Does it need 7 people (3 adults and 4 kids) to do a food shop?

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Braved today at 7am. Saw entire families shopping. One example was two parents, 4 DC and one of the parents’ DM. Kids were, guessing between 4-12.

Why couldn’t at least one of the adults stayed at home looking after the kids? Two were bored (think being dragged out of bed didn’t help them) and the other two were demanding “can we have this?”.

Please keep shopping numbers to a minimum. It will help you, other shoppers and staff.

It sounded awful, the poor kid cringed. I'm not apologising for having standards around children.

I can’t carry it all by myself and my husband always economises by not buying sweet things! He can’t be trusted, but I need an extra pair of arms.

Intervening because a dad said ‘shit’ in the presence of a child is bonkers, very Mumsnet

It’s a public place, surely people can do what they want?

None of your business

Maybe going to the shop wasn't the only thing they were doing? Apart from that who gives a fuck, you don't own the supermarket.

I didn't because a lot of people think it's fine. My prerogative not to like it.

Really, perhaps they don’t have a car and needed extra hands to carry the shopping!! We shop on foot together

Agree but only because I took my 11 yo with me to Waitrose. She was fabulous at helping to the point where a couple of other shoppers asked me if I’d hire her out.

However, she was also fabulous at finding yummy little extras that made my trolley come to a whopping £350!!!!

What a bizarre thing to give a fuck about.

Thank goodness for online shopping - I’ve not been in a single shop this Christmas.

90 minutes?!? And you think that's quick, I think you'd get a parking ticket in my local supermarkets if you took that long 😂

Not quite sure why you care?

And surely other people can have a view on it, don't you ever have an opinion on anything?

tiredofchristmas
My other half was working so I had to take 2 toddlers with me. If you think I did it for fun you are very much mistaken!

Id guess op means mum, dad and all the kids!!

I work in a supermarket. the only thing I don’t get is families shopping, a child starts being loud (special mention for small child who spent five minutes squeezing a pet toy while her parents sang how much is that doggy in the window loudly) or crying, one doesn’t take them out. Soul destroying listening to a child crying in a crowded supermarket at this time of the year (happened today, we were all near the end of a twelve hour shift and I honestly felt like saying it to them- just take her out!!!!!!!!)

I think you have misunderstood the post. The OP wasn’t complaining about lone parents shopping with the kids because there was no other option. It was that Uncle Tom Cobley & All came along too.

You can’t start policing who’s allowed in a supermarket. Just go at a non family friendly time. Far fewer families and kids at 7am or 9pm - I hate having to work around the multiple kids, the people who bring their bored DH and shout at him about cheese, the people for whom a trip to the supermarket is some kind of novelty experience instead of a weekly drudge, the people comparing the dates on a dozen different packets of ham… so I shop when they aren’t there. Sainsbury’s first thing this morning was quiet and the only shoppers there were lone middle aged women with a list, moving purposefully and making fast choices. Much easier.

I saw so many people dragging tired, bored and cranky little kids round Bluewater a couple of weeks ago. Some people seem to have no sense at all.

I reckon it's because some men are so useless with the kids that they can't be at home alone with them, or refuse to, and are also so useless at shopping that they can't be trusted to do that either. Just a waste of space.

No. It makes no sense to me. I left my toddler twins at home with my husband

Please keep shopping numbers to a minimum. It will help you, other shoppers and staff.

Please keep your lecturing to a minimum. It will help me and other shoppers just get on with it.

I worry about the mums in these families - if their P is controlling them/their spending but too incompetent on purpose to go himself.

My DC love doing the food shop, they don’t get to go very often as they’re usually at school when I do it and it does cost us more money as they pick up things we wouldn’t usually notice but why not? There’s no rule limiting the number of people per trolley.

Hmm..... all well and good as long as its not then counted up as "i minded the kids so you could have time to yourself". I mostly shop online or when they are in school (work part time) but if I need to i take them with me.... i never use up precious time my DH takes off work (self employed works far too much) to have him sit home and me trail around the supermarket.

My kids love coming to Aldi. I’m not going to make them stay at home to please you.