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's ridiculous when it's so crowded and busy.

Omfg I just went to sainsburys to get some wrapping paper as I've run out and when I was queuing a woman said "oh ffs" and huffed so I turned around to see what she was bothered about and there was a mum and dad and 2 kids with, I shit you not, 6 mini kids shopping trollies with their Christmas food shop and they were holding up the whole aisle!

DH usually does our weekly shop but for this week DH and I took our three kids with us, they are too young to be left alone in the house. We both wanted to get the shop done together so we don’t forget anything and have to go back.

Kids enjoyed it, they were well behaved and polite; was a nice little outing.

If anything is getting in the way while shopping it’s the click and collect staff and their 3 trolleys in every aisles.

No issue with people taking kids shopping in general (as long as they at least attempt to control them), but I think two days before Christmas the socially responsible thing is to give the family day trip to Tesco a miss.

why? that's the one day where it actually makes sense for people to pick their special food? Who sticks rigidly to a list for Christmas?