Is anyone still going out as a family

[yarncakes]

I've noticed now that supermarkets saying only one person per household to shop but can they stop you if there's more than 1 of you going together?

I went shopping alone yesterday late afternoon and nothing had changed. Families together. People stopping to chat, no masks, masks worn under noses one family even had their young son on a bike in there. It was horrible and I wondered why i bother sometimes. Oh and late teens early twenties buying trolly fulls of food and alcohol like there some party going on. It's like nothing is happening out there.

No but pre covid if dh needed to go to the supermarket he would always try to raise a possy to go because 'it is more fun than going on my own.' It would always raise confused looks from teen and pre teen dcs. So I guess some people like to shop together. I wouldn't go into a shop with anyone else at the moment unless absolutely essential (e.g. child choosing glasses).

I’m surprised so many are saying they wouldn’t have done that even before COVID as for some kids it can be a fun trip.

I don't think anyone has said they'd never take their dc to a supermarket. People are saying it's not something we would choose to do 'as a whole family' and certainly not, as the title of this thread suggests, " going out as a family". Loads of us have had to take the dc out of necessity of course, and I'm sure lots of us have taken one child out of the family for some 1:1 time away from siblings (before Covid), to be 'the helper' that day.

Oh and late teens early twenties buying trolly fulls of food and alcohol like there some party going on.

eh? Some leap of imaginagtion there. My adult dc buy food - er - because they need to eat for the week, same reason I buy food
Yes, I've no doubt alcohol is involved, as they can't go out to meet friends in pubs and clubs like everyone else did at that age, so they either have a drink with their flatmates / house sharers or raise a glass on zoom socials, just as many adults are doing.

Indeed, in the Summer, my young adult ds was doing the family shop for us each week, as he was on furlough and we were both still working. Is that kind of thing banned now in your world ?

I’m surprised so many are saying they wouldn’t have done that even before COVID as for some kids it can be a fun trip.

You are surprised many don't take a family trip to the supermarket yet you acknowledge it can be fun for some kids. So perhaps we are the parents of the rest of the kids who don't find it fun. Personally when we go out as a family we do other things for fun.

Not to supermarkets but I wouldn’t have before covid

I don’t care if others do

I do go out elsewhere with the kids

I really don’t care what other people do generally it’s none of my business
Nothing sadder than those who form opinions on others

Urgh there were so many couples in Sainsbury's today. It was strange (or maybe not) that they were all of a similar demographic from my outside perspective.

I know that some people may not be able to shop alone but surely not all of the 8 separate couples I passed in a quick 30 minute run round the supermarket.

Maybe I have cabin fever and should just let go but it got me quite huffy

We walked in the snow to buy chocolate and essentials today. 14 year old buying his own shopping. Security on door was friendly, nothing negative said about us being together. There were adult couples shopping together in store.

Family of four got stopped walking into our local tesco when I went this week (this wasn't happening a few weeks ago).
Dc1 works in a supermarket and says Monday - Friday is grandparents with dc day out and weekends is mum and dad plus dcs day out. Says its not changed and managers have told staff not to confront customers for their own safety.

@MadameBlobby

My parents couldn’t get an asda delivery this week so I did their food shop (alone) and took the kids with me to deliver it. We stood outside and talked to them from over 2m distance until we got too cold. No doubt that makes me a granny killer in some people’s books but hey ho it was low risk and benefited my kids and parents, my dad’s cancer has come back so we wanted to see him.

I'm really sorry to hear about your Dad & the cancer coming back. Bastard cancer. Do you know yet if they're able to offer him any treatment at all/at the moment. I bet it was very hard not to hug him 🙁

We don't ever go as a family to the supermarket. Pre Covid times I may pop in with the children to get something quick but I couldn't think of anything worse than doing the weekly shop with them and luckily I don't need to.

Of course there are some people who have no choice but to take their children but threads like this always have people who say things like 'we all need to go as my husband has to drive me and he couldn't be trusted to shop by himself' and bollocks like that.

Other than being elderly/incapacitated why would anyone want to go shopping with their other half or kids

I’m in and out. Fuck that.

I don't think most people around here are doing family outings to supermarkets.

However, they are meeting up in their support and childcare bubbles and blocking all the paths. You can get 8 people in a group plus dogs.

we all need to go as my husband has to drive me and he couldn't be trusted to shop by himself Ha ha ha

Lots of families shopping together when I went shopping yesterday including a couple with 3 children causing havoc as they raced round with the trolley. Lots of couples shopping together too. I would never say anything to anyone but I just got out of there as quickly as possible.

I commented on a thread about this pre Christmas that got deleted it was full of angry people defending the fact that their Nigel wasn’t able to choose the right biscuits and they enjoyed shopping with their daughter so that was that. Us ninja lone shoppers were 🙄 and made out to be meanies. Funny They all seem to have melted away with the advent of new strain and lockdown 3 ...

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

Other than being elderly/incapacitated why would anyone want to go shopping with their other half or kids

I’m in and out. Fuck that.

Because they have no choice eg (but not limited to) they are a single parent?! As usual, a heap of 2.4 assumptions on This thread sadly. I appreciate some people could choose but not everyone is able to

Supermarket shopping is not a family outing. I don’t take my children to shops. I haven’t since this began. I just don’t need the stress. I also can’t imagine why you’d want to?

Go for a walk and visit a park with your family. Go shopping alone.

I’ve gone posh. Lidl was a free for all last time I went I only shop in m & s and Waitrose now - sod it.a smiling lady passes over freshly sanitised trolley at our local m & s food hall. Foods nicer staff nicer feels safer. Not spending on anything else atm might as well have nice food.

Didn't do it before COVID so haven't started now.

@GintyMcGinty

Didn't do it before COVID so haven't started now.

Same! Going with DH and the DC ends up costing way more money ,I have a trolley full of crap I don't need and nothing that I actually went for. Single parents are the only ones that should take their dc to the supermarket. I refuse to believe that a man can't do a weekly food shop. Even if only 1 adult can drive only 1 person needs to actually enter the shop the other can wait in the car.

I sometimes have to take mine in as I am on my own at the moment, but I do a click and collect shop usually so it's very rarely unless needs must.

@Wingingit15 I did include those that are incapacitated I’m including kids in that!

I’m definitely incapacitated by my DS if I have to take him shopping

No. My husband is capable of shopping alone, which seems to be unusual on here so either I go alone or he goes...alone..

@BackforGood There's a big difference between a weekly food shop with alcohol. I'm talking a trolley load of pizzas and bottles of spirits. Although I suppose we can make excuses and pretend no one is breaking the rules I suppose.

Yes I go with DH and my two children. I look just fine but I'm actually disabled. So I couldn't take my two children alone without DH. Literally no one has every questioned me.