Customers in supermarket queues buying 2 items

[justasking111]

After a week of emptying cupboards reluctantly went out this morning. Standing in Tesco queue, two over 70s ladies behind me. one had given the other a lift. What do you need the driver said, oh just some cheese and a newspaper. They were not switched on by social distancing either despite the clear marks on the pavement.

Now I do think if you are over 70 and determined to get out well on your head be it. But for two items, for christs sake.

AIBU I being unreasonable to think that if you go to a supermarket it is to seriously stock up not for 2 items?

Surely loo roll isn’t essential? Wash it in the shower.

DH is going to the shop as part of his walk. He’s bringing back a newspaper, ginger ale, pain au chocolat and cotton wool pads. No babies or old ladies will be murdered by this activity.

Surely food isn’t essential? Eat grass from the garden.

I didn't say food hmm but to answer your question I was thinking more loo roll

Arse paper is not essential. Just gather leaves from some trees and use those instead. You can compost them yourself afterwards too.

@LoveIslandVirgin theres no need for your tone at all you dont work in a supermarket do you?
i work in a LOCAL SHOP where most of our customers are regulars and i know how old most of them are as ive worked there for years so i dont know exactly how old they are but i can tell you that exactly 95 percent of OUR customers are over 60 and coming in for items stated in my earlier comment and i know that because i have to look at shopping habbits and changes due to covid- 19 to assist my shop and my company during my other job tasks :)

I agree with you OP. Anyone popping to Tesco for 2 items is unreasonable. Makes the queue longer for everyone else too.

Really doesnt.
If someone only wants 2 things then chances are they know exactly where they are in and out within 10 minutes.

Someone with a weeks shopping to get will take around half an hour.
Who do you think will be out first so someone else can go in?

but i can tell you that exactly 95 percent of OUR customers are over 60

Just as well they keep on coming then. You’d soon be out of a job without 95% of your customers.

I agree with you OP. Anyone popping to Tesco for 2 items is unreasonable. Makes the queue longer for everyone else too

So it's not because of Covid then, just that you can't be arsed to wait.

Maybe they only had enough money for two items.

@Alsohuman agreed 😂

I haven't queued at all myself, so no, it's nothing to do with me waiting. But I feel for the people queuing today, it's roasting.

Big shop is a delivery from a shop for example.
Going to shops and queuing outside doesn't really appeal to me anyway.

Well its a good job the supermarket staff have no choice but to be there to do your shopping for you isnt it? What with no SD and a shop full of customers wandering around, for hours on end, leaning over us, tutting at us for sorting out the shelves so that the stuff at the back is reachable for them, banging trolleys into us if we dont jump out the way quick enough as perish the thought they should move to the other side as I do to leave a gap. Staff are bloody invisible at times apparently.

I managed to fracture my wrist yesterday, driving to A and E felt like a naughty day out! Hope my journey was deemed 'essential' by the Covidstapo.

I really dont see what it's got to do with anyone what another person buys, we all stand in the queue and wait our turn to go into the shop.
Too many noses poking around in other people's business. Focus on your own shopping and then go home. Simple!

mrsBtheparker, that depends whether you fractured it doing something worthy like, oooh, updating your list of things you will never ever do because they're prohibited under the ROOLZ or something frivolous and unnecessary like perhaps tripping and falling as you were reaching past someone to get to the cheese in the supermarket fridge.

I hope your wrist feels better soon.

Wow, using the sad death of a baby to justify a made up rule...that's some class you've got.

Totally agree.
Why do people do this? Is social distancing driving them mad?

really dont see what it's got to do with anyone what another person buys, we all stand in the queue and wait our turn to go into the shop

So literally the last 7 weeks have bypassed you? Do you not understand why we were in lockdown - for the good of everyone. Whether or not those people “ have anything to do with us”.

Er, because people need to eat

I get a bit weary with posters banging on about the weekly ‘big shop’.

I do not have a car.

I can only buy what I can carry.

By definition this cannot be a big weekly shop.

I will shop when I need to eat.

I may eat cheese. Such cheese will not be accompanied by some monster trolley heaving with items

@Sparkles333 that’s the trouble, people on here just CANNOT mind their own business. I’ve concluded they’ve got very, very boring lives.

@Leflic - are you deliberately missing the point? As Sparkles said, it’s nobody’s business what someone else is buying!

I give up, I really do. This has seriously brought out the worst snidey unpleasant side of so many people. I bet you were the one at school who leapt to put your hand up and say ‘Miss, Jane was talking to a boy over the wall at break this morning.’

Thankful not to be a noseache with nothing better to do than peer into people's shopping basket then actually make a post about it. Off the scale odd.

I wonder if this is the 'new normal' they keep talking about....

'Deirdre, shall I nip out and get us a couple of Steaks for tonight?'

'Ffs Its not our 'Big shop' day Gordon!! You'll get us lynched!!'

'Beans it is then dear....have we got cheese?'

'I want a divorce....'

"Big shop day Gordon"

@Leflic
No the last 7 weeks have not bypassed me.
Try reading what I said correctly.
I said it's no one else business what someone else buys.
I've stuck to the rules but I dont stick my nose in other people's business either.

@Lincolnfield
Thank you for taking the time to read my comment correctly. Yes I agree this coronavirus has brought out the worst in some people but it's nice to see it has also brought the good in some people too 🙂

@Nurgleturtle no, I don’t work in a shop anymore. I’m a carer now. I love my job and would take a bullet for the two people I care for.

I’m entitled to my “tone”, thank you very much.

I’m entitled to my opinion.

I’m entitled to post on this forum with issues that have affected me. I don’t feel safe in shops. I don’t think staff in the 3 main supermarkets in my locality are taking social distancing seriously. I am entitled to be cross with those staff. My local shop isn’t much better.

I am entitled to believe that not all shop workers are created equally.

Finally, for now, I am entitled to stay safe and if it means I have to call out anybody who puts me in danger of catching this virus, I will bloody well do it.

Keep up the good work 👏 👏 👏 Your shop sounds like an exception to the norm at the minute.