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To shop as a family?

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lockeddown92 · 30/07/2020 12:23

We haven't shopped together since lockdown but it's getting to be a right pain. Would we be unreasonable to shop together this evening?
DS is 8 months so can't run off and get too close to people. DH is the chef in the house and often has a better sense of what to get it something is out of stock. I'm the driver so I've been doing all the shopping myself for months. We have a dinner planned for Saturday and I have family members with dietary requirements.
I know I could drive to the shops with DS and DH, then me and DS sit in the car while DH shops, calling me if he needs to query anything. DS will probably get fed up of being in the car and complain loudly.
Our local Lidl is always really quiet after 7pm so would we be horribly unreasonable to go together? I kind of think we would but it would be so much easier.

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Hellokitty82 · 31/07/2020 09:43

@crimsonlake
I couldn't have put it better myself

Why people think the supermarket is a family outing is just beyond me but I agree go in get stuff come out - minus the tribe!

Yesterdayforgotten · 31/07/2020 10:54

I've seen groups of friends, couples and pairs so it isn't just families. As long as everyone is lsocial distancing and behaving live and let live....

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 01/08/2020 10:13

People supermarket shopping in groups are always irritating tbh. They always get in the way. Some people need assistance of course, and of course there's nothing wrong with taking an assistant, but people treating the supermarket as a social venue are annoying and obstructive. It's not illegal and they have the "right" though - just like people have all sorts of other rights to be selfish and inconsiderate and inconvenience strangers because it suits them. It's allowed the same way sniffing constantly in close proximity to others and using your sleeve to wipe your nose instead of blowing your nose is "allowed" - nobody has any legal grounds to make you stop - but definitely unreasonable and irritating behaviour.

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