To let DD eat a few grapes in the supermarket?

[LimburgseVlaai]

This is triggered by the thread about letting children sit in supermarket trolleys, and what is and isn't acceptable.

When I take my DD (2.6yo) shopping, I usually get her to sit in the trolley by feeding her throughout the shop. Most of the food is packaged and weighed and I pay for it as normal (with the checkout lady usually holding up the package and saying "Did you know this has been opened?" or "Has a little mouse been nibbling at this one?")

But sometimes she gets hold of (unpackaged, unweighed) grapes and eats a few. I stop her after the first few, and the shelf stackers see it but don't react. But I do let her eat some.

I know all this is theft, and you shouldn't consume food until you have paid for it, and I would never let her eat (say) a whole banana or an apple; but somehow I have lulled myself into thinking that a few grapes won't do any harm. And yes, I know grapes should be washed before eating.

What do you think? Are my DD and I criminals?

I'm also too new to have read any grape eating threads, but I'm giggling at mamadivas biscuit woman.

If you can get both pictures on the same screen it looks like a mad person dancing, waving their arms in the air and shaking their boobs from side to side.

I've never let my dses eat on the way round the supermarket, but I suppose if you have to, then stuff from priced packets does mean you'll be paying for what you eat.

The supermarket doesn't pay for stuff that is taken and not paid for - we do - it's built into the pricing structure.

mamadiva, grumpypants and whoisasking

I started a new thread in chat called buscuit art. Please put your wonderful pictures there, so that others can see your cleverness.

biscuit

LimburgsVlaai, when you click on the link the words 'Mumsnet Classics' appear in the large blue bar at the top of the thread. This is a bit of a giveaway. It is also, incidentally a link to the whole Classics topic.

'Grapes in the supermarket' was a fondly remembered thread that got put into Mumsnet Classics almost as soon as the topic was created.

I know it's from 2003, but I don't think the ethics of stealing eating in supermarkets have changed all that much in the last 6 years....

Next you'll be telling us your OH makes pirate noises during sex

My mum used to let me open a packet of crisps and present the empty packet at the counter with mock-embarassment. Every time.. still, the checkout ladies probably didn't dare quibble as she is quite scary.

Shouldn't the real concern be how fat your kid's gonna get by you plying her with food every second she sits in the shopping cart supermarket trolley?

Don't bribe your child with snacks or she'll turn into a food blister.

I don't think your daughter is a criminal. Being below the age of criminal responsibility and all that.

You though ... are in an entirely different position.

When did you start stealing? Is there any chance you might reform?

i think you may go to jail.im unsure though.

LOVING the biscuit women

The most interesting thing from that linked 2003 topic was the casual mention of buying a loaf of bread for 15p!

Fifteen pee! The cheapest loaf in Tesco now is 47p. Can the price of bread really have tripled in so short a time, and we never noticed? They had revolutions over this sort of thing in the past, you know....

Really!? 15p!?

Ugh, inflations a bitch isn't it?

If ever a thread cried out for a it's this one.

Have only read the OP, but I think that it is still stealing, you know. Think of St. Peter!