Families shopping together

[Mokel]

Do entire families need to do their grocery shopping together? See both parents, 4 kids and another relative (grandparent, aunt etc). It does not need 7 people do a shop.

Clog up the aisles, kids demanding that they want this and that and kids running around. Shops are not playgrounds!

Grocery shopping isn’t a hobby, it’s a chore!

This will probably make me sound weird but I used to love going to the supermarket with my mum as a child. She'd never have allowed me to eat anything and scan the packet later though, she'd have probably said that it's common 😁.

My parents didn't have a car, so grandma and grandad used to take us shopping and do theirs at the same time. Dad worked shifts, so us 3 kids had to tag along.

This is miserable @Mokel I take my husband and son food shopping with me all the time! Usually as we're on the way back from a trip out but sometimes because it passes the time on a wet and windy day!
I can't see the problem, and feel my children should be able to accompany me on "chores" sometimes, and also so they can learn how to behave in shops, which I feel is important (and yes - they are well behaved and can queue/ wait nicely for things!)

Absolutely agree. Why waste family time doing such boring stuff? This is why the delivery pass was invented.

I’m fine with it as long as kids not running around and screaming. Only ever did food shopping online when DH and I had Covid at the same time. Will continue going to the supermarket as long as physically capable and mentally competent to do so. It’s good exercise pushing a trolley around.

My reen can navigate a supermarket perfectly too. I have been sending her to the local one with a small list since she was 11. She understands how to buy food and ask when she can't find something.

As working in a supermarket I find at least one open multipack of something dumped somewhere every day.

Crisps in the freezers
Frubes in the baked beans - with the empty individual tube(s) two aisles down
Cadburys Mini Rolls in the shower gel.

When we had a hot chicken counter- which was closed before the first lockdown and never reopened - we found chicken bones chucked everywhere. Customers- not all children picked a bag of two drumsticks, ate them and tossed bones (sometimes in the bag) never to be found until the shelving units were moved.

Other stores reopened their chicken counters. We didn’t as probably down to the thefts

what's it got to do with you really? no one died and made you ruler of the supermarket did they ? today I will be bringing my nieces with me. I have worked all week long hours and there is nothing in the house. my sister is in hopstaitl sick so they are staying with me. who else is going to mind them ? my shopping bill will be a bit higher as I will be soft and allow them to put stuff in but hey. husband often coned with me too so he can see and pick things he wants espaocilay as he does most of the cooking. if yoi don't like it you stay at home then

Boggled.

It’s fine…my GDs love coming food shopping with me….they get the mini trolleys and I give them a list each…..inexpensive way of keeping them occupied …..no business of anyone else how people choose to shop

This again.

2020: no you can't take your 7yo shopping with you, they will spread disease... its fine to leave them at home alone
(This was actually said to me after I took mine shopping as we needed food)

2024: its absolutely essential that children go to the supermarket to learn how to shop and where food comes from

Boggled by what?

Remembers fondly when good old Safe way had a creche. I'd pop them both in there, do a weekly shop then take them for a lunch, there's was free and mine was £4 including a drink. The annual pass was paid for in ABC points.

Even when they did have a creche, I didn't leave my children there but took them in with me. No-one ever told me I should leave them there instead.

That anyone would thing doing a large supermarket shop with their children would think it's fun. They are entitled to their opinion, obviously.

But this isn't necessarily families shopping with their children though is it?

You sound pretty joyless to me. We regularly go shopping together, often bring my neighbour who could look like a grandparent. Like others have said, if you don't like it get it delivered but that's apparently not good enough for you either.

I always used to think families shopping together were mad but this thread has made me realise some parents hardly see their kids during the week so shopping together is a nice thing for them to do.

I was in tesco recently and there was a young girl with a toddler in a pram crying, i thought that kid just wants to be in bed, but i also thought that poor girl has probably been working all day and has no one to mind her kid when she needs to go to the shops.
Everyone has different lives, live and let live.

Well we can't leave the kids at home, I'm disabled so don't drive, DH is dyslexic and won't read the labels in case he makes a mistake, we are a household with multiple severe allergies. That's why if we need a big shop as opposed to just me writing a couple of very specific things on a list for DH and Dd1 then yes we all go. Sometimes we can get deliveries but with the price of groceries we have to get some things from different places so it's not always practical to order a delivery from one place

This thread is making me laugh. I was thinking to start one last weekend after I'd been to the supermarket. It occured to me that I think there are 2 distinct types of people - those who see the supermarket shop as a fun leisure activity and those who see it as a chore to be over with as quickly as possible.

They are both quickly baffled by the other group.

I''m definitely in the second group. The thing I really don't understand is when you see 2 parents with young DC where the kids are properly fed up and they all just carry on instead of one parent taking them out.

This one isn’t hard to work out… the kids won’t be any happier in the car park or car doing nothing.

Some families see it as an outing and it kills the time. For me a food shop is a chore so I'm in and out in 20 minutes (alone).

I don’t think kids shopping is a problem. People who let their children just run around the supermarket are a massive problem. I was in Lidl recently and a mum had no idea where her two kids were, as they were racing each other up and down the aisles and generally being complete nuisances.

Because it's good for kids to sometimes be bored? In life we sometimes have to do things that someone else wants/needs to do