AIBU to wonder about the contents of other people's shopping trolleys?

[BruceAndNosh]

Yesterday bloke in checkout queue behind me had 8 sliced loaves and a tray of dog food tins.
And 3 bottles of orange squash

The sandwiches at his kid's party are going to be dreadful

Had my first ever toilet roll panic buyer. A 24-pack followed by an 18-pack. Other than that, I rarely notice. Though I had a load of loose veggie produce today and felt quite proud!

I also love observing other people and their habits, including their shopping!

I get funny looks all the time in Tesco.
I go the supermarket once a month and bulk buy no perishables. So I normally have lots of random stuff in my trolley but no actual food

My brother, sister and I have this thing where we take photos of randomly discarded objects on supermarket shelves where it seems as though someone's had a change of heart on the thing they were going buy.

One of my best 'finds' was a Rod Stewart CD randomly discarded amongst the tomatoes. Like someone had suddenly remembered it wasn't a Rod Stewart CD they where in desperate need of, but a punnet of cherry toms.

Our local Waitrose puts many of their reduced items in a trolley. OH once saw a woman wheel said trolley over to the till and buy the lot,

I love looking at other peoples shopping.

I’ve seen quite a few single cucumbers amongst bulk buys of other random stuff, wonder why that is. hmmmm.

I also quite like to play ‘guess the total price of the person in front of me’s shopping’ if they’ve got a large trolley full. Just me???

I work
In a shop and I always imagine what people are going to make when I'm serving them a lot of people were having g spay Bol for tea tonight 😂😂

@Grenlei they are doing the keto diet 😂

When I worked on the checkouts as a teen the best one I had was a bottle of peach Concorde, large box of maltesers and a 12-pack of condoms

I once sent my dh to the shop for a pregnancy test and condoms. Looking back now if the first was positive I probably wouldn't have need the second. Didn't think at the time.

Well I bet people were making assumptions about my basket tonight. Wine, baguette, pate, chocolate and cat food.. And no ring on my left hand.= sad and lonely cat lady. Actually kids are at their dad's for the first time in 2 months and I'm seeing dp the whole rest of the weekend but tonight I am pleasing myself 😁

I love looking at other peoples shopping 😁

No funny stories that I can remember but enjoying reading everyone else's! The young men buying dinner, wine and condoms did make me go awwww 🥰

I always feel semi judged if I go shopping with young toddler and just buy the odd random bits , as if someone behind me at till will look and think god just donuts and cat food, poor diet for a small child.
Have to add a banana or some milk to balance it out a bit

@Tabitha005

My brother, sister and I have this thing where we take photos of randomly discarded objects on supermarket shelves where it seems as though someone's had a change of heart on the thing they were going buy.

One of my best 'finds' was a Rod Stewart CD randomly discarded amongst the tomatoes. Like someone had suddenly remembered it wasn't a Rod Stewart CD they where in desperate need of, but a punnet of cherry toms.

Love this

@NotMyDayJob

I always remember many years ago (20+) when I worked on the checkout at Tesco serving a guy who looked a lot like Tosh Lines from the Bill (but in character so not the actor) who bought a frozen ready meal for one, a bottle of whisky, a copy of Loaded and a box of tissues...

This sounds just like the man who stole our old classic car - where was this?!

These days the ones buying dodgy lads mags and tissues can ' scan and shop' or use the self service tills!
Much less likely to have raised eyebrows at the checkouts.
I do have a peek at other people's trolleys sometimes. They usually have more exciting looking things than I have.

When people were panic buying last March I spoke to a guy on the tills in Aldi who said he'd had one customer who just bought 27 tins of baked beans. I often wonder about his lockdown!

I frequently just buy 20kg of white sugar and a large jar of tomato purée.

That will make me 25l of 12% alcohol that then goes through our still to make neutral spirit at 85% and then makes gin.

I don't normally notice but I did raise an eyebrow at the guy ahead of me in the supermarket with 3 cucumbers and a packet of condoms

@x2boys I'm guessing cookery class

Amazing how everyone gets behind people buying condoms

I sometimes wonder what people think when I’m shopping for DM (elderly with Alzheimer’s) she lives on cakes, biscuits and snacks - sandwiches are the nearest to a meal she will touch, it’s a very unhealthy trolley compared to my normal shop
I frequently call in somewhere for a single item eg ran out of milk at work and then end up coming out with 6 boxes of raspberries, sushi and some plants because they all had yellow stickers

@ScumbagDave I once had a Waitrose delivery of wine with some random hummus and the driver said "you do know we sell groceries as well" 🤣

@Caspianberg

I always feel semi judged if I go shopping with young toddler and just buy the odd random bits , as if someone behind me at till will look and think god just donuts and cat food, poor diet for a small child. Have to add a banana or some milk to balance it out a bit

If I’ve had a shit day at work I’ll nip in and buy chocolate and crisps and magazines but usually throw in some proper food to balance it out and to stop the cashier thinking god no wonder she is fat!

@Malin52

I frequently just buy 20kg of white sugar and a large jar of tomato purée.

That will make me 25l of 12% alcohol that then goes through our still to make neutral spirit at 85% and then makes gin.

Does the tomato puree go in the gin, Mali52? How?