Sweets at checkouts in shops

[PracticallyPerfect]

My toddler will often try to grab sweets and if my attention is on paying at the till she has sometimes been sucessful at gaining entry to something she shouldn't have. I usually tell her immediately that she can't have it and hand it over to the cashier with apologies. Should I be paying for the damage to the shop's stock or is it the shop's acceptable loss that they should bear for putting sweets tempting low and at till points?

I would say that it's a bit of both- the shop's risk for putting things like that low down and your responsibility to at least try to keep her from it. I would talk with her beforehand and promise her a small reward if she manages to not touch them. A reward chart is great for things like this. If you can get this right now, it will get easier later on, when children can potentially cause more damage.

if i allowed my child to roam freely and open things in shops i would absolutely expect to pay for them!!

i am quite shocked tbh that you are trying to blame the shop for this

If your child damages shop stock so that it can't be sold to someone else, then you are liable to pay for it.

I always tell my toddler that he can't open anything until we pay the check out operator.

He normally holds onto things now to give to the member of staff.

If he opened something without my say so I would expect to pay for it and then I would put the item away so DS couldn't have it.

Shops fault entirely.

Put local supermarket has garden games and gardening stuff, there are about 300 garden centres near by, it's a food shop FFS stop with the seasonal crap!

It's such a bore trying to explain to a DS2 who is 3 why he can't have a cheap as shit plastic rocket thing for £3.99 when we've only popped in for milk and bread.

Booths in Knutsford Cheshire BTW.

I feel like shitting in an aisle and say 'oh I thought it was a toilet not a supermarket!'

Whenever I shop with my DS2 (20 mths) I feed him on the way round (fruit/crisps/water etc), I then pay for whatever he consumes with the rest of my shopping and have never had the issue of him grabbing at confectionary at the checkouts. Now, I know this has also been an "AIBU" in the past but as long as the goods are paid for, we all get to shop in peace and no mess is left behind, then I refuse to see any harm.

HTH