To ask if anyone else finds supermarket shopping stressful?

[Cathkidson36]

Just been to Asda and it was hell, entire families doing the shopping, kids running up and down aisles and screaming at top note, groups of young teenagers shouting and messing around, it's just a stressful environment.
I have misophonia which doesn't help but I don't think kids should be allowed to run up and down supermarkets shrieking.

I go to Sainsbury’s on Saturdays and it’s not too busy. I work full time otherwise I’d go on weekdays.

I’ve not moved to online shopping because I like going and I’m in control of what I buy. My 79 year old dad won’t either.

I don't find it stressful because I go when I know it won't be busy.
The self-checkouts are a bit stressful.

There are several supermarkets nearby to choose from.
The big shop will be Lidl or Aldi, the top ups are from Tesco.
There's an Asda not far away but I never go there because it's huge and I don't like it.
One annoyance is that the Aldi I go to often doesn't have what I wanted the most from there. Another is that DCat won't eat Coshida (Lidl cat food). DCat isn't fussy but it just doesn't get eaten.

The big Tesco has always been very busy when I've gone on a Sunday, and late afternoon/early evening during the week.

I got so pissed off hunting for the new fucking place they'd put hummous in Tesco every week that I moved to online deliveries.

From Waitrose.

Yes which is why I refuse to do it. Always online shop apart from quick top ups

I try not to go at the weekends if possible.

During school/office hours, or in the evening is good. If you must go at a weekend, earlier in the morning you are more likely to avoid the shrieking children.

Or online shopping is great.

People shouldn't let children run around shrieking anywhere except maybe a theme park/soft play centre, but people do all kinds of things which are annoying in public. Best to avoid busy places if you don't like this!

Think yourself lucky! You can leave, leaving the hideous screaming children behind but us poor sods that work in supermarkets have to listen to the little buggers screaming up and down every aisle, listen to the parents ineffectually telling them to shush or even worse, ignoring their children running up and down the aisles. 19 months until retirement, can't wait!

I quite enjoy it; there's something reassuring about the ritual of it. Good place to people-watch too. When I'm at the till, I like looking at what other people are buying, and imagining how they've come to the decision to buy it.

Of all the things you could do on a night out, food shop would be very close to the bottom of my list!

I'm a nosey bugger I also look at what others have bought and think if it's fine looking I'd wished I'd bought it as well.

That's exactly when I go, it's probably one of the quietest times of my whole week 😁, totally stress free and a break from someone or something needing my attention

Only crazies go on Sat pm 😁

It's not so much the shopping, rather the annoying music, feral kids, rude people, people who don't seem familiar with the term excuse me or sorry, groups chatting and so on. I don't want an online delivery though because I want to choose my food, check dates etc.

I have misophonia and work on a supermarket checkout. YANBU

No. I don't enjoy it but I don't find it at all stressful. I shop mainly in Aldi - ours has fairly wide aisles. I go on a Sunday morning usually and it's not that busy really. It's also a reasonable size. If I go to the huge Asda it takes me nearly twice the amount of time!

Yes so I use Ocado, it’s completely stress free.

I do mine at about 8.20am on a school morning straight from the school run. It's bliss, practically empty and no kids, plenty of staff.

On line shopping for most things, approx every 4/5 days, Sainsbury’s delivery saver £7.99 a month, unlimited deliveries(over £40) I do still pop in to our local Waitrose for the odd thing, treat, have a look, but this is a fairly quiet store.

I do supermarket shopping but tend to be in and out as quickly as possible. We tend to bulk buy a lot from Costco and top up with supermarket, baker, butcher, etc Edited to say I hate doing big supermarket shops

Ive been known to do a little cry at aldi checkouts...

I don’t find it stressful but it’s a pretty crap way to spend precious leisure time so I get mine delivered.
I still need to nip into a supermarket from then to time but it’s a 5 minute job that I usually tie in to a journey back from somewhere.

Urrrgh! Yes yes yes l can't stand it!
I mostly do the online shop but if I'm after specific things then I'll sometimes have to go in.

I hate it when you see whole families in there, like its a bloody family day out or something. 🙄 Then the fact that more than half the tills in Asda are self serve, while the staff just stand about chatting.
Then those sodding cages of stock waiting to go on a shelf that are usually abandoned in the middle of an aisle so nobody can get around it with their trolley. 😡

If I go with my 8 year old DS, he will protest all the way round how much he hates it until we leave. Then once I return home, I realise there's loads of things I have forgotten to buy.
Its the worst thing ever.

Been home shopping for over a decade. Best thing Invented. I hate shopping.
No buying extra stuff you don’t need so costs less. Don’t have to go out and the best bit - no dealing with other shoppers.
I don’t pay for delivery either as I use my clubcard points to get a yearly delivery saver.
If I need milk or a couple of bits through the week I go to the shop round the corner. So a quick in/out.

I get most of it online and jut pop in M&S for a few things

Every sodding time I’m in Sainsbury’s there’s a manic bleeping alarm going off the whole time. It’s so bad on the nerves. I don’t know how people can be expected to work there.

I love going to the supermarket by myself, it brings me great joy. I also love going to supermarkets in other countries, to see what different things they have.

I really hate going with my family though and avoid when at all possible. Ds2 is autistic and can't cope, so is usually running off, throwing everything in the trolley, or having a meltdown because we can't buy everything and he can't cope with not owning things. One of the uncontrolled kids being complained about on this thread really! Ds1 is a lot better, but still nags for everything or decides he wants to cook something obscure that we have no ingredients for and have already passed them. Dp likes to look slowly at everything, when I just want to get in and speed through the list.

I go either before 10 or after 7.30 to avoid the children. It’s far quieter.