Major pet peeve, just me?

[DaisyChain505]

It really bugs me when I see whole families doing the weekly food shop in supermarkets.

The aisle are jam packed with whole families doing the food shop. Why is it necessary for both parents and the kids to all be there to do it?

They take up more space, the kids are ultimately in other shoppers way as they don’t have any spacial or situational awareness and are just wondering around aimlessly and it must be a more stressful trip for the parents compared to if one parent stayed home with the kids and the other went and did the food shop solo.

I saw a terrible accident a few years ago when there was a child in a shopping trolley. Probably about 4-5. They stood up to try and get something from the shelf and parent was looking at something else.

The trolley tipped forward and the child went flying. It looked like she had lost some teeth and gave her head such a bash.

Ambulance called but why are people so stupid? Your child could be seriously injured and lying in the trolley is unhygienic at the very least.

We've shopped as a family - not because that's all we can muster for a family day out (!!) - how judgemental and presumptous! Usually it's because we are on our way/or on our way back from somewhere.....and all of us want to go in as we've got different things to get and DH might want to go to look at summat specific in the electrical bit and I want to look in the plant aisle. Jesus, it's not that deep if a whole family goes to the shop. That is their right!!

absolutely this! it's a free bloody country last time I checked!

I manage to find loads more special offers when I go in to the physical shop so usually prefer it....but sometimes prefer to shop online if I'm too busy to get out...

ASOLUTE RUBBISH! I'm a very efficient, organised (and engaged mum) and when mine were little they loved helping me find things to put in the trolley....it was a learning opportunity! Now they're older - like another poster said - it's nice walking around and planning the week's meals together and makes them more part of the running of the house. Not that that happens all the time. I shop alone a lot, but Jesus Christ, it's not a sin (or a sign of anything you mentioned in your post) if my kids tag along! Plus you've got single parents who might not have any children so the kids have to come along!

And they can also injure other people when they dash around with a trolley and knock someone over or crash into the back of them because their parent is too busy on their phones or shouting at another child.

In fact my husband was telling me that a relative of his sister in law has broken her hip and wrist because someone went into her in the supermarket!

Just because something is allowed doesn't make it desirable.

And it certainly isn't a free country and never has been.

Oh and if you work in Waitrose please tell stupid parents to stop letting their kids come in with bikes (true story).

And then the same people complain a few years later when older kids go into the shopping centre with e-scooters.

Well doh. Actions have consequences.

You are unreasonable as a teacher, teaching your kids skills such as shopping, budgeting and nutrition is good. Also it maybe the only thing they can do together. Stop bashing pensioners too. It could be getting out for some, meeting people or being among people as they may see no one. They can't carry big loads perhaps

The skills of shopping include examining fruit and vegetables for soundness, ripeness, size, and meat for proportion and distribution of fat, fish for cut and shape. None of that possible with online orders.

Keep teaching children the things those old shoppers know. Oh, and how to check eggs aren't cracked.

I've just had to make a stew because the diced beef I bought for the cats was so lean they wouldn't eat it, and I had to get them some nice tasty fat-marbled stuff instead. Sensible animals.

Perhaps it's not desirable for you or for many other uptight, miserable people who like to find fault in everything but it for plenty of others
....and yes you are free to go to the supermarket as a family or retired person any time you wish...

The thing is, there are probably many things that you do, and aspects of your personality that other people find undesirable, but we all have to learn to live with undesirable things.

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Absolutely.... life happens and family has to fit in to that x

I shop with my husband because we don't have a car and the carry capacity is greater with two of us if we are doing a big shop. Not sure why that is a) pathetic or b) a problem for the person on checkout or anyone else. We aren't canoodling in the queue Orin the veg aisle.

We are actually more efficient together because we know what we need and he can be picking up coffee whilst I'm in the pasta aisle. It's not an outing for us, it's a chore we want to get over as quickly as possible.

Absolutely this.
It's actually pathetic of YourWinter to say it's pathetic. Can they not stop and think of all the reasons you've listed here??
If I was a checkout girl, I really don't think I could care less if a family or couple were doing their shopping. It wouldn't occur to me to have a judgement about that. People are so uptight!
I'm going to unwatch this thread now as I've been on it too long now so won't see any replies.
Happy shopping families and couples!

And then there is group c that get their shopping delivered