to expect to be able to shop with my DS in his buggy?

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I've been out shopping with my 11wk DS in his buggy. Too many shops have their stands too close together so I can't fit his buggy past. This means I can't move round the shop and browse for what I need. I would have thought that in these times shops would need my custom. I just walk back out now when I can't get moving. I know it is coming up to Christmas and there is more rubbish stock out for sale, but still you need to be able to reach it to buy it!

In the smallest shops there is nothing to be done about it. I mentioned months ago on another thread my favourite Indian restaurant which is down a flight of stairs in the basement of a building without a lift - and of course the restaurateur only has a lease on the basement. It's not accessible to users of wheelchairs or walking frames or people with prams or non-folding buggies.

Blooms, don't be ludicrous. No amount of manouvering will get you through a space which isn't wide enough to take a pushchair.

Use a sling? I hope the mothers suggesting you to knock stuff over are not serious. I cannot tell you how often a mother and a buggy have taken up an aisle.

Using a sling simply isn't always possible, especially with our pushchair, as it's for our 5yo (a Maclaren Major for SNs). And I sure as hell don't want to have to make two trips into the high street just because it's difficult to try on clothing there in the store. Doesn't make it very cost effective for those that take public transportation if you have to bring stuff back that didn't fit for one reason or another.

I also think that there is a ridiculous amount of "rubbish" piled up in aisles that makes it difficult for people to get through them. I can't even imagine how frustrating it must be for those in wheelchairs. I understand in smaller more local shops it can be difficult, but major chains have the finances to sort it properly as far as floor arrangement, and any size shop should be able to at the very least think carefully about product and display placement. Many just don't bother.

Hmm, I am indeed a miserable fucker who won't move out of the way for buggies. Well, I will move actually, but I will not leap into action to immediately grant them unimpeded passage. Especially when I have had the good sense to have left the buggy and be carrying my baby in a sling.

Babies may not be a rare breed, but they don't need to be pushed everywhere in travel systems the space station.

that should have said "travel systems the size of the space station". Damned keyboard.

Goodness I have two slings and I use them in far ranging situations but i'm buggered if i'm lugging a 14 month old round the shops and carrying all the bags and getting all sweaty and sticky when I can just plonk th Boy in the buggy and hang all the bags on that!

Here we go again... YABU to think that you are entitled to do anything with a buggy in tow. Didn't you know that you're either supposed to stay in for 3 years or ring a bell when out calling unclean unclean!

BogsDollocks

Currently expecting DC2 and will need a double of sorts, and dreading having to shop with it!

Its so much fun with a wheelchair too

Try grabbing a sales assistant and asking them in a loud voice to go shopping with you in their shop, they will move the racks no problem!! mysteriously

Shopping this week I left two shops as I couldn't get round them and I was alone - no buggy, no wheelchair! They had managed to block all the aisles at once with stuff to be unpacked and there was literally no way through without bodily barging past assistants. Infuriating.

However, the "Must have my baby right by me" buggy brigade also won points this week with the woman who managed to block all three bathroom sinks and the entrance/exit door in the library loos so her sleeping baby could be right next to her while she washed her hands. Why? There is a perfectly good buggy zone within a footstep's distance and in full view of the basins where the buggy would have been in no-one's way.

I hope all you Mums who are saying to just barge through & knock things over are joking,cos it'll be us minimum wage shop assistants who'll be picking it all up before old Mrs Jones falls on the spilt shampoo & breaks her hip

It's not actually us who put stands willy nilly,we get told by ho to put specific stands in specific areas.

YAB a bit U. And I only say that because I don't seem to have as much trouble as you, and I have a double buggy and a couple of grabby toddlers!