Sick of Xmas now following a bust up in an marks queue

[daisydee43]

Hey

Feel really sad, normally love Xmas but today has made me really annoyed. Don't normally leave Xmas shop this late but dh has conveniently broke his wrist so I had to drive him round to do his last min bits.

1. Had bust up with dh as he hates my driving
2. Went into m&s - couldn't believe my eyes! Food hall was gridlock (had to get out so quick dd lost her toy :( people were going nuts it was so un-festive. Had to cut through a queue to get out and some woman rammed her trolley into the back of me thinking I was cutting in (told her where to go)

I know this sounds very normal but what the hell happened to joy - there was none out today

Sainsburys was like that earlier. Too many ditherers big groups of 3/4 people for one trolley stopping to discuss stuffing type even what shape tortilla chips to buy surely this should have been discussed before and send just 1/2 people to do the shop?

There's a new m&s near us and it's been relatively quiet hoping it's quiet tomorrow after work as I have to go and collect some parcels from there and pick up last couple of bits. I avoid the shops on Boxing Day out of principle.

Hope your actual Christmas is better than the lead up to it.

Ridiculous isn't it that people get so hung up on buying the right stuff (be it food, latest toys or whatever) that they get aggressive. I just don't get it. I love the buildup and I actually love planning all the food and gifts but the day it makes me a stress head like your OP describes will be the day I step away from it. It's supposed to be fun.

We went on thursday to morrisons thought it wouldnt be so bad considering there was still a few days left but was wrong, everyone was huffing and puffing and swearing (including OH). Just glad ive done all my shopping now

Oh I'm glad everyone agrees - gotta do a food shop tomorrow! As waiting to get paid - normally go online as supermarkets stress me but no ones delivering over Xmas wish me luck

You should have called the security guard on the woman to scare her. Too many mild mannered people turn into demons at xmas time & the only way to deal with them, is to call security or the police.

That is rubbish but you gotta shake it off now, only a few 'sleeps' to go now!!!

Don't let some rude, ill mannered people spoil a lovely time of year.

I'm thinking of going to Tesco reeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaally late tonight to get my last bits but I don't like driving at night --pathetic I know-- might send DH for his one and only contribution to xmas dinner!!!

Oh you poor thing. It sounds awful.

The only place we went yesterday was the drive through McDonalds...it was great, they were all really cheerful!

I do think M&S food hall is the worst of the lot, though. They tend to have their aisles really close together and then have a pretty random approach to food arrangement, so nothing makes sense - thus everyone gets livid even without the crowds.

Yes come to think of it (don't go there that often as it's £££) m&s food hall is pretty tightly packed.

I have social phobia which is improving gradually but still, town is just a nightmare so I do as much as I can well in advance, and some online too.

Don't know about other stores but if you use tesco, they give you priority booking for Xmas slots if you have their delivery saver plan. Mine should be arriving in the next 45 mins :o

I think Christmas is the best time to hunker down with your folks and just refuse to go anywhere except for essentials. If you can that is.

It keeps the roads clearer for emergencies, and makes everyone less ragey.

Can't imagine being able to cope with the crowds in town today. It's so kind of primitive and coarse and brings out the caveman in all of us.

No one needs that.

It's quite the eye opener to what Christmas stress does to people. I remember when I worked at asda years ago there would be full on punch ups over car parking spaces.

I just have to do the alcohol shop for presents.. think I'll just suck up the price and shop local.

I went to Tesco at 7am it wasn't busy at all but people were still rowing. I think it is the stress of having to create the perfect film set Christmas but in reality most people don't have that.

That is one thing I don't miss about the UK! I have just been shopping (am in Australia) and the shops are no more busy than usual.

I love it.

I have given up last minute shopping after being told I was an entitled bitch in M&S last year. Funnily enough I felt I was entitled to the dessert I had preordered and was not going to turn a blind eye at some silly cow taking it out if my shopping trolley!

