Should families with kids get priority in supermarket queue?

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So I was going to Lidl yesterday afternoon for some essentials, there was a massive queue stretching nearly out of the shopping centre. I took my place at the back and immediately a woman with family and kids in tow came walking down shouting about how selfish everyone in the queue is for not letting in at the front due to them having kids. Would not stop shouting about it and I think her DH was embarrassed. Whole family was there, the grandparents, the parents and the kids.

Everyone else in the queue stayed silent but in the end an older gentleman let them in towards the front and he went to the back.

IABU in not letting them in myself? Would you expect to have priority if you have kids?

You should even be taking kids to the supermarket. I go when I can leave mine with my husband. Single mum’s have a valid reason obviously but that’s it. She sounds a massive arse.

No way! Why did the whole family needs to go together anyway?

*shouldnt 🤦🏻‍♀️

Definitely not. Firstly they shouldn't be taking kids with them anyway. If they really don't have any other option, they should choose a time when it's not busy if they don't want to queue. I don't want to queue, so I go when it's not busy.

Erm just because you have kids you are not a priority.
Children shouldn’t even be going to the supermarket!

They shouldn’t all be out so no, they shouldn’t have priority. Actually they shouldn’t in normal times either.

I'm in Ireland, but here you are not supposed to take children to the supermarket at all at the moment if you can possible help it), and our local one has big signs telling people to shop alone at the entrance.

No. If there were - as seems from your OP - two parents, one of them should have stayed home with the kids and the other done the shopping. If anyone should go to the front (debatable) perhaps disabled and less able elderly.

Very disappointing to hear that. Makes you worry about her other behaviour. Shame the security guard didn't step in.

Bizarre.

The amount of people I have seen demanding that they take priority for things like this; the “priority” queue would be longer than the “normal” queue!

Supermarkets have done a nice thing by separating out time for NHS staff and then letting vulnerable people skip the queue. If they tried to add in “other key workers” and expanded the definition of who counts as “vulnerable” then it starts to completely defeat the point of having priority lists.

Nope. She sounds batshit.

Yanbu she's got a twisted sense of entitlement. It was completely unnecessary to go shopping with the entire extended family.

Please ignore people like her and carry on with your life

YANBU, they're twats.

No, if her DH was with her they shouldn't all be going shopping anyway, one could have gone and one stayed at home with the children.

YANBU. Shopping in these times shouldn't be a family outing. While single parents might have no option but to take the children along, you say this family included mum, dad and grandparents, so there was no excuse for the children being there at all.

Goodness gracious. Really!

The whole family shouldn't have been shopping together anyway. It's supposed to be a quick visit to buy essentials, not a family gathering. (I bet they don't all live in the same house.)

So no, I don't think people with kids should have priority. If there are two of you, you have no business taking your children shopping anyway. I think she should have been told to go and fuck herself.

I thought only one person was allowed to go to the supermarket. Why on earth don’t people speak up in a situation like this? I saw a woman bear-hugging a man in town yesterday who she clearly wasn’t related to and asked her what she was doing.

Nope. Bringing your offspring with you does not make you more important than anyone else. Sadly, breeding appears to be considered an achievement nowadays.

As we all know the government guidelines are 1 adult from each household so in the OP'S scenario the kids shouldn't be shopping anyway! You can't argue with stupid or entitled!
In general, no I don't think people with kids should get priority in the queues.

Well coronavirus measures are certainly highlighting the idiots and the entitled in our communities. If there was more than one adult there then the children should have, at the very least, been in the car with them rather than being in the queue.

Some people just don't get it, they don't understand why they should take any of the measures there to protect people. I'm sick of hearing about the loopholes people seem to be finding to get around following the measures. She was being entitled and rude, let's hope people who know her saw her and can now put her on their list of morons to avoid.

I'm surprised the whole queue stated silent and didn't tell her (& her huge family) that they shouldn't ALL be there and didn't deserve priority. What a plonker.

Nope. I'm a single parent so I have to take DS, but we queue like everyone else.

She’s the selfish idiot for going shopping with her family. I know at some point, I’m going to have to go shopping with my baby but certainly will not expect special treatment.