To think if you behave like a twat in the supermarket...

[SachaStark]

... then you kind of deserve to be treated like a twat in the supermarket?

I went into our local 24 hour Asda yesterday (NEVER usually brave this on a Saturday. DH and I either shop extremely early or extremely late, so it’s only shelf stackers around. Plus, we live in a tourist area, so it’s particularly overrun at the moment) because I hadn’t realised I’d run out of hair conditioner, and I didn’t want to wash my hair without it.

Run in, run out. A couple of minutes maximum.

Fuck me, but there are some twats in the world.

People stopping at the top of the travelator- you have an extremely slow journey to make up your mind, with a very clear view of what’s at the top. And there are only two options, clothing or toiletries! Make up your damn mind, and move out of the way!

People gathering their ENTIRE family to have a reunion with another ENTIRE family in the middle of an aisle. What the fuck? This is not a social outing, and your combined mass of 20 people are blocking everything.

And grown-ass adults with their mates having a ride. On. The. Fucking. Trolley. Oh my word, grow up and get on with your shopping! One of these guys was having a slow whizz ride right in front of the aisle I needed to get to. I’m not waiting for his twattery to finish, I grabbed the front of the trolley to stop him, and carried on with my day.

AIBU to think this sort of behaviour just isn’t on in the supermarket?

Oh yes.
Unfortunately they are everywhere and as you well know, there is no cure for twatness.
Avoid or continue your late night/early morning persuits as they will make you feel like you need to ram them with your trolley.

True, there really is no cure for this.

I just don’t understand how they can cope with THEMSELVES. At least I can escape it after a moment or two. Dripping along spending half the day in the supermarket, I would go mad with boredom.

I used the Scan and Go (usually way quicker), and when I got to the checkout, there was a couple with TWO TROLLIES of stuff, and clutching a scan gun, saying to the assistant, “Sorry, we forgot the scan as we went.” And she actually went and scanned for them two whole trollies of shopping, whilst people who had alcohol, etc, had to wait so their purchases could be verified.

I mean, for heaven’s sake, I would be mortified with myself.

You should try working in retail...I deal with crackpot people on a daily basis, it amazes me how 'away with the fairies' people can be at times!!

I expect I do need to chill a bit now. It’s been a very long, hard half-term, and I just wanted to wash my hair! Conversely, I also think other people need to sort themselves out a bit. How can there possibly be hundreds of people in one building, all of whom seem to have no grasp of how to organise themselves?!

I did work in retail for 7 years! And you are right, you never forget how odd some folk are.

Why in the world the assistant at scan and go should have told them to get into a regular check out queue. Though if I was there waiting I would have piped up and said ‘excuse me can you get another assistant?’
I normally shop online but the odd time I have had to brave a weekend visit to the store I am amazed at how families treat it as a family outing. Do both parents and all the kids need to go? Argh!

You sooooo nbu. The reunion families do my head. Bumped into friends? Fab! Go and have a coffee in the caff.

But also this is why I shop at lidl

I've seen grown adults going round the supermarket on those stupid scooters ffs.

You say people need to be organised, OP, but you couldn't organise yourself to make sure that you never run out of hair care products! Yes, there are lots of people around who behave in a stupid fashion, and they are to be avoided as much as possible, I agree, but also people who forget to stock up on what they think are essentials with their weekly shop!

This is why local Co-ops are so handy. Run in, run out. If I want to avoid the insanity of the supermarket idiots, try Sainsbury or Waitrose instead. I’ve never experienced loopy behaviour in those two (bar a tiff between two elderly gents at the checkout that my DH dealt with), nor in Morrisons or Tesco, actually. My DH calls it Asbo instead of Asda. He once had to avoid someone he’d arrested in the vegetable aisle. (He didn’t arrest them in the veg aisle!😂)

Indeed, I do actually bulk buy and keep a kind of store in my utility room of bathroom products. But on this occasion of running out, I am able to, like an actual adult, go into a shop, locate the product, scan it and pay. The only thing holding me up are the masses of people who seem incapable of these minor acts on a large scale, who act as obstacles.

It’s like a really shit video game level.

I love the idea of a fantasy, relaxing supermarket shop where I can 'source' my pretentious list of Ottolenghi must haves - interspersed with many visits to local artisan purveyors of sourdough and organic meat obvs.
In reality, I pop to Lidl which is empty half the time and is free from family outings ( here anyway). I did a car to car full shop in 25 mins. The trolley was overflowing and no stress. No one wears PJs in our Lidl either.

Ah, but we live right next door to the Asda, but would have to drive a few miles to the Co-Op, so would be a right waste not to use it for this visit!

Sainsbury’s is good, but they don’t stock my hair conditioner at all.

Waitrose is way too expensive to be a weekly shop supermarket!

You need to chill out. If you hate super markets, home delivery is a good option. Family reunions doing their modern day hunting and gathering in the super market may be the only time they see each other between working all week. So what? Everyone is different. Yabu, lucky you only running out of conditioner.

Yes, op. Make sure you never run out of hair care products, ever. Quizqueen, give yourself a day off!

We live next door to the supermarket, what an environmental waste to have a van drive it round for us. And like I said, we usually shop either very early or very late. I’ve not been in a busy supermarket in months, and it was quite the shock to the system.

Honestly, if I felt that level of stress at visiting a supermarket on a Saturday, I would've just grabbed a different conditioner from a chemist or corner shop.

Yes, ma’am, I promise to faithfully never run out of home stock again!

It’s the ‘tourist area’ aspect which is doing you over, OP. I know we are supposed to recognise that local businesses and the whole local economy needs the tourist money, but fuck me! Why do they forget how to push a trolley? Forget which brand of cereal they like? It’s unbearable.

I would have loved to, but the chemist is much further from my house than the supermarket, and no guarantee it would have anything appropriate. My hair is very fussy about what I use to condition, hence why I usually just buy a dozen pots at a time (especially on offer).

How can there possibly be hundreds of people in one building, all of whom seem to have no grasp of how to organise themselves?!

The answer is there can't.

Therefore, it must be more to do with your mood or perception of other people if you think this.

No! It’s the males who leave there trolly at an angle across the isle while they ring their partners to ask if they isisally have x or y brand of something irreverent and tell them the butter is 10p dearer ..... ahhhhh

You're going to have an answer for everything aren't you OP

I should've guessed that when I read the longest ever explanation for shopping in a supermarket on a Saturday in your OP.

My biggest annoyance when shopping is when someone is standing in front of something you need umming and ahhing about whether to buy it. Get out of the way 🙄