To think that Xmas food shopping isn't a sodding family day out?

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Just been to M&S for final food shop and the bloody place was over run with entire families shopping together. Just why? If the kids are old enough to be left then they shouldn't be traipsing around and getting in the way when the place is crowded as it is at this time of year.

And as for people who can't drive the right way round a one way car park: kindly fuck off and don't drive if you can't follow road signs.

That's all. Now can someone please pass the 🍷

I have better things to do in my time than discussing my shopping with my DH. Sometimes we go together, he does his, I do mine.

If you could stick with online shopping yourself and stop crowding the shop so we can shop in peace, with the kids following, that would be great. Thank you.

I hate parents who think shops are an extension to the playground for their kids.

Shops have never been or will be playgrounds! If they want to ride their scooters, there is a place for this. It’s called outside!

I don’t mind children in shops providing they behave themselves by not running, screaming, mucking around.

Ocado stocks M&S.

If both of you can supermarket shop efficiently, you're not part of the problem. Depends how well-behaved/efficient the kids are.😁

I hate queuing and I hate crowds lol!

My memory of the DC in supermarkets is more about them torturing me for things I didn't plan to buy. And seeing other children in trollies eating treats that hadn't yet been paid for. Mine weren't allowed to do that!

Probably not a day out. Not really enough to do - there's only so many types of cheese to peruse. Some people like goimg together and chosing things - allowing their children - even teens - to chose things.

Not everyone is stressed out their skull about doing the christmas shop. Some people aren't even a bit relaxed so don't mind having to wait till Once-A-Year Dan is inspecting the different choices I peanuts.

Food shopping at Christmas is not fun period. Children are allowed just as much space as you and I.

If you find it stressful (I do!) then have you thought about delivery or click & collect? It's a lot more straight forward and you don't have to deal with so many crowds.

You can't change what other people do, but you can change what you choose to do

I may be lucky in that mine don't ask for much, not for there and then anyway! And definitely no scoffing half the food shop before it's even bought! Maybe DH and I have spawned weirdos. 😂 They get excited about shopping and know they won't get fancy stuff if they arse around, so they restrain themselves from chaos until it's time to unpack!

Christmas supermarket shopping might be more pleasant without a minority of people charging around on their military operation with a face on, efficiently chucking predetermined items in their trolley as fast as possible while tutting and moaning at the existence of other people. It's nobody else's fault they feel the need to complete this mission during the busiest few hours of the year.

Agreed, OP's post is kinda like when you've got a day off and are in town or whatever then complain about the public being in town.

"Shouldn't everybody be at work?"

I overheard someone saying they had spend £350 on food alone 😂 it's madness this time of year. Each to their own

My dc have always loved doing food shops.

It's great because now they are late teens/early 20s they'll be doing the Christmas shop without me. <smug>

It's surprising how many children are eating treats in the trolley that they haven't paid for - I wonder if the parents even do pay for them? It was something I was adamant my children couldn't do!

I definitely bought more shit when I had them with me though!

Afraid I can't drive and don't trust dh to do it by himself so kids have to come. Sorry!

No problem with large people in supermarkets at all! Apologies if sounds otherwise lol

But in that precise moment , that blokes large body size made him think he can shove everyone out of the way to get to the tills quickly 😡 I'm a petite person as was the elderly lady

YABU I would prefer it if all the grumpy gits stayed at home, so many of them about this time of year.

Where is open at 10pm on a Sunday night? Our ‘24’ hour Asda in a big city closed at 4pm today, as it does every Sunday. Apparently it’s open at 5am tomorrow, which is tempting, given I’ll be awake anyway. Seem to wake earlier and earlier now I’m older 😢

Shopping with kids is bad enough at the best of times…. but at Christmas it’s unbearable!!

I go by myself if at all possible.

And you always get families bumping into other people who they haven’t seen in ages, who they simply must catch up with in the most inconvenient location ever!!

My online shop is coming on Christmas Eve so I will have better use by dates than you!
YABU Maybe children want to see what they want to eat to.

This I have seen a lot and I wonder the same! I've seen some of them scan half eaten packets of crisps at the till, so I'd assume some do...but it also makes the conveyor belt messy! Crumbs everywhere! I buy them a drink when we first go in and then carry the receipt with me like a shield the rest of the shop. 😂

Oh, they do ask for stuff for the main shop. Every year DS finds something bizarre and then doesn't eat it. Last year he found a jar of little pickled octopus/squid? 🤢 DH agreed to get them and not one of us even opened the jar. Repulsive, and I like seafood!

Be big gaps on the shelves at that time in the morning, shelves are still being stacked.i would perhaps leave it till 9am as a lot of people hit the shop so they can buy alcohol after 10am .dw works at Asda I get the inside gossip.😃😘. can't delete last bloody emoji.

@visitbreakfast I dint mind if a family wants to shop together. But please don't block up the aisles, have the young ones running around, start shouting at them, and generally make it harder for everyone else.

Scotland. Scotland is open at 10pm tonight.

Why are you telling me? I feel the same. OP is the one I was talking to, given she is the one with the issue.