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To get annoyed with people who say the supermarkets are only closed for one day?

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BrieAndChilli · 22/12/2016 10:54

People keep moaning about how busy the supermarkets are and how people are buying as if the shops are closed for a month etc etc

Yes the supermarkets are busier because people DONT want to be going food shopping xmas eve/Boxing Day, next few days as maybe they want to relax, drink all day and so not drive, have lots of guests over that they want to spend time with!!
Plus the shops are busier because all the people that would normally do thier weekly shop on a Sunday/Monday are doing it earlier and those that would do it on a tue/wed are leaving it a day or so later so they can last over xmas.

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Astro55 · 22/12/2016 11:59

But .... If you are catering for 20 people - why aren't there 20 less people in the shops?

It doesn't make sense!

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 22/12/2016 12:07

We have been buying christmas stuff (mainly drinks and chocolate) since november

Online shopping is coming tonight, the only christmas stuff on it is a few dips as we have everything else. I will buy some bread tomorrow, and some port...dont know why all the port has gone

Its only the 5 of us on christmas day though...and we are only haveing M&S curry

mummydawn07 · 22/12/2016 12:08

KingJoffreysRestingCuntface same here, I'm like a drunk driver with those bloody trolleys, I have trouble controlling the things and I'm sure they've got it in for me I am always nearly crashing into other people and the shops shelves I always do mine online now, it's so much easier.
I luckily have a Tesco express that is a five minute walk from whrre I live and it's open it 10pm xmas eve and boxing day so if I do need to get something urgently I can

BITCAT · 22/12/2016 12:10

FadedRed same here. I remember it like yesterday. My mother and I carrying 5/6 bags on each hand on the bus!! Thank God for Internet shopping and home deliveries. I don't think I could cope. Lol

LunaLoveg00d · 22/12/2016 12:10

How does someone push three trolleys?

She had two sulky looking teens in tow who were loudly complaining to their mum as I wandered past with my basket. I was only looking for bread sauce and they'd sold out!!

galaxygirl45 · 22/12/2016 12:11

We've just had our normal shop delivered, with a few added extras as we have 12 for Christmas lunch. It's a 2 day holiday yet people act like its armageddon. Such gluttony and wastage and the media pressure of the "perfect" Christmas really saddens me more every year. It's the 1 day of the year I get my hermit dad out of his house and into mine, that alone makes it a very special day!!!

KingJoffreysRestingCuntface · 22/12/2016 12:16

mummydawn, yes!!

I spend so much time apologising to people for having almost run them over I have no time to shop.

Number4OnTheWay · 22/12/2016 12:21

I had 2 trollies when I did my big shop on Monday, we are a family of 5, but are contributing meals to family gatherings (one has 21 people, the just 8 and then 21+ I can't count there are too many!!) plus I was buying some last minute stocking fillers while I was there and picked up some clothes for the kids (they've all shot up 😕)
I still need to get some fresh bits and will be doing it at 7amish on Xmas Eve. I refuse to go to the shops at any point during 21st December-3rd Jan!

Number4OnTheWay · 22/12/2016 12:22

(other than last minute Xmas Eve shop)

NotCitrus · 22/12/2016 12:25

I think the people who do shop for lots of food are also taking 3x as long as usual, so the shops seem more crowded even though there's not more people involved.

carrie74 · 22/12/2016 12:31

We go on group holidays every summer (always 20+ people), and we need 3 trollies of food EVERY DAY. If you're catering for a lot of people, the food soon disappears.

Personally, I tend to get enough food for about 3 days, but I'm only catering for 6! It's still more food than we'd normally get with wine, extra chocs, and feeding everyone for 3 big meals a day etc.

Wolverbamptonwanderer · 22/12/2016 12:35

God there's LOADS to buy. I have just come out of M&S and their Christmas food sparkles! Why wouldn't you want to pick up a nice variety of all the fun yummy Xmas food? All the cheeses and pates and chocolate puddings and fruit cakes yum yum yum. You can sit with your sad chicken dinner and half a glass of wine if you like but for most people (all the people in the shops!) Xmas is about socialising and eating and drinking and relaxing

zukiecat · 22/12/2016 12:51

Not me, I have just enough in for Xmas day lunch, no luxuries or extras

I will be doing my normal online shop on the 30th as that's when I get paid, if we run out of something before then, then it's tough, we will just have to do without it til pay day

