Eating in the supermarket

[tallulah]

As an aside from my other thread about children misbehaving in shops- the other thing that wound me up yesterday is this trend for letting children eat in the supermarket. The child in the trolley at the next till had a bag of grapes she'd been eating. She must have had 1/2 lb, so that's about 50p? Would her mother have thought it OK to give her, say, a twix, or a Begian Bun without paying for it?

I don't agree with this on 3 counts

1. people shouldn't be eating in any shop & teaching a child that they can is not a good idea
2. this is theft & if everyone did it then the supermarkets losses would be passed on to everyone
3. children also should be taught that you can't have something until it's paid for.

Before you all jump on me and say it's better than having them screaming, I have got 4 myself & I have been through this. Mine quickly learned that no screaming inside meant they could get to eat a treat outside when we'd finished.

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Have you read 1984? One of the proles did it when hanging washing out. I'm a prole! Better not get started on obsessive habits with laundry. Will be here all night and must go to bed.

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Well strike me down with a bolt of lightening and arrest me for theft!!

I was at the supermarket today and my ds had a couple of grapes (unwashed! have I poisoned him?).

Not only that but we put a toy car in the trolley coz ds had been so good all the way around (2hours). We let him take it out of the box to play with it and the guy scanned the box and put it in the bin for us.

I ALWAYS taste grapes and Cherries before buying them after I spent £2 on a bag of grapes that were so bitter they were binned.

I really can't see a problem with kids eating in a Supermarket??? I mean, is it RRRRRRRREALLY that bad, am I missing some huge moral reason? I've made sandwiches for ds to eat whilst we do our shopping and that was his lunch? Is this also disgusting behaviuor????

Pllllllllease enlighten me.

Two hours, M2T!! What was it, the yearly shop? Really better go now. DH has given me a stern look.

I hate those cars in the shopping centres mainly because they are so expensive (around here anyway) and DS1 always has a paddy about wanting one.

We've got a little peg bag that hangs on the line, keeps them nice and handy so you don't need to use your teeth, but then we are very posh! (ha, ha, ha!!!)

Xhausted - by the amount we spent it fecking well better last the year!!!!!!

Night.

Demented - we have one of those too.... a floral kind of knitted thing.... NICE. Am I posh?

I still like to chew on a peg every now and again. It stops me smoking.

I think we'd better ask Custardo!

Is she very posh?

She can't be as posh as me, I even have my pegs colour coordinated.

Wickedwaterwitch - on rainy weekend afternoons, when DS was just toddling my friend and I used to take him - along with his small partner in crime - to large out of town carpet shops and electrical stores, where they'd an hour or two chuntering up and down the aisles delightedly!

oh no, could somone please enlight a dumb crass american....why aren't you supposed to put the parking ticket in your mouth? Is it because you are going to give your germs to the person taking your money, or get germs from the person who loaded the ticket machine? Or is it just bad manners for no particular reason?

chinchilla
have reread my posting and had to laugh as well, as at my stage in pregnancy cannot blame this on the wine or any other alchol I can only say spell check not working here...By the way, have you ever drunk wine or alcopops in supermarket and taken the empty bottle to the till?
that would be an idea and would make the whole shopping with kids experience more fun...
Just an idea
Going to bed now, good night all, this thread really gave me a chuckle

You could always try my method...One time I was so irritated about non-parents parking in all the parent and toddler spaces at Sainsbury's that I demanded to see the manager and gave him such an earful that he gave me a whole bag of cherries (selling for £6 a pound) for ds to eat while we were shopping and a £10 off my shopping coupon. I'm sure everyone thought we'd "stolen" them.

Custardo has quite a take on what's posh or what's middle class etc. Discussions about growing your own herbs and having brass taps etc. I just wondered what status peg bags had.

This thread is sooooo cool - i can actually see mumsnetters' hackles rising and teeth baring.
Hasn't anyone seen the slot on the Johnny Vaughan show where Richard Bacon (sullied ex Blue Peter blokie) visits a different supermarket each week and attempts to eat as much produce as poss before getting chucked out by security. One week I think he had a quiche with a pot of coleslaw and several pepperami before being cornered- fantastic stuff! Eventually a memo went round Asda warning staff to be more vigilant so he wore a v attractive Bellamy-esque beard the following week - classic veiwing.

Bobsmum.

Sometimes I find it very hard getting past the grapes counter without giving my ds3 (20 months old) some. We have a weigh and price facility so I do that first - often buy two bags, one for ds, the other for later. The bag for ds will be finished by the time we get to the till but will be swiped through just like the other shopping. My older children don't get anything. They have to wait till we get home. When my ds3 understands the concept of having them later then he won't get any either.

Have just caught up with this thread ... wot a larf girls!!!
Personally I LOVE going to the supermarket ... highlight of my week ... in fact I try to forget stuff on my list so that I can go everyday ... sometimes even twice a day!
Also I LOVE those car shaped trolley ... it is me who has the tantrum if there aren't any left ... DS says, 'It's ok mummy ... I'll go in a trolley instead' and sidles off so that he is not connected to the mental woman throwing a wobbly.
Also ... We eat on the way round (but I DO pay for it) ... WHAT'S THE PROBLEM PEOPLE???
Oh and I personally don't think there is anything wrong with giving a child an icecream just before going into a clothes shop ... that way they can touch something you really want and you can persuade the staff to knock something off the price as some dreadful person has smeared something yukky down the front ....

PS ... scummmymummy ... your comment about eating clothes and appliances had me ROFL ... thanks ...

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Actually, if my kids would eat plain old grapes I'd be happy. They love grapes, but if they bite into a seed they have a charming habit of spitting out in horror, so on the rare occasions I buy grapes, I have to slave away halving & de-seeding, truly a labour of love! (can't get seedles grapes here).

I'm a bit taken aback by eg gosh2's post.

Here also no supermarkets have creches, there is no such thing as internest supermarket shopping, even if they get fed before we go, 1.5 hours later, with loads of food in their faces, they want to eat, and finally, supermarket shopping is a pain in the bum, and they deserve a crust of bread to help them through it.

Oh, and I also don't have the luxury of a dh who can or will do it either!

Last year my DS had an accident and leaked out of his nappy while in a supermarket. The manager came over to me, and advised that I open the packet of nappy's I had in my trolley and use the wipes to clean him up with in the baby changing facility. I was very pleased of this as I would of had to take DS home to clean and not do my shopping. I also let ds snack and pay at counter, it makes things a whole lot easier for me. i think people should do what they feel is best, if teaching your child not to ask is fine, but hardly a reason to complain when others do it.
I was out shopping and DS was happily chomping on a bag of crisps I was going to pay for and some doddy old dear said to me "I hope you are going to pay for that", what is had to do with her is beyond me.
I wish I had a perfect life and say 'no' no my son as he excepts that, but I do not have a perfect son and wasn't aware that anyone else did either. (sorry to rant due on)

When I go to tesco, I eat loads of stuff so I dont have to pay for it: bunch of grapes, or some olives for starters, then off to the meat counter for raw steak (fillet of course), or a fish if its friday, then a load of cheese. I get caught sometimes cos the blood runs down my chin.

When I go to tesco, I eat loads of stuff so I dont have to pay for it: bunch of grapes, or some olives for starters, then off to the meat counter for raw steak (fillet of course), or a fish if its friday, then a load of cheese. I get caught sometimes cos the blood runs down my chin.

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