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).

"But they don't though, do they?
So what is your point?"

My point is it would be pretty revolting and unhygienic. Just imagine it. But some people clearly think it's fine for their little family unit to do because they have the right. My point is: luckily most people have a sense of what is acceptable.

My DCs are 5 and 10 and have never been so starving hungry that they've needed to open stuff in supermarkets before it's paid for. I'd go mad at them if they did. It's not yours til you've paid for it. I don't even let them open sweets til we're outside the shop, this whole need-to-eat-immediately thing is not ok (with the exception of certain medical conditions/babies, but even then I used to take a satsuma in my handbag for them to eat as they sat in the trolley when they were very young).

Gave up after page 6 but for all those saying bring your own food;

My DD is diabetic so I would often take a pack of biscuits or a chocolate bar when we went out incase she needed it. Both Asda and Tesco told me to put them away when she was eating and told me to get something of the shelf.
The same DD, now 19, whilst out with her friends took one sip out of a bottle of coke she brought earlier that day and put it back in her bag, as they were leaving the security guard stopped her and took her to the office and I had to pick her up as she couldn't prove she had brought it and not just nicked it. She was about 15 at the time.
And more recently, we went to the cinema and brought more food than we needed so was still munching on my m&ms when we popped into Asda, as soon as I walked in the security told me to put them away and not eat them in the store.

A lot of shops don't like you bringing outside food in.

As for the supermarkets not having a sign up - oh honestly. They don't have a sign up because they imagine customers will not walk around chomping on the produce.

Maybe this is just me, but I can't say I've ever paid enough attention to what other customers are doing in a supermarket to notice if they are snacking on the way round or not. I'm usually focused on my own business - getting what I need and getting the hell out of there. There are times I've been that focused getting round a supermarket, I could've walked past Tom Cruise eating an entire tub of Ben n Jerry's and I wouldn't have noticed!

It's not something I would typically do - I've never done it - but if it's what other people do, then it's their business and it's between them and the supermarket. It doesn't make any difference to my life; I'm certainly far too busy to be bothered by it to the point of "revulsion".

I really don't care what other people do, as long as it's paid for what is the problem? Some people spend too much time worrying what others are doing..

Saying "Just imagine it."is a manner of speaking @MrsDeVere.
And absolutely, people who do this sort of thing are behaving in an unacceptable way. I don't do so and if that makes me better than those who do, so be it.

Why are you so angry and defensive?

Maybe the next time you are in Waitrose, you should desist...

My friend's who work in the supermarket I have been going to for the last 8 years, do this with their own children when they are in there doing their own shopping in there. The lady at the deli counter keeps a chocolate cookie in a bag ready for ds, and has learnt to sign 'chocolate biscuit' to him - her manager should have a word for encouraging such reprobate behaviour as eating a cookie and paying for it at the checkouts. Except he wouldn't because we are respectful and nice, oh, and I might as well get my wages paid directly to the supermarket because we spend so much bloody money in there.

In future I will bring ds his own snacks in a nosebag.

oh and this thread has made me so hangry I have had to go and steal one of ds's mini pork pies from the fridge. Curse you all.

Scores diabetes aside there is no reason to be eating in the supermarket so the bringing your own food in shouldn't apply. And as for having a few grapes/raspberry etc. Do you normally feed your children unwashed fruit?

I've have similar sofres, always told to put food away if it wasn't brought in store but never told to stop nibbling on things I've picked up and not payed for yet.

To me, peering down one's nose, calling them slobbish, uncouth and chavvy is unacceptable behaviour, but eating something in the supermarket and paying for it afterwards isn't - different strokes for different folks.

It leads to food on the floor and mice and I think it is rude and entitled.
Because they wouldn't have to clean the floor if people didn't eat while they were shopping?

no adult or child will starve or die of thirst during a quick shop or even an longer one
No-one was suggested there was a risk of death, but it can make the experience more pleasant and less stressful.
On the ground that the supermarkets don't mind, it's only nosey randoms who do, then I'll go with more pleasant and less stressful.

This is another one of those threads where the people who do thing being judged are absolutely outraged to discover that they're being judged.
Not outraged, I find it amusing that other people get so wound up over something that I might be doing that has no impact on them at all.
I care so little about things like this that I find it weird that some people allow themselves to be so negatively influenced by what other people do. It must be exhausting It reminds me of my MIL curtain twitching and getting slightly hysterical about what the neighbours are doing!

I wouldn't do it but then again I'm a worrier and would spend the whole supermarket shop panicking about being told off

diabetes aside there is no reason to be eating in the supermarket
Unless you want to of course - then it's fine :)

Shitting in the crisp aisle? Abhorrent and viiiiilllleeeee

Eating a satsuma? Pretty meh.

what outrages me more than this is people using the word 'boak' to describe how this makes them feel.

boak? boak? boak? when did that become an acceptable word to describe being sick? What's wrong with just using the word sick?

boak? as Catherine Tate would say, what a f***g liberty

My Tesco has free fruit for the kids to eat as you go around. We take a piece for the kids each time we go. Where do we stand on the vulgarity level? How about free samples? We let the kids try those too!

(As long as it's not one that needs to be weighed but out of a packet that has a pre determined price )