To not understand why groups of adults are shopping together?

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And blocking the fucking aisles as they walk around together...

...seriously, what is wrong with people?

Know few. Anyway as I said, this particular store is an arse to get to on foot.

That’s nice for you all Lola but loads of people on our street don’t (including us).
Who me?

I don't know why anyone does at any time, let alone now.

I've seen loads of couples out shopping...not disabled and a carer. Two healthy able bodied adults. It's ridiculous.

Not all disabilities are visible

True but purlease...it's not a huge stretch to realise that there are perfectly healthy non disabled people out right not shopping in pairs and groups.

Also even if someone had an invisible disability, why can't they stay at home whilst the non disabled adult does the shopping?

@LolaSmiles I could well have been, because I also had a space invader behind me. A guy was basically standing AT my shoulder, ignoring the taped lines on the floor.

I was about to say something when an assistant asked him if he was with me. He said yes! I said he wasn't, at which point she directed him back to the line behind. Quite what he was expecting, I don't know... 'oh, yes, he's my boyfriend' - he was about 30 years my senior 😄

A group of 5 is bloody insane!

Couples are bad enough...why can’t people just shop on their own for this period of time. The selfish bastards just think oh well it’s only one other person, but if we all done that then there’ll be twice as many people out as necessary.

Couples I understand, btu shouldn,t need more then that. If a parent with 5 kids could be child care issues?? (On line not really an option at the mo.) If poss t, goon ones own then def do that. But I have been with out a car at times and also have a husband with a disability so I see others points of view.

I've seen loads of couples out shopping...not disabled and a carer. Two healthy able bodied adults. It's ridiculous

I saw a few couples like this when I went shopping this morning. I know that not all disabilities are visible, but what is stopping the able bodied person from shopping on their own? I saw several people in Sainsbury’s this morning on the phone, presumably talking to their other half/families to make sure they were getting the correct items, so it can be done.

One other thing is if they don’t have a car, and I think most Londoners don’t, it might be about what they can carry

They should get one of those shopping trolleys similar to the type my mum used to use when she went shopping in the 1960s/1970s.

I have literally bought a shopping trolley for precisely this reason 😄

I know that not all disabilities are visible, but what is stopping the able bodied person from shopping on their own?

Maybe they can't leave the person they are caring for alone ?

Is it beyond the limit of some people's imaginations to understand that not everyone has a car?
One person alone can carry two bags of shopping. If you are a family of five that's your milk and bread right there! The thought that idiots will be judging Dh and I for going shopping together is pissing me right off!

Our local Tesco has banned couples from going in. Single adults only.

The thought that idiots will be judging Dh and I for going shopping together is pissing me right off

But you don't both need to wander around the shop.

If that's the case - a five adult household with no car - there is probably an argument for each individual going separately, no?

Or at least all hitting one 'zone' of the supermarket I.e. person A does bakery, person B does fresh etc, rather than traipsing around en masse?

You could then meet at the checkout, pay and leave, thus saving time and not blocking an entire aisle.

Also, I can and do carry about six bags of shopping (hence the investment in a trolley).

Who is only carrying two bags?

I went shopping with DH as we had our daily exercise together (walked to the shop). I didn't realise people's arseholes would pucker so tightly about that.

FTAOD, I am chunky and lazy, not in any way superhuman, so I don't think this is beyond the limits of most very average people like myself.

I’ve never understood why it has to be a family outing anyway. But now it’s just daft.

I can't get too enervated about couples, though I wouldn't at this time personally, or any other time because DH is annoying in a supermarket scenario, but that's just me.

It was the group of five literally blocking the central aisle, so there was no way you could be two metres away from them that was really pissing me off.

@Lllot5 same, I have spent most of my adult life striving to go to the supermarket alone, or avoid it altogether. I would rather shove shards of broken glass up my arse than take the two kids and my husband. We'd be there until the end of time.

I'd also end up spending £14,000 on all the shite they put in the trolley.

@chillichutneysarnie when people are trying to practise social distancing, then the fewer people in a confined space the better.

Ordinarily it wouldn't bother me but if everyone goes in pairs then they doubles the number of customers in at any one time. It's just not necessary in times like this.

I was shopping today - had to queue for around 25 minutes to get into the small supermarket.

Loads of couples in the queue, loads. Mostly in their 50s or 60s.

Inside the woman would be doing the shopping while the man wandered around aimlessly behind her.... getting in peoples way and standing in front of stuff other people needed. Constantly asked to move. And repeatedly coughing.

I can’t see why the shop didn’t only let one of them in.

It was absolutely unnecessary. And when I have to queue because they only let in a certain amount of people at a time ifs bloody annoying.

If they don’t have a car and one person can’t carry all the bags required then I don’t see why the second person can’t just wait outside somewhere. Not wander around a small supermarket getting in everyone’s way.

I also don’t understand why it’s being treated like an outing. But some couples simply can’t do anything separately.

I have never in my life understood why two-parent families take the whole family shopping. I haven't done a shop with DH and all my kids together, except on holiday, since they were born. Why the hell would you inflict that on yourself unless there was no other option? And in the current circumstances it truly beggars belief that people would make it into a family outing. Sainsbury's today was full of people wearing masks, it was apocalyptic - who'd inflict that kind of environment on their kids?!

Yeah, I’m considering a pull-along trolley (my granny had an awesome tartan one when I was a kid). But having seen a thread about how all but essential deliveries should be stopped, someone would surely still consider me a selfish twat for ordering one now....

It would be nice if people could consider why others might struggle with the “one person shopping once per week” thing - which is indeed easy peasy for car owners - rather than jumping to the conclusion that they must be thick or reckless.