to wonder why the whole family go supermarket shopping?

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I tend to shop without my children as it's easier; I get that lone parents have to take their children with them but what I can't make sense of is why you see two adults with several children in tow at the supermarket?

Shopping with children for the weekly shop doesn't seem to be much of a pleasurable experience to me and it's probably not that fun for the children so why do people do it?

^So something like
Woman: oh I need to go to the shops
Man: we’ll all go
Woman: why don’t you stay at home with the kids
Man: what? And entertain the toddler?
Woman: well you go to the shops then
Man: but I don’t know what we neeeeeeed, you know me, I’m hopeless
Woman: well I can’t do a big shop and take the kids, you have to do something
Man: come on let’s just all go, it’ll be easier
Woman: fine

Get to shops

Man: on phone the whole time
Woman: dreams of running off a la Shirley Valentine
Kids: bored AF^

batteries too funny and too true

Because involving children in everyday tasks and activities is a perfectly reasonable and sensible thing to do? Because they learn about shopping and food? Because they like it? Because they don't get much family time? Because it's good for them to learn how to behave well in such situations? Any number of reasons really.

Ditto couples that do the school run together 🙄
Weirdos

@MaggieS41 it's actually sad and depressing...but hey ho.

I just assume they have incredibly mundane lives

Eolian-I agree.

My 3 and 1 year old are well-behaved so I am able to take them. If however you have dreadful badly behaved children then I can see why this would horrify you.

I just assume they have incredibly mundane lives

Well yes, most people do. Very few people live grand and glorious lives.

Parents + children = fine
Parents + children + grandparents + uncles + friends + several other random people blocking an aisle = instant rage
I've seen about ten people before with one trolley, all blocking the aisle, kids running everywhere, one lay on the floor screaming. It looked like fun for nobody!

Shopping as and when is the worst because it gets more expensive that way. I used to spend a bomb doing that. I find planning and doing a weekly shop keeps the cost down.

I agree with a pp more helping hands are better and it means you can get the shop completed faster.

I actually find retired couples about a hundred and eleventy billion times worse for getting in the way. Well, the male half of the retired couples. Spatial awareness in supermarkets was obviously very very far down the list of life skills a mid century British male was expected to acquire.....

Presumably you're one of those families clogging up the aisles idontdowindows 😆

@MozzchopsThirty I actually think it’s lovely to see couples doing the school run. If they’re happy why would it bother you?

Presumably you're one of those families clogging up the aisles idontdowindows 😆

Not anymore CheeseyToast, nowadays we're the a hundred and eleventy billion times worse retired couple

One thing worse than entire families wafting around blocking aisles while only one member actually does the shopping is all the kids being in those sodding Heely shoes for the occasion.

What bothers me is SAHP's who have no DC at home (they are all school age) but leave the shopping until Saturday and they all go out together. I have a friend that does this and I feel sorry for the DC being dragged around shops when they would rather go to a park. I don't understand why anyone would go shopping at the weekend when the shops are packed if they didn't have to.

@PasstheStarmix it's bad enough doing the school run without 2 of you having to do it?
What purpose does it serve?
Why does it take 2 people to take one year 3 child to the class door 🙄
Overbearing and unnecessary
The same parents that have something to tell the teacher every friggin morning

Gets right on my toot

Neither of us drive and it used to take two adults to carry it home.

Oh you’re talking about a specific couple? I thought you were just bothered by all couples walking they’re kids to school and was thinking that was alittle odd.

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It’s lovely if people have the time but I’d have thought most don’t...

Yes Tacos fucking heely’s. So dangerous and stupid on a supermarket floor. I don’t know why they’re allowed.

I work in a supermarket and I can’t say I recognise these families who enjoy each other’s company and help each other get the shop done quickly. I see parents trying to get a mundane but necessary job done with everyone who is with them either chiming in with an opinion or climbing all over the trolley or running or skating up and down the store not giving a shit about anyone around them. They may well be having a lovely family experience but I guarantee no one else around them is enjoying it.

I gp with the kids because they enjoy it, age 4 and 6. (must have a low fun threshold) they get to choose things they'd like and also choose an item each week for the charity collection. They always choose something they would want if it was them. I think it is an educational outing.

I used to LOVE going supermarket shopping as a family when I was a child. Not so much just a regular shop with my mum, but if my dad was around too, he would make it really fun. He was the king of impulse buys.
Think my DC would say the same - they enjoy coming if we all go together. Family time and time to choose some nice treats together.