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?

If O see a parent with a pushchair I let them in front of me -why wouldn't you?

Why would you?

I have to take my children when I go. I have no choice. But I would never in a million years think that I had priority over anyone else.
She was being a nob.

If anyone is working from home with DH - do alternate shopping trips! You do not need to be together all the time. That’s simply ridiculous. Go shopping once a week on your own! If everyone went as a couple the shops would be swamped!

No! Should be taking their kids shopping anyway. Key workers with relevant ID should get to go first but most would say no anyway

Many people think spawning makes them entitled to things above others. NEWSFLASH: nope not on my watch!

This kind of person would probably expect everyone to be catering to them, even when times were normal.

Sorry, OP, hit YABU when I meant YANBU, not paying proper attention!

No. It's nice to offer a space to someone directly behind you who only has a handful of purchases but that's about the only case that I've offered and been offered priority

I really hate the term "spawning" (and also see "breeding") it makes whoever uses it sound like a right humphy face and a bit of a knob.

Unless of course you are talking about salmon or something, which is of course reasonable, but using it about children is a bit knobbish.

Husband and I still go together for completely selfish reasons.

You said it... couldn't agree more

Supermarket security should have sent everyone, except one family member home and refused to let the whole family in. If they'd refused the police should have been called.

I leave my DDs at home (9&11) with my phone and a list of dos and don'ts. I'm really glad I started them on this last year under less trying circumstances and with much shorter absences. Don't open the door, nothing hot to be made, NO ARGUING, here's the list of emergency numbers if I go missing but watch 2 x 10min programs first to give it me a time to get home if my phone's gone.

By the time I queue, shop, and queue again for a till I can be gone for over an hour. My 9yo will usually call me a little anxious about how long I've been gone for during that time.

Maybe people who don't have their middling aged children with them should be the priority? After all if you have your children with you then you are there to watch them.

Or maybe we should all just calmly take our place in the queue, in the order we arrive in and take our turn? I'd still let someone with a fussy child who just needs to get out, or someone with 2-3 items go ahead though

I'm surprised people think Lidel have a bad policy on social ddistencing. Obviously varries from place to place. The one I go to is really strict.

Why do some parents make out like their kids are an inconvenience or a means to special treatment. Makes me so angry.

Because I wasn't looking for a blazing row in front of dozens of other shoppers, which is what it would have turned into judging by her character

In that case, the point of the thread is to cast judgments and consider yourself much better than them? So you get a pat on the back because you are doing lockdown right and they aren’t? There isn’t really an AIBU, is there?