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?

Well if I'm feeling hungry or thirsty when I'm out and about I go into a shop or cafe and buy something. Surely that's fairly obvious?

It just seemed odd so many low blood sugar episodes happen during the supermarket trip.
Almost seems like an 'excuse'.
But hey, the thread took a turn and seems more about people not seeing a problem with their mid shop scoffing...
I think it's gross and lacking decorum and self-restraint. They think I've got a rod up my arse. The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

Lying - talk about clutching at straws. Absolutely ridiculous.

stores add a % to cover shop lifting depending on shrinkage. So we all pay for this. Not funny.

YANBU. It is uncouth unless there are exceptional circumstances, eg diabetic

Yes, I agree with you tametempo, in case it wasn't clear by my post.

The answer to "what do you do if you're out and about and have a blood sugar wobble not in a supermarket?" is
A) nip into a shop and buy a bottle of iced tea
or
B) truncate trip out
or
C) carry on despite being a bit wobbly

C) is not fun but is normally entirely possible -however because it's not fun I'd always prefer to take another viable option, such as opening a bottle from the shelves in a supermarket, drinking it and paying for it with the rest of my shopping at the end. Viable in this case meaning not illegal, not immoral and not offensive to others.

Unless there are extenuating circumstances, it is very bad manners.

It's rude and you're basically eating something that isn't yours as you haven't paid for it yet.

People wouldn't do it with other items (clothes, makeup, skin care) so why is food acceptable

amarmai - i don't steal it, i pay for it at the till.

I would not hesitate cleanly eating a packet of crisps or drinking some water and then paying for it. Certainly wouldn't get offended by anyone else doing that. I think you should take extra care not to be messy and to present empty packet to cashier in such a way they do not get messed up. Otherwise no biggie imo.

On another note the local asda used to have a salad bar, my cousin was convinced it was free food. Convinced.

Well we won't agree, McColonel and I'm alright with that. You carry on clutching and scoffing your nearly-yours-foodstuffs as you meander around the supermarket and I'll continue silently clutching my pearls and give you and your crumbs an exceedingly wide berth.

My DP quite often eats the hot chicken wings on the way round and then pays for them at the end because he insists if he waits until after the shop to eat them they won't be hot anymore.

Yuck. Sorry. That's beyond. Can't he just shop and then call in at Nando's or something... or learn to work the oven/microwave at home? Bleurch.

That's horrible Whatthefuck. Clearly he shouldn't buy them in a supermarket then. He should choose them to eat in a restaurant.

Honestly, I have to say I was happy to see someone mention that there might be a reason to open something - but as a matter of course it is not on.

I am not diabetic, but as a part of the syndrome my daughter and I have, we are prone to unstable hypoglycaemia (our sugars can drop very quickly even off we have eaten recently).

I still try to find somewhere to pay for the item I want to eat, but if I can't, I can't.

That said... I usually carry emergency food sources with me - I can't afford to be caught without.

The number of parents I see handing over fruit prior to payment, though, or feeding their children and discarding wrappers makes me ill.

Spectacular way to teach you child to be a thief.

We don't have a nandos or eqivilent between the supermarket and home. He could take them home and microwave them but chooses not to. I just find it hard to care really, it's just a few chicken wings.

Bowlers, but we don't very often go to a restuarant to do the big shop, hence we are in a supermarket. We don't go there just so he can get hot chicken wings to eat immediately, obviously if that were the case it would be more sensible to go to cafe or something. It's more that we are there anyway, browsing, shopping, he smells the hot food counter and thinks mmmm chicken wings, buys them, eats them and within minutes it's all over. It's really not a very big deal. We always pay for them, that goes without saying.

Christ, hot food around the supermarket, really?

I'd never eat food I hadn't yet bought in the supermarket (partly the way I was raised, I find it offputting, plus what if my card didn't work/my purse was nicked?), and find others doing it except in extremis a bit grim.

But someone wandering around eating hot fucking chicken in the supermarket should not be surprised to find that my barely-under-control hyperemesis has caused me to be sick in their trolley.

(The same goes for people eating hot takeaways or applying nail varnish on trains.)

Before anyone asks in classic MN fashion why the smell of the hot food counter doesn't make me hurl - I give it a very wide berth!

MrsDeVere - exactly. Well explained.

'Spectacular way to teach you child to be a thief.' Oh, don't be silly.

MrsDeVere, thank you for your last post. Voice of reason.

It's always the 'voice of reason' when they're agreeing with your viewpoint.

Just sayin...

Jassy... maybe also it's where you expect it to be, in the hot food counter? It is grim to have that food smell everywhere in the shop, you can't avoid it and it's a real assault on my nostrils too, makes me queasy.