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

I was in Wilko this week and they had a big pallet load of discontinued bath cleaning spay mouse for 25p each. I bought 2 boxes of 12 so 24 for £6 and should last about a year. The only other items I bought were a bar of chocolate and a soft drink.

The one I always remember and couldn't decide if I should feel sad for was a young woman on a Friday evening in sainsbury's buying a litre bottle of cheapest own brand vodka and a family size economy chocolate cake.

@Redstorm2807

The one I always remember and couldn't decide if I should feel sad for was a young woman on a Friday evening in sainsbury's buying a litre bottle of cheapest own brand vodka and a family size economy chocolate cake.

She may have been going to a party.

I'm sure she doesn't need someone feeling sad for her - patronising much?

I noticed years ago that I didn't tend to get IDed when buying a normal week's shop, but did if I had a basket worth of random items or those screaming birthday/ party.

The time my gin was confiscated at the till at the tender age of 37 was a fairly random top up for a Scouting/ Guiding residential that included things like toilet bleach. I was in leader uniform too.

When I was a teacher, I did wonder what checkout staff made of my apparent obsession with cheap stationery every week with my food shopping. 5 rulers and 2 packs of biros this week

I buy some weird combos -usually for the animals.
I bought 8 cheap bottles of table salt the other day, with a bulk sack of turmeric and some toddler yoghurts.
The salt and tumeric is for my horse who gets through loads and it’s the cheapest way to buy it. I did worry someone might think I over do the salt/single spice in cooking!

I used to organise baby groups etc for our local NCT group. We’d often do a restock shop purely of packaged biscuits, possibly with a jar of coffee granules or something as well. I imagine people nearby just thought I really liked biscuits

@Redstorm2807

The one I always remember and couldn't decide if I should feel sad for was a young woman on a Friday evening in sainsbury's buying a litre bottle of cheapest own brand vodka and a family size economy chocolate cake.

Sounds great. Why feel sorry for her?

This is a bit when you don't do a 'big shop'. We don't because we get food bag deliveries (e.g Hello Fresh, Woop). Nevertheless we need lunches, alcohol and random treats.

Perfectly normal for us to pop out to the supermarket to get eg lav paper, toilet cleaner, a hundredweight of biscuits and a bottle of Whisky. I assume the people behind us don't also assume we spend all of our time doing messy poos and then consoling ourselves with hard liquor and biscuits.

I once worked in a food factory when I was a student. A delivery hadn't turned up so I was sent to asda to buy 20 litre s of double cream and 40 litres of milk. I also fancied some fruit so popped a small fruit salad in the trolley as well. God knows what the checkout woman thought!!! I wasn't allowed to explained as we weren't supposed to purchase from the local supermarket!!!

I knew someone who ran a pub and did Sunday lunches. Saw them in the local supermarket once with a trolley full of frozen Yorkshire puddings, Jam rolly pollys, and tinned custard.

I often buy for a food kitchen so if I spot a bargain/marked down item I will take a large quantity. I'm visibly a Muslim, and very often the cashier or others in the queue will roll their eyes and make a comment about "leaving food for the locals"
I really wish people wouldn't be so quick to judge the contents of a trolley.

@kinzarose

I often buy for a food kitchen so if I spot a bargain/marked down item I will take a large quantity. I'm visibly a Muslim, and very often the cashier or others in the queue will roll their eyes and make a comment about "leaving food for the locals" I really wish people wouldn't be so quick to judge the contents of a trolley.

What the fuck? I'm really sorry to hear you are subjected to that.

They must be taking a break from foreigners taking jobs (while simultaneously forigners are also "only here for benefits")

Sorry you have to deal with those backwards idiotic comments, @kinzarose

@kinzarose

I often buy for a food kitchen so if I spot a bargain/marked down item I will take a large quantity. I'm visibly a Muslim, and very often the cashier or others in the queue will roll their eyes and make a comment about "leaving food for the locals" I really wish people wouldn't be so quick to judge the contents of a trolley.

That's awful! I'm so sorry that people have treated you this way. Next time I would just tell them very loudly that it's for a food kitchen!

Currently food shopping!

Love this thread. Best one I ever saw was an older couple around Xmas time who had a trolley over flowing with alcohol with a single small bag of organic musli balanced on top.

@kinzarose

I often buy for a food kitchen so if I spot a bargain/marked down item I will take a large quantity. I'm visibly a Muslim, and very often the cashier or others in the queue will roll their eyes and make a comment about "leaving food for the locals" I really wish people wouldn't be so quick to judge the contents of a trolley.

I'm so sorry you endure this nonsense. If I knew you irl I'd make you a badge that reads 'you're right! It's none of your business!'

One Christmas, I had a chuckle about someone else's shopping trolley contents contrasting with my own.

Now they may have loaded up with other 'proper' shopping subsequently, but it was as a moment in time it tickled me pink.

Their trolley was filled with beer and wine. I looked at my own; with fruit, veg, stuffing, herbs and cranberry sauce ingredients etc. Christmas food. I suspect they added other things and had just prioritised the booze first. I wondered if I needed to check my priorities and I am sure they had a very merry Christmas indeed.

@bridgeofslides

Love this thread. Best one I ever saw was an older couple around Xmas time who had a trolley over flowing with alcohol with a single small bag of organic musli balanced on top.

Snap.

@Mrsjayy

I live near a uni town so shopping trollies are interesting start of semester they are jammed with goodies towards the end its tescos own cider and bags of pasta !

I'm in a uni town. There are "gangs" of clearly fist time house mates who have decided to buy food communally standing having debates about the relative merits of what to buy. Last time it was between microwave oats in tubs or sachets. I felt like saying "just buy oats as they are much cheaper!"

I love it when there's a shop full of people doing their Christmas shop and I'm buying our traditional collection of stuff for tapas. The checkout staff generally assume I'm about to have a very quiet grown up only type party. We just have or winter thing at a different time.

There's a "household" - three youngish guys I've noticed at our supermarket who regularly buy large quantities of the basic ranges, I think they run or help with some sort of community cafe. It's not the large amounts of stuff that gets me, it's the random extra someone obviously wanted - twelve large bags of pasta, a full on box of chopped tomatoes, loads of juice - several blocks of cheese and then just one pack of hair dye. .

@NotMyCat

Currently food shopping!

You need to jazz it up a bit! Maybe some dog food, lube, and 60 packets of green jelly. 👍

I love secretly judging other people’s food shopping, that’s why Eat Well For Less is one of my favourite tv shows.

Back in the dawn of supermarket delivery I sent 8 family size bags of onion ring crisps to my mate's pub as part of an in-joke. That was the whole order. Tesco called me no less than 3 times to make sure it was right

I worked in a supermarket and every week a bloke bought 7 packets of smash and 7 tins of cat food…nothing else