Do you go food shopping as a family?

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Have realised that we never do. Either I go with Dd, 6 or Dh will nip to the shops for the odd bits needed or I will do the big shop on some Saturdays whilst Dd stays with Dh.
Is that weird, seems a bit sad

Yes, I heard you the first time... Just curious why you bothered to reply to me just to say the exact same thing and not actually respond to what I said? 🤣 You do you though!

The thing is, there will also be people not on holiday there.

I'm replying because the question keeps being asked.

I shop online but if I had to, I’d bring along my DH so he has input as well. Plus he can carry stuff. No way I’m doing it all myself.

Have you RTFT?
All the posters moaning about them being in supermarket aisles ……. leave them at home etc

People are moaning about families treating it as a day out, not the mere presence of a child. There's a huge difference.

Never. When kids were young one of us would take the kids to the park across from the supermarket. The other would do the big shop.

They learnt money skills by going to the coop for smaller shops.

Never understood why parents drag kids and Grandma around a big supermarket.

How is it unnecessary though? It’s carrying the groceries I’m purchasing, usually along with a basket I’m carrying. Why are my groceries more unnecessary than yours in a normal trolley or someone with a pull along basket?
You just keep repeating “it’s unnecessary” which is hardly an answer.

Frankly if someone would trip over the trolley, then they would trip over my DD so I’m not really sure how that’s my fault?

Well no, I didn't ask you a question. I said (words to the effect of) there are lots of hazards in the world that are, strictly speaking, unnecessary.

I of course can't speak for all sight impaired people but the ones I know certainly wouldn't want everyone to avoid ever using anything that could be a possible hazard. They know to take precautions in busy areas. Of course we should all be courteous, as the poster you've taken umbrage with was clearly doing.

There is no issue with that poster allowing her child to sensibly use a tool that is provided for her use in exactly the way it is intended, and your involving sight impaired people is just whataboutery.

You're actually asking why a mini child's trolley is unneccesary? Most folk manage fine with a normal trolley.

A tool?
An annoying marketing gimmick you mean.
My point stands.
It's also not just sight impaired folk.

Again from overhearing customers at work they say to their OH “do we need any milk/bread/apples? These customers don’t make lists!

Write a list and stick to it! Think of how much money both in food and actual money you save by sticking to your list and buying extra as unsure how much you have left at home just be chucked.

Not a chance would I ever do a food shop with anybody.

The only person I’ve ever done a stress-free food shop with, and would have done so again, was my Dad. We both wrote lists organised by aisle, with zero deviation from the list he’s my guardian angel of food shops now.

What I don’t get are parents who take their kids with them to buy their Xmas or birthday presents!

Yes understand if kids got money from relatives and taking them shopping to buy with their money.

Supermarkets encourage families to their shops (parent/child parking, toilets, cafes, kiddy trolleys) as they tend to spend more money.

I guess if those marketing gimmicks don't apply to you then they are annoying, but the shops will continue to supply them.

I have vague memories of going shopping with my mum when I was pre school age and we’d always take my nan because she didn’t drive but it was always on a weekday morning as mum worked part time and online ordering didn’t exist! Cannot ever remember being in a supermarket with my dad 🤣
As per pp, we might occasionally go as a family on holiday but in normal life, no way!

I’m asking why got are so determined to claim the vessel I used to carry my shopping around the store, which is provided by the store is more unnecessary than yours or anybody else?
Plenty of people don’t manage with a trolley, many old people drag around those wheely trolleys instead. Other people use the carry baskets, or the pull along baskets.

Pushing a full trolley when I don’t need that much groceries means I can’t hold onto my child and have significantly less awareness of where they are. With a small trolley they push I can have my arm on my shoulder when we turn corners or when someone is barging past her.

Family shopping trips should be banned. One of the few good things in the pandemic was one way aisles and one adult per household.

Absolutely hate being stuck on a go around with somebody else's screaming toddler following me from the fruit & veg aisle, all the way to beauty products in Aisle 25. Just ruining my own escape from feral offspring at home.

Nope, not a leisure activity in my book!

Oh why do the kids have their screaming tantrums at my work? I go to other shops in the area - hardly any screaming kids.

When a screaming kid finally leaves the store, both customers and colleagues sigh with relief

Or get someone to invent a device which blocks out any noise emitted from kids under a certain age.

If you ever do invent that, please let me know! 😆

Eh?

I don't understand people who shop together. My husband and I have pretty much never grocery shoped together.

I always seem to have my screaming kids with me though. In fairness, they don't scream. But they do sometimes run, make noise, drop crumbs from time to time, press all the buttons on the feedback smiley face things.

I live in Ireland, though, where everyone seems to hate children a little bit less than in the UK, so thankfully noone seems to mind. And I placate the Lidl staff by shouting "only the green ones" at the kids when they are pressing the smiley face feedback buttons.

I don't understand why anyone would do this. I sometimes see two adults with kids in the supermarket and wonder why on earth anyone would think it's a good idea.

Ahahaha I don’t need to justify going shopping with my partner wtf