how to broach subject of shopping with cm

[thrifty]

Hi,

I wondered if anyone can help me talk to my cm (and also friend) about shopping trips. Ds had been with cm since he was 1, he's now 4 and starts school in september.

over the last few months cm seems to do a lot of shopping trips with ds. term time he's at pre-school 2 mornings, so in the last couple of weeks, 2 of his 3 days with her have been treking round the shops. whilst I'm quite happy he's getting the excercise (30min walk into town), I'm not so happy that when i ask him how his morning was he says "we went to lots of boring shops". He has just admitted that they also went to the library today too, but mostly the shops.

I don't want to fall out with cm at all, we live very close together, her DD is friends with ds and I do like her. so how do i broach the subject that I'd rather she didn't trek him round the shops?

i see the thread has moved on.

thanks to all those who responded, with help for my original question. I shall leave it, i think, as i'm not one for rocking the boat. And yes, of course 4 yo are not that reliable.

I do, however, take great offence at being called a troll, devil. Maybe you should read the op a little more carefully wrt preschool?
He know's where lidl is as we do our weekly shop there, hence the name thrifty
wilko's is the "shop where we bought my star wars lunch bag from, mummy, and they also had some ben 10 eggs with an alien in, and can we go back and get one, pleeeease mummy"