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To push super market trolley home

143 replies

ghostspirit · 07/01/2017 13:36

I was thinking about going shopping and then pushing the supermarket trolley back to my house. It would be easyer than over loading the pram. But thenot now I have written it it seems it feels I am bu. I am aren't I?

OP posts:
WussyWat · 07/01/2017 14:15

Oh god, the noise of it chugging down pavements and across roads, i'd be mortified trying to navigate a trolley all the way home Shock it's not really the done thing is it, on the odd occasion I've seen someone do it I can't help but cringe massively.

I think I'd just stick with online shopping if this was my only other option tbh.

TiggyCBE · 07/01/2017 14:16

If you get caught taking it away you might get banned by the supermarket.

WonderMike · 07/01/2017 14:16

Used to do this every week as a kid Grin as my parents live around the corner from the shops, which was still closer than the far end of the shop carpark. Now my dad always has one of those little supermarket trolleys in the front garden (hidden in a bush, very classy) amd just swaps it over next time he goes over the precinct - yes he could get a proper old lady trolley, but the tesco one is free and he's a man. He also gets a Tesco one to go round Lidl because he can't be doing with paying.

SeahorsesSwim · 07/01/2017 14:16

Yabu. People do this and don't return them, everyone will assume you're stealing. Online shop from tesco only a couple of pounds for delivery, or get your own wheely trolley and scan as you shop, easy enough.

AtomHeart · 07/01/2017 14:16

If you want to save money, online is fine provided that you put "basics" (if Sainsbury's) into the search box and then all the cheaper stuff comes up for you to choose.

EuropeanSwallow · 07/01/2017 14:42

Yes, it's unreasonable. I can't believe the number of people who are saying it's ok as long as you take it back - how many actually do or would take it back? We used to live near a supermarket and there were trolleys just left all over the place even on other people's lawns. Plus it's theft - you take it off the supermarket's property, it's stealing. You're a thief. Buy a bloody wheely shopping bag or your own trolley and keep it in your house or yard.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 07/01/2017 14:45

Slightly ott response from EuropeanSwallow there...

EuropeanSwallow · 07/01/2017 14:47

WonderMike - it wasn't free to the supermarket is it? They paid for it, it's theirs and when they have to raise their prices to pay for STOLEN trolleys we're all paying for them too. Your dad is a thief.

EuropeanSwallow · 07/01/2017 14:50

No not ott, Paul. I don't get why people condone theft when something belongs to a business when they'd be spitting if someone helped themselves to their property. Ooh look a bike in that yard, I'll just borrow it to ride home, it'll be ok as long as I return it.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 07/01/2017 14:52

Thief!!!! STOLEN!

It's a bleeding trolley. That the op said she would be returning. Unbunch your panties.

TiggyCBE · 07/01/2017 14:56

Is the OP going to ask the shop to take it?

Why not?

EuropeanSwallow · 07/01/2017 15:01

My panties are great, thanks, may I recommend the Victoria's Secret boy shorts? Great bum coverage with no crack-flossing or chafing tendencies.

LauderSyme · 07/01/2017 15:02

It would be a practical way of getting your heavy shopping home but it's not a good look!
I use a rucksack.

NoelHeadbands · 07/01/2017 15:04

Knock yourself out but I'd feel like the worlds biggest knobhead.

Mind you, I struggle to steer them across the car park so I wouldn't be able to anyway

Lorelei76 · 07/01/2017 15:06

OP is it a shop that doesn't deliver? I can't understNd why you'd want to do this.

WonderMike · 07/01/2017 15:09

Calm down Swallow He takes it back Hmm He's not selling them for scrap, he wheels them home - as I said which is closer than the far end of the carpark - and then returns them later. It's more borrowing Chavvy, yes, illegal, nope.

Shockers · 07/01/2017 15:17

I absentmindedly walked home from Booths with the trolley once. I only realised when the wheels got stuck in the gravel in front of my house. The walk back with the empty trolley seemed to last forever.

Sparklingbrook · 07/01/2017 15:22

I have no idea why anyone would do this unless they lived over the road from the supermarket. Trolleys are not designed to go up and down kerbs in any case.
You going to push it into the kitchen? Grin

insan1tyscartching · 07/01/2017 15:22

Before home delivery I used to see lots of people pushing trolleys home nowadays though I think people shop online or the co op and Iceland deliver what you have bought in store for free so have most likely done away with the need to take a trolley home.

user789653241 · 07/01/2017 15:24

I don't really care what other people do, as long as they take care of the trolley afterwards.

Somebody left the trolley in our front garden once. It was really annoying to take it back!

ticklingafoot · 07/01/2017 15:27

A tad gauche I think!! Also it's lazy and weird.

ticklingafoot · 07/01/2017 15:29

Oh and it is theft... even if it's temporary.

ticklingafoot · 07/01/2017 15:29

Oh and it is theft... even if it's temporary.

PinkSwimGoggles · 07/01/2017 15:29

yaby
they are really expensive to replace.
I have a reisenthel trolly which looks great and together with a backpack fits the weekly shop for 4.

BusterGonad · 07/01/2017 15:31

I pushed the trolley home once, I bought more than I had planned, it was so shameful and I felt like a really scabby git, to make it worse saw my husbands work colleagues on the walk of shame! I didn't take the trolly back purely because the supermarket have employees that round them all up as their job, I'm not in the U.K and a lot of people push the trolleys home, hence trolly rounder uppers.

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