People eating food they haven't paid for....

[maddiemookins16mum]

....It just really bugs me. To the point of utter revulsion.
In a supermarket, grown adults opening a pack of 4 pork pies and happily munching their way around the shop, only to toss the empty pack to be scanned as their shopping goes through. Why do people do that, have you ever, and why??? (DD had to wait until the car for her gingerbreadman biscuit from Waitrose).

It varies for me as an ex checkout employee. In theory as long as you pay there isn't an issue (although a LOT don't, we constantly found empty wrappers everywhere)

What I don't like though is when I am presented with a mangled, chewed, sticky wrapper to scan and I have to smile sweetly as my hands get covered in your child's spit and sticky sugary mess until I can go on a break and wash my hands. I find that inconsiderate and disrespectful.

Something in a multipack so I just scan the multipack with 1 missing? No problem. The free fruit tesco now offer that I don't have to touch at all? Brilliant. A mangled refresher bar wrapper covered in sugar, sherbert and spit? ewwww.

Misshoolies likewise, people are either overwhelmed or underwhelmed but never just whelmed.

I have more of an issue with the dirty fuckers who use their hands instead of the available tongs when picking up loose bread rolls. I told a women the over week who was going through all the rolls by hand squeezing each one before returning it to the shelf that it was a pretty grim habit and disrespectful to other shoppers, she honestly thought nothing of it "but I like really crusty ones"

Because arguing with complete strangers about utter irrelevancies to pass the time of day is the whole point of participating in this kind of forum?

I enjoy a bit of witty repartee and I love actual debate on MH.
This is just goady-fuckery and annoying IMO.

MN

My MH is mainly intact. Most of the time

I think Uncouth is a great way to describe people who do this .Chavs is even better.
Nobody needs to eat on a supermarket shopping trip.
Saying no to your children seems to be alien to a lot of parents. No wonder we have so many indulged children,- not to mention fat ones.

I love how people are talking about little Johnny been given a cucumber or a few Rasberries to nibble on, and never a doughnut or sausage roll, as if that somehow makes it ok

I feel sorry for the checkout staff who have to deal with this. Such a lack of respect for them..

YNBU If it was normal it wouldn't be banned. I've seen signs up saying Do Not Consume Food Before Purchasing or words to that effect. But mostly I hate hate hate people who litter. I find them utterly revolting and disgusting. And who the hell would eat food from home round a supermarket? Ooh I'm peckish but need to go shopping so I better pack a picnic while I go round the aisles???

Findo and why can you be ruthless but not ruth?

I have no problem with opening things before paying and I have done it very occasionally myself, box of tissues for a runny nose (mine), a mouthful out of a bottle of water for a catch in throat, and once a pack of Rennes for heartburn. Each time I asked nearby staff in advance as I hadn't paid yet.

Eating in supermarket whether you have paid or not is minging, I have seen trolleys with remenents of food or foodpackaging in them, empty sandwich packs, yogurt pots, frube tubes, sticky or greasy trolley handles. Very inconsiderate, wait until you get home.

Mozfan - M&S. They have a supersoft range and it really is supersoft, I can't stop feeling it!

Miss Hoolies I wonder how with their constant vomiting, shaking, sobbing and emotional devastation that they manage to get through the day. It's almost like they are massively over exaggerating as an attention seeking device or using their apparent emotional distress as a way of sticking the boot in another poster and look empathetic at the same time 'I'm sobbing for your poor children as I type this.'

Also, why are really switched on people never described as gormful (as an antonym of gormless). I could certainly do with a bit more gorm.

That's grim Youarenot.

I want to know where all these frothing types were yesterday on the throwing dog poo into other people's wheelie bins thread. They could have let rip!

There's the people who agree with the OP, the people who disagree, the people who chuck about words like common and uncouth, and then the people who LOVE to pop on and slag off the people who disagree because it makes them feel better about what marvellously unopinionated wonder posters they are.

People disagree, get over it. People don't have to accept over people's arguments, no matter how valid you think they are.

Pollyanna your comparison to the restaurant is so ridiculous I will give you an equally ridiculous one.
Do you enter Zara, try on clothes, choose then wear them to the till?
Nope. You pay for them first.
And quite rude to make assumptions about the OP from a perfectly good question she is asking.
Sorry but what a ridiculous comparison you made. still laughing

Ds is more of a pork pie/chocolate cookie boy. Dds liked a raw carrot (organic and weighed - don't worry couth mumsnerters!)

The only thing I draw the line at is cracking open a bottle of Prosecco in the supermarket, because that shit causes an awful mess when you swig it from the bottle.

Lol pinkpanther Amen to the real issue you mentioned
Yep to Daily
Agree with Pambag. If people cant go 30-60 minutes without food (providing no medical conditions) then we are the least efficient animal species in the planet.
Come people admit it, it is poor planning and a lot of us find it rude, bad example and unhygienic

I don't like all this eating in the supermarket, it's very uncouth.

I do the shopping online as I find other people so irritating.

Couldn't your child wait the few minutes until you got home and maybe extra time until the next meal, OP?..

I was taught as a child that you don't eat and drink in shops, this was really in the context of the high street, so if you had a drink or snack you finished it or put it away before going in so you didn't accidentally spill anything on the shop goods. We were never offered food in the supermarket either. So I've done the same with my DCs, we just don't eat or drink in shops, I've never offered them food or drink, they've never questioned it and it's never been a problem. Other people have different ways, that's fine too so long as they avoid mess and pay for it.

Its not about wearing a hair shirt though is it? Its about behaviour.
I have ni wyalms about svoffing all of my shopping when i get home!
Tbh i didnt even know that eating before paying in a supermarket was even a thing before reading this thread, never mind quite a usual thing to do.

Mrs: "I don't need to go to the supermarket and neither do you"

Well what are you doing in there then? Go to the park instead.

Come on, most people only go to the supermarket because they need to buy a load of food there. No-one in their right minds does it as a pastime.

I wouldn't do this sort of thing regularly, only on a minor emergency, usually things like water, wet wipes and paracetamol tablets. I wouldn't be comfortable eating something I hadn't paid for. I buy DS a snack before getting started if necessary.

I love a good judgy pant hoiking thread.

I'm off to Waitrose now to eat pork pies in the aisles, I'll report back with a count of Hyacinth Bucket faces spotted.