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AIBU?

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AIBU? Crowded supermarkets

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spudholes · 04/04/2015 09:43

I fucking hate shopping, but needs must. Went to get an easter egg yesterday and the place was packed. I tend to go into a bit of a blind rage as everyone and his nan gets in the bloody way . When you finally get to the aisle you need, everyone decides to park their trolley in front of the very item you want.

Went to pay for my little egg and someone is doing the monthly shop! FFS!!!

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Dukketeater · 04/04/2015 11:12

I'm going Monday... Once the apocalypse people seem to be expecting hasn't happened

Catsahoy · 04/04/2015 11:12

I only shop during school hours with my ds cos I know how irritating it is to have children, trolleys etc everywhere when you are in a rush trying to buy one thing. And yesterday I asked a man with a wee basket if he wanted to go ahead of me and our massive load of messages.

#considerateshopper

goodasitgets · 04/04/2015 11:20

I do my shop generally at around 3am after work. When I do venture in daylight it feels all wrong - there's actual humans in there!!

sugar21 · 04/04/2015 11:23

But you are one of the crowd OP. Everyone has a right to do their shopping as and when they want. Why do you think you are different.

OwlinaTree · 04/04/2015 11:27

It's a long weekend so everybody is off at the same time, and is buying food for a long weekend, possibly entertaining or doing something a bit different to the average week. Not really a surprise the shops are a bit busier?

Aridane · 04/04/2015 11:31

Why clog up the supermarket, OP, when you could have purchased from a newsagents.?

JacquesHammer · 04/04/2015 11:34

I was surprised at how quiet and civilised the supermarket and nearest retail park. We arrived at about 9.45, got everything we intended and home by 10.30 (including the 20 minute drive).

'Twas lovely

Trills · 04/04/2015 11:39

If you find that you get rage when you go to the supermarket then it's up to you to manage your life so that you don't go there any more absolutey necessary, and to try to go at quieter times.

If all you needed was an easter egg, you could have gone to a smaller shop

popalot · 04/04/2015 11:41

Shop rage. We all get it when we're in a hurry. Working in a busy shop is even worse, because you're at the brunt of shop rage. Some people can get quite nasty.

revealall · 04/04/2015 18:28

Hag because I was abroad and busy.I couldn't risk missing the delivery slot but also because I needed to shop for a specific event that night. I had got most of the basics before but the fresh stuff needed to be bought.

I have no idea why the shops were so busy on Thursday and from the Op probably Friday as well as today. There can't be that many people who do food shopping on Sunday to warrant the extra Thursday,Friday,Saturday?

partialderivative · 04/04/2015 18:32

Loads of spare eggs with us, (in Muscat)

CupidStuntSurvivor · 04/04/2015 18:41

What's the solution then OP?

YouTheCat · 04/04/2015 18:48

I went to do my weekly shop on Wednesday, at my usual time and it was jam packed. Usually it's quiet and it wasn't even the holidays. It was like armageddon was about to happen or something.

And it was packed with annoying twats who park their trolleys sideways across an aisle and then ignore your polite requests to get by. People are such inconsiderate arses sometimes.

CaptainAnkles · 04/04/2015 18:55

People right before easter and Christmas go fucking mental when they get in the supermarket. They can't cope with the idea that it'll be shut for a day and start panic buying all the bread.
It irks me that everything closes on Easter Sunday anyway but I don't feel the need to fill up three trolleys with Kingsmill.

cruikshank · 04/04/2015 19:01

Supermarket shopping is always a mare before the bank holiday. I think you just have to accept that. What does give me the rage though are people who don't work but go supermarket shopping at lunchtime - toddlers sticking their fingers in everything, mothers blocking the aisles while they have in-depth discussions with their 10 month old about ricotta, pensioners having a leisurely chat while they take 10 mins to find their purse etc ... I'm on my fucking lunch break! You've got all day! Go at another time!

And breathe ...

PeppermintCrayon · 04/04/2015 20:13

I don't see the point in getting the rage about this. YAB quite U.

zeezeek · 04/04/2015 20:16

cruikshank - I feel your pain. Have been there numerous times.

Twoplus3 · 04/04/2015 20:21

Yes but who the hell leaves buying their children's Easter eggs til the last minute? I've had mine since February, it's called organisation, so you've no right to be mad at other people who have most likely got all their eggs and are just their to do their weekly shop.

butterfly2015 · 04/04/2015 20:25

I hate shopping too so I normally go to the smaller asda rather than the main one which sells everything. The little one is much quieter and c a n do the weekly shop there first thing in the morning relatively stress free. I had to go to the big one on Thursday with Dd 2 to get a couple of things the smaller store didn't have. It was bedlam. We got what we needed and left. Dd 2 is 9 and just looked at me in the car and said "that was a bit mad in there wasn't it mum?"

But it's a supermarket. It was chaos because there was people in there fighting over Easter eggs. Probably only buying one little egg each.

StickledPink · 04/04/2015 20:26

Definitely go at a quiet time. If you hate crowded shops ( as do I) then by going when they're jam packed in busy periods is pretty silly.

I would suggest evenings or weekdays, depending on your schedule, better still shop online like me :)

I would not have bothered going just for one egg and to deal with all that stress.

Fuck that.

YouTheCat · 04/04/2015 21:33

2pm on a Wednesday is usually guaranteed to be quiet. Not this week though. And why do all the really irritating people, with no idea of supermarket etiquette have to shop at the same time?

Andrewofgg · 04/04/2015 21:35

Let them open Easter Sunday?

cruikshank · 04/04/2015 21:38

Eggs bought in February would not have survived until now in this house, Twoplus3.

Pipbin · 04/04/2015 21:46

But you are one of the crowd OP. Everyone has a right to do their shopping as and when they want. Why do you think you are different?

Exactly - it's like people complaining about the traffic. Don't they understand that they are traffic too?
Maybe all the people there had just popped in to get one egg, or the thing that was missing from their delivery, or something for the person coming for lunch that they forgot was vegetarian, and they were pissed off with all the other people there, of whom you were one.

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