[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Rant: Apparently people in west Texas don't know what their stores sell. They must be told by Canadians and East coast people. How the heck do they know how we cook? All stores carry different things. This can vary by region or even the neighborhood.

What? Unclear on what you're saying?

I have also learned that you shouldn't take time to read labels or shop together or take more than a microsecond to grab what you need because someone else might need their pepper that exact second or their world will end.
I don't understand why how others shop bothers you.

Cin: I'm pretty sure that NOBODY cares how other people shop, as long as those other folks aren't getting in the way of, or impinging on, their own ability to shop. Do I care if some woman has 6 brats? No, other than the anthill is getting crowded, of course. I only care if a) her kid is screaming his lungs out for 20 minutes, or b) her 7-y.o. is slamming into the back of my body with his cart. Neither of these are UNCOMMON happenings, you know. Almost worse is the frustrated/hot/tired mum, screaming at them to stop their "bad" behavior, or asking for cookies, etc. I mean, we all have to survive the grocery, right? Well...it would be easiest if EVERYONE, regardless of status, or gender, or whatever, tried to be remotely considerate of those around them. The "pack" shoppers have a tendency to block the aisle and look at you like you're an ***Hole if you ask them to move out of the way. And so on and so forth.

If friends want to shop together more power to them, if coworkers want to shop together cool, if a couple wants to have a grocery store date more power to them, if a person wants to get in and out quickly more power to them.
To that person just say excuse me and the group will more than likely either grab what you need or move for you. If the person is rude, then the person can just wait.

Obviously, people on this thread are relating instances in which the persons of whom you speak WEREN'T obliging, right? Otherwise, why would anyone get their knickers in a twist? YES, I'm constantly annoyed at being barraged by kids in the grocery, who are running/falling/slamming into me with a cart or screaming. I have enough going on without adding noise pollution to my day, right?

Oh and just for your information, the only time I have been hit by a basket, it was a single well dressed woman that was intently focused on her list and not paying attention to where she was going.

Well, maybe it's more prevalent here, where we have a portion of the population that tend to have very large families with lots of "Irish Twins" and young women with TONS of babies.

No offense intended but some posts here imply a "I am in a hurry so my right to shop trumps another's right to take their time."
What business is it of yours how others shop?

As I think we all said: it's only our business if and when they make the experiences of everyone around them miserable. Why wouldn't we all object to that? Sure, everybody has their burden, but...as an example, I don't take my smartphone into the store, and get on the horn with my crew, at the top of my lungs, carrying on about Client this or provider that, and yelling, right? If I did that, and you had to listen to the whole ****amn conversation, you'd V&R, right? Well, for many of us, it's no different than listening to an ongoing dialogue between a harried mom and her 5 kids at the top of THEIR lungs, either.

This last part I do not understand.
Are some of you saying that you are so busy that you only have 10 minutes a week to shop?
Then I have a very stupid question.
You are too busy to take the time to buy groceries, yet you have time to spend complaining about other shoppers online. How is this possible?

Oh, please. You know quite well that many of us on this thread are replying via smartphone, tablet or the office. We can no more leap into the Transporter and have Scotty send us to the grocery for the few minutes it takes to post a reply here than we can walk on the surface of Mars sans protection. For me, just to drive to the nearest grocery is 30 minutes, each way. That doesn't count the time shopping. If I do the QUICK (ha!) pickup option, it's a 90-mile round trip. NINETY miles. Cr*p, Cin, I can't make it to my own d*mn mailbox in the time it takes me to post this, and this is a longish post. Never mind the GROCERY. (And the same, BTW, for a pharmacy and all the other stores and services that people take for granted as being necessary for a normal life. There's nothing closer to me than 15 miles, each way, other than a convenience store, which is ONLY 10 miles down the road.)

And yes: I do work 60+ hours every week, MORE than that when we're busy, and yes, I wish that people who can shop WHENEVER they choose would NOT choose to shop on weekends, on Sunday, which is my only day "off." I don't think it's a crime to think that. If you think a 60+ hour week leaves a lot of time for shopping, as well as everything ELSE that people do in their alleged time "off," (laundry, household chores, miscellaneous "stuff," not to mention, oh, yeah, that whole hour or so a week that you get to relax), you're not thinking that through.

Just because your spouse takes you shopping doesn't mean that everyone here was talking about you and yours. Theey're obviously not, assuming that you're a normal person who's normally polite and courteous in the store. Lots of other people AREN'T. That's who everyone on this thread is b*tching about, not simply a couple that shops together. I cannot believe that you haven't experienced any of what we're talking about. I mean, really, I can't. (And, I'm not in Europe or on the East Coast, as you know. I'm in the boonies of Arizona, which is exceedingly similar to Bum-you-know-what Texas.)

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