To expect retired people not to clog up the supermarkets at lunchtime?

[Chil1234]

Really? I mean, come on oldsters, you've got all day to sashay round the shops at a snail's pace, stopping to chat to the assistants, lovingly examining every item on the shelf and trying to work out if the 3 for £2 offer is better than the BOGOF. Why do you want to rock up by the coachload at 12:00 when the place is full of stressed-out people (like me) trying to charge round with a trolley in the alloted 20 minutes left of their lunch-break - list in one hand and mobile phone (yes, I'll be back in a minute!!!!) in the other? What's so appealing about standing in queues five deep when, if you'd arrived an hour or two earlier or later, you could have the place more or less to yourself?

Thank you.. I feel better for that.

ir's Other People I can't stand in the supermarket - clogging up the aisles with their trolleys, chatting to each other and generally Getting My Way. I mentally blow them to smithereens with my specially adapted (and sadly imaginary) laser gun trolley attachment. Then I'm all nice and calm for the torture of the checkout queues.
(only slightly ing).

that would be Getting In My Way - see, even the thought of supermarket shopping has got me so stressed I can't type properly.

Ormrenewed. I have in a way. It's called internet shopping

yeah and don't use the self serve ailse either with your basket FULL of stuff

ROFL HarderToKidnap

Self-service aisle + basket full of stuff = sneaky passing stuff through, right?

This is why I never recognise people when I'm in the supermarket or in town. I don't see people, I see obstacles.

no, the till YELLS at you if you try and sneak stuff

YABU to go to the supermarket. Shop online.

What I really hate is tosspots who stand RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the tossing aisle, especially if they are jabbering to an assistant who should know better. If you stand really close to them, don't say excuse me just stand there, it really freaks them out.

the staff shopping for internet shoppers are my greatest bugbear. they do clog up the aisles with their massive blue trolleys. i huff and puff and moan when one of them clogs up the cheese aisle.

I don't understand why the supermarkets don't all follow Ocados model and have central warehouses?

Surely it is more efficient than having staff trawl the shelves in the supermarket itself?

I can't stand these hordes of of office staff on their lunchbreaks clogging the supermarkets up and only £3 on a sandwich
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i mean why can't they homemake (ooh good word,that) sandwiches BEFORE they go to work ?.I mean have you seen how much salt there is in a 'bought sandwich'?

Because ocardo is for wankers.

devil - it might be more efficient but it's a hell of a lot more expensive.

curry - I do too! I rarely see the inside of a real supermarket.

lol @ tossing aisle. I had to re-read that, initially thought it was to do with pancakes.

Please tell me there aren't really people out there who get annoyed at retired people out doing their shopping at a time of their choosing? Admittedly, I am a particularly sad person, but I have tears in my eyes, thinking of my Dad (who could tell you the price of bread, or indeed anything else, in every supermarket) actually annoying people by having the temerity to enjoy food shopping.

He's 84, he worked until he was 75, and in my eyes he, and indeed anybody at all regardless of gender/age/ability etc, can shop whenever they want. As I understand it, the supermarkets are there for all of us to use, not just for Important People.

Agree.
Especially if they aren't People Like Me.

I blame the special senior citizen rates in the supermarket cafe for the current influx of the old dears at lunch times

As a shopworker i love listening to the elderly ladies discussing the offers to each other,it reminds me of my own dear Nana,God rest her soul,She loved going out shopping & despite having many illnesses she like to get out & about.

It reminded her she was still alive.

I spend more time at the till with our elderly customers,they are polite & if you get to speak to them you will find out they have a cracking sense of humour.

The lunchtime brigade on the other hand can be down right rude,they dont look at you,they just throw their lunch at you cos they are on a very important call on their phones dontcha know?

YAB a dick.

Bucharest: "This kind of OP makes me feel physically sick, and wish I were closer to my Mum so I could protect her from this kind of attitude.

Hope the thread is going the way you envisaged OP. "

Overreaction or what!!

Of course the OP was being tongue in cheek. Noone is seriously suggesting that old people should have a lunch time curfew or anything. Heavens my Mum is not so nimble now and even when she was younger she used to take an absolute age.

I would never ever be rude to an old person in a shop - quite the contrary. And if they were being particularly slow I would be more likely to smile encouragingly so as not to hassle them, BUT inside my head I would probably be hopping up and down in frustration if this was my lunch hour.

All the people apparently shocked by this thread - are you seriously saying you have never felt this way when you are in a hurry and someone (of any age) is being really slow in front of you? The people who drive me to distraction are those who appear to not even think of packing their shopping in the bags until they are all done and paid and then spend the next five minutes carefully putting it all away, thus blocking the checout.

Three cheers for self sevice tills.

I agree - but people can be slow at any age. Why single out old people? It's always happening her - as if somehow mumsnetters will stay dewily youthful forever!