to help and to only have two double trolleys for the whole store!

I didn't call the op ODD for the record - I said 'some people are odd' for wanting to spend Sat in the supermarket! so you can maybe slow down your high horse a little :)

I think it is ODD if you work FT to spend Sat in Tescos

I think if I had 4 kids I would shop online or go on my own

I have 3 kids and work - I shop on line

your husband is at home - can you not nip to tesco at 8am without the kids - get it all in an hour - be home by 9:30 with the whole day to spare?

it just seems crazy to spend family time in Tesco!

so are you saying the OP is odd or not?
PResumably she fits your definition?

they could have been bashed by other trolleys had i no moved them out of the way and it could have taken twice as long had they not been behaved