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?

@Mrsfrumble mine is zebra print. I'm very excited. I see it as doing my bit for an economy that is going to need all the help it can get for a while.

Sounds good. Where did you order it from?

Oh fgs!
We are trying to limit the amount of times we visit the supermarket, why would we all go separately? That is hardly going to help! And good for you that you can carry six carrier bags, I can't. Could probably manage four depending on the size and weight, but the supermarket is 30 mins walk away and we are at the top of a steep hill.
I suppose instead of 'wandering' around together (I would call it shopping for essentials) one of us could wait outside, as long as we keep our distance from the people queuing to get in.

Ok, note you ignored my suggestion about taking a zonal approach.

I've also made it really clear I'm not actually talking about couples here, though I do think we should all be doing our utmost to limit the number of people in any one space.

Have any of you got a large rucksack to put shopping in?

Use your judgement. If you don't drive, take a backpack or two shoulder bags or a trolley.

Things that are overpackaged can be taken out of the excess packaging, so that they fit your bags.

Don't buy more than you need for a few days. Fresh food has a limited life. Why buy it then bin it if you could leave it so that someone else can buy it.

If you have a glut you will eat more, be sensible.

If you are on foot, shop with a basket not a trolley.

A 25L daybag (like a school backpack) is pretty heavy when it is full.

@MikeUniformMike

The thing I find on threads like this (or any thread where an OP is clearly letting off steam about something unreasonable) is that what follows inevitably involves multiple people explaining why then doing something slightly similar is a special case or an exemption.

See also: why we need a family outing because DH couldn't possibly do a shop on his own / why two of us need to in to the corner shop when they're understandably limiting who can be in the shop / why our DC need to be in the park when countless other children in the same area maange just fine / why it's fine that we drive to do our dog walk somewhere nicer than our local area

Yep, was sitting outside Boots earlier waiting for my script and there’s a Lidl there. The amount of couples, mums with teenagers (15+) and full families with mum, dad and all the kids, was astonishing! Just why?? They all had cars.
Our Sainsbury’s and Tesco won’t let groups in but it clearly wasn’t an issue at Lidl today! Stupidity.

Oh, I'm sorry that I ignored your zonal approach suggestion. What difference would it make for me to go one way and Dh another? Don't get it, sorry. I came on this thread to explain why Dh and went to the supermarket together. We were there 20 or so minutes and left after getting our essentials.

There's 6 of us so I needed DH to come and pay for some stuff to get us around the 3 per customer limit. Not excessive buying btw but for example I needed 2 cartons of tomatoes and two kidney beans but was only allowed three cartons of anything.

I did the shopping though and he waited in the car then came in just before I was ready to pay.

Nobody really seemed to observe the 2m distance and were reaching through and pushing in to gaps, several people made sly comments about my full trolley.

We shop together because we have to walk there and can carry much more if we both go and therefore go out less often. If we went separately but more frequently that would be condemned by the isolation police (MN) too

I suppose instead of 'wandering' around together (I would call it shopping for essentials) one of us could wait outside

Yes that’s all one could ask for at the moment in terms of shipping. There is no requirement for two people to be inside the shop if only one person actually needs to be.

It makes social distancing so much more difficult, particularly when people are trying to just grab stuff quickly and leave as soon as possible.

We shop together because we have to walk there and can carry much more if we both go

But do you both absolutely need to be in the shop together? That’s the point.

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness where we go, it’s one in and one out and neither of us could carry all the shopping from the tills back outside. We went today first thing and have enough that it means we don’t need to go out again for a week. I felt we did a pretty good job, hadn’t occurred to me we shouldn’t both go.

Could look at taking a cabin size suitcase perhaps! Or backpack but they still weigh the same.

@TheSultanofPingu yes because I was actually talking about the vanishingly unlikely scenario where a family of five adults have no car and absolutely have to be in the supermarket simultaneously, in which case it would make more sense to split up, rather than amble around together.

I was not talking about couples. At no point has this been about couples.

I needed 2 cartons of tomatoes and two kidney beans

No you didn't. You wanted them. You didn't need them. Tomatoes aren't an essential foodstuff. Not so long ago you wouldn't have been able to get them at all at this time of year.

And I agree with pp, only one person should go in the shop. If someone else is needed to help carry the shopping, they can wait outside.

@LolaSmiles yep, this is one of those!

It’s for the same reason that entire family groups are out ‘exercising’ around my area. I usually walk my dog along a stretch of river. I know the locals who frequent the same walk but, today, there was a young family with two children and a baby in a pram with grandparents! Also a dad with children and a go cart, a dad with his boys and a remote controlled car, a large group, yet again, of primary school children, unsupervised, doing wheelies etc together.
Never ever seen any of them before .
As to the huge number of elderly couples... never ever seen them before either. It’s like, Boris says we can go for a walk , so I will, even if I hadn’t before.

@Notso sounds like you did the best you could do with the restrictions in place, while shopping for a family of six.

Not excessive buying btw but for example I needed 2 cartons of tomatoes and two kidney beans but was only allowed three cartons of anything.

But you don't need either of those things. You want them. Just stick by the rules and buy something else!

DH and I went shopping so he could get our stuff and I could get shopping for an elderly neighbour. We didn't walk around together if that helps.

I did get mightily pissed off by an entire family (parents and two girls) who were treating the whole thing like a jolly good day out. Fair enough bring the kids for a ride out but at least leave them in the bloody car (I do realise single parents may have to take their DC shopping)

I’m sick of seeing people flout the rules.

Today saw 2 mums and 2 kids at the park, playing on a tree swing, when I was walking the dog. The mums were clearly staying more than 2 metres away, but the one mum was pushing all kids on the swing and kids stayed by the swing together. They really don’t understand this non mixing of households do they?

I was thinking about going shopping with DH next week for the big shop. We haven't been for nearly 2 weeks now and by that time, I haven't been out amongst people for 3 weeks. Still thinking yay or nay but i am really tempted to see a normal shop

However, seeing how people are behaving, I am pretty sure the restrictions will be much harsher next week so I might just dress up and play grocery store at home.