to think eating products before you pay for them at the till is uncouth?

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OH and I disagree. He thinks eating a packet of crisps then handing the empty packet over at checkout to scan is perfectly acceptable but I think this is a no-no.

Where do you guys sit on this matter?

Its a supermarket. Not a picnic area, or a kitchen.
YA definitely NBU.

foreverton

I don't believe you.

I fancy going for a world record of how much food we can consume before reaching the checkout. Maybe we could polish off a couple of those whole hot roast chickens and a fresh baguette warm out of the oven then finish off with a cheesecake or tarte aux abricots (probably need to pass by the kitchen roll aisle en route)

Nom nom nommmm

I've had to open a 6 pack of lucozade in Tesco before and let DP drink it, he's diabetic and the excitement of a Tesco shop made his sugars go crazy.

I just had this vision of everyone walking round the supermarket eating off the shelves, then putting all the empty packets on the conveyer belt
I think it is a bit uncouth, bit like wearing your PJ's to Tesco

Very true I'm afraid:)

I think they wanted to make an example of her.

Sorry everton that is just what she told you, there is more to it.

I don't know what's worse actually....I once took a lovely bottle of Cloudy Bay to Sunday lunch at dsil. She said 'ooo it's a bit dry' and made spritzers with it....with lemonade

Hope you see your DP intact

Whoops soz wrong thread

I've only done it with drinks when I was pregnant and super-thirsty. It's not ideal but I think 'uncouth' sounds really snobby!

My (very posh and very well off ) auntie was stupid enough to eat some of her grapes before getting to the checkout, therefore they weighed less.
She was frogmarched through the supermarket, they rang the police, fined her and banned her from every asda in the country.

There is either a lot more to this or she is having you on...

I know someone who got caught red-handed for asda price guarantee coupon misuse (i.e. fraud), the police were not even called. She did get a nationwide ban though.

Personally, I don't like it and don't do it. I don't see the need to constantly feed children and there's no reason why they can't wait until you have paid, no matter how old they are. It does children no harm at all to feel hungry now and again.

I don't really care particularly what other people do though. Each to their own and all that!

I would go further and say it is stealing.

Because the food is not yours until you have paid for it.

I think it's inconsequential in the extreme. Do it if you need something to eat and are just about to pay for it.

That is bollocks, foreverton

Sometimes I eat my lunch in the queue at M&S.
The problem would be solved if we either had a lunch fasttrack till, or we banned everyone who wasn't at work from M&S from 12-1pm. You know, all those old people or families with children and everyone else who clutters up the shop when I'm on my break.
So I stand in line and munch.

Definition of theft: taking property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving them of it. With items in a supermarket, that happens when you take them out of the shop without paying for them. If the goods in question are in someone's stomach rather than the trolley but you fully intend to pay for them and do so, it isn't theft.

But it's not something I have ever done, nor have I ever let my children do it. I can understand why you might allow a child to do it occasionally, but short of something like diabetes I don't understand why an adult can't wait a few minutes before tucking in.

I think it doesn't make a difference to anyone else, so ignore it. But secretly I agree.

I suspect the issue with foreverton's aunt is that she couldn't claim that she intended to pay for her grapes because, once they were eaten, no-one could work out the correct price if they were priced by weight. Unless she was planning to offer to pay well over what the grapes could possibly be worth, of course, but she could have a problem making the store detectives believe that.

i had a weeping toddler in Waitrose once, I checked with the staff and gave her a pre-weighed banana then paid for the skin at the checkout. I think they preferred this to the noise. However, with self scan it is a bit easier to log something on your shopping first, I feel better about that because the item is actually in the process of being paid for. Nonetheless, my kids are such a distraction that it can be difficult to scan things accurately, especially if they both want to do it and are fighting over the scanner. We do the bulk of our shopping on line now.

I would hate it if a customer gave me a half eaten baguette to scan.

I've always thought it's vulgar and still do. Yes if a medical need arose and someones blood sugar was on the floor ....fair enough crack open the lucozade....to placate a grizzly child.

No chance

If my DS (5 years old, autistic) was not given the opportunity to choose a sandwich/snack at the begining of a shopping trip, and then allowed to eat it as we go around, he would not be able to come shopping. I don't particularly like the idea of snacking while shopping and would not do it myself, but in this case it is a choice between that and him never learning to cope with being in a supermarket.

Metalguru (great name, btw!), that made me laugh so much. I did that a long time ago with a bunch of flowers and only realised later that day. So embarrassing.

We meant well though, didn't we? And it's the thought that counts...

I'm laughing at the thought of scanning boobs... mine would break the scanner, I break everything that has a chip in it.