to have not picked up the sweets DS chucked all over Sainsbury's floor?

[YoMoJo]

popped into local "convenience" store earlier today.

Long queue as always, which is directed along the aisle that is packed with crisps, chocolate & sweets.

More sweets & chocolates at till points.

DS (2.5 yrs) fed up of continuously being told "NO" he couldnt have any sweets/chocolate/crisps then proceeded to chuck about 10 Mars Bars on the floor whilst I packed & paid for my shopping at the till.

In protest at having to queue in the said aisle I left them all on the floor & walked out the store.

so AIBU

Cupcakes - agree with you 100% but ... think it's Dionne Warwick that sang "walk on by" not Diana Ross!

Sorry, I'm obviously having a pedantic flush!

I see where you're coming from ski, but don't you think it's mean to the people who actually work in the shop? After all, throwing sweets on the floor sends no message whatsoever to the higher management of the shop, who actually decide where produce is stocked. They won't even know about it, unless so much is chucked on the floor, so hard, that it starts making a dent in their wasted produce. The people who'll suffer will be the people on the tills, who probably dislike the situation as much as the OP.

You're absolutely right, SouthDevon. I'm not old enough to remember that's why I got it wrong!

Cupcakes - let's just say that I am of the age when that particular song was "in the charts" - no, no I actually mean that I have a very good memory!

Lots of health and safety isshoooos involved with leaving them on the floor: factor in warm weather, other mums with buggies, mars bar melts and sticks to wheel of buggy, toddler waiting at checkout starts picking dirty melted mars bar off the wheel... not good scenario

MMMmmmmm Mars bar fondue. I would have gone and got me some breadsticks...

Dignified response YoMoJo loved the bit about Indigo child . Pour yourself a glass of wine and pontificate on why you didn't get a sodding kitten instead!

Tomorrow will be better

Kudos to OP for being a good sport though. She hasn't frothed and foamed like a dropped can of Fanta, like I would if I were flamed so unceremoniously

very poetic cupcake. I like the alliteration.

YANBU - I agree with skidoodly. It absolutely infuriates me that at one local supermarket the checkout aisles are so narrow and the sweets so stupidly/cunningly placed that there is no way I can angle my trolley so that my 17 month dd, sitting in the seat, can't reach the sweets. I try to pry them back from her hands onto the shelves but if she chucks some of them around I just think to myself that it serves them right. And if anyone tuts at me I just tell them that the sweets shouldn't be there.

Yes, 2 is a great age to teach your toddler to be an obedient and compliant consumer.

How thoughtful of the supermarket to give us parents such a perfect opportunity to show our toddlers how little they matter as long as they buy stuff and shut up.

Skidooly
These place exist to make a profit, not to make your little world a better place.
They use pester power as a tool to help maximise their profit,
grow up.

No, I will make my little world a better place.

One squashed mars bar left on the floor at a time.

My two pennorth.

Sod 'em.

Supermarkets utterly ruthless to farmers, customers, etc etc etc.

Deliberately put sweets, comics and other temptations at child height.

And whoever had to pick it up, let's face it, is at work. You have to do all manner of shitey stuff at work. You don't cry about it when you get home. I regularly get parents letting their kids fark up my bookshelves in the shop. I have to retidy them about ten times a day in the holidays. It's just part of the job. I don't require counselling.

Lol at op's objection to a commercial enterprise taking advantage of pester power/merchandising to increase profits. Welcome to capitalism.

Very unreasonable, but I think you know that.

...and if you want to object to supermarkets then join a protest group and/or stop using them. Don't be inconsiderate.

skidoodly - give it up
do you have any idea what these bastids DO with squished mars bars ?

they send them up to glasgow for deep frying

Why don't skidoodly and tryingtoleave lead an existence like my old neighbour who is very anti-capitalism/comercialism; never sets foot in a supermarket, gets his clothes/books from charity shops and hasn't used a carrier bag in years?

At least people resepct him because he is living by his principles instead of making pathetic, half-arsed attempts at bringin' down da system.

Cupcakes is right
dont use your two year old as a frontline red-shirt phalangist anti capitalist , become a freegan instead

Thanks for this thread.

Now I want sweets.

You're a victim of capitalism, Orm

I'd love a Mars bar right about now,even a squashed one would do

chocolate. mmmm

or wine

chocolate or wine

chocolate or wine
chocolate or wine
chocolate or wine
chocolate or wine

oooohhh

I refuse to shop in a certain supermarket because of the sheer amount of shat they sell in the frozen section. DS goes bonkers for minced fish cock shaped into ships and I haven't the heart to tell him 'no' EVERY god damn time we go shopping.

It's called voting with your feet. A teeny-tiny bit of me suspects that some people won't refuse to shop at supermarkets that offend their "anti-capitalist" principles because then they wouldn't be able to demonstrate how very annoyed they are by it all, like a bunch of petulant first-year students. I'm right, aren't I?