Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

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This really triggers me and drives me absolutely mad. I can’t stand people excessively touching and handling fruit they have no intention of buying. Every time I am in the supermarket and I go to buy some bananas, I always just pick up the first bunch that look almost ripe, are a nice colour and look undamaged, then put them in my basket and walk away. Even if one is a little damaged I just eat that one first. Job done.

But time and time again the display is being body blocked by one person and their trolley while a queue builds up behind them, usually by someone of a certain age demographic removing every single bunch from the stand and inspecting them individually, prodding and poking them then putting them back.

Are you buying them or making love to them? Stop prodding and poking them all ffs! Other people have to buy those and they don’t want your hands all over them squeezing them and poking them.

No other supermarket fruit goes through this undignified ritual of prodding and poking then being put back on the shelf. It’s so unhygienic and rude. Just leave the bananas alone if you don’t want them! Other people have to buy those after you’ve finished messing about with them!

What is 'NAGALT', please? Even Google doesn’t seem to know!

I will pick up and check any fruit where you don't eat the skin - bananas, mangoes, melons, avocados etc. I don't see why I would mind if other people do this too, I don't think it is unhygienic or rude or damages the fruit? And I've never had a queue of people build up behind me doing this.

Not the best thing to do, it can only legally be out of the fridge for a certain time before it is deemed spoilt and has to go to waste.

Harry Belafonte was standing behind a banana feeler in his local Sainsbo, they'd been there for ages... 'Daylight come and me wan' go home,' he muttered to himself - and a classic was born...

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Not all greengrocers are like that (i think)

I hear you OP. Its got to the point I despise going shopping at the supermarket.

I went yesterday, and my trigger is people who wander around at a snails's pace in the middle of the aisle blocking it for everyone else or stop to look at something for 5 minutes and leave their trolley horizontally across the aisle so that every person has to say excuse me and wait for them to move it.

I have no problem acknowledging that not everyone is able to go faster -totally understand that, but if you cant, why not move just a few steps to the side so that others can pass you? its not difficult to do that and its so bloody selfish not to.

It's not even just going slow, the amount of people I saw yesterday who seemed completely oblivious as to why they were even in the supermarket! they were just aimlessly wandering around looking confused AF as if they were aliens who had just been dropped there by their space ship and had literally no clue why they were there- zero situational awareness. I dont get it- surely if you deliberately go to the supermarket you must have even a vague idea of what you might want to buy?

It's a play on NAMALT (which you will find).

The worst is the bakery. People picking up loose bread and rolls, handling it while coughing and spluttering and then putting it back. Minging, and I’m amazed these open bakeries are still allowed, or that anyone wants to buy from them.

My mum breaks the stalks off broccoli so they weigh less and therefore cost less!

Ditto

Am I the only poor sap who feels sorry for the cucumber monkey? I hope they gave him some grapes after the experiment 🥹

I'm very gentle but will check sell-by dates and bananas for bruising. I don't squash bread.

Buy the stuff on the top shelves, where nobody could possibly have sneezed on them.

Although I'm thinking of going to my local M&S later, & theirs doesn't go above chest height. In that case, buy from the bottom of the pile.

Not All Greengrocers Are Like This?

No, I think most of us just aren't really bothered, and think you're getting a bit overly worked up about a very minor irritation.

I buy bananas every week. I just pick up a bunch that look OK, personally, and I don't see the need for prodding or sniffing. But I've never had to come home without pristine bananas, so I don't think other people's banana-prodding is something that really affects me. Finding undamaged bananas really isn't a difficulty I experience in my life.

Just move the trolley yourself, if you wait for most people you will be there all day. Some peeps are so unaware of others around them. Standing in the middle of an aisle yakking about their operation and the clogging up till queue types, get on my bloody nerves. Patience to a point, with idiots and piss takers none.

I do my food shopping online. Anything that can't be peeled or cooked, I order the version that comes wrapped in a packet so there's a barrier between my food and dirty strangers fingers.

Oh no 😂

I often move their trolley for them. No one's biffed me on the nose yet

Just move the trolley yourself, if you wait for most people you will be there all day. Some peeps are so unaware of others around them. Standing in the middle of an aisle yakking about their operation and the clogging up till queue types, get on my bloody nerves. Patience to a point, with idiots and piss takers none.

Oh yes I have done this in the past and then I get tutted at or get an angry look because I've touched their precious trolley. I just dont understand why they cant just put it to the fucking side in the first place!

I hate the people who don't queue at the entrance to the self service tills, but who decide to walk up behind you when you're using one and scanning your shopping, glowering and standing there impatiently waiting for you to finish. It's happened to me three times, all middle-aged men, and I could swing for them.

I’m immune suppressed so can’t risk it at all, but it’s just highlighted how bad it is.

There's a man who does a quick look for staff then whips out a penknife to cut his broccoli stalks in our Sainsburys...I quite admire his commitment! 😂

Genuinely no. I actually do witness a tailback at the banana station frequently, so I do believe you. However as a careful picker of my bananas, I do think you’re overreacting need to get over it.

I wonder if instead of getting huffy you could try a different approach. Perhaps by asking them to stop fondling the fruit and get a wiggle on? Or just ramming your trolley into the back of their ankles? Or…the very innovative idea of politely asking them if you could just reach over and grab some?

Not sure about the "making love" analogy where prodding and poking is involved...