This year went to M&S Friday and bought meat and puddings. Ocado supposed to be coming tonight but if that goes tits up will get DH to get stuff on way home from work in London tomorrow.

I don't get it. The supermarkets are only closed for one day and it's like no one has realised it! I bet the amount of food that gets thrown out is huge this time of year.

We did our food shop on Fri and it was very quiet at our local Sainsburys but popped into Aldi for one more packet of Stollen bites yesterday and it was carnage.

Hate Christmas.

Yy, M&S food hall (was it the Cribbs Causeway one Op?) was really too busy yesterday, despite getting there as early as possible. I spoke to a few other shoppers who all seemed jolly and were laughing about the crowds, but I did see one "naice" middle aged woman starting a row with someone.
Thank fuck it's all done and out of the way for me now.

I once got trapped in a crowd of mad women with trolleys when dd was a baby in a pram.

An assistant had to rescue me!

Stevie I think it's pressure.

You see stuff in the shop and think 'Oh! We should have some of that! That's really nice' or 'that's what people like to have at Christmas' and you kind of keep wanting to go back to get more things, because it's an opportunity to do something you don't get to do the rest of the year - then bang, it's over.

A lot of it works on the marketing thing that if you show people something attractive, they will probably want it.

If you don't go near a supermarket in December you won't know what you're missing and probably won't get that same effect.

it becomes like a race, a competition.

I have a thing against children's parties for a similar reason - it encourages a competitive excitement, a herd instinct, like the Grand National, and I don't think this sort of instinct should be encouraged.

Madame, that's outrageous!

And look what happened on Black Friday this year.

Competitiveness

herd instinct

all terribly wrong. But it makes money.

i went this morning to tescos, and whilst it was busy.. it was just a normally type of busy.. no manic shoppers thankfully.

i understand leaving veg etc to last minute.. bread etc esppecially if your on a budgit and can only buy things at certon times..

i dont get the anger ethier.

I have to go into town soon, am afraid now (though I'm only meeting somebody for coffee). This is people at their worst.

Hope you've managed to get your festive spirit back daisy

Madame did you manage to get it back?

We went to Morrisons about 8am as we'd ran out of wrapping paper and Sellotape and to get some truffle ingredients (DS1 has decided he wants some now) and while it was busy everyone seemed to be in a really good mood. Not sure how it'll be this afternoon though.

made the mistake of popping into asda at 8.30 this morning on my way into work (asda is near my mums house and she is babysitting for me today). what a nightmare! The car park was packed, people were just trolley to trolley, I only needed a couple of boxes of chocolates to give to my assistants and staff along with the vouchers I had already purchased (m&S not asda ), should have just stuck with the vouchers in a card.

at least after I have picked up last few parcels from click & Collect from m&s and john lewis I can go home and not have to visit another shop for days. I don't really do the sales either as I've usually brought all that I wanted anyway and I'm not organised enough to put children's clothes up for next year I just forget about them until they have outgrown them and then discover them!

I made my twice-yearly (Christmas and Easter) to Waitrose.

Getting IN the car-park was a nightmare (traffic lights, cars going four directions) but they do have people directing to spaces.

Then people leave their bloody trollies abandoned in the middle of the aisle (worse is the Fruit& Veg)

Then when I've stopped to pick something (tucking my trolley into the side) 2 people are "Oh, can I just get...." push their arm into my face and elbow me out of the way. (I should bite their hand, )
Well you can see I'm here I'm picking something up, why is your time more important?

Then the queues which are well organised (there's a gap at the end of the aisle to walkthrough) but the number of shoppers who jump on the the tills- until the Supervisor tells them "Madam the queue is here ".........and they obviously didn't fathom why 10 people with full trollies are patiently waiting. .

Then on the way out, DD and I waited while an elderly lady moved her trolley, and a middle aged bloke just shoves past DD "Erm why d'you think I was waiting? "