Do you snack

[Freyja]

Never

 

[Disney Doll]

I don't snack on things that have to be weighed in order to determine the price, such as fruit, for example.

If I ma buying a bag of potato chips or something though, I still pay for them, even if I have already opened the bag. They have a set price, not dependent on weight.

I don't do it a lot though...only if I am starvingly hungry.

 

[Southern4sure]

With 7 kids in the family my mom NEVER opened food to give us while we shopped. If she did she would probably walk out with lots of empty boxes and bags...

Maybe I'm a creature of habit but I did not open food for my kids when they were little. I brought little baggies of snacks for them. I never had a problem.

I do have a problem with picking up boxes that have been opened and placed back on the shelf. I do not blame the store, it is the individual who opened, closed neatly and did not purchase the item.

 

[Christine]

I voted "no" but not because of the stealing issue. I don't really think it's stealing, I just find it distasteful and I'd like to think that I can make it for a few hours without food.

 

[mainewmn]

I work a full time 8-5 job and another part time job on the weekends and sometimes there just isn’t enough time in a day to do it all. As a result sometimes by the time I get to do grocery I am VERY hungry so I may open up a box of crackers and take out a few and sip a bottle of soda/water. I put them back in my cart and pay for it when I check out. I don’t do it as a norm but on occasion, I do not see a big deal as long as I pay for it.

 

[CheshireVal]

No-- I can't imagine being so desperate for food.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I finally got up my nerve to vote, being a new day and all.

I voted occasionally, only because I happened to be doing errands with 3 of my kids recently and my 6yo was hungry. He'd been sick recently and his appetite had been all out of whack. He'd eaten breakfast, but not much since he hadn't been very hungry, but then was hungry when we were at Trader Joes and the only samples were meat (we're vegetarian) and we had more errands to run than we'd planned on running. So I let him pick out a box of crackers which I opened in the front of the store, after she'd rung them up, so not technically before purchase, but I would have if he'd picked them out sooner.

I gave him a few that he could eat on the way to the van. It's a new van and we're not allowing the kids to eat in the van since they were SO messy with our old van (and they are old enough to go a little while without eating--we'll reexamine that policy for road trips...) .

But in general I didn't give my kids food to eat in the grocery store, other than the free cookie or samples the store had or snacks I brought. One of my fondest childhood memories, though, is the little box of animal crackers my very frugal mother would sometimes buy for me to eat in the store, so I don't have an issue as long as it's not something too messy and as long as it's paid for.

 

[kbkids]

I voted yes. We've got the soda refrigerators right as you walk in the door. I always grab one and sip on it while I'm shopping and then pay for the empty bottle as I leave. If we're in Walmart and it's close to lunch time, DS loves their popcorn chicken. We'll stop by the deli and get him a box, and he'll snack on those while we're shopping - again, just pay for the empty box when we leave.


I even had a cashier tell me once, "Oh, it's empty. Can't pay for something I don't see" and grinned and winked. I told her the scanner was still on the bottom of the box and please scan it as I didn't feel right not paying for it. She kinda rolled her eyes but I couldn't believe she did that.

 

[RickinNYC]

I voted "Huh" simply because I thought it.

 

[mallcat]

I don't snack while grocery shopping. I will, however, buy something that I can snack on while driving home afterwards.

 

[DaisyD]

I always grab a soda on the way into the store and drink it as I shop. The manager positions the soda case right as you walk in the door for that reason. I asked him if I could and he said that is why he put the case there. I just let them ring up a partially empty bottle when I check out. This is at our Giant's grocer.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I didn't vote in the poll because while I don't snack while shopping, I do not consider it stealing if someone else does (as long as they pay for it and it's not a weighed item).

 

[kbkids]

I have a regular customer who always eats a banana while shopping and brings up the peel to pay for it. I charge him 25cents since I can't weight the banana he ate which probably only cost 15-20cents. He's never complained about it and expects to pay so it works out but it's a small store and our register isn't computerized to scan.

Calie

Our store has bananas by the bunch that are weighed, but then they also have some with a scanner bar on them that are sold by the "piece." I can only assume that us "thieves" are who they are for. He's getting a deal - ours are $0.30.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I voted "Huh" simply because I thought it.

And you don't think that we've thought "huh" to walking outside without pants??? But I guess that wasn't the question, was it?

 

[imsorry]

Of course not, no never. Never, ever, ever!!!! What would the moral majority think??????????

 

[Tigger&Belle]

What I really want to know is if it's a choice or are we born this way? Can we be converted? If you are a non-store-snacker, would you marry a converted store snacker? What does the Bible say about snacking before buying? If it's a sin and we don't categorize sins, I suppose it's as bad as adultry.

 

[pozey]

I voted no, but I don't consider it stealing as long as you pay for it when you check out.

However, I am too busy trying to find everything that I came to buy to snack.

 

[jbdreamer]

I voted "no" but not because of the stealing issue. I don't really think it's stealing, I just find it distasteful and I'd like to think that I can make it for a few hours without food.

ITA. I think it's just rude. But I voted "Huh" because I just don't see people doing that where I live and it would never occur to me to even do it. I remember shopping at the Publix in Orlando and was disgusted because there were open packages of food and wrapers all over the store. It's gross.

That, and I would never go to the store hungry anyways. I'd end up buying a ton of things I don't need.

 

[beckmrk04]

What I really want to know is if it's a choice or are we born this way? Can we be converted? If you are a non-store-snacker, would you marry a converted store snacker? What does the Bible say about snacking before buying? If it's a sin and we don't categorize sins, I suppose it's as bad as adultry.

 

[FSUGrad97]

I voted no. I have never needed to do so, even when I have my DD with me.

Now, when they are giving out samples - I only take one, but I have been known to hit every sample stand in the store, especially at Sam's or Publix.

Yes, I usually end up purchasing the sample item.