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 🍷

Kids do not need to spend years learning to "shop". When they want to buy something, they will go into a shop and buy it.

And we're not saying never go into shops with kids, just don't make the major pre-Christmas shop a family outing. They just scream, give everyone a headache and generally get in the way. Much better to take them to the park!

Talking them to the park dosnt feed them. When my kids where young they had to come to the shops as I had no one to look after them. Now as teenagers they help carry shopping and have a say in what we buy. And shock horror when they where little we managed to shop and go to the park, it is possible to do both

Don’t be so bah humbug. Kids might be getting chocolates or a card for their mom, teens might not have remembered to do that sooner. Everyone loves picking out the favourite foods for the holiday season. One of my fondest childhood memories was of going Christmas food shopping on Xmas eve as that was the day dad got paid, and we went in at 3pm in daylight and came outside to a magical snowy wonderland in the dark with a group of Carol singers outside the church opposite. It was like Christmas magic occurred while we were shopping.

Funnily enough I learned to shop pretty damn successfully, and if it was busy in the runup to Christmas, she would have left us with my dad and got on with it herself.

How remarkably bonkers!

They might be but most often they're not - and they don't know how to behave either, plus their parents ignore them!

Ok, you are superior beens. Know how to respect others boundaries, be polite, mot get on the way of others...
But you do not seem to have mastered the art of doing the Christmas shopping yet, as you do need to moan about it.
I go in, I get my stuff, smile to the people I find on my way, get out, go home and never think about it again. Busy or not busy. Why are you lot that concerned with your experience in a busy shop?

Well I shop for most of it online, and I choose my shopping times wisely after many years of experience.

It's still annoying when entire families take the place over, with zero consideration for anyone else!

What's "superior beens"?

Superiorr beings, sorry. That moan about a busy shop, at Christmas time.

Anyway Happy Christmas to everyone and enjoy yourselves

Plus if they are elderly, shop on Saturdays and moan how busy it is!