to think that trolleys are totally unfarily biased towards those with young families?

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My blueberries and kumquats keep falling out the holes in the vegetables section of the trolley.

Why do the supermarkets suck-up to those with young DC? Surely they're not the greatest proportion of society? I think the balance should be redressed and the legholes removed for the majoroity of trolleys.

That is how life should be.

I do not enjoy repeatedly chasing little blue balls of delightfuless around the floor of the shop. And, yes, before you ask, it was my first ever kumquat.

AIBU?

Actually one of my gripes is that the trolleys could all be made to fit in either one or two small children, by taking a double seaters leg settings, and putting one seat along the width of the trolley.

(so a single child could sit in the middle, and have a leg out of each side, two children would use it like they do now).

It wouldn't cost much more.

But no, all the trolleys have gaps for your blueberries to escape from.

Won't you think of the air miles :(

Seriously, where are these fancy-pants trolleys with all the pull-out accessories and veg sections?

I frequent my local Sainsburys and, occasionally, Tesco and Asda. I even take the odd saunter into Waitrose, although it's small and crap.

I have never come across such a thing.

The bit at the front is for cakes.

The bit in the middle is for wine.

The little seat thing right by the handle is for crisps.

Chocolate can go in with the wine, we don't want to squash the cake or crisps.

You might conceivably want fruit to go in the Pimms I suppose, so maybe a tiny mesh pouch under the handle?

I mean the front ,not the back.

Maybe your trolleys don't have that bit.

Vegetables don't go into that section. That's where you keep delicate items such as doughnuts, meringues, muffins, fresh cream cakes etc.

My "vegetable" aka "shite" section is always empty of course.

Thrice

Doily

Don't you eat the blueberries on the way round?

Good plan in theory, Mummypig, but wouldn't the slippery little buggers slide out and escape?

Although they could pick up the kumquats while they were down there....

I'm having trouble visualizing. I'm referring to the bit where toddlers put their legs through. 'Tis perfect for giant handbags...or boxes of cereal. Unless you have some kind of weird Euro-trolleys? You don't put small things there...surely?

Can someone please some smilies to draw an illustrated diagram?

Trolleys have seat thing for kids, middle bit for general shopping, front bit over veg or beer.

I thought the pull out bit with holes was for kids to sit in with their legs going through the holes?!

For not over.

So what's the pull-put bit?

You close the kids seat thing if you haven't got kids.

Right. Seat bit is for kids or all your re-useable bags - so you don't bury them under your shopping. Basket at front (furthest from you) is for bottles. Round hoopy things are for flowers and baguettes. The very clever bags near the blueberries and kumquats are for... putting loose blueberries and kumquats in! Trolley Expert, me, you know like

Oh and fancy trollies are at Waitrose... of course!

It doesn't pull out, it just devides the trolley

x-posted.

Yes, my local trollies appear to be entirely normal. I just never thought there was a dedicated veg section. I just chuck everything in the middle bit and generally deposit DS1 on top of the whole lot.

Front bit for salad/veg etc or beer and wine depending on what kind of week I have had. I flip over the hoppy things and rest eggs on them if I'm feeling rebellious.

Hoppy? Hoopy!

Do you all know how lucky you are to be able to buy wine with your groceries .

Couldn't you lay baguettes across the seat and use the vegetable section at the front?

Ps I think that young families may make up the highest proportion of blueberry sales.

What Usual said.
The front bit for veg and eggs and stuff, middle bit for heavy/random stuff, bit closest to you for handbag small child.
Or close it.

People on here have no common sense, do they Usual?

I reckon we must be able to come up with a better trolley design.

I vote for:

Bench style seats, for multiple DCs. With a pull-cord to remove part of the seat and deposit a DC onto the floor to pick up dropped kumquats.

An elevating trolley bottom, so that as you remove stuff and put it on the conveyor belt, the bottom comes up so that you don't have to hang over the side of the trolley, fishing around for stuff.

A horn. For obvious reasons.

A bracket at the front for mounting older DCs in the manner of a ship's figurehead. No practical reason for this - I just think it would be funny.

Maybe some wheel-spikes....