Tell the truth, when you are in a supermarket, do you check out other people's trollies, and feel slightly smug????

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I do! I can't help it! I'm all judgemental, but at least silently so. If I see sunny delight and a 6 pack of 2l coca cola, I can't help but feel superior!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOh yes.
I boot them smartly up the arse for good measure too.

No, I feel embarrassed that mine's full of ready meals

But not 6 packs of coke and Sunny D..6 packs of Volvic usually

And the ready meals are for us not the kids.....

dig, dig, dig

I worry about what other people think of mine. We have an allotment and don't buy much veg at this time og year, and I can feel people judging the lack of veg in my trolley.

Guilty as charged , though obviously one isn't in the supermarket much these days due to getting a lovely organic fruit & veg box every week.....

i always choose my aisle according to has has the most interesting looking shopping. For example the other day i was drawn to someone unloading several packets of lard onto the conveyor belt. they also had lots of semi skimmed milk. Why?

No, I nick their ideas. I hold back from actually saying 'Is that nice?' which an annoying number of checkout staff say to me while slowly turning over my products and bruising my mangoes.

Becky! Yes, that's the same as me! I grow my own so like you don't buy eg tomatoes etc and I want to walk up the aisle saying 'grow my own, grow my own'

I do feel superior reaching for the hallumi

beckybrastraps. I can feel your childrens' scurvy from here.

I feel sad about what other people buy - the factory farmed stuff, the processed stuff, the overly packaged stuff - I resent the fact that it is on sale. Having said that, I am giving up conventional supermarkets in favour of Riverford and my new local ethical fair trade "supermarket" called Who Cares which is in Melksham, run by a wonderful person who researches every item she stocks.

Uh oh....

Do you carry your tape recorder around the supermarket too Moondog?

'Children's' . 'Children is already a plural.

Ha! My friend while at Uni, worked on the checkout and I asked her if she looked at what people had and judged them. She thought I was mad looking at what people bought.
I once found myself behind my GP with an uncharacteristic basket full of cream cake, chocolate and wine! V.embarrassing!

No, cos its probably my basket youre feeling so smug about. I love Lard me.

Bubble.

Berrie. Be aware that you will be made to pay for any future cholesterol tests.

vitomum, i often wonder why people would buy some things in such big quantities as well/ once in tesco in Dundee we saw a couple with a trolley each. His was full of bread, and hers had 27 bottles of squash ( i know, we were behind them at the checkout and i counted) and 18 boxes of cream crackers and 15 x 9 packs of toilet rolls. oh and a what's on tv!
Maybe they were hoarding it

i saw a couple with a box of nappies and a huge box of beerin a trolley leaving Asda the other day.....did sniff with disaproval then giggled at myself for bieng SO judgemental, for all i knew they could have been stocking up for a christening party or any thing.

Our lab technician at school once went to Sainsbury and bought 12 lamb's hearts (for dissection) and 2 packets of liver (for enzyme experiment). Now HE got some funny looks!

saltire, obviously planning for a nuclear attack

this is hitlarious! I cant help looking in other poepls trollies - bit I dont judge them, although I do compare, IYSEWIM!!

As long as he didn't have any FruitShoots, becky, he would have been OK.

I look in other peoples trolleys and realise that those 4 hunky bits of meat at the front of the conveyor belt that they are buying cost as much as the entire contents of my shopping trolley.