Christmas grocery shopping at midnight

[RosieLancs]

Would I be crazy to go grocery shopping at midnight tonight and is it likely to bed busy?
Our Christmas plans have changed last minute (long boring story about family illnesses etc) and we now find outself staying home for Christmas Day.

Our local Tesco and Asda are both open all night, I went past earlier but it looked packed and I'm still recovering from the flu so a packed store is the last thing I wanted to face.

Would it be a really bad idea to head to the supermarket at about midnight tonight?
My 17 year old will be back from babysitting by then and my 10 year old twins are really excited about the prospect of going to the supermarket at that time of night.

I work shifts , so I’ve gone at midnight for as long as they’ve been open. So much less stressful . I can park , bimble round with my list , and it’s rare they’ve been out of stuff . Do it !

@2girls3dogs Currently my plan is some sort of buffet lunch followed by hoping a takeaway is open in the evening (live in a fairly big city).
Going out for a Christmas dinner on Boxing Day with 2 of my brothers who are working Christmas Day so that will have to be our Christmas meal.

I don't mind it being non traditional just it's very last minute and there's no kitchen 🙃

It sounds like you are making the most if it! We had building work done last year and made a big curry for Xmas day and it was actually really nice and easy - you have to do what you have to do! I hope the midnight shop goes well! I’m sure it’ll be quieter and hopefully not too stressful with kids on tow!

sorry but cant you o tomorrow?

It’s Christmas Eve here already 😊 I’m in NZ. We got up at 5am to arrive for the shop opening at 6am. It’s become an Xmas tradition. Free mince pies and sausage sizzle helps!

@kateandme I'd prefer not to as we have activities planned that don't involve standing in a crowded supermarket for hours 🤷
I'd rather get it out of the way tonight if possible.
As it is the family my eldest is babysitting for has cancelled so we may head out about 10pm and do it them

Years ago when I had a 2nd job in a bar DH would pick me up at midnight after work and we'd go do our weekly shop - it was bliss!!

Do it!!

RosieLancs oh right haha .I think I was suddenly panicking that for some reason everyone else knew that we wouldn't be able to shop today! I would have done it at midnight if I had a choice.
So go for it. do tell us how it went? I would love for the online shops to start doing middle of the night deliveries I think it could really work. Those on shifts or those up in the night.I would happily get my groceries now.(4am can't sleep)

Make three lists, one for each child and have a competition about who finishes first.

Just realised you are probably done and back home, hop[e it all went well OP

I went to a Tesco superstore at 10pm last night was heaving. Out of town too. By 11pm when I left much quieter. Christmas stock very sparse though isles looked like they’d been attacked by hungry hungry hippos...

The main drawback of shopping at that time is the lack of manned tills so you need to put everything through the self checkout. They don't even always have a member on staff easily at hand for the inevitable till malfunctions.

Apart from that I like it, it's easy enough to steer round the big stock trolleys and definitely quieter.