To love pottering round the supermarket?

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I love pottering round the supermarket, buying stuff I don't really need, but it's on offer so it's a bargain! (I know they're not bargains just marketing ploys!)

I find it really relaxing. I can easily be in there a couple of hours. I'm sitting in the coffee shop at one at the moment.

Some people say they hate doing the Big Shop. I don't know how that's possible!

Even when I'm on a tight budget I like looking at stuff even if I can't buy it. Does this make me a weirdo?! It's almost up there with a spa treatment in my list of relaxing things to do!

I would love to go to a Tesco Extra and need to find The Range shop that is closest

Homesense is wonderful. A day out at IKEA (on a quiet day) is my idea of a good day out

OP you and my OH should go shopping.

I hate shopping- OH can spend hours in the supermarket. He loves cooking and looking at products, he can spend half an hour in the spice aisle looking at preserved lemons and flavoured oils.

It drives me nuts.

Me too! A close friend of mine is the same. Many a time we have been out for dinner together with friends and then head to Tesco on our way home for a mooch together.

Target and that little Amazon Go shop in the US are on my bucket list [shame]

Yabu.

Supermarkets are boring. Mine is anyway. A huge Tesco and I hate the supermarket shop anyway. I don't mind Aldi tho.

A good garden centre, B and M, The Range or even a nice charity shop are brilliant.

Me too!

I lived abroad for a while and the supermarkets were no way as good. (No bargainous deals). I've considered getting into couponing because I think I'd love it.

Defo not alone. Love it, home and abroad.

I fully appreciate supermarket pottering now that I can go alone, look at stuff, take my time and enjoy.

When my kids were little supermarkets were building of horror, torture and dread.

I rushed in 10 items on list, threw them into trolley knowing exactly where said items were, paid and ran out as quickly as possible to minimize the screaming/climbing/running off hell.

Now, ahhhhhh, bliss!

This is one of my favourite things! Love it! Most people think I’m crazy.
When we go on a self catering holiday, my OH knows my first job is to spend hours in a supermarket (US ones are amazing), it’s all part of the holiday for me.

Only if it's Waitrose. Going to Asda is as relaxing as the London riots.

I love browsing in foreign supermarkets

Foreign supermarkets are heaven. But the budgens in Ascot (surrey) is a sight to behold. Tres posh

I always take a list and try to stick to it as I'm on a budget - but items are displayed so nicely that they're a huge temptation. So, yes, I do enjoy a bit of a mooch around, especially in the china department.
However, I think problems can arise if a moocher is married to a non-moocher. My sister loathes shopping and her aim is to get in and out as quickly as possible but her husband is a 'right-old moocher' which gives her the rage, almost foaming at the mouth - so now she sends him out on his own with a list.

I HATE it. You are VVVVV U lol.

However, I can waste hours away at the stationery shop, I always need pens, notebooks etc 😍.

Fiancé loves the supermarket so it’s been known that she’ll go to Topps (what Waitrose is called in Thailand) while I go to B2S. Huge stationery and book shop.

DSD goes to soft play.

It’s the only way forward for us.

I can drive to the shops, buy everything, drive home and unpack in less time than she’d be in the supermarket. But she thinks you can just buy a pen Tesco 🤔 lol.

I love it !!
Avoid the reduced woopsie aisles tho...fear for my life in that one!
I’m off to Tesco shortly

Ooo, I bloody love a foreign supermarket - like looking at the similar but different products and trying new things. Toiletries and crisps tend to be a personal highlight.

I also have a weird love of Walgreens pharmacy in the US - they're amazing, the stuff you can buy! And I like Burt's Bees products which are much cheaper over there.

I also keep foreign shopping bags and reuse them at home. My DH doesn't really share my excitement but DD, 9, is right there with me

American supermarkets are brilliant. Hours of entertainment, looking at all the New Stuff.

I used to hate shopping pre-kids. I hate hate hate it with kids. But since having DD, this is me...

Can't say I like it. No. Though when son was younger and I had the rare chance to go on my own it was like an hour of peace by comparison.

M&S or Waitrose occasionally but then spend a fortune. Occasionally ALDI or LIDL - the only real kick is the low prices at the end. I do find LIDL more relaxing, has a quieter, continental feel. With ALDI I always feel "on edge" .

I can enjoy IKEA on a day out once-in-a-blue-moon, especially with a nice lunch. Though I do find IKEA disappointing these days - their stuff so bright and controversial - but I do like some of their displays .

I do a Sainsburys delivery once a week. A couple of top ups.

I love pottering around M&S even more. The cafe may have some bearing on this! Might take DS to one for a potter tomorrow.

Yes to M&S.

I often find it very therapeutic. Pottering round looking at the clothes. Maybe something tasty for dinner.

Especially of an evening when quiet. I don't like lunch-time when all the stressed mums and grannies are tearing round .

With a nice cup of coffee in the cafe.

And release.

I love pottering around 'the shops'.
I don't have to buy anything. It's relaxing.
It's my dh's idea of hell.

I love supermarket shopping, especially the seasonal aisles. I don't know anybody else who does.

I love nosying around the supermarket i can lose hours . Im going to disneyland paris in november and im very excited to go check out the shopping centre at val d'europe. Auchan hypermarket looks sensational

Well this is a nice thread, I've never known anyone besides me who really enjoys supermarket shopping. Hooray I'm not a weirdo !

I think for me it's because growing up there wasn't a lot of money so shopping was from a list; this specific brand only, lots of own brand which to be fair have hugely improved but were pretty shit when I was a child. YellowPack anyone? As an adult I've never quite lost the buzz I get from being able to afford whatever I want. Well, within reason I mean I'm not clearing the champagne shelf!

I love wandering the aisles and picking up new things to try knowing I can buy those fancy olives or nice cheeses. It's not just the "naice" stuff I get excited about, spotting crappy foods that are suitable for vegetarians gives me a real buzz because in early 90s Dublin it was bean-feast or... bean-feast. Oh the excitement of buying veggie sausage and beans in a tin a few years back. They were fucking rank but still . Naturally DH thinks I'm a nut job.

yay.ive found my people

I shop online which saves me a fortune most of the time, but once every couple of months I go to the supermarket & love it - could spend all day going from one to the other.
I get to see what's new, pick up stuff to try I would never have got online & because it's only half a dozen times a year it's always novel.
Hated supermarkets when I shopped in them weekly.