What age would you leave your children to pop to Waitrose?

[SoupDragon]

I'm not ready to do this yet (DSs are nearly 7 and 9) but I was dreamily thinking how much simpler it would be to leave them in front of the TV and just nip there myself (it's 5 mins up the road). Obviously BabyDragon is excluded from this, she's in nursery.

Instead I will shift my ar$e from in front of the PC and go now, before school pick up, but I just wondered when it might become a possibility

Oh I'd leave them at age 4 to go to a cheap supermarket, Bundle Lower standards. [snort]

Not when you just want 4 loaves of bread, some milk and a bunch of bananas (fairtrade, naturally), Beaulocks.

At least they wouldn't starve then, Fio.

Free delivery if you book it when a van is coming your way and I always get next day delivery. Chuck in a few things like washing powder, dishwasher tablets and a couple of bottles of wine and you've got an Ocado shop worth doing.

all Sainsbury's bananas are faitrade now, I discovered last night...

20 minutes at that age is fine IMO. But I shop at Sainsbury's and therefore have lower standards

The chances of being involved in an accident are minimal and if SD was in one the children would be safer at home surely?

Mine are 14 and 9 and I've just started leaving them in for an hour or so together.

My SIl leaves her 8 and 10 yo for about an hour, or an hour and a half! To go shopping about 1 mile up the road.

(but then I think my BIL IS an alien, so they have less to worry about)

Only read the OP, but need to ask:
If you were going to Tesco would it eb a different age???

DS1 I've left on his own since he was about 10.

Choose not to leave DS2 with him very often...but that's more to do with their personalities than anything else. Feel more secure leaving DS3 tbh. (they're now 13, 11 and 9).

friend in office has sister who lives in Holland.

they used to leave baby (ie about 9 mths old) at home when they went to church.. (and not literally round the corner)

have just started leaving ds1 (11 in july) to go to collect his younger brother form after school sports club, so i am gone for about 15 minutes in total. he ahs strict instructions not to open the door to anyone or answer the phone, i would call him on his mobile if i needed to speak to him.
worked so well the first week he didn't even answer the door to my dad!!!

fio

I know SM - I'm sorry - I was being facetious.

Not sure it is Soupy, unless you live further out than I realised. In W? (or possibly S, not sure where the borders are) Next to a petrol station, opposite a park I think. Being fairly common, I only go there on the way back from my Mums and I spend the whole time wandering around looking for sensible food to buy (and being trailed by security .....)

Oh Crikey SM - pedant's corner gives me panic attacks. I start to doubt that I can string together a coherent (and grammatically correct) sentence.

Wouldn't it be simpler still to take them with you and give them a portion of the list each? Of course you'd have to do the booze yourself.