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 🍷

If you read the full thread you will see that many supermarkets in Scotland are open till 11pm.

Poor them. Hardly any time together.
As to rules, Thatcher reformed the Shops Act to allow 24 hour opening and Sunday opening, calling it 'choice'. It's no choice at all for people who work in retail - and someone has to.
I have just checked locally and all the Asda superstores are shut and will not open till tomorrow morning, so not 24 hours on a Sunday round here.

YABU. Yes it sucks that the world is overpopulated but I'd love to tell people not to travel.on.planes.so I can disembark faster and to walk to school so the school drop off was easier but it's just part of living with all these other buggers isn't it? Unless you fancy living on a desert island or being a survivalist in the woods.

Aldi was nice this morning!

99% of the city forget Aldi has the browsing time on a Sunday so I went at 9.30am as usual
Lots of happy chatty customers and staff, got to the till at 9.50am and was home by 10.15am
By the time the tills opened it looked like complete and utter chaos

I assume you weren't a child once OP?

You’re completely right. The Christmas shop (as in the big one before the day, not so much the picky bits shop) is a military precision operation. In and out and efficient as possible, my kids would just slow me down.

Just back from my annual Waitrose trip.

The performative parenting was off the charts today

Oh and to little Jack who broke 3 tree ornaments in Dobbies, no your not a good boy, and to the adults fawning over him, you are not doing him any favours.

Shout out to all the retail staff this time of year, especially the young man cleaning up Jacks destruction!

Who cares if the children want to come or not? What kind of brat are you raising that you leave them slobbing on the sofa while you are doing all the shop in a hellish supermarket full of other people?

Don’t be so wet OP 🙄 I bet you got in the way of other people too.

I’m going to shops in the morning and taking 2/3 DC with me along with OH. I actually got my big shop delivered this morning so it’s literally to pick up turkey and ham and a few other bits and pieces. They could stay at home with their older sibling but want to come along so not two shits do I give if that bothers other people. They like to pick some treats themselves and we’ll get breakfast while we’re out. I’m not in the UK so maybe we (Irish) are just more chilled about stuff like that but the place will be full of children and it’s all very festive and fun on the morning. Even the days when I shopped alone I was never bothered seeing other children out for the Christmas food shop.

But if there are four of them, and a trolley, all standing round the chocolate biscuits/ trifles/ veg then they are , frankly, taking up more than their fair share of floor space and need to bloody well MOVE.

There is a massive difference between families shopping together, and families cluttering up A&E en masse.

Just because you find shopping a chore, some families genuinely enjoy the christmas shop, love choosing treats they'll all enjoy. Perhaps rather than 1 adult feeling like its been left to them as a chore, if they go together it feels more like an exciting bit of the christmas run up.
Why is your enjoyment of the experience more important than theirs?

Yabu. Nobody needs your approval to be in a shop, and if you don't like it, make alternative arrangements.

Do you tbink 99% of the city care?

Went to Tesco yesterday and there were 2 kids maybe 4 and 6 running absolute riot. Taking stuff off the shelves,screaming, shouting, sitting down in the aisles. Dad was literally chasing them up and down the aisles. He caught my eye when one of them grabbed a glass bottle of something and was about to drop it and said 'and I brought them here to wear them out!'.

@Grammarnut I have a choice of Waitrose, big Tesco, big Sainsburys, an Aldi and an M&S foodhall until 6pm every Sunday. All within a twenty minute drive radius.

Fucksake

I agree. The less people in the store, the better. Few years ago, I was shopping in Asda. Last few bits in basket. A fat bloke barged into me. I fell onto a pensioner lady. My basket rimmed into her tummy. She looked in pain. I felt terrible. Fat bloke didn't even notice!!

Could you not phone in advance and have the whole place emptied so you can shop in peace?

Surely they'd do this for someone as important as you?

Or you could have done your shopping earlier in the week or perhaps of an evening where less kids would be. Or ordered online. Some of us don’t just like leaving the kids in their own in the house.

How awful for you. Fat people shouldn't be allowed out on public. Their fatness causes problems for real people like you and me.

Supermarkets in Scotland. Which was part of the UK last time I checked. 🙄

I’m surprised there was room for anyone else with all the space your entitlement was taking up.

I expect it's difficult at this time of year as the weather is bad and it's somewhere to go to break up their day