A Shocking Shopping Experience

[jjskribs]

Okay I apologize if you thought from the title that this would be a really exciting thread ! It is literally about a shocking experience. Everytime that I go shopping at my local Stop and Shop I get a shock when I take items off of the shelves. It is very uncomfortable. I must be creating static electricity somehow and when I touch an item on the metal shelve I get zapped. Has this ever happened to anyone else? My husband thinks it's funny but it makes shopping a difficult experience!

[#1 Disney Fan]

Ok, now this is going to sound like the oddest reply, LOL... but I've heard that to prevent shocks when you get out of the car in the winter you should carry a bounce dryer sheet. Maybe try that for shopping too. Not sure if you're supposed to stick it in your pocket, or probably more likely up your sleeve so that it makes contact with your skin. Worth a try if the shocks really are annoying.

[allicat]

Well, I was going to keep my own wierd incident at Walmart to myself but since you brought this up..recently I kept getting these uncomfotable shocklike sensations in my fingers when I pushed the shopping cart! it was so strange. It felt just like static electricity and it was only when i was pushing the cart.
As soon as I left, it went away!
So, no i dont have a solution but wanted to let you know that it has happened to me.

[cassie]

jjskribs, I too shop at Stop & Shop and have been "shocked" picking items off the shelf. Never any where else tho .

[disneyvacationmom]

allicat, you are not alone-I always get shocks in Walmart while pushing the cart. Wierd eh!

[The Mystery Machine]

Hey since you are talking about "shocking", I was wondering if any of you own silky PJs? Turn the lights off and rub your fingers fast on them and you can actually see the sparks fly off your PJs. I am not kidding. Or am I the only one that this happens too?

[GEM]

Oh my gosh!! The same thing happens to me at the new
Wal-Mart Super Center! I'm absolutely terrified to touch anything in that store! The cart, shelves, food, other people - they all shock me. Sometimes it's such a strong shock that I have to yelp! My husband think's I'm a lunatic because I have taken to taking food off shelves, opening freezer doors, etc. by wrapping my hand up in the bottome part of my sweatshirt! When I'm pushing the cart, I have to make sure I keep my hands on the plastic part or I get these little shocks as I go along. It's so bad that I'm seriously about to give up shopping there! :eek:

[Lynn CC]

It must be something to do with the subliminal messages they play while you are shopping......

shock this lady when she takes a product of the shelf, shock her, shock her, get her good.....

sorry, I'm being silly today:rolleyes:

[piratesmate]

My guess would be that these stores are drier than most. . . as in not humid. It doesn't happen here at the house, because we live in an old farm house that is not at all air-tight. (We can feel the wind on a really windy day.) However, when I go to my parent's house, I'm always getting shocked once they close up for the fall/winter.

I never heard of the dryer sheet thing, but we used to have anti-static wrist straps to wear when working on the computers at my job. The idiots had carpet on the floors! (Is the store in question carpeted?) Anyway, if it's too annoying, maybe you could pick up the wrist strap & wear it to the store. I haven't looked for them recently, but most computer stores used to carry them.

Deb

[GEM]

I might have to try those wristbands. I'd look silly, but not any sillier than I look now trying to grab things with my shirt! By the way, I noticed this problem there as soon as they opened last summer, so it's not just a winter thing. And, no, it's not carpeted! :confused:

[krazyboutWDW]

Okay, count me in as another person who gets shocked at the Wal Mart Super Centers. We have three in our city and I've been to two of them and I get shocked in both of them. Gem, I am like you it is not just on the shopping carts but also when I open the doors to get out frozen food, when I touch a shelf, etc...
I wonder what the deal is about Wal Mart?

[faith]

This time of year I have gotten some shocks too. When it was chilly enough for a coat a couple of weeks ago I woud also use my sleeve to open the doors! Maybe the Bounce sheets work. A friend said rub them on your socks, hands and keep it in your pocket. Strange, but I am going to try it this winter. :D

[Mamu]

Funny, I've noticed that at our S&S too. I wonder what they are using for shelving.

Get me out of this place. Everything I touch zaps me.

[Wendy]

Okay, this is REALLY weird! I also always get shocked when I shop at Wal Mart Supercenters! It doesn't happen to me at any other grocery stores, just the 3 Wal Marts near us. I thought it was just me. How strange to hear that it happens to other people at other Wal Marts!!! :eek:

[MosMom]

Our Kroger just down the street shocks us when we shop there. It is the only place that does it. It is awful and I can't stand shopping there because of it. Sometimes it is pretty powerful! There isn't one time I've shopped there where I didn't get shocked repeatedly.

[MerryPoppins]

Didn't someone else complain about this last year? I think it was a new K-Mart. She asked the manager and they said it had something to do with the floor. They were doing something to the carts to keep them from shocking customers.

Anyone remember the details? Am I crazy?

[nkjzmom]

Ditto for me in the Super Wal-mart!!! It's just under 2 years old and I have been shocked so many times.... I too use the shirt down over the hand method. I stand at the milk door and look in wishing there was a better, painfree, way! I hesitate each and every single time I reach out for one of those handles. I touch the glass and slowly slide my hand to the handle...don't know why. Sometimes I'll even ask my kids to open the door for me...what a bad mom, aren't I supposed to protect them from pain and suffering, not put them up to it?

Occasionally, Baby Z and I will share a shock and he just laughs! Crazy kid. I will pay better attention to exactly when I get shocked. I don't think it has anything to do with the weather. I tend to agree about the floors as I have noticed that with my tennies on I'll get a shock, but not my sandals. Make sense to anyone? I thought it would be the other way around because the tennies have rubber on the bottom.

My brother's ex-fiance works there and says the employees get shocked quite often too. I couldn't work in those conditions!;)

[JulesMom]

The same thing happens at my job. The doorknob to the store room shocks almost all of us

[tkyes]

I get shocked at SuperTarget and I get shocked when I get out of my car!

I hate getting shocked! :D

Tamie

[Baboo]

When we were shopping at Walmart on Saturday, my DD kept getting shocked, but DH and I didn't. :confused:

[scarlett873]

i am constantly getting shocked when i get out of my car...in walmart...i got shocked at super target yesterday and it about knocked me off my feet!! it hurts after awhile...i'm glad i'm not the only one this happens to!

[Robin]

I get shocked all the time when I go to the new Super Target stores... it really hurts sometimes!

[nativetxn]

This happens to me when I shop at the neighborhood Kroger. Every time I touch anything I get a very strong shock. I don't know why it is just at this particular store that this happens to me :(

[CajunDixie]

If you are one of the people who gets shocked on your car doors then dont ever open or shut your car door when filling your gas tank. A few months ago at a gas station near here a guy was filling a can in the back of his vehicle and had slide the can across the carpet in the vehichle.....somehow he did this as he started pumping his gas and the static electricity combined with the gas or the fumes caused a huge fire. Thats why they have all those little stickers on the pumps asking that you not leave the pump unattended and to always fill your portable tanks outside your vehicles.

[jjskribs]

Wow..... I had no idea when I started this thread that so many of you were having the same problem. My husband insists that I won't get a shock if I grab the item quickly instead of reaching for it tentatively. It's so hard to grab it if you think you're going to get zapped. I have even tried wearing all different kinds of shoes to see if that would help but it doesn't seem to matter. I guess my best solution is to let my husband do the shopping since he never gets a shock. ;)