I work in my local shop, and it does get to me sometimes, seeing the amount that some people buy

HerBluebiro · 22/12/2016 12:52

I had two trolleys when I hosted 3 years ago. A bit of over catering. Although it all got eaten. A big chuck was cooking from scratch. So I made a game terrine. The packets of meat took up loads more space than if I'd just bought one ready made. The turkey to feed 15 took up nearly half a trolley. And yeah I needed food for myself for a week (well I think it was 2 weeks as straight after Christmas I did a 12 day run of 13 hour shifts)

Waitrose yesterday was lovely to shop in mind you. No where near as bad as I was expecting. Still managed to forget everything I needed.

zukiecat · 22/12/2016 12:54

Wolverbampton

What if that "sad chicken dinner" is all that some people can afford?

Your post is quite offensive to those that struggle to put food on the table everyday, let alone Christmas

Wolverbamptonwanderer · 22/12/2016 12:58

Zukie what does that have to do with people panic buying three trolleys of food and insinuating they don't understand that the shop is only closed one day?

BarbaraofSeville · 22/12/2016 13:02

Indeed, you can socialise and relax without paying a fortune for sparkly overpriced M&S food. I have some M&S party nibbles in the freezer from when they were selling them at half price a few weeks ago and they were a lot of money for what they were even then.

And of course, not everyone can afford it, so it's horrible to call someone's chicken dinner 'sad' if that's all they can manage and are doing their best, or even if thats' what they're having because they don't want a big fancy dinner for whatever reason.

In previous years I've fallen into the trap of buying lots because it's there and then we've struggled to eat it, had to freeze it and having it all hanging about kind of takes the shine off it, so this year I haven't bought loads of extra just for the sake of it.

You can only eat so much after all and a lot of it will still all be in the shops in a week or two because there is such an enormous amount of stuff in the shops, I'm sure it's worse this year. I was in M&S yesterday getting lunch and there just seemed to be so much Christmas Dinner stuff everywhere.

PurpleTraitor · 22/12/2016 13:05

Christmas Eve dinner for seven, Christmas dinner for ten, Boxing Day buffet for 18, Christmas party night for umpteen (30 or so invited, who knows how many will eat) then New Years dinner for nine. Normal groceries for family of five. And I'm not going to the shops between today and 3rd Jan, because it's Christmas, and Christmas lasts for twelve days of feasting. Hurrah.

MissVictoria · 22/12/2016 13:05

I love food shopping, its relaxing. We don't mind just having a chicken for dinner but we do like to do a christmas eve turkey hunt, last year from about mid day christmas eve my local asda had a load of fresh turkeys and made them £6 instead of £20. Do love a bargain, and if they have none we will just get a chicken.

Astro55 · 22/12/2016 13:09

. You can sit with your sad chicken dinner and half a glass of wine if you like

That's just mean!!

It's not about the dinner I s self it the mad number of shoppers - what ever they are panic buying!!!

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 22/12/2016 13:09

We dumped a load of stuff in the garage and dh kept complaining about how much there was

I have now put it in four boxes, christmas eve, christmas day, boxing day and new years day and now he keeps saying how little we have

BarbaraofSeville · 22/12/2016 13:10

I've often wondered about having in 'emergency' Christmas Dinner supplies but going very late in the day (eg less than an hour before the shops shut) to see what amazing pot luck bargains I could get - giant free range goose for a fiver and all those M&S ready made things for 10 p a pack, that sort of thing, but I think that sort of activity is a bit too popular amongst the moneysavingexpert crowd these days and I can't face the thought of fighting the scrum, so would never bother.

zukiecat · 22/12/2016 13:15

Just that to people who can barely afford food as it is, seeing people with trolleys full of stuff they don't "need" can be quite upsetting

I'm not offended by it as much, more that I think that could feed so many people for weeks

There's just so much greed and wastefulness at this time of year

Wolverbamptonwanderer · 22/12/2016 13:20

Are you kidding? Someone without much money might be upset by people filling their three trolleys at Xmas? And what? People shouldn't fill their 3 trolleys in case they upset someone?

There is so much competitive austerity on here

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 22/12/2016 13:26

Just that to people who can barely afford food as it is, seeing people with trolleys full of stuff they don't "need" can be quite upsetting

FFS.

I have alopecia. Should the rest of humanity get a buzz cut cos seeing people with hair might "trigger" me?

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