Why are there families in the supermarket queue?

[enoughofthebullshit]

I'm currently queuing around the carpark to get into the supermarket. All fine, everyone socially distancing. There are several families in the queue... mum dad 2 or 3 kids. WHY?!!! There are clearly enough adults in the house not to have to bring the kids! Single parents.. absolutely need to bring the kids... but not when there are 2 parents. They could at least wait in the car surly?! Once inside the shop groups of 5 wandering round will be difficult to distance from in isles. Idiots.

2 women and 3 kids got out of 1 car and queued for Poundland, 1 woman with 1 child and 1 with 2, presumably single parents and one had given the other a lift to the shop, fine, but if it was so important that both woman had to go round the shop why couldnt one woman stay in the car whilst the other shopped, and then vice versa?? Mad, taking 3 4/5 year olds round the shops.

And the loud woman with her toddler and her husband going round Aldi, why just why.

I've just been out to the supermarket for the first time in a fortnight. No queue and not too many people in the shop. Lots of couples but also lots of people with small children. One such child, 5 or 6 years old running up and down the aisles, and there with BOTH parents.

I wouldn't expect supermarket staff to police other customers, but they have actual security guards on the door. So why can't they refuse entry to these family groups?

Waitrose is letting couples in.

Yesterday I went to Waitrose with DH because it was allowed. My purchases included wine, cheese, magazines, shampoo, coffee and chicken.

Where do I go to self-flagellate?

I'm really struggling to think of any circumstance that would mean both parents and children all need to shop together.

Dh has been told not to let me out of his sight by my Doctor until my medication kicks in. Given that we live rurally so shopping takes at least one and a half hours, often longer due to all the current measures, technically we should be shopping together.

@ Arewehere

DP said he didn’t apologise but he did stop speaking. Looked sheepish and turned around to face the right way. DP didn’t hear him say anything else after that.

Lots more people out and about this week ,and definitely more family groups
Was always going to happen
Unrealistic to expect people to stick to the rules indefinitely

Selfish twats. Saw so many couples queuing at the supermarket yesterday and no they weren’t shopping for additional al households because they took a small trolley - ironically these are the people wearing masks and gloves!

Was in Morrison's a few days ago. Saw a couple with 5 young kids. Would have all been under 6 yrs old, running around like lunatics! Was unbelievable

Maybe one of the adults is the carer to the other . Plenty of husbands and wife's are each other registered carers. That doesn't break rules you can still go shopping with your carer .

I've been infuriated for other reasons. I watched a grown man touch several crisp packets because he couldn't decide which one to have. I was about to go up to him myself and ask him not to touch the crisp packets until he decides.

You see, your reaction to this infuriates me. I was shopping yesterday for myself and my 79 year old mum, looking for some quite specific things she had asked for. I'd picked something up that I thought would do (trying to be quick), but then saw the exact thing and put the other one back, whereupon a woman marched RIGHT UP to me and stood right at the end of my trolley (so not quite a metre away?) and started mouthing off about not picking things up and putting them back.

WTF?? Many, many people could have touched the goods on the shelves. Shoppers before me, shelf stackers, employees tidying up. Several people could have coughed on them. Wiping shopping down when you get it home is tedious but advisable for this reason. We simply do not know who has touched things before us.

Going up to someone to specifically tell them something so pointless is far riskier in terms of virus transmission. (I also saw that woman at the self-checkout where she had a problem that a member of staff had to go over and sort, while the woman stood about 6 inches away.)

It seems that some people get so carried away with self-righteousness that self-awareness goes straight out of the window.

I don't drive, so we do all go to the supermarket, but the kids and DP stay in the car. There is really no need for more than 1 person unless the person needs support. I wouldn't want to put my children at risk!

DP and I don't have a car so we do the weekly shop together, splitting up with two baskets. One person on their own wouldn't be able to carry everything so we'd end up making two separate journeys which is no better (and at least we have some company on the wall there and back). Is there any better alternative? 🤷

@LST Why doesn’t your partner go shopping while you stay at home with the children, surely that’s easier?

They should be stopped at the door and questioned why they all need to shop. I followed a mum, dad and baby in car seat buggy round the shops the other day. Madness. I do think there is a generational/ immune mindset in this too.

victorioussponges one of you should go into the shop - use a trolley if you need to and then meet the other one outside to share the carrying home. Really no need at all for you both to be in the shop.

Just to annoy/ wind up the frothers judging supermarket shops ..
Today I went to asda for a colouring book, sandwich and wine . No guilt. Places are getting back to usual a ltte. Were past the peak . Costa and kfc etc are open. Its not all doom and gloom doomsday shit. Were all getting fed up.

I don't drive, so we do all go to the supermarket, but the kids and DP stay in the car. There is really no need for more than 1 person unless the person needs support. I wouldn't want to put my children at risk!

Although that’s definitely more sensible than everyone going in - wouldn’t it be even more sensible for you and the kids to stay home while your DH does the shopping? Why make your kids sit and wait around in a car while you do it?

*shrug. We've all been cooped up for so long. I don't begrudge anyone a family day out.

We've all been cooped up for so long. I don't begrudge anyone a family day out.

Wow, you clearly are struggling to understand what a pandemic and lockdown mean aren't you?!

Fucking mindless idiots that's why.

I've really been enjoying my weekly shopping trip to Waitrose without all the whiny kids and parents noisily telling them off! It's been calm and quiet. I hope when this is all over the supermarkets take heed and introduce adult only time.

Because there are no rules that say they can’t dispite what Mumsnet say

Not one single big supermarket has that rule on their websites

Our Asda makes people in wheelchairs and on crutches stand in the queue ... I love my local Iceland, "one person per household with just one trolley"

i'm quite missing the performance parenting that i used to laugh at